As previously talked about in my last post, I want to break the conventions of a fashion magazine, so when deciding my front cover I need to keep that in mind. Fashion magazines usually place a popular model or celebrity on the front cover, dress them in bold and body hugging clothes, and the subject is always looking directly at the camera. The masthead is very large and placed at the top middle of the cover, and is made to stand out. The subtitles are placed along the subject and usually use a different font color so that it also stands out. Here are some examples of a conventional fashion magazine cover:
But I also some fashion magazines change the conventional front cover and still have it stand out. For example Love magazine and again the Messy heads, are magazine publications that I am going to be grabbing my ideas from. Here are some examples of their front covers:
As we can see from the Love magazine, not all of the subjects face the camera or are dressed in sensual clothing, in fact the shot is a head shot which allows viewers to have more focus on the subject rather than the clothing. As well as the masthead font is different on each issue. They also don't have any subtitles along the side of the subject, which in my opinion makes it more likely for someone to pick the magazine and actually have to open it to see what is inside. Not to mention that Love magazine is a well known fashion magazine, but as we can see they break the general conventions much like I want to do.
Saying this, I know I want my cover to have the subject be in the frame of a head shot and I want the masthead to be a different and fun font, as for the subtitles I have yet to decide if I want to include them on the cover. Since my magazine is 'Daring' and I want to convey that through every aspect, and I have to figure out the best way to do that.
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