FRONT COVER FINISHED

I tried to use quite an urban looking mastehead, I think it worked quite well as I went for the 'street' look (hence 'streetwise'). The font used was JUICE from http://www.dafont.com/. when looking at colour i firstly played around with blues/greens etc, i used this font because it is quite 'gangster' and after all the magazine audience is based on this type of character. The face i used was from my 'model' James Shreeve. he is very spotty and has very blood shot eyes which i tried to correct here. I also played about with the contrast to make him stand out more. Cover Line - the first cover line (about legal ways to earn money) was used to fill some space in the first third. I think this cover line works well agaist the background (colourwise) because the black text cotrasts well with the white Background. The bold LEGAL (also used the font JUICE) is one of three peices of text that are are Gold/Yellow adding a bit of colour to the Front Cover. Cover Line (2) - MARCUS HEWSON, He is without a doubt really who this whole issue is about. (Picture - left). He was originally going to be used as the MAIN COVER LINE however i thought that the main cover line looks better with less words. it stands out a lot more this way and the signature Marcus Hewson (yellow text) is used throughout the magazine. I think a decent tagline was in order for this magazine as its new and it is trying to get a great USP (urban street music magazine) - there are so many people/celebrity singers whom have been on there high horses for so long so i believed it was time to bring these 'up in te air' wanabes down to earth like many people from urban streets. Where rap began!