My Music Magazine

Photographs
For my front cover, I have decided to use quite a large image, so it looks dominant on the front page and therefore it will attract the readers. The image along side being rather a large scaled image, will be a close up shot allowing the reader to feel engaged with the artist. I will allign my image to the right hand side of the magazine so that there is a focus point on the cover and then the dominant text relating to the artists will be to the left of the image and in line. This will allow the text to stand out and make it easier for the reader to find out who the artist is if they don't know already.
For my contents page, i will include one image to represent the one other story inside the magazine to give the reader a taste of the contents. This will also attract the readers to the more interesting articles as images draw the attention of the eye more than text does.
For my middle article i will include one main picture along side the article. After researching other music magazine articles and the images included in these, I have noticed that there are a number of images from various places and images of the artists not just in the photo shoot, but from music gigs, paparrazi photographs etc. I decided to go against this conventional layout of photographs and just included one dominant image as I didn't want my images to over rule my main text.
Fonts
Choosing fonts for my magazine was a rather difficuilt task. I had to take into consideration the genre of music the magazine was promoting, and the readers, in terms of gender and target audience. I had to be sure that the font I chose clearly represented a music magazine and the genre of RnB/Pop/Indie. I looked at dafont.com for a font that I thought would fit my magazine perfectly. I decided on boogie nights as this didn't look too masculine but represented the magazine genre really well. For the subheadings, I chose a very simple font as looking at my research for magazien front covers, I noticed that the subheadings are very simple and plain so the reader can cleealry read them as they are of course much smaller that main headings. I used these two fonts continuously throughtout the conents page and middle article to create a sense of consistency.
Colour Scheme
I decided to use the same colour scheme as I did in my pliminary task as I feel the colours stood but also allowed the image to stand out and therefore were a great success. The blue and yellow although aren't altogther related to feminimity, look fresh, bright, contrast well and are attractive. They are also a combination that I hadn't seen on any other magazine and so I felt that my choice of colour was original for my magazine. I also added black to my colour palette as I felt that although the blue and yellow contrasted well together there was too much white space. I used the black as a background colour on my front cover.