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3rd Draft of Magazine

This is the 3rd and final draft of my music magazine. I've made some more improvements in order make it look more of a rock magazine.

I've improved the front cover by adding more to the mise-en-scene. I've added patches of beige and a sort of muddy brown, to make the background look dirty which conforms to the stereotype of messy rock stars. I decreased the size of the main feature font and rearranged the existing feature stories in order to make room for more feature stories in the style of NME magazine (I began to look at other magazines for more inspirations and the layout of NME magazine grew on me) because in my second draft there were lots of big gaps, this way it looks like there is more happening and it's more 'in your face' like KERRANG! I changed the skyline because I thought it sounded like something you'd see on a pop magazine so replaced it with a subscription offer and a notice about the next issue which could attract customers.

I mainly edited the upper half of my contents page. I changed the title to match the "EXCLUSIVE" on my double page spread ('CF Punk Attitude' from dafont.com). I changed the main image to a better quality image and I really like the poses. I added the subscription offer that was on the front cover and an advertisement for free 'Night Light' T-shirts. The background idea is the same the front cover.

The only thing I have altered for the double page spread is the background so I follows the same idea as the front cover and contents page, making it look like a house style.

Merchandise

If I were involved in a real magazine company, I would want to sell merchandise which could improve your relationship with your audience which could get you more profit. Therefore I have designed some merchandise that would appeal to my audience. 

In my magazine, I will include the T-shirts as freebies because from my audience survey, people enjoy free gifts.

I used www.customink.com to design the merchandise

2nd Draft of Magazine

This is my second draft with the improvements for the front cover taken into account and a contents page and a double page spread.

Since my last front cover, I feel as though I have made a massive improvement. I have added more conventions like feature stories, a barcode, a price, date, a plug and a poster advertisement.

I also made adjustments to the conventions I alread had. I capitalised the masthead to make it look bigger and stand out a bit more. I changed the main feature story title layout with "Delirium" in a big 'Eroded' font from dafont.com which suits the genre of rock more and conforms to the stereotype of rockstars being messy, also I've changed the layout if the pull quote and changed the colours to black and white which is in contrast to the costumes; making it more readable. The colour scheme is now black, red and white because in my first draft I used yellow and 2 different shades of red as well but it didn't look right so I decided to use the three colours I mentioned first.