Front Cover Drafts

This is my very quick initial mock up of my front cover that I made on www.picmonkey.com, I made this with influences of an NME magazine featuring Florence Welch. I like my variety of fonts as they are appropriate for my genre, although there isn't enough information on the page and there is a lot of space free that I could have taken advantage of. I feel that a big magazine such as NME could pull this off although it is unconventional in comparison to their other magazines. This doesn't work for me as a busy magazine looks more effective, such as Kerrang.

Here is my second mock up made on www.picmonkey.com. This is pretty close to what my final outcome will be. In comparison the the mock up above, there is much more text and visual imagery (boxes, a second plug and secondary images). I have created a footer which is inspired by the 'Featuring' column on the cover above. This takes up much less space leaving more room for stories that are more likely to reel in the readers. I've used feature stories influenced by my 'WAVES' google mock up I created in December. Although I have used the same image as I feel that it is appropriate for my main feature story. I have used the idea of the outlines on the boxes so that there is more colour on the page and also that they don't get lost in the main image. I can contrast the outline cp;our based on the type of feature. This is what I am going to recreate when making my final front cover draft on Photoshop (See below).