FINAL Front Cover Draft

This is my final front cover draft for my music magazine. In January, I received feedback from my peers as well as my teacher for my five front cover drafts which I created back in December. I finally applied the feedback and advice I was given on improving my cover, and I feel these changes have definitely made my front cover much more conventional and true to life. The first amendment I made was one suggested by my teacher, which was to move the masthead up to the top of the page and make the first letter capital, so it would "create room for more features" The next improvement I made was the reduction of the banner and the addition of the QR code. My teacher initially suggested that I made the barcode much smaller, and I decided to add a QR code while doing this and it makes my magazine much more up to date and conventional. The next improvement was something that had been commented a lot on by my peers, which was the editing of my artist, they felt the shadow effect made my artist look out of place with the background, one of my peers also suggested that I increase the brightness of my artist to make it fit in with the background. I did this by improving the lighting as well as the contrast, and I feel that this has paid off. The last improvement was the alignment and addition of more features, my teacher commented that there was a lot of empty space in the cover that could be used to add more features to make it conventional. I related back to the draft of my contents page and used the same features from there to make my magazine consistent and maintain house style. The last thing I did was align all of my new and current features into a way that a real magazine would. I am very pleased with how my final front cover draft turned out, and the peer feedback has definitely helped me improve it.