First Cover Analysis

Front Cover

This cover doesn't follow the common conventions of a typical magazine front cover, however for an arts magazine it's a good reference as it has a good artistic structure and has shapes that I can re create and infuse my own colour palette in order to make my own front cover. This cover doesn't have sub stories that tell readers what will be included inside so I will add this down the side to fill blank space. On some front covers they include a few images to go along side the sub stories but I think in order to keep it tidy I will just use the artistic main image with shapes to structure the page.

I will look at pre existing arts magazine front covers to get a good understanding of the common conventions they use so I can follow them, rather than the standard magazine conventions and adding an artistic style to them. I have already established a colour palette of pink, blue and white therefore I will experiment with different layouts that will work well to use my colour palette in a way that will enhance my main image.