This document provides details on the design of a mock music magazine created for a media studies project. It includes descriptions of the front cover, contents page, and a double page band feature spread. The front cover includes a logo, festival advertisements, free poster and band logo graphics typical of music magazines. The contents page lists sections in varied fonts and includes band pictures. The double page spread focuses on a band with their picture, a album review on one page, and an interview titled "What's New?" on the other in a style inspired by Kerrang magazine.

1. Media Studies for Magazine
Front Cover

2. The title relates to a real magazine as it is big and stands out, I have
placed a picture over some of the letters as most magazines these
days have as people who are loyal to the magazine still know what it
means.

3. The top headers are adverts about festival information, I got
this from a Kerrang magazine where download festival and
Soniphere festival line up was being announced so the music
magazines advertise the line up on who is performing and
rumors.

4.  I have got the free poster inside idea from Kerrang as the
Kerrang magazines attract the target audience because of the
magazines which Kerrang offer inside.

5. I used subheadings like music saved my life as they represent different
story’s inside the magazine, most magazines have more than one
story so small pieces of writing advertise that on the cover.
I used a band logo I made to represent a band as most issues are
about one band which highlight the double page spread, this brings
the audience attention if it’s theirs favourite band.

6. Most band magazines have a featuring section which have more names
of bands, this does the same as the headline and people read their
favourite bands and people who see it will buy it as they are
dedicated to them bands so they will buy it if it has their favourite
band inside the issue or people will buy it as it has the same genre
as their favourite band.

7. I used a barcode and a issue number and date. This is what the
Kerrang magazine has as Kerrang sell a new issue each week so they
keep track on what issue they are on and keeps the reader on how
old the information is when they put the date on, this helps the
reader as it tells information which could be pointless to know now
but was valuable information when the issue was new.

8. The picture I have used in the magazine shows that it’s a music
magazine by the instrument my star model is holding, the man on
the main cover is on the double page spread as the main story as
that is what the magazine is highlighting this week. My star model is
doing a pose to represent a heavy metal band and the face
expression helps that as the star model looks angry. The star model
is facing the camera to bring in the reader.

9. Media Studies for Magazine
Contents Page

10. The header is inspired from a Kerrang magazine by the colours
and structure of the title of the contents page.
The colours make the title stand out because no other piece on
the page is the colour red so it makes the reader instantly see
the title.

11. The background of the text is yellow and this makes the red
stand out more to make the reader see it more as the rest of
the page is the colours black and white.
The background I used the Photoshop paint tool where it makes
it more interesting than just a blank black colour.

12. The pictures used shows other pictures of my star-models
posing with their instruments on a stage and this will relate
to the double page spread.

13. I used the same font for all but all different sizes this shows on matter
of importance to the reader so those words attract the reader which
will make them read more from that section of the contents page.

14. I did the structure like a Kerrang magazine and added all the usual
stuff a music magazine would have. This would be “what’s in this
weekly issue?” “What is our main story?” which contains all
information from interviews and an extra piece of information which
would attract the audience.

15. Most magazines have competitions to reel in the people who
are interested in that guitar or the person who owns that
guitar. People would buy the issue to sign up to the
competition but on the contents page this is a small
advertisement to tell you where it is.

16. Media Studies for Magazine
Double Page Spread

17. The header advertises the band that are being focused on the double
page spread, if people see a band logo then they will want to read
more about them if they are a fan of them. The second page on the
double page spread has another title on the other page saying “So
what’s new?” this is a rhetorical question which will bring in people’s
attention.

18. The Picture is the band performing I thought this would be a good shot
seems it shows the band doing what they want and what they do
best at.
The bottom section of the left page is an album review where I have
tried to make it look like a Kerrang magazine as this is what Kerrang
do with the picture and the rating but Kerrang use K’s instead of
ratings (out of five).

19. The text I thought would be good and clear for the review section and I
wanted it to look different compared to the page on the right. The
first thing I tried to do is to make it look clear so everyone can read
it.

20. The title of the right page on the double page spread is the same font
as the text below, but is put a rhetorical question to engage the
reader about the band with “What’s New?” this makes people who
want the next best thing interested.

21. The back ground of the right page I made it look much smudged.
Sections of both pages to give an effect which can be done on
Photoshop tools.
I kept the black background as the picture if black so I wanted the
picture and background give a blend effect.