Flatplan - Front cover

Magazine front cover Rationale:

Colour use: Since I want my magazine front cover to be professional, I will follow a house-style and keep with those same colours throughout. For my front cover I am going to pick the colours pink, white and black. I have chosen these colours because I think they contrast each other very well and those colours are best suited to my target audience. I have also researched into different existing magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan which have the same genre and they follow very feminine colours to entice their chosen audience which is similar to mine. First of all I will use pink to actually attract my chosen audience, then I will use black as a neutral colour to ensure my magazine doesn't look over the top, and then I will include white to also attract an older audience but to ensure my magazine look professional and sophisticated. Pink will be my main bright colour as I don't want to include too many bright colours as it may be off-putting and make my magazine look unprofessional. I am hoping to vary the colours of my cover lines e.g. I the title of the cover line will be a dark pink and another cover line will be light pink or white. I will also want my masthead in either pink or black, I haven't chosen for definite yet but I think either of these two colours will work because they are both main colours of my magazine which again will make it look like it follows a house-style and look professional. 

Image use: I am following the conventions of a typical magazine for my front cover and only using one picture. I'm hoping that following this convention will ensure my magazine turns out very professional looking and simplistic. The image will be took in either a medium shot showing my model's upper end clothing or a close up showing my model's make-up and facial expression. I'm hoping that the mise-en-scene of the image will either include outside nature such as decorative flowers and green scenery or in front of a white background. I'm also hoping that there is enough natural light to capture the image in the way I intend it to be. 

Text use and font: I will keep the text easy and simple to read and will use a range of fonts yet not too many so that I can maintain a professional appearance for my front cover. I will use fonts more than once on my front cover so it doesn't look untidy. I won't use too much text on my front cover so it doesn't complicate my magazine, I want it to be easy to read so that it can attract a younger audience as well as an older audience. I don't want any text on the front cover to take too much focus away from the main image and main cover line so I will keep it very minimalistic yet informative and enticing. I will ensure my masthead is a clear yet exciting font so that it's easy to notice and still entices the audience to my magazine. 

Layout: The layout of my front cover will follow a convential layout because I want my magazine to be professional and since it's also for an older audience I want it to be familiar and easy to follow so it also appeals to them. A convential layout is a main image, cover lines around the image, masthead at the top and main cover line at the bottom. Since I created a magazine last year with these conventions I can again mimic something similar to that as I already have the knowledge and skills to create a magazine of these conventions. However, I will ensure it's different to last years as I need to enhance my skills.