This cover depicts the chaotic ideas of 'Kerrang' music magazine with a skyline, multiple cover lines (mostly placed in the left third) and a central main image. Therefore I have complied to Kerrang's layout conventions.
I created this final image using a Canon EOS 450D and editing it in Photoshop CC 2014. To get to this final image I used a variety of simple and more difficult techniques from cropping and layering to masking.
The only semiotics featured in my magazine are the masks worn by the 'band members'. I used the masks to attract reader attention and to link to the band name of 'The Bandits'. The connotation of wearing masks and black clothing suggests that the band are mysterious; however the black clothing is also an iconic symbol and wardrobe staple of Indie, rock and metal musicians which again links to the theme of my magazine being an Indie Rock magazine. The denotation of having the three people on the cover of a music magazine explicitly informs the reader that they are a band and therefore the music the audience are likely to hear from them is most likely going to be rock, indie or metal.
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