Front Cover- Google Mock Up

This is my Google mock up of my front cover. I used Photoshop to do this and have explained each process. 

This is my finished mock up. I have done my best to include as many conventions of magazines as I could.
Language- I have used the colours white, black. dark red, yellow and grey. White is used in the text because the dominant colours are quite dark, white shows up quite well. Same idea with the use of yellow. I have also used yellow for the plug as well because yellow is an eye catching colour, it immediately shows my audience the opportunity to enter a competition and possibly win, it makes the magazine interactive. I have used grey for the background because connotations of grey include calmness and composure which is suitable for my genre of alternative rock because it isn't as crazy and energetic other rock sub-genres such as heavy metal and screamo. Alternative rock can be energetic but it seems more contained and controlled. I have used dark red because a lot of alternative rock bands perform songs about love and lust so I thought it would be quite suitable for the magazine in terms of genre and how my magazine looks. I have used black because it is commonly associated with rock bands in terms of fashion as you can see in the images of Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Linkin Park, All Time Low, Black Veil Brides and Evanescence, they all have black items of clothing and it represents mystery and elegeance. It could also represent the subject of the songs they sing and music videos because they cover quite dark and mysterious topics such as violence, drugs, sex and ambitions.
Ideology-
Institution- I constructed this magazine using the assistance of Photoshop. The images I found on Google Images so they are from different institutions.
Audience- The target audience of my magazine is teenagers to about 24 year olds because I have done researched other music magazines of the similar genre and took their statistics into consideration. The fashion style of Fall Out Boy could be relatable to my target audience because the majority of the people of in the age range are either students, part-time workers or both so there isn't a lot of income, therefore the fashion style of Fall Out Boy in this image is good as it is simple and looks good.
Representation-  

I took this image of Fall Out Boy from maguzz.com. Using Photoshop, I deleted the white background, using the 'magic wand tool', the 'polygonal lasso tool (to delete the little sections I don't need with more ease)the delete key,  so I could place them on a grey background (I created a rectangle, and placed it portrait on an A4 Photoshop file).

I came up with the masthead 'Night Light' because I was thinking of words and concepts associated with rock and I thought of 'night' because a lot of concerts and gigs take place at night and light because the concerts take place at night, a lot of lights are used so I put the words together and came up with 'Night Light'. Also you give children 'night lights' to help them sleep at night, alternative rock was made famous around the 90s and 'Rock and Roll' and heavy metal was became popular in the 50s and 60s and the difference in years between alternative rock and rock and roll/heavy metal is what I would think of as an appropriate age to be a parent so I consider alternative rock to be the child of  Rock and Roll.