Critical Evaluation Of First Draft Of Front Cover

My first draft of my music magazine front cover achieved the aims that I set such as the audience the magazine is aimed for. The magazine is aimed at females aged 16-25. I have made it clear that this magazine is for females for ages 16-25 as I have used purple and pink colours for my masthead and cover lines. I have also used a female model who is stylish and suits the genre of the music. The genre of the music is Unsigned and upcoming artists. To represent the genre of music I have chosen on my front cover, by having my setting/background in a forest as I did not want to over do the background or make it seem like a pop magazine. I chose this setting because it was suttle and I felt like it suited the genre because it was a relaxed atmosphere.
The cover lines of my magazine are clear to read as I have used drop shadows, inner shadows and colours that were light against the background so the cover lines would stand out and easy to read.
The cover lines are placed down the left side and going a bit over the artist but not her face to which shows that the cover lines fit in just right on the front cover and the font also helped to make the cover lines easy to read a fit in just right.
I think to improve my front cover I could make the masthead easier to read. I think this because the masthead is to dark and also the background is also dark so I need to make the masthead a lighter colour so it stands out more.
On my front cover I also included the bar-code at the bottom with the numbers below it. I also included the date and price at the top of the cover just under the masthead.
I think this cover looks like a music magazine because the conventions such as cover lines show that the magazine is to do with music as it included covers such as "Top 10 Festivals For 2014".
I have released my design intentions and there is a cover of my copy in the college ICT room where a lot of people study. In ways my design of my front cover looks like what I intentionally tried to create such as the image of my artist was very successful. However, the only thing that didn't meet my own intentions is the way the cover lines look. To improve this I will change the cover lines to see if they look better and just experiment and see what other people may think. Overall I feel like my front cover for my music magazine went really well and was a great outcome.