Front page re - think.

After recieving comments on my front cover from my target audience I decided to review if it was working to it's best ablility. Once I had reviewed this I decided that some major things were not working with my magazine front cover. The major issue I found with my magazine front cover is that the image was not working aswell as it needed to. I needed my image to look attractive and appropratie to the target audience and I also need this image to draw the target audience into reading my magazine and buying it when it would be sold. So I believe the model and the set up of the shot was working well to attract my target audience, however the major probelm I found was that the model in my photo was not giving direct eye contact to the audience meaning alot of the emotion in the image was lost. I believe by this emiontion been lost it would be diffcult for this magazine to attract my target audience. So therefore I decided to change the cover shot used on my front cover. The second issue I found with my front cover was the fact that my front cover lacked detail which meant there may not be enough information to attract my target audience.

First change to front cover

This was the first draft used with my new cover shot. But as I found in the past the background staging of the photo was too dull and therefore drew away from the main focus of the cover shot (model). However I believe the general image worked much better as eye contact was made to the target audience from the model but the attuide I wanted to show was still shown by the model looking over the shoulder. So now I needed to address the problem of the background taking away from the model. So I decided to go back on my orignal layout and cut the model from the image and place it on a black background.

Second change to front cover

This is my front cover with the model cut out and more detail added. I believe that the colours stand out with better effect on the black background which is why I chose to go back with my original idea of a black background. I believe this is the most effective copy of my cover so therefore will be taking it forward.