Title and Masthead

For my front cover, I will need a masthead. I will also need to decide on my final title, the font and the colour, as I've had a few ideas regarding them. Initially, I was going to use the name 'The Bandstand' for my magazine, as it is relevant to the genre and is musical terminology, but still common knowledge as to not alienate readers who don't play the instruments or in bands. However, I decided that this was unnecessary, and that 'Bandstand', without the 'The', was much more catchy and took up slightly less space on the magazine cover. My first idea of the Masthead was to have it black, so that it would stand out from the background which would likely be a light cream, gold or brown.

However, once I began my digital mock-up of the magazine cover, I quickly discovered that the black just didn't stand out as much as I'd hoped. This led me to change the main colour of the Masthead to cream. This didn't stand out too well either, so I used a copy of the original to be a shadow on the back of the cream. This made the Masthead stand out against the background, but still fit in with the magazine.