Draft Drawings

I did a draft drawing of my front page, contents page and two page spread. They are not very detailed as they just highlight my ideas at the moment of where i would like things to be placed.

With my front cover i decided to have the masthead at the top so it can stand out without anything else being around it. This is so that people will be able to immediately realise the magazines name. Underneath i have decided to place the issue number box to make it seem realistic up to other magazines. I am also going to insert a barcode from google onto my magazine front cover, as well as a price and date to add to the realism. My main image is going to be all of the page, so, the background will be included aswell. Anchorage text will overlap the image so that the text and the image can be linked. I laid out the other images and texts around the page so that it wouldn't look to busy or to vague. I will use a close up or a mid shot on my front cover and direct adress will be used like on these two magazine front covers.

My contents page is based on other contents pages similiar to my genre. Looking at several magazines such as Kerrang there seemed to be one main image standing out which is related to the front cover picture and the main story. There is also several others that are part of the magazine. To not make things look to busy i decided to just add two other pictures in underneath the main one, just to show other artists in the magazine.

At the top, contents is clearly seen so that people know what they are looking at. Also when looking at other magazine contents pages there seemed to be an editors message. I have taken this in and am going to place it underneath the masthead at the top of the contents page- this adds to the realism. I created the contents page to look like this so it is very easy on the eye and that there is not too much going on without it being vague.

Down the side there is going to be all the page numbers and additional text to explain what the subtitles are about. The boxes will highlight the page number and this will also link to the boxes on the images.

This is one of the magazine contents pages i have looked at and styled in my own way. As you can see this contents page has an editors message, several pictures based around a main image and the writing down the side.

Finally here is a plan of my two page spread. When looking at magazines i saw that they had mainly one image covering one and a half pages so i took this into account and followed the traditions of it. I want the image to either be a long shot or a wide shot so that it can take up a lot of space and that it follows the traditions of many other magazines.

Also, i really liked the idea of having the quote that was mentioned on the front cover also on the double page spread. It seems like the interview is then based around that quote more than the actual person which makes people more interested with a backing story to it. The main interview will be under the quote to show the link between the two.

I also wanted 'KOKO' and the page number at the bottom of each page to add to the realsim of the magazine as this is common in most.