Music Magazine Update: 23/12/14

I have another update for you :)
I decided to add an issue number at the top left and changed the title from "contents" to "this week in...reckless" since it seemed to fit my genre better. I completed all of my cover lines and added little red triangles to indicate page numbers with little captions underneath.

Research and Planning: Contents page additions.

Most contents pages in music magazines include a little note/introduction from the editor of the magazine. So I think I will create one for my magazine.

I have composed my own small letter to the readers to use at the bottom of my contents page:

Hello Reckless Readers, welcome to this weeks issue! Invading the front cover this week is Josh Swindells. On page 10 I got to interview the upcoming star on behalf of his band Honey, getting the inside scoop on what's like to be in a band at such a young age! This kid is going to go far! Also this week the sadness engulfed all of our minds as our favourite Welsh emo-rockers announce their farewell tour. The Reckless office will miss the weird but hilarious being that is of course Sean Smith. Good luck guys for whatever the future holds for you! Don't miss out on next weeks bumper Christmas issue!

Reckless editor,

Stephanie 

Research and Planning: Cover lines and Pages

To help me plan out my magazine contents page I have typed out all of my possible features and dedicated the amount of pages towards the different stories. I then referred to Kerrang! magazines to figure out a way to lay out my magazine cover lines.

Music Magazine Update: 19/12/14

Today I have added more cover lines and changed the order to how they would theoretically be seen in my magazine. I have also separated my cover lines into 3 sections:
Features
Reviews
Regulars

Music Magazine Update: Continued 18/12/14

I have made further progress on my contents page tonight, I have changed a few things regarding text and background colours. I decided to go for a black background so i could use boxes to separate different parts of text and this worked best with a black background and white boxes. I still need to work out the postioning of "This week in Reckless", I am thinking of putting in the style of the slogan on my front cover just to tie the two pages together.

Music magazine Update: 18/12/14

The front cover is finished!

I have started my Contents page by adding the 3 photos I had decided to include, the signature red bar, black and bold "contents" title and a couple of cover lines.

Research and Planning: Magazine slogan

^ This is the Kerrang! slogan...."Life is Loud".

Nowadays I have found that recent issues of Kerrang!, Rock Sound and Alternative Press do not include a slogan, so the example above is an issue that is a couple of years old.

However I thought I should include a slogan to pull my front cover together. 

I found it quite difficult to come up with a slogan that suited by genre, so I eventually came up with "Turn up the volume" which could be used for quite a few different genres especially dance music, but to make the slogan suit my genre I changed the font and distorted the text slightly to match my masthead.