• The front cover models picture covers the entire front.
• The name of the front cover models is the 2nd biggets bit of text on the front cover.
• The name of the magazine is the biggets piece of text.
• Smaller pictures of bands that are also involved on the magazine.
• The first third of the magazine is very important as when the magazines are stacked on the shelves this is the part the customers see so it has to be recognisable to the customers.When you see that bold 'k' you know it's kerrang instantly this is why this is important.
• Titles of the features inside the magazine.
• The front cover artist has to be popular for their genre of music for people to be intersted in buying the magazine.

These are images of contents pages from real music magazines and I'm going to use these as ideas/templates for my contents page on my magazine. These contents pages include the following things;
Features
Reviews
Tour Information
Interviews

This is my final contents page it was quite difficult to make as I have no previous experience using photoshop but I'm very happy with my final results as I feel that it does resemble the charchteristics of a contents page that you would find inside a real music magazine. I am particularly happy about my band re-creation photo and the subscription box as I feel that they are very reealistic and would be very similar to what would be found inside a real music magazines contents page.

These are pictures of a band that I am going to use in my magazine and I'm going to use these pictures to re-create one of my own and then use that on my contents page as a free poster inside the magazine.

 

 

This is the final product of my front cover for my magazine which includes my front cover model, the name of my magazine, the  main story and sub stories about other bands and artists.

After looking at all 5 of the possible front cover photos I finally decided to go with this one however it still needs editing before it can go on the front of the magazine.

I took 5 possible cover photos of my cover model at different angles and different positions.