Contents Page Mock Ups

This is my first contents page mock up. I have carried the font and colour scheme on from the masthead on the front cover to the contents title on this page. This shows that if I were to use this for my magazine a constant theme would be carried out throughout the magazine making it professional. As well as this on this contents mock up I have included 3 small images of related stories that are shown on the page, and then one large image which is related to one of the main stories. Using images related to stories will interest a reader as it is a visual without having to read any stories. 

For my second contents mock up, same as the first one, I have carried on the font and colour scheme from the masthead. As this pink colour scheme is showing that the audience is going towards women, I thought that having two images of women is showing that there is probably interesting gossip inside, which is something which may attract a girl audience. Also using images to promote stories is again a good way of drawing in the audience.

Front Cover Mock Ups

This is my first Front Cover mock up design. I have based these on what I found out from my audience research with the Masthead designs, and the colour schemes etc. My audience research allowed me to know that the 'Impact' masthead was thought to suit this sort of magazine best, which is the the reason behind why have chosen it for this design. Another important aspect of this design is the colour scheme, and this was also picked on my audience research. As the red and black were chosen as the favourite for the mastheads I designed to keep this going through the design to make it all blend together and look professional and attractive. For the main Image I have chosen a medium shot of a woman, I believe this would look good on my magazine as it looks professional, simple but also effective to attract the audience, also many music magazines use similar photos to this on their front covers. The cover lines and anchorage text are what I want, or similar to what I want on my final design, such as '2015's new best R&B artist'. Here this is showing the genre of my magazine without clearly stating it. Also I will be attracting my target audience as they may get attracted to this.

 This is my second Front cover mock up design. Again I have based the masthead, colour schemes etc on the audience research I have previously done. Through My audience research I found out that the font for this masthead was the most favourite and suited to a music magazine as it looks edgy and different. As well as this, this masthead would work well on a music magazine because it is large and bold and allows people to be drawn to it. With the colour scheme, in the first mock up it is a red colour which can attract a larger audience of both boys and girls as this colour is not specifically associated with one gender. However, in this mock up I have decided to use a pink colour which would attract a girl audience, this is also the audience that I have chosen for my R n B magazine, which explains why I would pick pink over a dark blue colour for example. Also with the main image I have gone with a woman again, but this time I have allowed an opportunity for the audience to see the costume which the model has been put in, as this magazine is attracting the women gender, having a fashionable outfit on the front cover can attract the target audience of young women. Even though it is not a fashion magazine I can still use this to my advantage.
       

Researching Main Image

I have started research of main images for my magazine, and I have done this by starting to look at already established music magazines, this can help me to consider things such as shot types, lighting, mode of address, poses, costume etc. On these example of main images, every single image is showing direct mode of address, both men and women. This could be suggesting that all magazines want to draw in the audience using this technique, as these are all popular celebrities and having them basically looking at the audience will hopefully draw people in. Another convention which runs throughout these examples is either Mid shots or Close ups. These shot types may be used rather than long shots etc. because they want the audience to clearly be able to see the facial expressions, make up, costumes and more. Because if a long shot was used it would be hard to see all the close up  detail which the magazine want us too. When a Mid shot is used though, this can be because they want to show the full body of an artists, for example the bottom right image uses a mid shot, and as we can see her full body you can argue that this is to attract the male audience. Another convention that is shown in some of these images are the poses that are shown. In the top right image and the 2 of Beyonce they are posing like they are in power, the way that he is rubbing his hands together, and she has her hands on  her hips and a fist in the air. The reason why they may be suggesting power is because they are hugely successful artists, and confidence looks good. Doing this research on main images will make my final front cover look more professional, established and attractive.

Magazine Treatment

This is my magazine treatment, which basically is an overall summary on what my magazine is going to include, who it is aimed towards and also what my magazine stands for. Within this it gives a brief introduction to what I will be putting into my magazine through colour schemes, main images, mastheads, content etc.

However, since I have wrote the treatment I have decided to change my target audience from 15-30 to 15-25. The reason for this is because I believe that by having a smaller age audience means I can focus more on their group needs and wants rather than trying to produce an item for so many different types of people. If I did 15-30, then this is such a big different as people are 15 then 30 are at completely different points in their life but 15-25 are still at different points but this gives us a closer gap.

Layouts

These are my layout designs for my Front cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spreads. I have designed these using the ideas from other established music magazines as this is how I would come up with the most well designed layouts. The reason I have made these layouts is because when it comes to designing my actual magazine I will have more of an idea of how I will lay it out, which will make it quicker and less time consuming. Also, if I wanted I could gain some audience feedback on these different layouts and find out what ones are best suited for a music magazine, this would make the end result more suited to my target audience.

Contents Page Layouts

Double Page Spread Layouts

Front Cover Layouts