Contents Page Layouts

I came up with 8 layouts that i can use for my contents page,all these layouts are simple and everything that i have added onto the layouts is structured in columns. All the contents pages include images, information, title which will be 'contents' and then on some of them i will include the masthead and a puff to make the magazine more appealing to the audience.

Contents Page Planning and Conventions

Things that are needed on a contents page:

• title (sub titles) 
• pictures
• page numbers
• colours 
• different font and sizes
• masthead (or parts of masthead) 
• quotes of articles
• columns 
• grids/guidelines
• editors note 
• date 
• issue number

When i create my music magazine contents page i need to make sure that i still follow the house style that i used for the front cover by including the same colour shades and using the same font size and style to make sure that all my products link together. The contents page needs to include the basic information that will make people want to read my magazine by including page numbers and a variation of different articles with a range of different artists. 

Here is some examples of actual media products which are used in magazines: 

Double Page Spread Interview

Hey Sophie! How have the past few months been since you found out you were going on tour?

They have actually been incredible, I’m so lucky to be able to tour with my best friends and perform to everyone! It’s been a life changing experience i can’t wait for it to carry on and what the future holds for me and my music career!

So you’ve been on tour with Ke$ha – how has that been?

It’s been amazing! Touring with her is fabulous and being able to see my best friends every day, is so cool for me. I’m really enjoying it. The tour bus is a little crazy but i won’t reveal too much – nah everyone pretty tired to be honest, and they need to sleep. We have a few shenanigans but mostly it’s sleeping because travelling and performing is abit tiring, really.

Has Ke$ha given you any tips for lasting on tour?

Yeah, she’s been a sister to me! She talks alot more than normal people! Ha-ha! Her main advice is ‘be sensible. Don’t scream and shout all the time – you need to look after your voice’ and she told me the story of how if you want to do something on tour do it and don’t regret it, so if i wanted to sing along with the crowd then i should sing along with the crowd! Don’t spend all your life daydreaming make it reality because you will always be better off staying true to what you believe.

‘’she talks alot more than normal people’’

Have you been naughty?

We’ve been doing a lot of running up and down the hotel corridors but there’s been no shouting!

This is your first tour – has Ke$ha been supportive?

Yeah, I’ve been accepted pretty well. I like to attract new fans who don’t know I’m about, and hopefully they like what i do. I’m doing two of my own songs now, which is crazy. It’s very exciting for me. Ones called Working Man and the second ones called Where Ever You Are, which i wrote with the boys from 5 Seconds of summer.

What were the boys like?

Lovely – they were always giving me advice and I’ve got friendly with all of them too – they said just to have fun and do your thing. We have planned to write more things in the future.

How are you getting along with all tour acts like Before You Exit, Etham Basden and Elyar Fox?

They are all really cool and we all get along well, its weird being the only female act but they are all like my brothers.

Who are the tour jokers?

Etham and Elyar! They like to pull pranks on people and see how long they can go without getting court – they don’t do it very well!

Who takes the longest in the shower?

I would probably say that it’s Toby McDonough (in before you exit) he makes a mess and water goes everywhere, but i suppose that what you get for him being the youngest of us all. He did get better for abit but then he got worse everyone just said ‘he was having a good day’.

What do you all argue about the most?

I wouldn’t say we really argue and if we do it’s about not wanting to get out of bed in the morning! Or about who gets to have a shower first.

Have the other acts changed because of growing in fame?

No, i think they will always be down to earth guys!

‘’they will always be down to earth guys’’

If you weren't a singer what would you be doing now?

If I wasn't a singer I would be probably playing cricket, nah I’m just kidding, a fire-fighter

Are you planning on releasing a male perfume?

A male perfume wow, I probably should, I probably should, yeah definitely! I’ll just put abit of my sweat in there; every bottle has some of my sweat in it

Who’s been your favourite ever act to see live?

For me there’s a top three who really nailed it – Bastille, Imagine Dragons and Ed Sheeran.  They are all amazing because they put on a proper show aswell as singing, which is great because that’s where i want to get to. I want to have a full show, not just to sing.

So who would you most like to duet with?

It depends on the song that we performed. 5 seconds of summer would be amazing because we both enjoy the same taste in music. But my ideal would be to do a cool song with One Direction they are amazing, beautiful and wonderful.

So what’s happening after the tour?

After the tour I’m going to America and maybe Australia. When you have good songs you can never stop writing you never know when i song is going to materialise – it could happen at any time. Then i want to realise my own music. This is my first proper tour, so now I’m dreaming of doing my own tour – that’s where i want to go. 

Final Front Cover

This is my final front cover, it shows my model Ellie who is wearing a flowery dress that matches with the house style of my magazine which is pink, black and white. The genre of my magazine is pop music and she shows this in the way that she is posed as she looks very feminine with her make up being very plain and simple. The front cover includes all of the main conventions that any other music magazine front cover would include. It shows things that are featured inside of the magazine which makes the reader want to read and buy the magazine as well as including competitions where people are able to win things inside of the magazine. 

Mock Front Covers and Visual Syntax

Here are some of the mock front covers that i have made, these are ones that I was going to use for my front cover but edited to make them better and more professional, whilst also being able to enhance the photos parts to make it stand out more on the page to the audience. 

This image shows the visual syntax that a magazine should have, the reader should be able to begin at the top of the page at the masthead and then work their way down the page so that they are able to view everything that is on the page including the main image and the headline, this is then what captivates the reader to read the magazine so they are able to look more at what is included inside.

Creating Front Page Of Magazine

To make my magazine front cover I first needed to start by inserting grid lines so that I knew my magazine would be structured well and clearly, it would mean that i was then able to add small details around the grids so that things i added are straight and easily seen by the audience to make them want to buy the magazine. By adding the grid lines it meant that I was able to place things where I wanted them to go so that I could make my front cover more professional.

After I had added my grid-lines I added the image that I had chosen for the front cover. I matched the picture up with my grid-lines, whilst putting the photo onto the page i edited the photo on pixlr to make the photo better quality by changing the effects of the photo to make the photo brighter and pop out more. On the photo i changed the colour of Sophie's skin colour getting rid of any red marks that she had on her face as well as brightening up her lips and eyes slightly. 

once i had finished changing the picture i zoomed in on the face and set it as the background picture for my front cover. i put it on the right hand side of the page as then i was able to add the masthead in the left hand corner along with cover lines underneath and smaller details on the left hand side of the page to show the things that were included in the magazine. 

After this I inserted my masthead, making sure that it stood out on the page and didn't overlap any of the picture. By doing this I made sure that all of the models face was seen by the audience. With the masthead I trimmed it so that it was behind Sophie's head so that her face isn't covered by anything on the page.

Once I had added the masthead I was able to start adding my texts to the areas that I had put grid lines this meant that all my writing would be in structured columns. When the writing was in place I was able to move it around to where I thought that it looked best. I also moved the picture to put more things around the image and to make sure that the models face was the biggest thing on the page. Aswell as the main big image I also inserted another image (of Temi on the left hand side) so that the audience is able to see what else is included inside the magazine.

I made the moto of the magazine company stand out by adding a white box behind the black writing.

Once i had done all this i decided to try different images and made all the writing on the page in capitals so that the writing was bold and could be clearly read on the page. 

After creating and changing things such as the colour and fonts on my front page i chose different images and tried them to see what things looked best. Once i had finished deciding what images and fonts that i liked the most i decided that i wanted (the magazine front cover above) to be my front cover, however i then looked at different ideas that i could do and changed things around once again and created: