New Assessed Music Magazine

After the work i did for a college magazine and understanding the features of a magazine front cover and the contents page, researching the conventions. Now, I'm going to make a Music magazine for my own choice, using research to help my create my idea design.

Finished designs for Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page

After using the chosen programmes i have finally completed my idea designs for my magazine front cover and my contents page, using the photographic images that i have taken too.

College magazine front cover

This is my magazine front cover design, in comparison it looks a little similar to my brief ideas but with a few differences. II have used the image i have taken of the student from the previous college. Using the told in Adobe Photoshop Cs5 i have wiped out all the background behind the shot taken of the student, a created and outline of the shape of figure. Then i made the image look bigger so that the student fills up some space on the front cover, and so that the audience can see his facial expression, attracting the audiences attention.

Contents Page

This is my finished design of my contents page for the magazine, using the selected programme QuarkXPress. This took a while to make because i had to use the few optional tools to create text boxes and insert take photographic pictures useful for the design. Whilst making these creations I then had to add colour to them boxes/text/background. Also, increasing the size of text for the audience to see. Then i had to save is as a PDF file and then open the file into a Photoshop programme, giving it a background and then saving it as an image to get the full design completed.

Using Photo Images For Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page

Magazine Front Cover Image
Now that i have made a draft publication of my Magazine Front cover and Contents page ideas, i have taken a couple of photos that would be suitable for my magazine design.

This is a picture of a student from college with a medium-shot picture view.

From this image, the suitable audience/ readers can see the picture clearly and know that it is aimed at them. We know this because of the facial expression of the satudent in the picture, he looks directly at the audience.

Magazine Contents Page
This photographic image was taken inside of a college cafe.

This image is taken for the contents page so that the audience know what its like inside a college and show how suitable safe and secure and open free the facility. this helps attract the audience's attention and makes it the idea design very persuasive about the college that the magazine is representing.

Photo Image of a student from college.

This is another small image for the contents page, a student striking a happy pose, showing the audience how much he likes college, another way to attract the audience's attention, and persuade parents to let there children come to this college too.

Ideas of Magazine Cover and Contents Page

These are my ideas for my magazine front cover and my contents page. Hopefully my designs will look similiar to these briefs. For my Idea designs im going to use an two different programmes. My first prgramme im going to use for my Magazine front cover is a programme called Adobe Photoshop. The other programme im going to use is for my contents page is a prgramme called QuarkXPress.
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Magazine Front Cover Idea


Magazine Contents page Idea

Conventions of Magazine front cover and Content page.

Magazine Front Cover Research

Bright colours -  A colour scheme is used for text, 3-5 colours.

One main cover image is used = A celebrity

• Facial expressions convey personality or image of a star.
• Cover image uses direct address - eye contact with reader

Price is usually small

Central cover lines links to Image

•  Smaller cover lines are arranged
•  Around the face of cover image

If cover image has more than one person, they may have one in the foreground, positioning celebrities.
Page number may be used
Other products, freebies,posters may be advertised

Different fonts are used

• Not too many
• Needs to match the colour theme
• White or light coloured background is used or just plain.

Clothing of cover image matches style/fashion of personality

Cover image text are layered

• Masthead (title)/ Cover image/ Cover lines

Cover linesCover lines are written in an entertaining way to lure the reader e.g. Rhetorical questions

Title of cover has connotations
Linked to contact

Banners may be used as background
These are a few examples of Music Magazine covers:

Conventions of Magazines Content Pages

• Section from he editor 'speaks' to the reader. (Editorial)
• Photographs illustrate the content of the main articles.
• Offers for the magazine-reduced rates etc.
• Colour scheme is consistent with front cover.
• Bold page numbers for main article
• Sub-headings are used, to group articles of similar content
• Similar layered effect with headline at top.
• Pictures show people/ faces.
• Content/ lists laid in columns

NO EMPTY SPACES!!!

These are a few examples of content page in a music magazine: