Construction of magazine

By Fiona Taylor

The first thing I did for the construction of my magazine was to plan how my magazine was going to be set out, so for this I used an A4

piece of paper and on their I drew boxes and stated were I was going to put the different

element of the magazine. From looking at the print screen I have provided of my front cover

1, you can see that I have conform the conventions of music magazine as with the

example of the Kerrang magazine you can see that the text in the middle of the magazine is on the slant so with this I took inspiration and

decided that I was going to use the slant effect for my title. The use of the film strip and the news strip towards the bottom on the front cover page I also encouraged me to add this

element to my magazine as it makes my magazine look professional and with the use of the new strip it shows that I have followed

the conventions of a music magazine.

Front cover 1

First step of my Construction of my magazine.

Influences for my magazine

Front cover 2


This is my second draft of my front cover of my magazine with this you can the different

conventions I have used to make another effective to attract the target audience to the

magazine. The use of the title across the top is used by all the magazine as it is the most

common way of placing the title and the most effective way and professional way of

promotion a magazine to the intended target audience. With the use of the slanted text in

the middle I took this from my first front cover as with this I thought it would look cool on my magazine and make my magazine stand out

to its target audience. The use of the new strip and the film strip as been taken from the

previous draft of the magazine as I thought these elements worked really well for the

magazine and appeal to the target audience and persuade them to look at the magazine and persuade them to buy the magazine.


First step of my Construction of my magazine.Contents page 1

For my first draft of my contents page, you can see the different elements that I have used on

the contents page that conform the conventions of a professional music magazine. The use of the title across the top is traditional way in which the contents page is laid out with the title across the top of the page so this will

be the first thing that the reader with see. With my title you can see that it is at the top of the

page but it to the right hand corner of the page, with this you can see that I have taken

inspiration from the print screen of the contents page below. The use of the images in

the middle of the contents page I thought would look really presentable and stand out to the reader that what looking at the magazine. With all the elements I have listed that I have used on my magazine you can see that I have used and followed the conventions of a music

magazine.


Contents page2


With my second contents page 2, I have kind of used the same layout as my previous but I have changed the different elements around to see if

the new layout looks better and makes my contents page of my magazine look more

professional for my magazine. I have centred the title at the top of the page to make the title stand out more to the reader. The use of the images to the left of the contents page information and on the top of the contents information would help the contents page to be more appealing to the

reader as they wouldn't want to much information as it would look to much for them to read. The use of the text to the right hand side doesn't make the text to much for the reader to

look at and with this layout it would persuade the reader to look and read it.

Influence for my magazine


Double page spread 1

With my first draft of my double page spread I decided that I was going to use the

conventions of a professional music magazine as with this it would allow me to produce a

good quality magazine of my own. The use of the title at the top will entice the reader to the double page spread and it will also show the

reader that this is the story that it featured on the front cover of the magazine. The use of the slanted image in the middle of the double page spread would look really funky and would draw

the reader to look at the story on the double page spread. The bold title on the second page of the double page spread would show to the

reader were the story will actually start for the featured celeb in the magazine. The use of a

introducing paragraph on the top of the interview will give the reader a little insight into person who the magazine has interview

for their main featured story within the magazine. As you can see from the screen shot of the influence from a professional magazine you can see that my magazine has followed

the conventions of a music magazine.

Influence for my magazine

Double page spread 2


With my second draft of my double page spread you can see that some of the elements are near enough the same an my previous draft of my double page spread. The use of the slanted text for the title for my double page spread is a good technique to use as with the slanted text it would draw the reader to the page and would persuade them to read the featured story of the magazine. The use of the image in the middle of the page and the fact file at the bottom is a good way of presenting the information of the featured story to the reader. With the picture of the band or pop star and the fact file underneath the picture is good as if the reader doesn't know much about the featured person in the story then they will have facts to read from in order to know information about the band. The use of a bold title at the top of the second page and an image this would be a good first thing to look at before you start reading the interview.

The second step of the construction of my magazine

With this next step you can see that I have now done a plan of the construction of my

magazine on the computer. With this you can see that this is the chosen design that I am going to use for my magazine as this is the way I want my magazine to be laid out. I

chose to use this design as with this plan I think that when created this front cover would look like a professional music magazine front cover. With this draft also it conforms with the

common conventions of a music magazine they are:-

the use of the slanted title at the top of the page,

the image in the middle the subheading half way down the page to introduce the features within the magazinethe picture that are of the poster or other

stories featured within the magazine and the new

News strip along the bottom of the front cover of the magazine

With all these different conventions of a music magazine that I have used this will enable me to produce a presentable and

professional looking music magazine front cover


With this contents page I chose it as I thought this a I thought it was effective in looking like a

convention contents page from a professional music magazine. With this plan of the contents

page I thought that would conform with the conventions of a professional music magazine with

the use of:-The use of a bold title across the top of the pageThe use of images all around the contents page

informationThe contents page information to the right of the

page.With the common conventions of a professional

music magazine that I have used on my own magazine I think that this elements/aspects that I

have used will help me create a professional music magazine of my own.


