For the front page, I will have the masthead central and covering the width of the page. The colours will be red and white. I am changing the colour of my existing masthead because I think it's too dark and the connotations of black are mystery which contrasts with my outgoing, loud magazine. A medium closeup of my artist will be used centrally on the front page too. There will be big anchorage text along the bottom left of the image to draw attention to the cover star. The selling line will be central underneath the masthead with the same sort of text, it will say 'you've not seen dance music yet...' leading the target audience to continue to open and read the magazine. On the top left hand side of the image I will contain information about an existing artist like Example to give my magazine a realistic edge. On the right hand side there will be two cover stories, one on my first secondary artist JE55ICA and another for Electr0Juni0rs - these will be exclusive interviews or top stories on their new album release. I must ensure I include a bar code on the bottom right corner and to the left of the bar code, I will feature a dateline.
For the contents page of my magazine I will keep the colour consistency of red and white linking to my masthead and creating a sense of consistency. On the right hand side of the contents page there will be an image of my main artist, preferably a long shot. At the bottom of the contents page, there will be three images, one of JE55ICA, Electr0Juni0rs and one of another spare artist Monika. To make a connection to mixmag, I'd like my images to have numbers on so that the images link to their number in the list of stories on the contents page. I will keep the same continuous font or switch between a more lively font e.g. courier and segoe ui semibold. I've had a change of heart and realised that my magazine does not have to be identical to mixmag to appeal to the same target audience, it just has to have a sense of similarity - the colour scheme will contain bright exciting colours in connection to the music genre.
My double page spread will contain the same bright colours found on the front page and contents page. I may keep the background lime green as the my artists background is lime green. I have researched that these colours go with lime green the best:
I think this research will be quite influential because my artist is female and magazines like mixmag and vibe change their colour schemes in each issue but keep the same style of masthead and layout. I think I could reach success by having a quite extravagant colour scheme. I will use the font segoe to make a link to the rest of my magazine. I will position the heading over my artist with a quote e.g. 'I cannot wait to land in Ibiza...' as a link to my main artists new single 'step up's' success. The text will be in columns like other typical magazine articles and to differentiate the questions from the answers, the question text will be bolder and a slightly darker colour.
If I follow all of the above my magazine should be a success as I'm sticking to the guidelines of usual magazines. I'm intending to keep a consistent colour scheme throughout my draft, a various range of images and clear, bold text.

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