Development of my front cover and content page

Development 3 in making my magazine where I focused on finishing my front cover and starting my contents page. 

Here is my contents page and I have decided to use the inspiration that I have seen in top of the pops magazine and used my front cover to be in my contents page to show were in my magazine is the cover stories. I though this was a fun and interactive way to help my target audience reader get interested in the articles and be more reader friendly. It also shows that I am following conventions instead of going against them as if other magazine do it, it must work with the audience at hand. 

Looking back at this I need to move the front cover image up to fill in the open gap at the top. move the header to allow room for the logo at the top and I am going to make sure that my section headers are all level as with them being all unbalanced its not very appealing to the eyes.

I have used the founts orange peel for the big headlines and headers and opfifico for my text. This is because the orange peel font bring continuation of using the same font into my magazine and the opfico font is easy to read and has a pop style look to it which fits my genera for my magazine. 

I have used solid pink lines to separate the different articles which I think works well to keep my magazine contents look professional and easy to read. With the use of pink and blue I think that these two colors stand out well together and appeal to the female audience which is my target audience.

For all the articles I had to make sure they were all in line with each other using the same font size of 14. This again was so that it was easier on the eyes for the reader. I have included album releases of the up to date artist for some of my articles. I got the artist from my research when looking at magazine cover to see who was on other pop magazine to know which are the artist that I need to include to attract the right target audience for my magazine. 

As my main header I have used the words ''tune in for...'' this links in to the remix title and when you hear it you get a pop feel to it. I have added the ellipsis to add to the effect of the contents page as when you use them there normally a list after it. So this set up the whats inside the magazine feel; its also eluded to mystery as there is no answer so you are left wounding and wanting to know what your ''tuning in for''. This header is also nostalgic for the older audience for my magazine as ''tuning in'' sounds like your tuning in an old radio. which gave me an idea for my logo which if you look back at my older post when I tried to hand draw my masthead i have a drawing of an radio which i want to see if it fits in with my magazine to be my logo. 

Here is my front cover or what my front cover looked like before and you can see that i needed a way to get my mast head to stand out and basically all my sell line and my heading to stand out more. this is because from putting my magazine out on the shelves in the Tesco and in my college i was able to see that my magazine against the other magazine didn't stand out as well.

Now I have made all the founts bigger and the wight of the font I have increased to allow the outlining of the second color of the font to be a bit thicker allowing for the font to stand out a bit better than before. The colors pink and black and pink and white goes well together as two contrasting colors which stand out and go with the theme of pop in my magazine. Pink is also a stereotypical girls color so it will appeal more to the female side of the audience.

I have moved my masthead from being on an angle to going straight across my magazine as from putting my magazine on the shelves at the supermarket I could see the dominate magazine had the masthead in bold across the top of the magazine. I have left a little space on the top right hand corner as I am planning to put the radio I have hand drawn into that corner as my logo. I have made my slogan go all the way across my magazine which I feel allows the reader to see what it says more clearly than before. 

I'm going to have to sort out my sell line at the bottom as from making the text bigger I have sightly made some of the text go behind the bar-code. I'm also going to have to put the black background back behind my price and issue number as it just doesn't stand out at all. This may be due to the grayish back ground which I will have to go on photo-shop and change. 

A little thing that has happen has now made me bring in someone else for my model of the magazine as I need to find someone who can come in and look the part and I think I may have found someone who I am hoping to get in to do a photo-shoot next Thursday; but I will keep you updated with that in later posts.