Contents page, Double page, Front cover sketches

Here is one of the skeates I drawed for which I could use for my title page. I have decided to challege conventions and have my masthead going down the side instead of going across the top however to pull this off I need to find a fount which will fit both the target audince of my magazine and the style of my frount cover. Looking back over this image I can see that its quite busy for a frount cover.  

 Here is my idea for the contence page were I have decided to incorporate the frount into the contence page which isn't used that very offten. The way I want the articles on my contence page to be set out like a postit note board, which shows through my target audience- which is students.

 Here is a plan for my double page spread which I think is nicely set out with the right image this could work. Maybe I could add an image which would go over the two pages as many double page spread don't do this.

 Here is another front cover useing the same going down masthead. This front cover is not overcrowed which makes it nicer to read on the eyes.

Here is another contents page which dosen't have the frount cover in there.

Proposition- what I want my music magazine to be about

I have been give the task to make a music magazine and my proposition is that I make a pop magazine this is because from doing a little research I have found out that there aren't that many pop magazine around but they are many rock and hip hop magazine around when I have go around supermarkets. Only seeing 1-2 in among 10-12 rock magazine. Now this tells me that maybe pop isn't in high demand as rock magazine; even my questionnaire told me that people wanted rock;  But I still want to make a pop based magazine. this is because there isn't that many in the current market; this means I can look at whats out there and follow the conventions in some way and see where i can try and challenge the convention a bit that it flows well. Were if I did a rock magazine I would feel that all the ideas are already done and I wound just follow the convention.

here is a link to some facts about teen magazine sales http://www.magforum.com/glossies/teen.htm

I want to aim my magazine at female teenagers in a C2 democratic- working class this is because I don't want my magazine expensive or to be filled with adverts like AB based magazine but I want reviews and interviews, celeb gossip and competitions thrown in to grab the attention of my target audience. I have chosen this target audience as im a teenager myself and i think that if you want to target a teenage audience you have to be a teenager as who know what a teenage wants better than a teenager.

With the articles I think im going to look at the artist on the pop music magazine and use them in my magazine as then I know what the audience wants and if it works for the other magazine it should work in mine.

With the double page spread I was thinking that I could have one big main image and have the text wrapping around it just to have something different to other magazine. However if this doesn't work I think I will have an image that goes over the pages but have room at the bottom to allow me to write the articles. I can also have an image on one side of the page and a full page full of text. I think I may need to draw out my ideas and put them on Facebook and Twitter and ask people and see what the audience says.

Mood boards for contents pages, Double page spreads and founts

Mood board for Contents page

 

From looking at the diffrent contents pages that are already out in the market i can see the diffrent layouts that are already out there. from this i can come up an idea of what my contence page will look like; weather i follow conventions or challege them.

Mood board of Double page spread 

 

Here I have done some research of pop double page spreads which will help me gains some insperation for what I could do for my double page spread. This research also shows me the conventions that double page spread follow and what works.

Mood board founts 

 

Here is a collection of fonts inwhich I could use in my magazine. The diffrent founts create diffrent identities within the magazine which help bring across this idea.