The document discusses the design choices for the front cover, contents page, and a double-page spread for a music magazine. The front cover features the target audience's favorite bands/artists to attract readers. A focus group helped decide the cover elements. The contents page uses images and keeps a consistent color scheme. The double-page spread maintains the color scheme and features a large cover image on one page with the title below, along with bold text and quotes to break up the column of text for easy reading.

1. By Giulia Malacrida

2. My front cover reaches in the aim of
attracting and addressing my target
audience. As the front cover is the first
thing that they would see and it must give
off a good impression. The cover lines and
featured articles are also a great way to
attract my target audience. I made sure
that the cover lines appealed to my
audience by featuring their favourite
bands/artists. This was based my focus
group I created to help me decide on what
was going to be on the cover. The cover
image was also very much important to
attracting and addressing the target
audience. I made sure that the artist I was
using to be my front cover looked directly
into the camera. According to my research
my audience would pay for a magazine
between 2,20 and 3 £, so I set the price of
my magazine at 2,45£.

3. On my contents page I had used a
variety of images as in my audience
research they wanted to see lots of
pictures of the artist they liked. I
used images which I had taken from
previous concerts. I also carried on
the colour scheme to the contents
page to keep the consistency and to
make the magazine professional. I
kept the contents page simple and
easy to follow. To draw peoples I
have grouped the features into
box, and each box gathers a
category.
I have decided to put a doodle and
the editor’s letter.

5. In my double spread page I’ve tried to keep a sense of unity keeping
the same colour scheme (Black, pink and white).
The picture occupies the whole left page and the title is spread on the
bottom of that page which is quite usual in the magazines that have
inspired me (NME, INDIE, etc.).
Another typical element is the bold and big first capitol letter “B” and
the quote which breaks up the column of written text are aimed at
make the reading of the article a bit funny and relaxing, since also the
eye of the reader doesn’t have to get lost in a thick and long text. This
is also because my audience will read the article during a relaxing time
off (a break, before sleeping, etc.) so it needs to be neat and quick but
at the same time interesting and appealing.