After viewing my final design of my front cover, I realised that there was a few important elements; such as I had the date, issue number and bar code missing. Not only that, but my placement of the title at the right went against the convention of magazines, therefore I made these changes to improve the quality of my magazine.

Once I had made these changes, I realised my original image wasn't successful as one of the band members had his eyes closed, and another part of his face was hidden. Therefore I went for a different approach by using a different image for my background.

This image is a good, clear image with all the members close together looking directly at the camera. However, I don't think this works successfully as a magazine cover as the red writing doesn't show well over the image. A suggestion would be to change the red writing, however my  theme is the red and white fonts, therefore I want to keep this consistency throughout.

                                            




 The cover to the right is the same layout as the previous ones, However the change I have done is to alter the background again. This is also a successful image, however once again the writing doesn't work well over it.

Not only this but, the setting of my original image with the boatyard in the background created a interesting setting, in comparison to a photo with the bend members with grass in the background.

This is similar to my first draft with the boatyard in the background, however this time all the members are looking directly at the camera, therefore there is no coverage of the face.

The cover lines still aren't as bold as I would like them to be over the image, However this is the strongest of all my images so I have decided to  use this.

As you can see, I have added the bar code, date and issue number on  my cover in the same theme as the rest of the writing to follow the consistency.

The only problem with this is the the word 'Festival' overlaps two of the members, However this is a convention which I have noticed occurring in many Indie magazines.