Plan for music magazine front cover (images and fonts).

Lots of magazines have cover mounts. These are the spaces on the front cover, usually at the bottom, where a free gift is stuck. Music magazines may give away simple copies of new albums from featured bands, which is what I want to do on my front cover.

To imply where the album would be mounted, I intend to put an image of the free album. This way, when the album would be removed from the cover there would be no empty spaces, just the same photo.

Here are some examples of album covers which could inspire my cover mount image:
 This is a Lily Allen album cover. It contains a lot of artwork which would have been added in using ICT. It could potentially be a long and laborious process.

This Lady GaGa album cover is fairly basic; a white background, a main image and the album and artist names. It could be easy to do once the artist has been dressed up. However this image is quite close up, which would be difficult to do with the four members of my band.



Some album cover are simple drawings which could be a good idea if the artist is skilled.



Here are some cover albums with more than one artist on, which would better suit my band.

Font.

Magazine fonts can help to express the genre of a magazine, so here are some fonts which I could use on my front cover to represent the musical theme.

I like this font because it looks quite simple but it is effective, however it is not very eye-catching or exciting.
 I like the bold colours used in this font, however the design itself could be a bit difficult to read.

I really like bold fonts as the stand out well and I would like to use them in my final piece. However, I would make them colourful so they stand out.