PhotographThe main photograph on the front cover, shows a very strong and confident character. This reflects the bands reluctancy to care what people think, which I feel fits the personalities of the target audience. This, also, more than likely represents the values and aspirations of the target audience.

Design TechniquesThe skyline at the top of my magazine, stating that it includes posters etc, draws in a reader, and without even reading the rest of the Front cover advertising, makes them want to buy the magazine. Also, the colour scheme is consistent. The mast head style, is an eroded style possibly reflecting the style of the magazine. This may also represent age group.

Mast headThe white title stands out against the black background. It is bold and easy to read, regardless of the fact that the font is eroded. Also, the font is consistent throughout the front cover.The consistency builds brand awareness/image.

FontThe white stands out against the grey background. The Sub-title “Contents” is also continuing the font featured on the front cover which maintains the style of the magazine and familiarises the audience.

Main Photographs

The photographs on the contents page, give the

audience a taster of what will be inside the magazine,

Sub-HeadingsThe subheading colour scheme also ties in with the main colour scheme that is consistent throughout the magazine. I incorporated this to create brand recognition.

When developing my magazine, there was an element of my researched (already published) music magazines, that I wanted to incorporate in my own music magazine, which was white space, or my case, grey space. In the process of completing the process I felt that this didn’t look quite right, in correlation with the design of my magazine, making it look unfinished and un professional.

I went on to add an editors note. I feel that this more suits my magazine, and makes the contents page look complete.

FontThe white stands out against the grey background. The Sub-title “Contents” is also continuing the font featured on the front cover which maintains the style of the magazine and familiarises the audience.

PhotographyThe pictures I have chosen to display on my double page spread I feel fit with the text I have used. The bands facial expressions are very lively, and almost aggressive, this fits the style of music, and also provides the audience with, again, brand recognition.

Design TechniquesThe white background behind the texts ties in with the colour scheme, if even a little different. I feel that, as the text is longer, and probably more difficult to read, the white text makes it easier for the audience/reader to read the article. I wanted to encourage the reader to read the article, by making it seem more clear, as there are no other persuasive elements such as a stand first, or a pull quote.

The front cover incorporates one main image. I thought the quantity of images on the front cover, was not only relevant to the magazine itself but also relevant to the music genre, and the style of the magazine. The main feature is presented by the Photo on the front cover. It is a very strong image, the vocalist’s body language is very dominating, this is reflected in the posture in which he is standing in. His arms are raised as he is singing, showing that he feels comfortable enough with the crowd, for example, to stand in this position, making readers admire confidence, and have the ability to gain a sense of what being at the gig would have been like.

The strong and dominating way in which he is standing, also reflects the genre of the music. I feel it shows that the music is one of the heavier bands of the music scene at this moment in time.

When designing my front cover, and deciding which elements to include on the first page, I didn’t think it necessary to include pull quotes, as the image I used, I feel, was strong enough to create a certain interest in a reader, that would make them want to read the magazine.

The language I have used in the double page spread, however I feel portrays the bands personality well with the language that is used. Words like ‘Crazy’ and ‘Moshing’ and ‘Head-banging’ show the younger audience that they can relate to the language being used by the band they’re reading about.

My first though was to publish my music magazineon issuu.com as it covers a large range of magazines.When investigating further and looking in more detail at the categories etc, I decided it wasn’t the best publishing method for me, as the range of music magazines were harder to find than other genre’s. And when they were found, the category’s weren’t as elaborate as I had hoped for a publisher.

In further investigating to find a publisher to suit my magazine, I concluded with Bauer media. I chose this publishing company as it also publishes a few of my main influences when designing my music magazine. This includes Kerrang and Mojo, who are also alternative music magazines.

- This print screen shows the categories that were available on issuu.com.

-The categories of magazines that were openly available were not relevant to my style of magazine.

-The magazines available online, were too different to my magazine, and the audience I would have liked to reach, would most likely have not came across this website.

-The main magazines being featured on this website, being ones such as, Sports magazine, Decorating magazines, And Design magazines.

I feel that the main audience for my magazine would be the younger generation. Whether this is categorised by literal age, or mental age! I feel that any age group could listen to the genre of music that my magazine focuses on, the more dominant age group, being teenagers.

I also feel that the attitudes of the bands in the magazine correspond to the lifestyles and attitudes of my target audience. The front cover of my magazine holds the lead singer of the main featured band. The posture and way in which he is standing holds a lot of confidence, I feel that this sets an example for the target audience, as teenagers nowadays tend to lack a lot of confidence when reffering to the music scene or style that they follow.

The main skill that I developed on Photoshop (that I didn’t already know) was the History Brush.

In one of the Photoshop tutorial lessons, we practiced various different techniques that may be useful to use in our final magazine project, this was the one I found most effective.We developed this tool on a practice photograph which helped us to master it, ready to use the skill in our Music Magazine.

I particularly liked the idea of this tool, as the picture I was hoping to incorporate on my front cover, had a very high contrast of colours, some of which I didn’t really want to stand out as much as the rest.

Here is the original picture I used to practice the History Brush before incorporating it in my magazine.

-Most of the comments I receive on my blog were compliments about the design and layout of my magazine, this has showed me that my ideas and thoughts for the layout paid off.

- The criticism I received was about the “grey space” which I adapted and added an editors note, and the captions on the contents page, which I adapted, and added captions to every picture, like suggested.