Drafting and planning

This is my final version of my front page and contents page:

I am very happy with my front page and contents page. It is clear that I have used a consistent colour scheme throughout. I have used a wide range of images and four different fonts to make it seem wild but clear.
Front page:
I have used a masthead of the font Amity Jack and included my magazine's URL inside the masthead. This is what other magazine's do. I have placed my artist over the masthead which makes her seem more prominent. By including six cover lines, I've proven that this is a jam-packed monthly magazine. I have ensured that the cover lines are stories that are in the contents page. They are of new artists I have created and of existing dance music artists. The white, burgundy, blue and lime green really compliment each other and this looks successful. The use of blue is a neon looking colour and this promotes the fact that my genre of music is dance music as you'd typically wear neon to a disco/night club. I have obviously included the generic conventions of a bar code and date line. I am very happy with the anchorage text on my magazine because it's bold and stands out from the rest of the stories on the front page. The artist's use of direct mode of address will entice the audience. The fonts I used were Consolas, Courier New, Amity Jack and Aharoni.

Contents page:
The title of "Contents" and "February 15", including the quote over the picture are in Aharoni font. It makes them big and bold and this will make it clear to the audience what page they are on. I used a black background on my contents page as this is what mixmag does; also I have positioned the contents features in columns because this is what mixmag does too. I have included the facebook and twitter logos showing that my magazine can be found online too and they are in lime green which makes a connection with the main image and colours of the front page. I have carried the colour burgundy through and highlighted all of the titles of the stories in this colour, it makes it seem consistent, bright and interesting. I have used three images on this page which feature two other artists that I have made up; there stories can be found on the contents page. I have included over 120 pages worth of articles, gossip etc. This is close to mixmag's total of 130 and proves that I have enough in my contents to make a successful monthly music magazine. By including the page numbers over the images, it establishes that my magazine is easily accessible, but this also connects to other music magazine's as they do it too.