1. Magazine Front Covers
• What makes front covers from music magazines such as NME and Q
different from mine?
• How can I make mine appear more professional?

2. Font colours
tie in with
the Interesting
red, white background
and black created
colour through
scheme of lighting
the main contrasts. The
image. bright light
centred
Name of the around the
main cover main image is
artist featured eye-catching.
is as big, if not
bigger, than
List of
the name of
some of
the magazine.
the artists
featured
inside.

3. Puff to advertise
promotional
offer/competition.
Headline is
very big and
takes up a lot
of space –
eye-catching.
Interrogative
caption – captures
the viewer’s
attention, making
them want to
read on.

4. Text is in
white font in
Variety of red
fonts and boxes, whic
colours. h is quite
striking.

5. My front cover is considerably lacking all of these
things, and therefore needs to have quite a lot added
to it to make it more professional-looking. I will try out
a variety of new fonts and make the artist’s name
bigger so that it takes up more space. I also quite like
the idea of having a ‘puff’, something which appears
very often at the top of conventional front covers. I
could also try to make the fonts more colour co-
ordinated with the main cover image, as most other
music magazines seem to generally follow this rule.