MOCK-UP MAGAZINE COVERS

 

This is a mood board I have made to give me a grasp and ideas of how my music magazine will eventually look, and get a feel of what I need to include to be able to make it look as professional as these. Also help me develop some ideas by comparing my magazine to these and see if they are similar and fit in with my genre. The genre is very important in my magazine; these represent hip/hop, rap, chart music.

These also relate to my target audience. 16-24, simply because the music and singers are all targeted at young teenagers, and are represented as idols for people this age, who feel like they need to look like this and dream of looking like this.

Which tells me: All photogrpahs on magazine front covers need to be appealing. Otherwise no one will buy them, simply because the person on the front cover is not appealing...(horrible but true!)

Making and designing different magazine templates helped me understand where everything goes and why on a magazine. By making more then one helped me alot, because at first I decided to just do as many as possible just so it looked like I did a few ideas, simply because I thought I 100% knew what was going to do, but then I ended up using these and examples as help for my final template which was completely different to what I had in mind... I then knew where and what I wanted to put in certain places for my final Music Magazine.

There are two contents pages I got of the Internet (google images) to help me have a better idea of how they can be layed out. Their are so many different contents pages, there isn't actually a pacific way to design them. Therefore I'm going to design it my own way. These gave me a few ideas.