Magazine cover draft 2

Draft 1                                                                                   Draft 2

I have got feedback for my first draft. What my lecturer said was the images are good, but the masthead is too small, some essential information was missing (such as the date and price), the cover lines don't stand out on a dark background and some of the fonts are too gimmicky and don't fit with the genre of music magazines magazine. So I have listened to it and I have tried to fix it. I have went back onto photoshop and changed a lot from my last draft. 

Firstly, what I kept the same is the background image, because he didn't say there was anything wrong with the images, so if it isn't broken don't fix it. Same goes for the other photos, except I have changed the placement of them since it did look disorganised and made the cover look like a mess. So what I did was I created a yellow banner across the bottom of page, this was to organize the magazine  in terms of the layout and to make the text more readable since it didn't look eye-catching and just blended into the background. The other things i kept the same was the tag line is still in the same position, most of the cover lines remain the same and the skyline is exactly the same.

Whats different? Well the yellow banner is the most obvious change as I have included a lot of content into that space like the images, the cover lines listing different musicians, the date, the price which I have included from my last and the bar code. 

The size of the masthead has been increased, taking up a larger chunk of the page. While the Ivo Botnick cover line is exactly the same in font and words, the position of it has been changed and the size has been increased to make it stand out much better than last time as I have realised it was too small. The main cover line has seen the most change as I have changed the wording, font and positioning. This is because Draft 1 was criticised for being too gimmicky with the fonts. I have changed the font from "enjoy the show" to Radio stars, i think it looks much more fitting, also the 3D is gone. I re-worded the story as well so it makes more sense.

Here is the marked draft beneath