This is a content page I found on the Internet which I felt was a good image to follow. With the variety of texts and colours and words scatted about as well as images. This gave me the right kind of idea on how I needed to make my magazine look. The features of a music magazine are quiet busy and crowded, almost to say you are getting alot packed into the magazine for your money, so the reader is gaining. As well as this, many magazine buyers and readers prefer the visual aspect of the magazine and not always are for the 'ramble' of text that is included. So making your contents page visually exciting engages and attracts readers.
To the left is my first draft where I have tried to include images I have taken myself and then edited on photo shop and try to create a 'scatter' effect, but I felt there was not enough images to give off this effect. As well as this, I have tried to include the some features that connect with the Internet, such as 'Follow us at' Twitter and facebook, as they are very popular at the moment and would advertise my magazine well. Also, the scan icon for those readers who have iphones etc can gain extra information on gigs and special competitions with just the scan of this little icon, but not taking away any information from those readers who don't have the technology as they have the choice to go on the online website which will include all the gigs and competitions as well. In my first draft I have included the basic information of what is featured inside the magazine and set it out in a spacious and easy to read way. I found this wasn't working and this wasn't what a music magazine was all about. As you can see you the right is my final draft at the moment. You can see my progression in the way I have placed images and made things more tight and together, cutting down on text so it is more visual for the reader and I have made images bigger and seem like more of a feature on the content page itself. I am very pleased with my final draft at the moment and feel it is defiantly more visually seen as a music magazine that I feel my young adult target audience would enjoy.
Here is my inspiration for my front cover. I found the cover difficult and I needed to get in my head a sort of theme that my cover would follow. My target audience was young adults both male and female but maybe slightly more towards the female side which I have tried to show on my magazine cover. Firstly my main image is a women, and I think naturally the female sex are more interested in there own kind. Then I have included titles that are in a dark pink colour like on the magazine 'VIBE'. I found 'VIBE' a good example for me to follow as it a very popular R&B magazine that includes the type of front cover I would like to create. Having the blue and the pink suggest the idea of male and female and then the main image being a close up of a artists face, I have as well done this and so felt that this was a cover that would connect more to my own. But of course I have made mine in a different style as my magazine is not a R&B magazine it is a Chart/modern music magazine.
On the right is my draft front cover. At the time I was very unsure on my style I was trying to follow, which led to me not really having much colour and generally making my cover look very unprofessional. My first draft cover was very plain and 'boxy' and just didn't have the features of a music magazine cover that I wanted. To the left you can see my 'almost' final draft, this draft is 'almost' finished because I feel I could include more text around the image, but not much more so its close enough to a final draft with just a bit of 'tweeking'. As you can see in my final draft, I have more or less picked the colour scheme of blue, pink and grey. I feel these colours connect well with my audience being male and female as well as having the grey which is a very natural neutral colour that is no way led towards a particular sex. I have taken out the unnecessary boxed information that was on my first draft and just changed it for the band name to create a sure indication that the main image connects the the band 'Passion in America'. On the side of my final draft I have included very brief, short information on the artists that are featured inside the magazine, all but 'Rihanna and David Guetta' are made up artists I have done myself. But I have chosen to include 'Rihanna and David Guetta' because they are very popular in the Top40 charts and are very popular and well know modern/chart artists.
Not only does drafting help to show other the work you have done and the images in which showed inspiration when creating the final product, but it also helps my own mind, it helps me to see what I need to do to change and improve, you can always improve a product to make it better and to make it more targeted to my target audience and my genre. From this I can see that for my final pieces of work I need to make sure that all three of my pages look as if they come from the same magazine, I will take this thought with me when creating my double page spread draft.
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