Progress So Far (Music Magazine Front Cover) - 27/03/2011

By the end of this 2 hour lesson, I aimed to fully complete the CORE magazine front cover - and I completed this task. Before the lesson, my front cover looked like this:

But after 2 hours, my completed version looked like this:

As you can see, I added on more pugs and a promotion to act as enticing features for the front cover of CORE. Firstly, I used the 'Horizontal Type Tool' and drew text boxes on the right-hand side of the page, writing "GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME/YOU HAVE VOTED, AND NOW WE REVEAL ALL" in the first box, "FOO FIGHTERS/ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS" in the second and "THE PRETTY RECKLESS/ TAYLOR MOMSEN TALKS GUNS, KNIVES AND STRIPPER OUTFITS" into the third. All of this text was in the font Myriad Pro, Bold Condensed, 80pt, Strong and alligned to the left of the text boxes. However, the descriptions underneath the subtubles in each pug was a smaller 65pt and in yellow, to mark a difference between the subtitle and the description. These pugs aim to give an insight into the other articles featured in the magazine, and use emotive language such as "GREATEST" and dangerous/hardcore words such as "GUNS" and "KNIVES" to do so. Next, I decided to use a promotion on the magazine cover to entice the reader into buying CORE for the free gifts it has to offer. I drew a text box using the 'Horizontal Type Tool' and wrote "POSTER SPECIAL/10 POSTERS OF OUR FAVOURITE ROCK BANDS" into it. The main subtitle was in the font Myriad Pro, Bold Condensed, size 100pt, Strong, alligned to the centre of the text box and in the colour green, whilst the description underneath was the same apart from it being in the size 25pt and the colour yellow. Lastly, I used the 'Rectangle Tool' to draw black rectangles and place them behind all of the text I had just created, and make it stand out more from the image of The Blitz.