Masthead construction

Design ideas for my music magazine

Here are some design ideas for my magazine front cover logo. I may not use any off the below depending on what image i use however the fonts below are the ones i like so far.

Here is a font that i think would suit a rapper. I like the fact that it looks graffitied however using this for my masthead wouldn't work as the font isn't for everyone, but using it for the name of the musician maybe an option. I think having it as white writing and putting it on a black background would really work.

I think this one looks like a sports magazine masthead. I don't think it would work for a music magazine, however i do think it stands out with the bold outline. To this font i may add colour to the inside if i use it as i think it may give it that edge and more of my target audience will like it.  

This font looks very funky, however I believe that it looks more heavy metal and not the genre of masthead that I want as it wont suit my target audience. I do like the colour of black and white however I wont be using this for my masthead.

Here is another font I like the look of. I like this because of the flames coming up from behind the writing. However I believe this is because I am of the male gender and as I'm trying to make a unisex magazine I think this is too for the male sex.

Here I really like the colours of the font I think that the red definitely suits the black background. It stands out from the background, however I'm not so keen on the flames for this one I much prefer the font above.

This masthead is really cool I like the way that the fonts swerves with the writing. I think the white stands out from the black background, I think I will definitely have white writing on a black background. Although I believe the font is to fin in places especially the letter B and O. I wont be using this font for this reason however I would like to use something along these lines.

I really like this font I believe this is the best font so far just the way that it slants in italics. The writing stands out as it is all roughly the same size for each letter. The colours stand out as well from the background which I think that my target audience will like.

I dont think much of this font as I believe it looks to girly. As I am trying to make a unisex magazine I wont be using this masthead for my front cover.

The masthead I will be using is the one that I have given the name of the Incrowd to. I believe this is the best one out of the ones that I researched. When I use this on the front cover I want to add 'The' so it will be called 'The Incrowd'. I think I may also give the 'The' a slant to read upwards. I believe this will also suit my target audience because of their age group. My target audience age group is around the age of a teenager. Dick Hedbridge once said "Youth as fun, youth as a trouble maker". I believe given the title a slant targets my audience by it being rebellious.


Here I am cropping an image. I had to crop an image to make it easier to edit and to get rid of any background space behind my model.

 

 Here is my image before I cropped it in photoshop.

 Here is my image whilst I cropped it to get rid of unwanted background space.

Here is my image after I cropped it. This image will be used on my contents page.