This was my chosen layout for my front cover with the picture added to it. I thought this lay out was appropriate for the genre of music I am doing, it is simple yet looks interesting. I think that not having much on the front cover makes it look better, there isn’t too little nor too much. I have moved some parts about such as the barcode and the cover lines. I am happy with how my final front cover has turned out.

I moved the cover line from the top left hand side to the bottom. I think it looks much better there than it would at the top due to lack of space and it looks better. The “ASK ALICE” cover line also looks better higher than it was before. I made the “Posters Inside” in upper case and red to stand out more and catch the readers eye. The Cover lines I have included fit the genre, such as the bands I have included.

I was deciding whether to have the festival guide box at an angle or straight. I decided to so with slanted. This gives it more edge whereas the straight box looks more formal and regimented which will not appeal to my target audience nor fit the genre.

I was deciding whether to have small quotation marks or big ones. I chose to do with the big quotation marks as they stand out more and catch the readers eye. I wanted to pull quote to stand out more and clearly state that it is a pull quote, therefore the big quotation marks help achieve this. On some NME magazines, which I have found in my research, they have used bigger quotation marks to make the pull quote stand out, and it does catch the readers eye. The pull quote also relates to my genre as it is a lyric of a song but is Ask Alice’s catch line.

(big quotation marks)