From the drafts that I had create for the double page spread for my

magazine I decided that this draft that I have chosen would be the best one for my magazine and with making my double page spread look professional

in my magazine. With this double page spread there are elements on the

pages that I think conform with the conventions of a professional music

magazine they are:-The use of the slanted title at the top

of the pageThe use of the image covering the

whole pageThe fact file of the band or pop star to knowledge the reader who each

member is The use of image also on the top of

the interview pageThe use of a paragraph in give the

reader a little insight into the band or pop star

Placing the information in columnsWith this lists of different elements that I have used on my double page

spread enabled me to produce/create a professional looking music magazine.

The design process of my magazineThis is the first draft of my magazine, as you can see it is quite basic and there is a lot more that needs to be added as there is a great deal of blank space which doesn't look good and doesn't look professional at all. I placed the title in a fancy font to make it stand out to the reader and draw

them to the magazine, I chose to place a red box at the back of the text as I thought it would have made the title stand out more to the reader. With the use of title at the top of the front cover page it would be the first thing that the reader will see and read. The use of the sub-heading

introducing the band ‘new band release’ is placed in a bold font and in different colours as seen on my print screen, I

think that this made this sub-heading stand out to the reader and would draw the reader to it. I placed this sub-heading just underneath the title as it would be the next

thing that the reader would look at. The use of the picture in the middle of the page makes the page look presentable

and would draw the reader to look at the featured story within the magazine. The use of the purple rectangle box behind the picture makes the picture stand out and with

the colour used also helps to show the colour that is associated with Re’talia. The use of title underneath the

picture clearly shows the name of the band who is featured in the main story of the magazine. I placed the

two features on the front cover towards the bottom of the page with stars separating the information to make the in

take of information easy to intake by the reader and to also make it look presentable to the reader. I have placed the news strip at the bottom of the page as this were it is normally placed on a professional magazine so I am just

following the conventions of a professional music magazine.

First draft of front cover

The design process of my magazine

Second draft of front cover

With my second draft of my front cover of my magazine you can see that there is more detail that has been added to the front cover to make it look more like a front cover for music magazine. The first thing I did for this draft of this magazine I decided that I was going to change the font and the size of the title to make it stand out more to the target audience. With the title ‘POP Time’ I decided to place it in white with a peach outline to make it stand out from the background colour. for the background colour I thought that I was going to use the colour purple as it helps to relate to the colour that represents the band Re’talia , I placed this title at the top left hand corner of my front cover of my magazine so it would be the first thing that the reader will see. For the band title I decided I was going to place it under the title of the magazine so it would be the next thing that the reader will see, I have placed the name of the band in a fancy font to make the title stand out from the background and will draw the reader to it. I placed this title in purple as this is the colour that represent the band so I thought that by using the colour purple for the band name would help the reader to relate the title to the band. I placed the interview heading underneath the name of the band so with this the reader will know that there is an interview for this band and will make them want to read it. I placed this piece of information in a different font and in a different colour to the other text on the front cover to make it stand out to the reader and draw the reader to read this information. The Re’talia tour dates title has been placed underneath the interview information as with this you can see the flow of information and with this it will make the reader to keep going down and read all the information on the front cover. With the Re’talia tour date I have also placed this in a different coloured font and colour to the other to make it stand out, with the use of different fonts and colour for the different information about Re’talia it shows the importance of each piece of information on the front cover. The use of the image of Re’talia positioned in the centre of the front cover page helps to show to the reader the band that is the featured story within in my magazine and with this it would draw them to read this story. The use of the other images and the name of the bands that are in the magazine will also persuade the reader to buy the magazine with the use of other popular bands within the magazine. I placed these images to the left of the image of Re’talia to show that this bands are the next featured thing within my magazine. The use of the news strip across the bottom of the front cover gives the reader an insight to watch is contained within the magazine which could persuade them to purchase this magazine. I placed this news strip across the bottom of the front cover as this is the conventional way in which professional magazines use it so with this as I have used it from a professional magazine this element will enable my magazine to look professional or have professional elements on the front cover.


Third draft of front cover

With my third draft of my front cover you can see that I have kept some of the elements the same of the previous draft but I have added some elements onto this draft to enable my music magazine to look like a professional music magazine. Within this draft you can see that I have added a shape in the top right hand corner with information in it, I have used this shape on the front cover to make it stand out and draw the reader to the information and read it. I have placed this shape in the top right hand corner as the top right hand corner look to spacey so I thought if I add a shape with some text it will this space but it will also show the importance of the text to the reader. The other element I added onto this draft of the front cover was the title that was telling the reader what the images had been placed to the left of the picture of Re’talia for. With the use of heading ‘Free posters featuring.!!’ this will show the reader what these images are there for and with this it will persuade them to want to go and have a look at these images that are contained within the magazine. With the use of the title ‘Free posters featuring.!!’ this will also draw the intended audience to the magazine as everyone loves a bargain so with the use of the word ‘Free’ will draw anyone to look at the magazine.


