Second draft of my front cover

This is my second draft of my front cover I have looked at specific things that people liked and disliked about my first draft. Creating a second draft allowed me to change some of the things that my target audience picked out, although it is not my favourite I have changed the main points that my target audience said about. Firstly I changed the size of the masthead, when I looked at main magazines that have been published their masthead is rather large and with my first draft it was to small for people to pick out in a shop. I do prefer my masthead to be bigger as it is eye catching, however as I am only using pixlr to create my font cover I can not make it too big as it will go over my models head which is not very flattering. The problem with pixlr is that it is hard to try to create something that looks like a well known magazine as they have all of the best programs and tools to use which I do not have access to, although this is a downside I have created something which I do like, also with my magazine I do not want to follow all of the conventions of a typical magazine therefore it is nice not to have the masthead behind my models head as we can actually read the name of the magazine, in addition because this will be the first edition of the magazine it will be nice to make it stand out as people will not of heard of the magazine before so it is best for them to read it so they can take note of the name of hopefully their favourite magazine on the shelf. I removed one of the sell lines so I could make those bigger as well this makes the front cover look less cluttered and makes it is easier for my audience to read. I did keep the + and the box as this was one of the things that my target audience liked however I did remove the - signs so it was less like a list, I thought that if it looked like a list that it was more formal and it didn't want my front cover to look like that. The 'December 2013, issue 1 £2.20' was moved to the bottom right hand corner I will defiantly keep it there as it makes the magazine look professional as a lot of magazines have the price in that area. Also because I am not having a barcode on the front of the magazine I thought that it would be perfect to be put in its place otherwise there would be nothing in that area. The font is different which makes it clearer to read and also goes better with the other fonts rather than the one I used before. I did choose to use a different colour as the black was difficult to read in this font however it is not my favourite. I asked people for their opinion on the two drafts of the front cover and they said that they liked everything on this one apart from the colour so I will defiantly change the colour to something that will appeal to my target audience. I don't think that I will change anything with the free download as I have made 'The XX' bigger and also in a different font so it stands out, also I moved it down from the boarder and used again a different font to create the circle. In my last draft it was more of an oval shape which was not what I wanted, this is more circular which makes it look more like a stamp therefore I will not change anything with this one and use it in my next draft.  

Things to change in my next draft

• The colour of the font
• The edges of the box to make them level
• The white blocks inside the box
• Maybe add an extra sell line or competition