Front Cover Designs

After doing my research on competitor magazines these are my three draft ideas for my front cover. I based the poses of my model from poses I'd seen celebrities do which worked well and were popular with that magazines demographic. Although my drafts aren't in colour, there are a few splashes of colour on my drafts for a reason. In the middle picture I have coloured in my masthead and the models lips to portray that my models lipstick colour will match the masthead so it will be as though the 'celebrity' is a part of the magazine which I believe will give my magazine a welcoming vibe. I then coloured behind the title on the draft on the left so the colours of that masthead are inverted so I could compare mastheads to see which I preferred, and which one worked best with my genre and demographic survey results.
The design I've chosen is the middle one. The reason for this is because I believe it fit's my demographic survey results perfectly. After looking at competitor magazines I felt that a medium close up was usually the most eye-catching front cover, which is what I want for my front cover as my survey results show that the first thing my target audience will look at on a front cover is my photo. Therefore it was between the second and third models pose. I chose the second as I believed I could get more attitude from the model with it which will grip the reader more. I've placed my models head in front of the masthead as this connotes that my magazine is well established, the reader doesn't need to be able to see all the letters, because they will already know what the magazine is called.