Setting up a Masthead for my contents page (Construction Process)

I began by setting up a masthead on my layout on Photoshop, and have created  a Prezi explaining the process in which I made it.

Music Magazine Contents Page Layout/Images used/Fonts and Colour Schemes

This is my basic layout for my contents page. Although it is hard to see hear, I will be taking the pink colour used in the masthead at the top and my page numbers from the pink that I used on my front cover on the masthead. This is so that my colour schemes from my front cover can link in with my contents page. After analyzing other contents pages in the previous blog post, I realized that it will be important to use more than one type of font to show variety. I will also be using the font for my masthead from the masthead on my front cover:

and the font for "CONTENTS" and my section headlines (i.e. "NEWS", "REVIEWS") from the font that I used for my artist name on the front cover to create a link:

I will also be using two pictures on my context page, and whilst I still need to take one of the images, one of the images I will use will be the following:

This is an image that I took at a concert that I went to, and I will edit the picture and sharpen the edges and make the picture a bit clearer and more defined to make it look more appropriate on a contents page.

At the bottom of the page, I will also include "adverts" for my magazines social networking sites, to make the contents page look more porffesional.

Deconstruction of Two contents Pages

We then moved on to designing our contents pages. Too start with, I had to take 2 contents pages and compare them with each other, looking for key themes that they both had, or what they didn't have. In the first cover, there are a lot of images included. This is too show which other artists are featured in the magazine quickly, if you don't want to have to read the contents page and see who else is featured in the magazine from just a quick glance. Also, there is a limited colour scheme in the first contents page, with the classic black and white, as well as red and different shades of blue. However, when I looked at the magazine compared with it's front cover, I struggled to see a link between the colour scheme used on the front cover and the colour scheme used in the contents page. There is also an incentive to buy the magazine down in the bottom right corner, which is there to benefit the reader if they buy the magazine- a sort of "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours", if you will. There are at least 3 different types of font used on the contents page, all of which taken from the front cover- this tells me that to show a link between the contents page and the front cover, I will need to use the same fonts that I included on my front cover.

On the second contents page, there is only one image. This tells the reader that the main feature of the magazine will be primarily based around this one person. However, it is not that effective for quickly seeing who else is featured in the magazine. There is a limited colour scheme on this contents page, it being red, black, white and the grey on his trousers. I can assume that the colour scheme is the same on the front cover as it is on the contents page. There are around two different types of font used on the contents page, which creates a contrast, and therefore I will need to include more than one type of font on my contents page, and after looking at the first contents page, I will have to link my fonts on the contents page to that of my front cover.

Flat Plan Feedback

I have emailed my magazine flat plan to a few friends. Now I am just waiting for them to reply so I can see what they think:

I have emailed it too a few more people; I will update this post when I have their replies.

Front Cover Target Audience Research

I linked my magazine to my target audience, by listening to what people said about colours; they like bright colours, and lots of features on the magazine cover to tell them what is in it. So far, this is what I've got:

Front Cover Linked to Research

I have linked my front cover to my research by including artists from that genre. I've also looked at the bright colours and angle of gaze, as well as the image of the model, as the model that I chose has an interest in Pop-Rock Music anyway.

Front Cover features

I included a mention of the Reading and Leeds Festival 2014 on my magazine. I did this because I want my magazine to appeal to young people, and the Reading/Leeds Festival is a place that a lot of young people attend. I want the magazine to be up to date with what's happening in the music industry as well, so that is why I included it as a feature. Furthermore, Reading and Leeds is a very Pop-Rock inspired festival.

As well as this, I'm going to include references on my front cover to artists like The Killers, who recently released their greatest hits album, which was highly successful, and a lot of people like at least a few of their songs.