Final draft of front cover

For my final draft of my front cover of my magazine you can see that all the elements that I had added to the front cover in the previous drafts you can see how they have all came together to produce a good quality music magazine. With my final draft I did add a few elements onto the front cover to finalise it and make the front cover look professional, the first element that I added to the front cover was the use of a barcode. I decided that I wanted a barcode on my front cover because when looking at professional music magazines I established that all the magazines I looked at they had a barcode on them, so to make my music magazine look more professional I decided that I would add a barcode to the front cover. I chose to put the barcode onto of the news strip as I thought that was the best place it looked good and also where I have placed the barcode when looking at the professional magazine that is the place where they had put it on their magazine. So from this I decided that I was going conform with the common conventions of the music magazines and place the barcode onto of the new strip. The other element I used on my front cover was the use of a little paragraph about the featured band within my magazine with the use of this it would give the reader a little information about the band and could persuade them to read the full interview on the band.


First draft of contents page With my first draft of my contents page as you can see it is quite

basic but it does have some elements of conventions of a music magazine. With my first draft of my contents you can see that I have placed the title at the top of the page, I have placed it at the top of the page as it is the most common conventional way to placed the contents title. With the title I decided that I was going to add boxes behind some of the letters to make the title stand out to the intended audience. I chose to place the boxes in a peach colour to make them stand out from the background colour I used on the contents page. With the information I was going to place on the contents page I chose to place it in black and it is the most readable colour for the reader to understand when reading the contents page. I choose to place the number of the pages in bold as I wanted to emphases which page a different story was on. The title for each page I placed the title in a purple colour so that the colour would stand on the page, the use of the images on the contents page not just helps to break down the intake of information on the page but it also persuades the reader to read a story.


Second draft of contents page

With my second draft of my contents page you can see that I have added a few more elements onto the page to make my music magazine look more professional. with this next draft of my contents page the first thing I did to it was that I added some full stops on the end on the title to emphases the title to the reader. The use of the sub-heading ‘featuring’ helps to draw the reader to the featured stories within the magazine and with this it would draw them to read the different stories within the magazine. The use of the information down the right hand side of the page in a column like format this helps the information to look presentable and be able to be read easily and to also fill up the space that I had to the right of the page. The use of the title and then information under each heading helps the information to look presentable and enable the intake of information to be effective.


Third draft of contents page

With my next draft (third draft) of my contents page of my music magazine, I chose to add a few more elements to my magazine to allow my magazine to look professional. the next element I added to the contents page was the use of a shape around the back of the featured stories. I chose to use this shape as I knew it would make this information stand out on the page and with this it would draw the reader to this information. Within this column of information I thought that it would be a good idea to add images to the information as I thought it would be a good technique to use as it would also draw the reader to the image and the information about the picture.


Final draft of contents page

With my final draft of my contents page you can see that I have also added a object onto the page with an offer in it with this it would draw the target audience to look at it . I placed the shape towards the bottom as it will be the last thing the reader will look at and also I placed it were I did so I fill in the space that I had left from the previous draft. The other thing I have done was that I added issue 15 onto the top right hand corner of the contents page to also make it look like a genuine contents page from a magazine and with this it shows that I followed conventions of a professional music magazine when creating my own music magazine.


First draft of double page spread With my first draft of the double page spread you can

see that I have elements that look good and make the pages look like a double page spread of the magazine. The first thing that I added to the double page spread was that on the first page I added a picture of the band I decided to do this as it would draw the reader to the story. With the use of the image of the band on the left hand page this is how professional magazines set out their magazines you can see that I have conformed with the conventions of a professional music magazine. I have also placed the name of the band on the picture to tell the reader what the band is called. I placed the name of the band towards the bottom of the page as it looks the most presentable. I have placed the name of the band Re’talia at the top of the next page as with this it would tell the reader that this story is about Re’talia and would draw them to read the interview of Re’talia. I have placed the interview in columns as with this it makes it look presentable and this is the way a professional magazine sets out their interviews so with this also you see that I conform with the conventions of a music magazine.


Second draft of double page spread

With my second draft of the double page spread you can see that I have added a picture in the top right hand corner of the right hand page I did this to show their exclusive new single cover CD that is now available, I placed it in the top right hand corner as I thought it would look best by the title of the band name. I placed a sub-heading underneath the name of the band Re’talia as with this it will be the next thing that the reader will look at and read. The last thing I did to this draft of the double page spread was that I added a sub-heading ‘NEW GIRL BAND’ I placed this by the title I added to the left hand page as with this sub-heading it would draw the people to look at this story and it would show the reader that this band has newly been developed.


Third draft of double page spread

For my third draft, I decided that I was going to add a big letter R into the middle of my interview on the right hand page, with this I had to make the R transparent and with this element on the page it made the interview stand out more and look more professional to the target audience. I placed the letter R on the interview page as I thought it looked presentable and made the interview page draw the reader to look at it and read it.


Final draft of double page spread

With my final draft of the double page spread you can see that I finished it off by adding all the names of the girls in the band which would good for the target audience to know who each one is. I have also placed a banner on the top of the picture to fill in the space that I had place on top of the picture of Re’talia as this would be the first thing that the reader will look at and with this all it will draw the target audience to look at the double page spread. I also placed the names of each of the member of the band on the picture of the band so that the reader knows who each member of the band is when reading the interview.

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