Drafts of My Music Magazine Front Cover, Double Page Spread and Contents Page

Deciding upon a name, genre and audience for my magazine
The next task in the project was to come up with an original masthead name that would be inkeeping with the style of a contemporary music magazine. At this stage, I have decided that I am going to create a pop music style magazine, due to the lack of available pop focused magazines available on sale in the general market. I want my name to be catchy and memorable, and also sound fun and endearing, as this is the image I want my magazine to follow. My magazine will be aimed at the young teenage generation of readers, so the layout and style of my magazine, as well as the artists and content featured in the magazine will have to be age appropriate. It is very important that the masthead of my magazine appeals to the audience that I am aiming at.
After researching different connotations of the word 'music', I came up with four possible masthead ideas for my magazine;

Harmony
I like the sound of this masthead, however, I think that it would not be easily remembered.

Melody
This is my favourite choice of a masthead, as it sounds fun and is short and snappy, which is in-keeping with the style of my magazine. Along with the word 'magazine', alliteration makes 'Melody' catchy and would make it easily memorable to the audience.

Fusion
I think this particular masthead idea wouldn't quite work, as after thinking about it, the name seems to connote a more dance and club feel, which is not the style of my magazine at all, and would not appeal to my target audience.

Tune
I think this masthead connotes the idea of classical music, rather than pop music, so it would not be a good choice for my magazine masthead.

My chosen masthead for my magazine is Melody, as I feel it is the best of the names I have researched and will project the right image about my magazine.

Conventions of a teenage pop magazine
Because the task requires me to create a believable and realisic music magazine, part of my research has to be on teenage pop music, and how i could possibly present a magazine based around it.
The first thing I researched was teen pop artists. This included names such as Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne, Taylor Swift and the Backstreet Boys. These are all considered to be 'teen idols' and are definitely artists which young teenage readers can relate to, and will enjoy reading about.

Pop music magazine cover
The first thing I notice about the front cover of this magazine is that it is bright and colourful and attracts the eye straight away. A bright blue background has been used,


















Pop music magazine double page spread
The first thing that I notice about the double-page is that one page is almost entirely taken up by the featured artists photograph.












Font ideas
Now that I have picked a good masthead for my magazine, I need to find a stylish font that will display it in a way that is suitable for the idealogy of my magazine.


This font is fun and attractive and would make a funky masthead for my magazine. The bubble style of text is in-keeping with the fun, teen-pop idealogy of my music magazine.





I think this font is perhaps too plain for a teen-pop music magazine.

This would be another good font to use for the masthead of my magazine. Again, it uses the bubble style font and is in-keeping with the teen-pop music idealogy of my magazine. However, I think that maybe it isn't bold and attractive enough to use as the masthead of the magazine.

First draft of my front cover

First draft of my contents page

First draft of my double page spread