Front Cover Draft One

• The colour doesn't stand out enough
• The 'Interviews With' section isn't bold enough and is placed in the wrong place
• The masthead is too big
• The image is slightly too bright
• The freebee isn't aimed at the correct audience for my magazine
• The barcode is extremely big
• There isn't enough writing on it

Second Mock

First Mock

Images for Front Cover

The reason for not using this one is the camera shot.

The reason for not using this photo is because she isn't looking at the camera (engaging the audience)

The reason for not using these photos the lighting on her face isn't very bright.

Name of my Magazine

Originally I was going to call my magazine 'MOCK' which is a combination of the words music and rock. My magazine is a rock music magazine and I thought the name would work well.
I then decided that wasn't a very good idea because mock isn't a good name. So I have decided to call the magazine RFY which is the initials for 'Rock For You'.

Double Page Spread Analysis

There is a large headline which is sort of in the font of a newspaper which is a bit like what the double page spread looks like. It just states the name of the band in the image on the left side of the page.

The large main image not only covers the left page of the spread but also covers part of the right page; it shows the band members with the lead singer leading in the photo. This suggests he is the main member of the band and three men in the background are less important however all members of the band are important. The way they are arranged is similar to that of the band Queen in the image for the song ‘bohemian rhapsody’. However The Vaccines music is quite different to Queens.

The lead paragraph is what you would expect, with larger font than the article but smaller font than the large headline. The person responsible for writing the article (byline) is included in the lead.

There is photo credit in very small font on the bottom right corner of the photo.

There are to drop caps in this article and these draw readers in to reading the article.

The pull quote is there to make the reader want to read the article.

Analysis of Contents Pages

Instead of having several images there is one main image on this contents page, the writing doesn’t go over the image, it is down the side. This is the house style that Mojo has, they have the main image and the writing goes around it or down the side of the image in every issue.

The features section is the first section, it includes the name of the feature in bold so it is clear to the reader and then a bit of information, this is a good technique because people know who they are going to read about before they actually read the article.

The cover story section is the next section and that just features one artist but the description which is in smaller writing is a lot larger than the descriptions in the features section.

The number is in the bottom right corner of the page, this is the place were the page number is normally placed on the right pages of the magazine.

This contents page doesn't have a editor's note, this is because an editor's note is not essential on a contents page.

There are several images in this contents page and I think they all bring a different aspect to the contents page, as if to show the readers that there is a story in the magzine for lots of different types of people. They are all arranged very neatly and although there are eight imagaes they don't look like they have been crushed on to the page.
The way that the NME contents page is laid out there isn't a features section but I think you would class all the images and writing underneath the images to be the features section.
There is a plus section which just includes all the articles in the magazine that doesn't have a picture, the fact they are just a plus section gives off the impression that they are not as important or well known as the artists in the images.

The page number would be in the bottom left or right cornerof the page dependent on which side the page was on.
The editor's note is not included on this contents page, the reason again is it is not necessary to have one.