There is a clear trend in Electronic music magazine cover designs, to show a single image of a model (normally male) facing the camera with a light in front of him, casting a shadow across the opposite side of his face. I will use this style of photography in the image I use in my final piece, as it creates a modern and stylish feel to it which fits nicely with the genre of music that is based around. From the four magazine cover designs I have chosen here, we can see that creating a shadow across the right side of the models face is a popular idea which I would like to follow in my own design.
With the exception of the first design, the others all employ the use of plain black. simple clothing, which I will use as well. By using simple clothing it draws focus away from the unimportant aspects of the image, instead placing full focus on the picture of the musician. Another feature of the cover image is the very simple, plain background, which once again puts the readers attention on the main image, and conforms to the modern, futuristic, sleek feel of the electronic music genre.
I will use an image similar to the 2nd design shown here, which is a close up shot of the models face with a very dark background contrasting against a bright light being shone on the models face.
The text around the image will be a very vibrant colour (examples in my research are orange and green text against a dark background) with white subtitles.
Good solid research. When you circle an element in your research, make sure you are precise about what it is you are trying to draw attention to. As far as I can see, you seem to be circling the faces of the models on the bottom two covers; but that is too general. What is it about the faces that you want me to become aware of?
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