Main task skeleton designs

From my format research I have designed my own front cover, contents page, and double page spread for my music magazine, I will take these designs and apply them when actually making my magazine.

For my front cover I have taken a more basic design to go on, this will give me more room to do slight adjustments to it better fits my genre. I am planning to do a pop art theme which will include me editing my own photos to apply the theme so I am able to create a house theme. By editing photos it will give the magazine a more realistic look; which may draw in the reader more as it is not fake. I am also planning to put pain splashes across the design as a watermark, this will help to consolidate the house style.

My contents page will contain 3 images, each linked to a main story, it will also contain my main pop art image, this will need to be basic image as it will contain a lot of text over laying it. I don't want all the attention to be on the image as that defeats the point of having a contents page. I am using the same shapes and a similar set up to my front cover, solidifying my house theme, which will also be reinforced with colours and fonts when I design my magazine properly.

The double page will contain mainly a photo as this is what will grab the readers attention initially. I will link the photo to the front cover by using an image from the same photo shoot but from different perspectives which will also include another person. Including a quote makes the article slightly more personal which means the reader may connect more to it; it also brings down the intensity of the photo.