The document discusses the author's approach to creating a music magazine inspired by other publications, particularly 'Q' and 'Miss Vogue.' The author emphasizes the importance of house style and layout, taking elements from these magazines while striving for originality to better appeal to their target audience. Ultimately, the author aimed to create a unique contents page by blending inspiration with their own design ideas.

2. As I’m no expert in making and producing
magazines and I haven’t had any previous
experience working in a media institution so I
used other magazines to help give me ideas and
inspiration as to what I wanted my magazine to
look like. One example of a magazine I used for
this was ‘Q’ magazine. This firstly helped me get
a sense of consistent house style as ‘Q’
magazine have the bright red colour running
throughout the magazine.

3. Although I was creating a music
magazine I decided to look at other
magazines that are also aimed at my
target audience, the magazine I took
most inspiration from was ‘Miss Vogue’. I
really liked how the contents page was
set out and I decided that I particularly
wanted to use this as my inspiration to
create the basis of the design for my
magazines contents page

4. MISS VOGUE AND THE SOUND CONTENTS

5. As you can see, I took a lot of little things from this and put
them together to create my final contents page. I added some
more images to my final page as it suited the target audience
and I also made the text slightly bigger to yet again, tailor the
needs of my target audience. Although ‘Miss Vogue’ is a
fashion magazine I really liked the layout of the page and I
especially liked the way that the contents was separated into
categories, I also did this on my contents page however I
made the writing specific to my magazine and made the text
bigger.

6. SEPARATING INTO CATEGORIES

7. Something that I wanted to recreate was the way
that the ‘Miss Vogue Contents’ was written on the
top of the page. I thought it gave the page a good
look and that it was really suited for the type of
magazine. However I tried to make this work for my
contents page but somehow it didn’t look right no
matter what I did or how big/small the text was, I
decided to settle for something that was similar
but not quite how the ‘Miss Vogue’ magazine had
it. For my magazine I made the word ‘The’ smaller
in size like the Miss Vogue magazine the word
‘Miss’ is slightly smaller than the word ‘Vogue’.

8. PAGE TITLES

9. The columns and the way the page was set out
was yet another thing that I decided to imitate
from ‘Miss Vogue’ magazine. I didn’t want my
contents page to end up looking that similar to
the ‘Miss Vogue’ one as I knew it wouldn’t
completely suit the genre of my magazine. With
this in mind I decided to split the page into 3
equal sections and then used this as a guidance
as to where to put my textboxes. This helped my
because it made it easier for me to determine
whether or not all of the writing is in line with
each other going right the way across the page.

10. COLUMN LAYOUTS

11. The contents page was the only page that I
looked at other magazines to gain inspiration
from, this is because I wanted the magazine to
have as new look and be as original as possible
so that the magazine will appeal to my target
audience. I decided that I didn’t want to copy
everything from the other pre-existing
magazines as I wanted mine to still have a
sense of originality to it meaning that it might
fill a gap in the market that has yet to be
explored.