In my first two designs I have been experimenting with different franchise Logo's for my magazine for the background of my content page.
Not many music magazine's use a background in there content page and the ones that do are more established and confident that they will attract and sell their magazine to there target audience.
I have decided to use my logo as my backgorund because it just shows that even though I have a niche selling point that I am still confident that I will sell because my genre is very popular but just isn't recgonized in wider society.
The left content page has 'pulses' coming out of the 'V'. I designed this because I wanted it to link back to the fact that because my music genre is so livley and upbeat its brings people to life hence the pulse which connotes life and adrenaline.
I wanted it to be red because it connects with the colour scheme throughout my magazine but also because it signifys blood which relates to the pulse.
In my second idea it was just a plane,abstract V which resembles the V from my masthead. I liked this because it was more trendy and sophisticated which is the vibe I want my magazine to give off.
The colour I am hoping to use is a sort of shading effect where it starts off dark and gradually gets lighter. I was partly influenced by 'Vibe' as this magazine seemed more vogue and trendy. This challenged the the typical convention of my music magazine genre being to out there so I decided to keep the contents page more confined and simple as less is more.
In the third plan I decided to organise the layout in a more typical conventional way. At first I was going to follow this plan but then as I began creating it I realised that I still want to keep my plain and simple layout meaning I didnt want to many pictures. I didn't want to many pictures because I wanted the audience to concentrate more on my cover star and the story she had to offer.
If I were to have this as a layout it would relate to my young audience as it would be more eye catching and as it is cluttered most teens could relate to it due to the fact that teens have a lot to say especially during the age when they are coming to find themselves. However it wouldn't look as sophisticated so I want my magazine to be a mixture of sophisticated and eye catching as well.
I hope to gain my target audiences attention with my cover star's outfit as well as direct mode of address.
This layout is more typical of a gossip style rather then a music magazine. I liked it because it is something most young adults would pick up from a shelf because it's the most eye catching.
This layout is typical of a more gossip, trendy magazine. I want my magazine to look cluttered in order to show how much news it has to offer. Because my magazine comes out once every two weeks and I want to keep my audience entertained and not bored I have to use this cluttered layout to attract them and show them that it is worth paying for.
Although I like the tags at the bottom of the masthead, I have began reconsidering if it is a wise decision as this is a magazine not and online magazine. However it is not conventional and would set a sort of trend within the magazine world as they are informing the audience of what they have to offer.
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