2. When creating my contents page I originally
planned to title the page ‘The R-side’.
This concept was heavily inspired by
‘XXL’ contents pages. When researching
further into the music magazine I found
that ‘the A-side’ and ‘the B-side’ refers
to the two sides of a phonograph record.
So by me titling the page ‘The R-side’
took away from this meaning.
When thinking of what to name the page, I
thought that I should make a link to how
music is currently being sold/publicized.
Currently streaming is becoming a larger
way of people to listen to music. This
concept I feel links to my magazine and
can demonstrate to readers that this is
indeed a music magazine as the word
‘stream’ references a large proportion of
the music industry today.
3. I added an artist
quote to the
side of the
contents image,
the size of the
font is not too
big, so it does
not distract the
reader, but it
is big enough to
read. The colour
of the font is
black to it
stand out
against the
white part of
the image. The
quote is placed
close to the
model in the
image so readers
can see it is a
quote from him.
This box here
hold the cover
story of the
magazine. The
cover story is
about my front
cover artist
‘Robyn’. I have
the text based
around music and
her journey, I
decided type
this as it
related to the
fact it is a
music magazine
in contrast to a
fashion
magazine. I
also added a
subtitle ‘power’
this is because
I wanted to have
the underlying
theme of
domination/autho
rity. Something
I feel R&B
artist radiate.
4. These are the features within my contents.
All of the text within the magazine links to
music in some sort of way.
I tried to incorporate interesting headlines
which signal what the text underneath it is
about, all the while trying to make it
interesting to read. For example I have used
the words ‘I AM KING’ I have used these words
purposely to add to the theme of power, as
well as link to words that were used within
my cover. The font of the subheading were
taken from the site ‘Dafont.com’ they are all
capitals so it is easier to read, and stand
out a bit on the page.
For the actual features I made the text much
smaller so it does not make the contents too
overcrowded. I have used a serif font for the
features text. I did this because I found
that other R&M magazine follow this style of
layout, so to make mine as realistic as
possible I decided to conform to the stereo
type. Another reason I did this is because I
feel that it makes the magazine look more
mature and sophisticated.
Within my text I have also used R&B artist
names who are currently trending. The artist
name are a ingle font size larger than the
rest of the features text. They are also a
different font so readers can see their name
clearly when reading the text.
All of the features text revolves around
music, helping making the link stronger when
indicating this is a music magazine contents.
For my lat feature I added a question to the
end, which reads ‘ready to hear’. I chose to
add this as it makes the article seen more
interesting and may have readers inclined to
read on.
5. I included the
date of the issue,
keeping in mind
the date this
magazine would be
released in real
time.
At the bottom I have added the
name of the person who took the
images for the magazine. I have
seen this within example of R&B
magazine when researching. I
included this within my own as
is makes my magazine more real.
I have the size of the text
small so it does not distract
from the rest of the page.
In the bottom right hand corner
of the page I have the date of
the issue and next to it I have
the website for my music
magazine. This again makes the
magazine
