Analysis of the first draft of my front cover

On my main cover, I thought of using bright and attractive colors in order for it to stand out. I really liked the picture of the girl that I took, as the background colors were contrasting with the red hair on model/artist. I thought about playing with the conventions of a magazine, and thus I decided not to incorporate too many text boxes on the front cover, I wanted the picture to stand out. also, not all magazines have the barcodes on the front cover, and so I decided to eliminate that.

To make it a little more eye catching and ‘funky-pop’ sort, I decided to use colors that would go well with the outer navy blue part of the background. The fluorescent pink writing with a hint of white adds to a sense of ‘funky-pop’ and also works well with the font. Whereas the orange outlined title ‘BLAST’ is also appealing. As the title is orange, I thought of using more orange and thus I colored the strap line orange with navy blue writing in it, in order to stick to the conventions of colors.