Construction Of Cover Page

This video demonstrates the very first stages of the construction of my front cover. It shows how I started off with a completely different modernised and slightly futuristic theme. I soon realised that this theme was not going to work for my particular style of genre that I was aiming for and this lead me to develop my ideas further using different codes and conventions..

I then experimented with the idea of matching the skin tone of my cover star Yasmin to the colour palette and general theme of the magazine. I did this because I researched into special editions of NME when they completely adapt and evolve their style, including their colour scheme for a 'one-off' edition in order to honour the featured artist. An example of this is when I looked at the special edition which featured John Lennon. However, once I could visually picture the warm toned colours all together on one cover, I felt that it sent out too much of an almost naturalistic theme because of the various skin tones etc. I then started to experiment further with fonts (as you see at the end of this photo peach) and
colours yet again to adapt this idea into my next theme that I created..

I finally decided on a more simplistic and sophisticated colour scheme as well as using editing software to tone down the images in terms of contrast and again, colour. As you will see in the photopeach video, I found it extremely different to decide whether or not to feature additional photographs on my cover. At one point, I had two extra pictures featured alongside Yasmin's headshot. Although I felt that they really mirrored the conventions of most fashion and music magazines really well, in the end, I decided to get rid of them as they were detracting vital attention away from my cover star. I constantly kept being drawn back to the NME John Lennon inspiration and decided that I should make this edition of 'Vinyl' a supposed tribute to 'Yasmin Glass' and her musical career. I therefore kept other images out of the picture and allowed my colour scheme to compliment Yasmin's personality and music genre. I even matched some of the colours of fonts to elements such as her lips and her hair.