Contents Page Drafts

When I first started to make my contents page I added pictures of celeberaties who I thought where pop idols and would be good to read about in my magazine. I then started to create my title for my contents page I wondered if I shoule keep it the same as the mathead or whether I should change it, however i thought it would look better if it was kept the same. Next I started to think of different coverlines which i thought would attract many readers. I started thinking who is in the pop industry and what has happened in their lives, what could I write about them which could be good stories. I then looked at different magazine contents pages to see what was written in them and how could i make them my own, which is why i added things such as the crosswords and top 20 coats. This brought me to my second draft of my contents page, I looked at it and thought it looked a bit blank and had to think of some other things to make it look alot better. I then had to fill up the space that was still showing so i decided to add a few more pictures and a voucher which some magazines have. This became my final contents page. I then got feedback from my teacher and decided some things had to change to i adjusted them in publisher and my final draft looks like this.

Drafting text/ page layouts



 Before i began creating my front cover i made a draft of what it could look like. This was just to tell me where i wanted to put things and what it might look like. I then changed it so that it looked more colourful and presentable and more like an actual magazine then a draft. I then created my final front cover this is what it came out to be

Planning/ sketching page layouts

This was the first rough draft of what my front cover
may look like. It gave me a guess of what my actual
cover might look like when i eventually make it on
the computer.

Shooting/ selecting images

Planning/ sketching images

To test out what im going to do for my final image I used a picture of an animal and got rid of the background as shown above..

Analysing front cover images

I looked at different magazine covers which could help me find out how the image on the cover represents the artist being shown. The top of the pops magazine cover below is showing JLS to be a nice , sweet and innocent by band. With them all smiling it makes them fit in easily with the theme of this magazine, it gives them their pop identity.

Researching and designing mastheads

Once I had decided what I wanted my genre to be which is pop, I created a brainstorm on what I believed pop music to be all about to help me decide a name for my magazine. The names in which I had come up with where POP; the music thats in! , 1,2,3 POP, out with the old..., and pops the music.

First of all I thought 1,2,3 POP would be a fun, and funky name however it made me think of bubbles which are fairly girly and wouldnt be a mixed gender magazine.

I then changed my mind to the idea of a magazine called "out with the old..." this was because I thought a good magazine should show both old and new pop artists and bands such as Madonna and Kylie Monoque, and new artists such as Nicole Scherzinger and Justin Bieber. I also chose this name as older pop music is completely different to new pop music, back in the 80's it was very girly and "hip" and funky, however nowdays its more lively and simplier. As well as that things such as style, haircuts and colours have changed alot over the last decade or two. I also thought that people would recognise the saying, I didnt use the whole saying as the title of my magazine would be too long.

When I had decided my magazine cover name I then searched for a style to use as my masthead I decided that I would like such as a simple design like Blender Masthead. It is a very plain and simple masthead which is easy to find when looking for it in a shop. This helped me to decide that I wanted slim block letters for my masthead.

Once I had decided what I wanted my magazine title to be like I tried a few ways of creating my title showing below.

example 1:

 example 2: 

 example 3:

Once looking at these three title designs I decided to go with an origional font called century gothic as it shows a more "pop" feeling then the other two.