I added a few more things to my cover. I included a competition in my magazine because I think if people think they could win something by reading the magazine, then they are more likely to buy it. I made the prize an iphone 4 because its the newest iphone out at the moment and alot of people cant afford one and by entering this competition, they could win one for free which makes it fair for everyone.

I quite like my music magazine cover. I know it will look alot better when it has an image on the front and I may change the background colour to a more plain one but considering this is just my draft, I like it and as my target audience is females from my age to 25ish, I think it's very good and I'd buy it!

Contents page

This is my first draft of my contents page for my music magazine. I've used another picture of Jessie J off the internet until I can upload mine. I've stuck with the same colour theme as the front cover and my double page spread. When I looked through a music magazine, there wasn't just pages about music, there was adverts and pages about beauty and fashion so I've put some of those pages on my contents page. Because my target audience is teenage-young adult females, I think that if there is pages about celebrities fashion then they might find the magazine even more interesting. The blue box is where I'm planning to put another picture of an iphone 4 so people can see what they're winningin the magazine.



Draft

For my front cover, I tried to put as many artists names on the cover so that people who read it would be more interested because there's more people to read about. I also put the barcode on the cover so that it looks like a proper magazine and could be sold in a shop. As my pictures won't upload still, I haven't been able to put an image on my cover yet but on the image that I use, the female artist will be wearing black because on most of the magazine covers that I researched, the artist wears something that matches the colour of the writing on the front or the background. I like how on my cover, I've put the writing up the right hand side because I think it makes it look less crowded and it won't cover too much of the picture which is good because I'd like the image to be the main focus of the magazine. For the image on my magazine, the background will be either black or white because they are both block colours and won't distract from the main image or the writing.

I prefer my second draft alot more to my first one because its starting to actually look like a proper magazine because I spent more time doing this one. I think the whole thing will look alot better when I have an image in the background.

This was my very first draft of my music magazine cover, without any pictures and not much writing. It didn't take me long to do whish is probably why it doesn't look too great.

Front cover research

I was comparing my images that I have taken to the ones on the internet of all the pictures on the front of magazines. I like my images but the ones that are on current music magazines seem alot more sexy. The poses and clothing that they wear is alot more appealing to men. I think the magazine does this so it can attract attention from both male and female readers, men because they want to look at the pictures of the female artists (as most R&B artists are female) and women because they will idolise the woman on the cover and either want to be her or make friends with her, therefore buying and reading the magazine.

On both of these covers, the females aren't wearing much. In many cases, this would look far too revealing but on these magazines, I dont think it's too bad. I think it just makes the magazine look appealing and more interesting. I like how there is only two colours of font on these covers and I've noticed that most magazines have only two colours, one of them always being black because it's a bold colour and look good with any other colour. I think for the writing on my cover, I'll use a maximum of two colours, including black.

My computer broke over half term so I wasn't able to post anything during the past week!

I took my own pictures for my music magazine over half term but I can't get them to show up at the moment so will just have to use ones off the internet until I can work out how to put them on.