My Masthead creation

When I started my magazine cover the first thing I did was my masthead , I used a font from photo shop and added effects and played with the width and length of the letters to create a font I felt was best and suited to my vision. I made sure I used capital letters as it’s very rare to see a magazine masthead without capital letters. As you can see here I added effects to the words to create a shadow and make the font appear more 3D against the red background I added.

I chose the name “power” for my magazine as hip hop music oozes power and money, hip hop artists images are based on power and every hip hop artist wants to be perceived as the most powerful, I also chose the name as it is a very popular Kanye West hip hop song, which some people who listen to him might realize.  I decided to make the font white with a red rectangular graphic behind as it is a common magazine convention to use red and white in the masthead especially in hip hop magazines. I placed the masthead in the far left corner as that is also a magazine convention.