I decided when designing my music magazine to try and interpret the design and style of my font with the design and style of the magazine. For this reason i choose to have the three blue lines as a border, this is because when i had my first title idea of Tune i was going to have the word 'Tunes' written in three blue lines overlapping each other. However i later couldnt get this idea to work exactly how i wanted it and so i decided to change the title of my magazine to chart tracker which i thought was quite a catchy name for a music magazine. However i liked the look of the three blue lines running around the border of the magazine and so i decided to keep this but just changed the title of my magazine.
I added the text 'FEATURES' at the top of the magazine, after researching many different music magazines like Q, NME and Kerrang. I looked at many different contents pages and discovered that on nearly all of the contents pages there was a title at the top of the page which gave an indication that this was the page you could look at to find out what was inside this issue of the magazine. Some of these titles where 'Whats inside', 'Features' and 'In this Issue'. I decided to have the title features as i believe it sounds more professional and lets readers know what is going to be included in this issue of the magazine. Listed in a column on the right hand side directly underneath this i have listed some of the main stories which are going to be featured in the magazine, i have only listed the main, biggest stories as these are the stories which the readers will be most interested in, these are going to be the stories which influences them to purchase the magazine. I decided to have a small headline above each story to give a brief insight into what the story is going to be about and to tey and hook the readers and draw them into reading the story. I have chopsen to do this in a blue and bold font so that it stands out to the readers, whose eyes will draw to this first, read the small and catchy caption, which will influence them to read the story.
Next to the small headline i have included the page number so that if the readers are interested in reading that particular feature the know which page to turn to straight away instead of flicking through the magazine and trying to find it. Underneath all of this i have included a small written passage which gives the readers a bit more information about the story and again influences the readers to carry on reading the rest of the story.
For my double page spread i decided to base the story around an interview of my band. After researching different music magazines i discovered that the way most of them choose to do this, was include a picture which runs over a page and a half with the columns of text running down the side. I choose to interpret this technique in my design. I also discovered that most of the pictures on these double page spread interviews try to portray the artists in a modern, casual situation. For example one of these pictures showed the groups main artists all sitting on a bed surrounded by beer cans and take away boxes. I choose to interpret this idea in my magazine design surrounding my two main artists with beer cans and takeaway boxes to show their casual life. I also choose to include a blow up guitar in my shot to add a bit of humour and it also indicates their music.
This is one of my earlier drafts for my music magazine front cover. I believe this looked quite plain and bland. I didn't think the grey border worked well against the black background and it stood out. It looked as if it had been added on and didnt really look in the professional style which i wanted. I also deleted the competition as this could have featured in any magazine and it didn't really help to define the genre of my magazine. I believe this draft also needed more stories and text around it to make it look more professional and to audiences easily define that this magazine is a music magazine.
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