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Front page

After creating my first front cover, I asked for some feedback off of some piers in my class, and based on their feedback I decided to change my front cover, based on the feedback that I managed to get I come to the conclusion that my previous front cover had too many pictures, and that the pictures they had provided were of a low quality, and the page wasn't laid out in a decent manor. So I decided to make some changes to my front cover, and by changes, I started again from scratch with brand new pictures of a much better quality, I did some research on other magazines such as Kerrang! and Rolling Stones, and decided to use a main larger picture, with an artist who was holding an instrument, to give a clear idea that it's a rock magazine, and helps it look more like something that my target audience would like to see, and further more based on the research that I had done, I decided to change how the writing was laid out across the page, and to the newer lay out, this should give it a much more rock feel.

I kept the same colour scheme for the magazine, as the black colour helps to signify that the magazine is a rock magazine, and the darker red colours help to keep the feel of the theme consistent, and I used the white and yellow colours for the smaller text because it stood out against the black background, and the white and yellow alternating helped to keep interest in the text so that it didn't start coming across as boring.

I used a custom font for the title of the magazine, and the font for the rest of the front page is called "Stencil", I chose to use this font because it was rough and gives off the rock feel that would go well with the theme of the magazine, it helps to give the feel of the Rock star life and the feel of the magazine.

I also included a a sticker on the front of the magazine cover, the purple and white outlined circle, this is an effective use of a plug, I decided to do this because upon researching many other magazines, I noticed that a lot of the magazines also did a give away or offers on the front page of their magazines, giving it an incentive for the target audience to buy it, and adding professionalism to the magazine. use of the words 'Free' or 'Offer' help to catch the eye of the target audience, and help to get them to buy the media product.

Double Page Spread

This is my final mark up of my double page spread, the theme is based largely on the styles of Kerrang! magazine, and how that do their double page spreads.

The whole focus of the double page spread is an interview on the band "Kill It With Awesome", the main musician for the band is based in the centre of all the writing, so the interview bends around the musician, and he's playing his guitar, so that it's very obvious that he's a guitarist. I also placed other images on the side of the double page spread and made sure they were relevant to the main article, as they're shown as the bands manager, and a member of the band  who's now recovering from a drug addiction, they're placed there to keep interest in the decoder to keep them reading the magazine.

I decided to go with a black background to keep the same theme as the contents page, and the front page, this kept the theme of the magazine consistent, and this helps to keep a more professional look and feel to the magazine. One of the main points of the double page spread is how the writing bends around the centre blacked out picture of the artist, this along with the bold red letters spelling out the bands name in the top left of the page, these two aspects of the page work together to show that the band is the main point of the whole double page spread. The colour that I chose for the bands name to be (red) helps to generate the feeling of rock, as red is a passionate colour, and is an energetic colour, where as something such as green would have been a much calmer colour, and the colour green is associated more with grunge music, so it would not have gone well with the theme of the magazine.

I used the style of font for the bands name and introduction because it was a rough army style of font, this helped to give the rough feel of the band, and is associated with the rock star theme.

Front page

This is my magazine front cover, this was part of the coursework for my magazine.