I am retaking my AS coursework. Our task was to produce a music magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread. Looking at my previous work I have decided to stay with the same genre of Punk/Rock and I will be looking at different magazines that depict this genre e.g.
NME,
Kerrang, Q and
Mojo. I have decided to use this genre of Punk/Rock because its conventions were the ones I were most comfortable to follow and develop because I have been a close follower of
NME and
Kerrang and their conventions are familiar to me.
I have started the designing process and have the initial designs for the front cover, contents page and double page. To the left is my initial design for my font cover. As you can see it is made up of a big main image to show the audience that it is the main focus of the magazine. The Masthead is the biggest text on the page as it needs to stand out, especially on a magazine shelf where only the top will be visible. The main cover line would be slightly smaller than the Masthead because it is still important and needs to stand out but it cannot distract you from the Masthead. This is a conventional front cover, mostly from
Kerrang, because the conventions have shown to be successful.
To the right is my initial design for my contents page. The main image is the biggest thing on this page. This is to show its importance over everything else. It may not be the image of the band I will be writing about on my double page spread but I have noticed that in real magazines that the main image on the contents page isn't necessarily the band that are on the double page. The contents Masthead is the biggest text on this page. This is because it shows that this is the contents page and the most important information about what is in the magazine is on this page. There is a smaller picture in the bottom left corner and that is another convention of music magazines and this is probably where I will put an image of the band I will be 'interviewing' on the double page spread. 
To the left is my initial design of my double page spread. The main image is the main focus on this page to show the audience that they are a new and upcoming band and to highlight that. The title on this page is probably the second most important thing because it highlights what the page is about so if you are looking through the magazine you are able to find it easily. The text on this page will probably be made up of questions and answers because it will be in the style of an interview. After looking at my initial designs I started to think about the name of the magazine. I initially used High Voltage and quite liked this name. I came up with this because I was thinking about electrical
instruments and I was looking at my electric guitar and my amp at the time and saw it said "caution High Voltage" and thought it was a brilliant idea for the title. I chose it because it relates back to music via the instruments and it focuses on the 'music' side of things. Ihave decided to keep this name because I think it works well for my magazine.
I have started the designing process and have the initial designs for the front cover, contents page and double page. To the left is my initial design for my font cover. As you can see it is made up of a big main image to show the audience that it is the main focus of the magazine. The Masthead is the biggest text on the page as it needs to stand out, especially on a magazine shelf where only the top will be visible. The main cover line would be slightly smaller than the Masthead because it is still important and needs to stand out but it cannot distract you from the Masthead. This is a conventional front cover, mostly from Kerrang, because the conventions have shown to be successful. 
To the right is my initial design for my contents page. The main image is the biggest thing on this page. This is to show its importance over everything else. It may not be the image of the band I will be writing about on my double page spread but I have noticed that in real magazines that the main image on the contents page isn't necessarily the band that are on the double page. The contents Masthead is the biggest text on this page. This is because it shows that this is the contents page and the most important information about what is in the magazine is on this page. There is a smaller picture in the bottom left corner and that is another convention of music magazines and this is probably where I will put an image of the band I will be 'interviewing' on the double page spread. 
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