Here is my first version of my masthead, this was the first step in making my front cover. It was inportant to use a bold colour.






 the next stage was to add the main image and main strapline I used the same colour but a differant font to make it stand out.

I then added coverlines on ither side of my image in a differant font and colour so it is clear to an audiance that 'sacha stone' if the focus. I put several on as I wanted to show that there was more than one story to my magazine. 

my next step was to add a puff in a bright bold colour that would draw atention to the cover. the reason I did this was that it was a feature of many of the magazines I looked at. I placed it in the top corner as in this way it did not intrude into the image but was still visible and clear.

I also included a tag line that would be short and memorable and also fitted with the colour theme of the cover, this was a theme I intend to use throughout the whole magazine.

I made it so there was also a website address on the front cover aswell as the small deatailes like isue number, date, price, bar code. theas aspects were what would make my magazine look more profetional. this was the final stage of my creation of my front cover.