The document describes the design elements of a magazine cover and inside pages for a music magazine targeted towards teenagers. Key elements included on the cover are the masthead, selling line in repetitive text, a featured image of a model, and use of different fonts and colors for the main cover line to make it stand out. Inside pages include a contents page with columns for images and information, a double-page feature interview formatted in columns with a large central image, and consistent use of design elements like the masthead and color scheme across pages. References are made to real-life magazine designs that inspired certain layout and stylistic choices.

2. MASTHEAD
SELLING LINE
MAIN IMAGE
LEFT THIRD
DATELINE
MAIN
COVERLINE

3. MASTHEAD: The masthead for my magazine
states the word ‘rare’ and I feel this is because
it relates my target audience and genre of my
magazine as its rare to find a modern pop
magazine that is directly for the audience of
teenagers as ‘Q’ and ‘Rolling stone’ targets a
much older audience.
SELLING LINE: the selling line for my
magazine includes repetition such as:
‘spectacular sounds’, this is to make
it stand out and become catchy and
this follows to conventions of a real
life magazine.
MAIN COVERLINE: the main cover line for my
magazine include a change in font and colour. This
empathizes the word ‘exclusive’ to show the story it is
for is unique which will persuade people to want to read
it. Also the change in font and colour makes it stand out
towards other cover lines to show the reader it’s the
main one and makes the magazine look modern and
edgy to stand out to the target audience of teenagers.

4. DATELINE: To make sure my magazine followers the
convention of a real life magazine I have included, above
the barcode, a dateline to present information to the
audience about the issue and price of the magazine, which
gives them all the information about the purchase of the
magazine, hopefully to persuade them to buy it.
MAIN IMAGE: The main image for my front cover is off
my model ‘ Rachel’. I have styled my model in lots of
make-up and modern fashionable clothes to give my
magazine a modern look. Also I have posed her in an
attractive way as this is a normal way for a female to
pose for magazines of my genre.

5. This is the magazine front
cover I used as inspiration for
my music magazine cover. I
took the idea of how I posed
my model from this magazine
and how to place the selling
line and masthead. However I
changed the colour scheme
and placement of maincoverline but I still kept the
idea of keeping most of my
coverlines on the left-third.

6. TITLE
MASTHEAD
COLOUR
SCHEME
OTHER IMAGES
MAIN IMAGE
CATAGORIES
COLUMNS

7. MAIN IMAGE: The main image for
my contents page consists of the
same model of my contents page,
this is to emphasize she is my main
model, but other models are included
in the other images, again I have her
poses in an attractive way but
different to keep the magazine
unique and fresh but to follow to
conventions of a magazine of my
genre.
TITLE: The title on a content
page makes sure the page
stands out to the reader as it’s
an important page to know the
story's in the magazine and
how to successful navigate
themselves through the
magazine. I have followed the
conventions of a real life
magazine and kept the title
simple with the word
‘contents’.

8. CATAGORIES/COULMNS: I have structured my contents
page to follow the conventions of a real life magazine with 3
columns one for the main image, one for the editor's note
and one for the information of what’s in the magazine and
its page numbers, in this column I have used categories to
structure out the text to make it clear what's in the
magazine for the reader and allows them to easily navigate
around the magazine allowing them to know what story's
are exclusive and what are regular weekly reads to show a
new reader the regular features of the magazine.
MASTHEAD: The masthead again is shown on my
contents page as it follows the conventions of a real
life magazine and is done in magazines with the
simpler genre.

9. This is the contents page I took as
inspiration for my contents page and
this contents page gave me an idea
on how to structure my contents
page. However this contents page
doesn’t include and editors not but I
added one as it’s a convention
featured on many other contents
pages. Also my contents page
challenge on of the genre of pop as
its a lot more colour compared to real
life ones trying to reach a younger
target audience then ones of rolling
stone or Q magazine. But I feel this
is acceptable as I’m trying to reach a
younger target audience than the
audience of rolling stone or Q
magazine.

10. QUOTE
MASTHEAD
SUBJECT
DROP
CAPTIAL
IMAGE
COLUMNS
COLOUR SCHEME

11. QUOTE/SUBJECT: I placed the quote and
subject at the top of my page as this idea
followed the conventions of a real magazine of
my genres double page spread. I used two very
different fonts for this
COLUMN: To follow the conventions of a real life
magazine my magazine’s text was set out in
columns, but to make my double page spread look
unique and make it easy to read I conducted to
story as a interview and each paragraph had a subheading of a question ask in the interview as I have
seen this done in a real life magazine and the story
comes from the point of the celebrity so it’s more
interesting for the reader
MASTHEAD: To follow the convention like on the
contents page I have added the magazines masthead
again to double page spread.

12. MAIN IMAGE: The main image I used for my
double spread is the same model as on my front
cover. The picture is rather large and this follows
the conventions of a real magazine as it takes up
almost a whole page of the magazine. The photo
is a medium close-up with the modelling looking
directly towards the camera however her body is
not facing towards the camera making the picture
look edgy and this would attract a target audience
of teenagers.
DROP-CAPTIAL: The drop capital is a important feature of a
double page spread as its regularly featured on real life
magazine and this also shows the reader where to start
reading clearly so the text is easy to understand.

13. This was the double page spread I used for inspiration for my
music magazine’s double page spread and one key element
that inspired me was adding the quote to the top of my page as
this is not seen in many double page spreads and would make
one stand out against many normal music magazines. Also my
model is posed in a simpler way to the model on this double
page spread.

14. COLOUR SCHEME: the colour scheme for my magazine is very
strict throughout as each page I created is a sliver/grey colour.
This is to make my magazine look sophiscated but still modern
and edgy so it’s still able to attract to my target audience of
teenagers.