Here is the final draft of my magazine front cover.

The image.
I took this image at the river in Cobham. With the trees showing a natural environment like the type of music acoustic is. I then changed the colours of this image to create a neutral look of this image, again linking in with the overall feel of the music and the magazine its a relaxed look and feel that will continue the whole way through.

I styled her with the guitar in its case on her back to show the type of reader that will be interested in this magazine. Linking back into the mood board and the day in the life of a reader, as the reader would always be on the go what ever the weather rain or shine.

With the bridge leading into the centre of the magazine, where she is this is drawing the reader to open and reads more into the magazine. It allows the text to be around the edge with covering the important parts of the image.

The text.
The chose to change the font with each puff as it adds a more textured look. Each font represents the text that is there. With different sizes it allows each bit to attract the reader separately.

The important extras.
I finally had to add on the barcode as its a technical must have and the date just under the strap line. I put the date in grey as its separate to the rest of the magazine and a fact. This will be the same on every magazine.