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I showed my most recent draft of the magazine cover to my peers and my target audience and I got a few comments about the colour scheme, and that even though the mast head is kind of like a logo (and therefore can be it's own colour and not affect the colour scheme too much), it would probably look better red in this case, instead of blue.
I also got comments like "it doesn't really look like a magazine cover...".
To begin to rectify this, I added a classic 'star' shape in the corner. Here is the result:

Now in my opinion I think that the star looks a little unprofessional. It definitely needs a drop shadow.
Also, the male actor's head (my head) is almost covered up. So I may need to move the star as well.