The document provides guidelines for designing the cover of a music magazine. It recommends that the main image feature an appealing artist from the genre targeted by the magazine. The masthead should clearly indicate the music genre through references like "Top of the Pops" for a pop magazine. An intriguing pull quote on the cover about gossip or dating can attract readers interested in learning more. Color choices should consider the gender of any artist featured to appeal to the intended audience.

1. FORM
RESEARCH
ELLIE MADDISON

2. MAIN IMAGE
 The main image is normally a band or artist who will be appealing with
the audience of the magazine. The artist should be of the same genre
of music that the magazine is.
For example having Beyoncé on the front page is going to bring
monumental viewers as she is one of most iconic POP stars of all time

3. MASTHEADS
 The masthead always stands out to the consumers eyes.
 The masthead should have relations to the music genre, EG
calling a POP magazine ‘music world wide’ isn’t representing a
POP magazine because it’s not clear what type of genre it is. So
calling it ‘top of the pops’ clearly shows what type of magazine it
is.

4. PULL QUOTE
 The pull quote is usually a little part of what the page is about and
probably will only cover a couple of lines, but it is the most
interesting so having it on the cover pulls in the audience as it’s
normally about dating and kissing, this is appealing to reader as
they want to find out the gossip.

5. COLOUR’S
 The magazine producer would consider the colours based on
gender of the artist, for example men are most likely going to read
a magazine if there is a male artist on the front so if they had a
male artist they would use dark colours like black and red, and for
women they use bright colours like pink and purple.

6. DATE OF THE ISSUE
 The date is normally in the top corner and is repeated on all
pages on the same area, this is also with the title of the magazine.
This is to ensure the reader know what magazine and what issue
they’re reading.

7. SUB-HEADING
 A contents page should contain sub-headings. This is so the
reader have a clear indication of what page is what.

8. COLLOQIAL LANGUAGE
 Most POP magazines typography is written in girly/childish typing
this will suit a younger audience as most POP stars are aimed at
kids. .

9. HOW I’M GOING TO SHOW THIS IS MY
FINAL DESIGN
 In my final design I’m not going to show topless men but having
an interesting pull quote suggesting something had happened is
how I will pull in a wide range of audience’s.