My Complete Double Page Spread

My Final Contents Page

This is my final contents page is not drastically different to my draft, i kept the same basic layout like the one in 'kerrang!' magazine where the page is split in half from picture to text. I decided not to use the half page as one picture because i wanted more pictures so i could tag them with page numbers next to them, it also breaks up the page better. I used the background picture of trees against the sky because i used it on my double page spread and its a good contineum. The picture also goes with the theme i choose which was: blue, white red and black, i choose these colours because they stand out from one another. I took a lot of influence from my reseach in making my contents page especially with the sub headings. I took the idea of calling prizes 'swag', i like how 'kerrang!' magazine used it and thought it was a good idea rarther than using the words competion or prizes it just fits better to the audience im trying to acess. I used the heading 'Regulars' from 'Drummer' magazine to show obviously the regualar feature's from week to week. Underneath that i used 'must have on your playlist!' from the 'kerrang!' double page spread, it lets the audience know what the 'hottest' music is at the time.

I had a picture of 'Pendulum' from when i went to see them live in concert and decided it would  make my mag look more proffesional.

Draft For My Contents Page

This is a very rough draft for my contents page, this is because I realised after putting the pictures on I hadn't left enough space to write the actual contents in a sensible size font for people to read. I took much influence when it came to constructing my contents page from my research on the 'kerrang' contents. This is because i liked the layout with a big picture and bold headings. So i used half a page of just pictures, but as you can see from this draft my numbering of pages by the pictures is far too large and I didnt leave myself enough space to put the contents and the bottom without it looking squashed, untidy and not clear enought to read.

Final Cover For Music Magazine

This is my final draft for my magazine front cover. The front cover picture is black and white because it is the most striking yet simple picture this is because the model has dark make up on and her eyes are light in the shading which makes her eyes pop to the customer looking at the magazine it makes me feel as if she’s looking directly at you. Also her hands and body position make her look like she’s trying to either escape or it might look like she’s begging which both i reckon are effective ways of making people look at a cover. 

  Like in 'Drummer' and 'kerrang!' i liked having the theme of a few colours for writing and the pictures so i chose blue, white and black to make the light blue stand out more from the cover,  magazines is researched such as ‘kerrang!' use black blocks to write the head mast and other titles on the pages of their front covers but their writing is yellow or white which is eye catching but i also think the colour I chose i think is just as effective. 

To make the cover more interesting i put smaller pictures in colour. I choose a picture exclusive of 'The Guilloteens’. The picture is one of me and two friends when we were younger so I thought it would look good as a 3 piece girl rock group since we all looked the part. The other picture taken of my guitar was taken at the school and it fits in with the shot and the double page spread i shot of 'Orinnaa'.

I choose to incorporate the front cover of the 'Rolling Stone' Lady Gaga cover by overlapping the quote from Orinnaa onto her so its obvious its her, i also used the idea of listing the bands on one side and the main feature on the other so separate them and give more space for a large font.

The bands i chose to list at the right hand side of the page are actual bands but I’m not planning on having any pictures or anything by them in the rest of my work.

I think my final cover reflects well on the research I did and I took many of the elements into consideration and I think this cover fits most ideally into the genre and the age group of the magazine I’m trying to create.

Drafts for my Music Magazine Cover

This was the first cover I drafted. The picture is of one of my friends who I thought would suit the genre of the magazine. She's young with choppy hair, piercings and dark make-up which is stereotypical of the genre of the magazine. I wanted to use a girl for the front cover because I think my magazine is probably going to be more directed at girls who are interested in rock music. The picture was taken at near by school, I thought this was a good setting because the age group of my audience would be likely to still be in high school or college. I like the effect of the model clinging onto the fence because it looks like shes angry or about to scream which synchronizes well with rock music. Once I decided on this picture I played around with the editing of the picture and chose different shades to use I ended up not choosing this one because I didn't think it was very eye catching.

I decided on the name Breakdown for my magazine because in most music and especially rock music there's a climax to the song and the slang for it is breakdown and no other magazine has used it, I also thought it was appropriate because it can be interpreted for the breakdown of rock music news.

This is my second draft of my front cover and is very close to my final draft. I changed the shading of the picture to black and white I think it’s much simpler and striking which makes it more eye-catching, it is also a easy base to put titles on.  The reason I didn’t decide to go with this cover is because id didn’t like the grey blocks with the writing on it makes the cover look dull and the picture fades into the background so that’s what I decided to re think. 

This contents page is different to usual magazines contents pages because it has half the page as a picture and the bottom page is the full contents. I like the editors paragraph and might in use one in my contents page to make it look a bit more professional. I also think i will include the poster special  and the gig guide in my contents page because they are good ideas for the type of magazine i want to produce.I like the idea of calling the prizes swag i think its something i will use when i do my final drafts a competition for my magazine will hopefully make it less armature looking. I like the use of yellow and white writing on the black it helps the headings stand out this was something i had in mind for my mag. I noticed that all the letters in red all go in order that means the magazines cut into sections this is something i will try and do for mine. I really like this contents page and i think it will be a great influence on my work.

This is a centre page spread of the magazine,'Kerrang!'. It is an interview with a lead singer of a band called 'AFI'. The singer is known for his good dress sense so the headline is based on this and the interview mentions it also. I like the colours of the headlines and how certain words are highlighted in a different colour i think i may do this when I'm quoting from the band in my magazine. the idea of the questions in the interview being highlighted with white makes it clear to the reader  that they are the questions and making the questions block capitals helps this and is a good technique to use when doing this style of double page spread, like i am thinking of. The light bulbs to add the affect of the dressing room is also very clever and I'd like to do something similar to this when I'm making my layout.
On every picture of a band or person in kerrang! it has a little box explaining either who's in the box or a fact or funny caption about the band or artist i like this and think its a good idea for my magazine.