Drafts of my music magazine

This is my first draft for the front cover of my magazine. I have used typical conventions such as a large main image, a masthead, several cover lines (most of which are on the left-third of the page) a barcode, tellers, a dateline, and an issue number. I really like this front cover as I think it looks quite professional; I used a simple, clear colour scheme and created the layout in a way in which looks conventional. The one thing I don't like is the use of the red text, however I felt a black and white colour scheme would be too boring, so i felt I should add some colour. A strength of this magazine cover is that the all the elements work well with my chosen genre; for example, the use of colours (red, black and white), images (model looking very serious, dressed in black etc.) and headlines ("Top ten rock tracks this month") all promote the rock genre. A weakness of this magazine cover is that the use of black and white is prominant, so I don't think the cover lines that are in red match the cover very well; I think it makes it look less professional.

This is my first draft for a contents page. I kept it simple by using page references for different articles, one main image, and a smaller thumbnail image to advertise a product. I used my magazine name at the top of the page to remind people which magazine they are reading (it also promotes my magazine to others) and used a big, bold title saying 'contents' to that the audience know what page it is; this is also use of a convention. I used a main image (as seen often in my research) to advertise the main article, which is written underneath the image. A strength of this magazine is that it does use some typical conventionals, such as the heading, main image, thumbnail image, and numbered articles. However, a weakness is that the page is very boring and lacks any real colour scheme.

Here is a draft for my double page spread. It follows some typical conventions such as a main image which takes up a full page, an article heading which goes over both pages, a cover line about the main article which is followed by a teller, the use of columns to explain the story, and a quote. A strength of this draft is that I think the layout, although basic just at the moment, when done properly will look conventional and effective. A weakness is that the image does not look like what you would expect to find on a double page spread.