Front Cover And Masthead Designs

Front Cover Sketches 

 This is my first design for my front cover. I quite like this design since it will show my models face and him pointing to the headline. I will have the sell lines on the side with the '+' sign like in all the other magazines, the banner at the bottom and along the side some artists that will be featured within the magazine.  As for the background i could try and crop the model out, change the background to white and make the artists in black and white or i could try find a nice background.
For Mise-En-Scene i could have them in a blazers with their top button undone looking casual or possibly them into casual clothes because it's hard to desire what a typical bachata artists wears.

 For this design i will have the model looking towards the camera as they raise up their arms to point towards headline. This will make the model pose intend of them just standing there looking bored. The issue date will be next to the masthead and the strapline onto of the masthead. The sell lines will be along the sides and like the previous design i will include a list of artists that will be included inside the magazine.

This is my final design. Unlike my previous designs the masthead will be on the left side of the page and written in enlarged, bold text to stand out form the rest of the magazine. The artists will also be pointing towards this so this can also hint the user that this is the headline. Like the previous designs the sell lines are around the sides but instead of writing featured artists i will include a competition to go see a live concert.

Masthead design

This is my masthead designs i came up with. I really like the first design. It's my magazine 'Bachaton' with my logo on top of the 'o'. This way my logo will be included within the masthead.  The logo includes 2 music signs engraved within the crown. This will show that the magazine will be based upon music and not gossip for example.

I didn't really like the second design i tried making the logo the 'o' in the title but it didn't look right due to the colour and the font used.

Overall i think i will use the first design since i think it looks really cool and the logo is included within the masthead.