House style between front cover, contents and double page spread_case study_Classic Rock

Above is a collage consisting of the magazine cover, the content's page and a double page spread from the magazine 'Classic Rock', issue OCT 2012. The cover page consists of links to the rock band Iron Maiden.  You can see this through the use of images of pharaohs and pyramids and text stating 'United States of Maiden' and 'In Maiden we trust' creating a sense of collective identity between the pages.   They make a big play on the national identity of the group with America being a theme across all pages.  They have used a variety of images from the live concert, big effects with the smoke and pyrotechnics and yellow lighting create a fiery ambiance which reflects the rebellious nature of rock.  The use of a dollar bill background underpins the theme of patriotism and ties together the front cover and the double page spread (cover story).  The front cover challenges the conventions of a typical magazine front cover, they can do this as they are a very well known magazine, a main music genre that embodies individualistic attitudes.  Classic Rock have chosen an image of a band member from Iron Maiden to use on the contents page, its importance is represented by its size, taking up 75% of the page emphasizes the focus on the cover story.  They also have a quote and the name of the band of the cover story on the image in quite big font to draw the audience's attention to it.

Music Genre Research

Final Contents page

Final Magazine Cover

above is my first magazine cover draft, I have placed a few conventions, but the rest are missing. On my magazine draft I included my masthead, Bon's Times, which I placed at the top of the magazine, also I have my sell lines on the left, my bar code at the bottom and my Qr code as well, I also attempted to put a puff on my magazine, which is at the bottom right of the page.

Pictures I Rejected

Pictures that I Liked

Magazine pictures

above are pictures I took to use for my magazine cover, furthermore the pictures on the left is the ones I chose to use for my magazine design, whereas the ones on the right is the one's I chose not to use, this is because the angles that I took the picture in, do not appeal to my magazine and would not make my magazine stand out like I wanted it to, also the models pose's did not relate to the type of magazine that I am trying to show and also the pictures i didn't really like.

Institutional research On XXL

Above, shows research of my music genre I have chosen, it talks about who publishes the magazine, where they are published and the different convergent links they use to promote their magazine.

Music Industry Magazine cover Analysis 3

This is my 3rd Music Industry Magazine cover Analysis

Music Industry Magazine cover Analysis 2

This is my second Music Industry Magazine Cover Analysis 2

Music Industry Magazine cover Analysis 1

Sketched magazine design front cover for college magazine

This is my second Sketched magazine design with annotations, this design shows the typical conventions of what should be on a magazine contents page and where it should be placed on the page, above is a common design of how a contents page is structured.

Sketched Magazine design contents page for college magazine

This is my first Sketched magazine design with annotations, this design shows the typical conventions of what should be on a magazine contents page and where it should be placed on the page, above is a common design of how a contents page is structured.