Drafting & Planning - Draft

Here, I created a draft of my layout for my front cover of my music magazine. I have considered a range of different conventions I could include such as a puff, pugg, anchorage text and a Skyline but in my opinion the front page would then be too strong and I am hopefully going for a more simplistic style so the audiences main focus is on the cover star, which I will not be able to achieve If I use all the different conventions that could be used.

I have chosen to add a skyline to my draft version of my front cover as I feel that it would be effective in portraying the aesthetic of the magazine as a skyline stands out against the rest of the text due to where it is placed on the page, the audience will more likely notice the skyline before any of the text and so ensuring the skyline some how reflects the genre of music I have chosen, the target demographic will directly understand whether they are attracted to this magazine or not and whether they may want to buy it or not.

As I mentioned earlier I decided that I would reduce the amount of conventions I would use so that the audiences immediate attention is drawn to the artist and the main cover line, meaning that if they are fans of the artist they may be intrigued to what the magazine discusses or if the target audience member isn't a fan they will be enticed into buying the magazine through the other cover lines used as well as the sky line that would offer something free that is exclusively available within the magazine so that the target demographic would feel they are receiving more contents for their money or receiving a bargain and so therefore would be more likely to but the magazine.

Additionally, I formed the layout of the magazine so that the artist would be the center of the page and again reinforce the immediate attention grabbing the cover star would do, whilst also deciding that the house style for the magazine would be very demanding colours such as blues and reds to connote to the passion and vibrancy of the magazine while still representing the aesthetic of the magazine as being edgy yet professional.