Magazine Front Page Progression

I started by taking my original photo and adding flames to his hands and experimenting with light to give the warm glow of the fire. Flames are a code of asscociated with the metal genre.

I then removed the branded logo on the tshirt and gave my model tattoos and a lip ring and ear stretcher as these are typical of the genre. I then placed him on a white background. I also edited the flames as the were rather poorly edited and gave them more body and mass.

I experimented with what to have a background. I thought the shattered glass look effect would bring across the concept of power that I wanted the model to have. I also added a graphic of a skull onto the blank tshirt.

I also experimented with another font before resorting back to the previous font

I then tried to make the font white on a black splattered effect background

Whilst I had chopsen my font I still wanted to experiment with how to present my font. This was my first attempt. I chose toput the word metal inside the I letter of the word informer.

However I was not convinced and so experimented with gradients on my font and was as giving it an embossed effect to make it stand out.

I then carried on experimenting with fonts using the warp tool in photoshop to create the effect of the word coming out of a megaphone

I liked the what I had done with the title but chose to flip itand add lightning bolt graphics. I then added a crack marble background and faded it. I then started experimenting with fonts for my headlines

I decided to change the contrast of the background to make the cracks in the marble bolder and more defined

I wanted to add other images onto the front cover and so used one of the images I had taken at one of the live events I visited that had a similar colour scheme to my magazine. I also changed the font because whilst I like the font I designed I felt it took up too much space.

I added a barcode to the front cover as well as text surrounding the modelputting black backgrounds on certain text inorder to make it stand out. I alternated between red and black font colours and added a solid colour grahic of a lightning bolt

I added lines to seperate my articles as well as fill in white space and added a summary of the magazine above the magazine title.

I then added an issue number and price as well as another graphic as I felt one grpahic was rather pointless and made the graphic seem isolated. I duplicated the lightning bolt changing its colour and putting it behind the lightning bolt to give it a red edge.