Music Magazine (planning)

This is my planning for the contents page as well as the content of the magazine and how it is going to be set out.

The ideas on the sheet of paper are.

• Same act as front
• 3 columns - roughly same size
• Give reader what they need
• Big image or competition covering large section of page
• use of red black and bold colours
• Language (formal, unless in speech sometimes in formal)
• Different image as front, same act with other acts
• Use of questions
• The way the page numbers are set out.
• approx 80/88 pages.

I was aiming to get my contents page to look similar to this by the NME

For my double page spread I didn't really have a specific way I wanted it to look. I had a look a black velvet, kerrang, NME and Q to see what style I would use for my magazine.

When it came to designing the double page spread I used the photo's I wanted and played around with a few ideas until I came to a design that I liked.

The front cover was easy for me as I knew what I wanted straight away with a very similar look to kerrang. I wanted this because it made my independant magazine look like it is competing with the main stream magazines but only within the south east.

• Similar style picture.
• Big bold masthead for attitude
• Similar front cover minus the the other pictures
• similar banner along the bottom with other acts in.
• A competition advertised on the front.
• Issue and date.
• Other acts along the side in a question format.
• Main act in bigger writing.
• Different use of colours.