Front Cover Improvements + Final Cover

From my initial cover audience feedback, where I asked people who would fit into my target audience of older teenagers, I decided to make a few changes to improve my front cover. 

My initial front cover

My first suggested improvement from feedback was to adjust the swirl drawing on the model's neck, as it was often being confused for a tattoo and almost made that area of the cover look too busy. Therefore, I decided to remove it completely as I was happy with just the one doodle in the top left hand corner in order to bring fun to my magazine.

Another suggestion upon removing the swirl was to adjust the size of the 'Emma Lauran' text by making it bigger and easier to read as a result. On doing this, I realised the text underneath this article was a little too boring and so chose to change it to a more appealing font. Also, by moving the text further to the right, I saw it would look like a more organised cover if I shifted the competition advert to the right as well. 

It was pointed out to me that the black strip at the top of the page was looking a little empty and that maybe I should increase the size of the text to fill it out. Instead, I simply added to date '2013' to bulk it out and stretched the text so it made a much more appropriate tagline for my magazine.

Lastly, I took this opportunity of editing my cover to add in my own version of the album cover with my own photograph so that it would fit into the colour scheme better, whilst also enabling my cover to be completely customised and made by myself. 

My final front cover after improvements