Magazine front cover - Planning

This is the planning for the front cover of my music magazine, this has to be the most eye catching and appealing to my target audience as it is the first thing they see. I wanted the masthead to be at the top (like other magazines) above the artists head to make it stand out and the artist to be positioned directly underneath taking the central focus. The sell lines and straplines positioned around the primary image keeping the artist in central focus. This was a general template for the construction part as I kept all of the ideas I used on the plan as I thought this was an effective way of targeting my target audience. I added a few more sell lines than in the plan to make it look like it contained more information and used special effects to made the words stand out more.