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Main Image

The main image of my cover will be a close up of a character and it will majorly dominate the cover. I will make the cover very minimalistic with the purpose of putting full emphasis on the main image. One of my reasons for doing this is I have seen in market research that having a very bold and unique main image and focusing the cover around it greatly helps in making every magazine issue look one of a kind. I will be implementing the convention of having the main image overlap the masthead, as I want the main image to be the primary focus and masthead to be the secondary.

In my cover I intend the masthead to fill roughly a quarter of the page length. I want the primary elements of my cover to the the masthead and main image, with all else coming second. The masthead will be done in a colour contrasting to the background which will most likely be kept simple so as not to detract from the main image.

Above the masthead I will use a header line to give information on features and other artists covered in the magazine, they will be kept mostly to one word to stick with the minimalistic theme.

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I will have the barcode in the bottom right to be as unintrusive as possible.

I will not be following the convention of the left third, instead only a small cover line relating to the main article feature will be present on the cover, overlayed onto the main image.

Contents Logo

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Main features (music related)

Secondary features (non-music related.)

On this page I will focus less on the main feature as I have already made that the dominating feature of the cover, here I will focus on having small images relating to other features. The images will be page numbered to link to an article. The page will follow the house theme I establish in the cover in terms of colour scheme and design.

The magazine logo will be included alongside the contents header as it is a convention I noticed that helps to keep establishing the magazines identity.

Features not concerning music directly but more related to hip hop culture will have less space on the page so as to allow the music related features to be the focus.

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Headline

Article line

Text Interview

The first page of my spread will be completely dominated by a main image of the artist. Incorporated with that image will be a select quote taken from the article on the other page.

Quote from article

The headline will be relating to the artist and the article line will be a short summary or rhetorical question based on the article. The article will comprise of a short piece on the artist and then an interview with them.