For my front cover I have chosen to use a bold colour scheme of red, white and blue. The reason for this is because my pop artist is British and these colours are what symbolise and show the main key aspects of the British flag. To show these colours I have consistently used them on my front cover in the title, subsidiary text and also in the pug. The reason I have consistently used these colours is also because it is then recognisable to the public eye and is what makes that magazine individual and different to others. At the very top of the front cover is a cover line, the cover lines show the aspects of social media that the readers can use to help get more involved with the magazine. I thought it was important to include this on my magazine cover because social media is something that helps to promote and spread the message about magazines, to make this stand out I used a black bar and used a bold white text, this helped to make the social media bolder and stand out. The majority of magazines don’t include social media on their magazines however the majority include a website that readers can go to so a website is also something I included. By including a website on the page also included me thinking about different target audiences, the younger readers may not have social media so a website is another form that they can promote the magazine off. Below the cover line is the title, I wanted to make the title bold and stand out from the rest of the text on the page. The heading consists of the colour scheme of red white and blue symbolising the British flag. My logo is basic with bold font to make it stand out from the rest of the text on the page. I decided to make the logo for my magazine more basic as this also allows it to be more recognisable to the readers on the front of the magazine cover, It was also important that I made it basic because this logo would also have to be situated on the other two pages that I have designed. For the ‘O’ on top and the pop I had chosen to use record players because they are creating the round shape and also a record player is associated with music. By using a record player also tells the audience that the magazine isn’t just about up to date pop music but also focusses on the vintage side of pop. The header is located at the top of the page so that the audience and readers can tell it’s the name of the magazine. Below the header is the subheading which includes the motto ‘from local to worldwide’ the reason I have placed it underneath the header is because I didn’t want it to be mistaken for a cover line. I have used bold black font to make it stand out however I have used a smaller text size to make sure that it is not mistaken for the header. When coming up with a subheading it was important that I related the motto to the type of magazine I was creating, I think that the motto I chose gives an inspiration lesson because it’s saying that you can come from any background, ethnicity, religion and gender and live the dream because no one is going to stop you. The cell lines on the front cover consist of the colours black, blue, white and red. The reason I have kept these colours consistent is to still associate them with the theme of the British flag. After researching into music magazines and researching into text and fonts that are included on front covers I found that more of the eye catching stories were put in a bold font because it attracts the audience into learning more. The words WOW and OMG are slang words too which also make it more of a valuable and suitable magazine for the youths as they use these words when they are expressing something impressive and some shocking news this is the aim that we want the readers to feel when they are reading these stories. The main image consists of a male model who is a pop artist. I chose a male model as I felt it suited to the type of pop music my magazine was covering. When researching into pop music magazines solo artists such as Ed Sheeran and Olly Murs were regulars and I thought that it would be best to suit my magazines based around characters like themselves. The reason that I dressed the model in a tie and shirt is because after researching what pop artists wear when celebrating success or going to an interview many of them dressed in suits. When taking the photograph of the male model I had to consider the amount of space I had on the page and also how I wanted the male to look on the page and how I wanted him to pose. I took the image as a medium close up because I wanted the artist to be close to the camera as if he’s that close to the fans and their hearts, also when researching into music magazines the majority of the artists were looking into the camera, this could make the readers feel more attracted to the magazine and that they have a close connection with him. I decided to leave the image in full colour because I think that the magazine is all about bright colours and if I dimmed the colour or made it black and white it would have ruined that effect that I wanted to create. At the bottom of the page included a bar code, price and issue number. Every magazine that I looked at included these and in order to make a successful magazine I thought it was important that I included them. At the very bottom of the page was a bottom line, this consisted of the magazine telling the readers what the magazine is all about, this was ‘News, gossip and facts’. I believe that my magazine went well. When comparing my final music magazine cover to my draft I think that I completed everything I hoped to include. However when designing the final front cover I had to remove the subsidiary images due to the page looking cluttered. I achieved everything I wanted my magazine cover to look like and am happy with the final piece of work.
