Front cover photographs

These two photographs are the two i had considered for my front cover. Firstly I like the clothing that she is wearing some purple in her clothing and this shows my colour scheme in her clothing linking my front cover photographs of the artist automatically to my magazine. Both of the photographs show two different sides to the artist and to very different sides of the music. At first I decided to go with the first image as I thought it would be creative and lively just what I wanted also promoting a good image about the music genre and making the magazine very approachable for the audience. However i had advice from my teacher,advice from other pupils and more importantly my target audience, and the second image was the one chosen to use for my front cover instead and i have to agree the image is the better one for my front cover as its mysterious and quite thoughtful image to get the audience interested in the magazine as it is the front cover that grabs the readers attention, so this is why I picked this photograph and why I changed it as it was chosen by my target audience and its important for me to listen to my target audience and they are the people who are going to buy this magazine.
The final photograph I took out the background of the second image to blend in with my magazine and also the black background makes the photograph stand out too. It would also fit in better with my music magazine genre.