Draft of my overall Magazine (Planning ideas)

Front Page Draft

For my initial draft design of my front page, I have given the name of my overall magazine (permanently) entitled 'Hardcore' as it was suitable and simple based on the type of music genre I was working on, which was indie/rock music. 

Also, the masthead line itself sounds crazy and insane as that's what most of rock music types tend to sound in reality as it's being portrayed in the world right now so this would tend to attract rock fans of my magazine and being able to be interested from it.In addition, I wanted my masthead line to be placed on top of the page because it appears professional this way as that's what NME magazine and other types tend to do; always placing the masthead line at the top of the page so the target audiences would be able to know the name of the magazine instantly. I've added other important elements that's included on a front page of an indie/rock types of magazines as NME and Kerrang had both helped me get influenced by their own front pages of magazine issue's because they both portray indie/rock artists as I would tend to use as well for my actual magazine.

 I mostly paid attention on where I would place the elements, which includes the price of the magazine, bar code, subheading, feature of texts, an enlargement of your featured artist (placed at the center of the page in order to make your artist stand out and captivate the audiences attention) and much more. I didn't write down what type of font styles I wanted to use but I'd mostly likely to use Arial, Calibri and Impact font styles because they make the text appear more simple yet effective to the main target audiences and it's easy for them to read clearly and being able to understand it without having troubles to.

 Finally, I've included an advertisement of getting 'FREE Posters' for starters as I thought that it would get more and more target audiences attention and would get the featured artist chosen FREE posters as it would make the prize of the magazine worth it - if it costs around £3 or more.

 

 

 

Contents Page Draft

For my Contents page draft, I've briefly decided to include only three relevant yet appropriate images because I didn't want my target audiences to focus too much on the images and look at the main highlights and fresh new updates about my magazine issue obtained. 

As you can see, I plan to use rectangle shapes to act as my border around the different types of text that I would be including and mentioning on my Contents page intended and it would appear the whole page more clear and tidy, as it's not too busy or complicated to gain from. Also, the draft drawing image above would portray how I'd decided to layout my elements for my actual magazine after briefly having to loo from examples of NME and Kerrang Contents pages for aspirations.

I have came across that most of their contents pages contains of various instruments being shown such as guitars, pianos, studio room and more as I think NME and Kerrang magazine is trying to not always advertise their main feature artist but to also let their own target audiences know about the instruments or any other related topics to talk about the instruments being shown as that's what music is about; having an instrument produces music.

 

 

DPS Page Draft

For my DPS page draft, I designed it simple and straightforward as you can see. I wanted to place the headline at the top, left hand side of the page because I've decided to split the page in half as you would have one page that's responsible for all the text information detailed as this would relate to the recent one-to-one interview with the main featured artist and the second half of the page would include an enlargement, full size image of the artist that would also include a short message caption over laying the image in order to appear meaningful towards their own fans/target audiences obtained.

As for now, I wanted my enlargement full size shot image to make the artist strike a post where she looks down because I've decided to give my feature artist a shady background/past and now she came back with a brand new album after a few years hiatus. This situations would normally rise tension towards the main feature artists fans as they will be filled with excitement yet curiosity on the brand new magazine brand being published based on the type of feature artist chosen.

I've decided to use more rectangle shapes in order be a border line throughout my one-to-one interview to my main feature model. This way, I thought I'd filled the rectangle shape black and make the font style color red or white because it would distinguish what type of music genre I'm trying to portray and establish for those newcomers of my final magazine overall. The reason behind this is because NME and Kerrang magazine mostly used bold yet dangerous colour schemes such as black, red and white so taking this as an encounter, this had made me decide that my colour schemes for my own magazine would include black, red white and yellow as part of my colour schemes to use for my front, contents and DPS pages overall in order to establish that I'm trying to portray indie/rock types of music globally as my proposal suggests that not many women compared to men are into indie/rock music genres so I wanted to at least spread a message that R&B artists like Rihanna can also feature on indie/rock types as you don't need to be a specified genre artist to cover your own genre as that's seen bias and unfair; I just wanted to advertise the insane, unique and hardcore side of music there are instead of listening to typical pop songs as it's getting overrated and younger audiences need to be aspired in order to become something they want to be in the future.