Magazine Cover Evaluation

For my first draft of my magazine cover I didn’t use any personal photography for it as I wanted to get the layout and other parts and how I wanted it to look outlined before I added my own photography. I started off by choosing a font and colour of the mashhead for my magazine, the colour was chosen depending on the main image so that the colours could match together, for my final design the mashhead is a bold red with a bold and slightly grungy font called “STEAK” I found that this font would go well with the genre of the magazine as it was a metal/Indie magazine therefore the grungy style of the font would match with the metal genre. I chose to space everything in the magazine out so that each part would stand out and not be over powered by any other part of the magazine. My final cover has mostly red, white and black colours included in the fonts and boarders as I felt they went well with my own personal photographed main image that was very dark colours but with some hints of orange and red included. The same font was used for the other pieces of text of the cover as, for the same reason; I thought it went well with the chosen genre of my magazine.
I chose to not add to much text and pictures to my cover as I felt it would be too distracting for the audience and I felt that a simple approach with not much included would be ideal for my cover, however there is just enough of the cover to keep it eye catching and interesting. I used different size fonts to help different things look bolder and stand out.
I feel my magazine is suitable for my target audience as it offers interesting combination of two different music genres that mix well together in some cases. Also I feel that my cover will be successful as it has a lot of interesting information on the cover that people will want to read. In addition because the cover is very simple people will want to know what else will be inside the magazine therefore wanting to buy it. I priced my magazine at £2.30 which is slightly higher than the average magazine. However I did this because I would only publish this magazine only once every 6 months therefore meaning there will be a lot included in the magazine and I feel the price should be slightly higher for those reasons. I would like my magazine to be distributed in newsagents so that any kind of person could see and want to buy my magazine not just my target audience.
In conclusion I think I could have probably added one or two more things to the front cover that would really make it stand out and appeal to anyone. However I am happy with my final cover.