Contents Page

Contents Page - Contact Sheet

Contents Page mock up

This is my mock up contents page, so far I am just experimenting with the layout but I really like the idea of the logo and title running up the bottom right hand side. Article information and photographs will be scattered yet clearly presented, and the text will be bold and informative, and I will stay within the black/ white/ grayscale theme again.

Contents Page Inspiration

These two example contents pages stood out to me due to there bold formats and good photography. I love the candid shot in on the 'Billboard' contents page and I wish to achieve this same effect with my contents page. The 'Kerrang' contents page uses really bold and eye-catching fonts and the sub-headings for each article are clearly outlined in black text boxes. I also really like the idea of an editor's introduction on the contents page and I myself might include this idea on my own music magazine contents page, as I feel it helps to create a closeness and exclusivity between the reader and the writer.

Front Cover

Front Cover - First Draft

 

This is my first draft of my music magazine front cover. I really love the image and am happy to keep that along with the magazine logo. The other text on the page, I feel should be a different colour than just the black and white. I might now incorporate some deep red or a colour like that in order to add some diversity to the magazine cover. I will still keep with the house theme of black/ white/ grayscale in terms of my images and main text but will stray from this on the front cover in order to make it stand out initially to the reader.

Front Cover Inpiration/ Emulation

 I really love this front cover idea, as it uses a very bold image of three band members presented in a way similar to my own photography. The main heading is bold and stands out more than anything else on the page and really helps to draw the eye. The logo used is simplistic yet bold and uses an effective white on red colour scheme. The rest of the text used follows the same colour scheme as the magazine's logo which keeps a running theme, and the use of bolder and taller fonts for the band and artist names really draw the reader in. I will try and use some of these ideas in my own front cover design for my music magazine and hopefully demonstrate the same quality of front cover as this.

This is my music magazine front cover plan. I have used some of my initial ideas along with some of the inspiration I got from the example magazine cover I chose. The colour scheme is black and white, and, as of the moment I will stick to this and see the overall effect on the reader and the visual outcome of this. I plan to have a very simplistic, bold, white title which covers the entire width of the cover. My photography for my front cover already resembles something similar to the example front cover I chose and this as it will enable me to emulate this existing magazine cover to a more accurate level.