Drafting and planning

I have finished my first draft of my front page of move magazine.

I have created a new burgundy masthead as I thought it was similar to the red mastheads used by other magazines like Q and NME. To create symbiosis, I ensured that the anchorage text was burgundy too; this makes a consistent colour scheme throughout the front page. 

I used white text boxes to highlight the cover story text. This makes them stand out and creates emphasis of their importance. The colour of the texts range from purple to green - this is what I had planned, linking to my post from the 7th of January - the best colours to align with the lime green are purple, burgundy and white. 

The fonts I used are Segoe UI Semibold and Courier New. I think they are both effective as they are both edgy and bold. They are clear cut and make my magazine quite simple yet eye-catching. Some of the words on the cover stories are bold or underline and this establishes their importance. All artist names are in bold to jump out at the target audience and show what's inside. 

I made sure that I included a bar code to keep my magazine looking professional, this makes it appear ready to buy from the shelves. The dateline is relatively small on the left hand side of the bar code, it includes the edition number, the month, the price and the magazine's website. This is what magazines typically include in the dateline. However, to improve on the dateline in the real thing I shall make it a little bigger and stand out more.

In the bottom left hand corner of the page I have issued my selling line as 'you haven't seen dance music yet' which is sort of similar to mixmag's selling line of 'the world's biggest dance music and clubbing magazine'. I think my selling line will make my magazine successful as it's very engaging as though the target audience have not experienced dance music fully and they will only be able to get this opportunity if they continue to read. To improve on the positioning of the selling line, in my final magazine front page I will put it either above or below and central to my masthead to mirror the positioning of mixmag's selling line. 

Overall I am very happy with my first draft, I stuck to my idea of changing my masthead, I kept the colour scheme bright and I used pun's on the cover stories. For example, story one on the left hand side is based on the artist example setting a 'bad example'. Also the story on the bottom right presenting Tiesto is based on a fan throwing a lighter on stage; but the story name 'shoes on fire' is actually one of Tiesto's tracks. The only things I set out to change are the size and position of the dateline and the position of the selling line.