Contents Page:
For my contents page I kept the colour scheme consistent with the colours red, white and blue to represent the British flag. At the top left of the contents page is my logo, the reason I have placed the logo on the contents page is because I think it promotes the magazine more and also tells the reader that the page is not advertisement and belongs to the company of Top Pops, the logo however is small because it is not the main heading of that page. In the middle of the top header is the heading ‘Contents’ I used a basic font but put it in bold, the reason I used a basic font was because I wanted it to stand out from the rest of the text within the page. I made the colour of contents black as well because I wanted it to be bold and stand out, in a smaller text size I put the issue number letting the reader know what issue it was, I found this was shown on the majority of music magazine contents pages, I used the same font to let the reader know that it is still associated with the heading of ‘Contents’. Underneath the header is the slogan, again it has the same font as the front cover and is also placed in the same position. I decided to put the slogan on the contents page because sometimes readers remember the slogan more than the title and then associate it with the company. On the left side of the contents page is the content within the magazine, it was important that I planned this page carefully as the numbers on the front cover had to correspond with the numbers on the contents page to not confuse the reader or make it unclear. The content was split into two headings of ‘FEATURES’ and ‘EXLUSIVE THIS WEEK’ the reason I did this was because I thought it looked structured and organized. I used a red box with a double black border and then added this text to show that they were headings and then used a smaller text underneath to represent the sub headings, the reason I did this was to show the headings of every page and then underneath included a little explanation about what was on that page for the reader to decide if they wanted to read that article or not. Next to each of the sub headings I put a page number which corresponded with the front cover to let the reader know what content was on each page, when researching into contents pages I found that the magazines didn’t include every page and just included the main stories, for the page numbers I used a more informal font and also made it larger than the subheading to make it stand out more. When creating my contents page I thought it would be useful if I separated the content using a thin line to separate pages and keep it organized not to confuse the reader, by using a read line I thought this was effective and still matched the colour scheme. I included two images on my contents page, one of the main artist Steele and the other was a subsidiary image of another female artist Megan. Because Megan was a smaller artist I placed her picture at the bottom of the page and with a text box typed the page number and placed it on top of the picture to show what page that artist was allocated to. With this image I did not edit the background as I liked the effect of the brick wall however with the main image of Steele I edited out the background. When taking this image of Steele I thought I could take a photograph of him standing up to fill the page up and prevent dead space and also by taking a long shot of him standing up would mean that I would have a range of photographs to present onto my magazine pages. I edited the background of Steele photo because the background consisted of irrelevant objects that didn’t mean anything to the artist or the magazine so to make the image bolder I created a gradient effect using the main three colours (red, white and blue) this was effective and made the contents page look fuller. Next to the image I included bold text that explained what the story was about that artist and also what page number to turn to read more.
Double page spread:
For my double page spread I yet again kept a consistent colour scheme using it within the headings and the border around the page. At the top of my page is a header, the header is bold and reads 'HARRY CENA!' this is the name of the artist and by putting the name as a header attracts the readers and intrigues them into reading more into the artist. Above the header was the logo of Top Pops, after researching into music magazine double page spreads it was clear to see that the logo was always included to advertise the magazine more to the reader and also to let the reader know that the interview was exclusive to that magazine only. On the left page is text going up the page, this was effective as it gave a different twist to the page. The inspiration was from Q magazine in a Mark Ronson magazine interview:
The interview is in three columns however which has a more presentable layout, and allows me to include more content. At the back of the text are 3 boxes with a filled colour. These make the text stand out more. After adding the text I finally added the image to the double page spread, this image had to be accurate and couldn't look squished onto the page, I decided to choose the image of Steele pointing at the camera because I thought that it connected with the readers more and may make them feel more involved with the artist during his interview.
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