1st Draft Screen Shots

5th Draft

5th Draft:

Although this is similar to my 4th Draft I have made some minor improvements and I am now please with the 5th Draft. For example I have added a new sub-heading that makes my magazine look more busy and full.I am very pleased with this front cover as I have managed to stick to the three main colors rule, which I was worried about. I feel my magazine is very feminine (which appeals to the female target audience) and the images that I have used are bright and colorful. 

4th Draft

4th Draft:

This is my fourth draft, I now feel as if it is starting to look at the standard that I wish it too. The content seems fuller and the whole cover looks a lot more exciting. As you can see I have added a few items that help my magazine front cover look fuller. For example the small fashion section; I have included a fashion section in my magazine as from my research I found that many pop music magazines use fashion pages to interest their audience and make the magazine have a range of content. I have also added white backgrounds onto my smaller images in the boxes as I feel this makes them stand out and the text more visible. 

3rd Draft

3rd Draft:

This is my third draft, and although my drafts are improving, it still isn't upto the standard that I wish it to be at. Some of the improvements I have made are adding the sub heading to the left of the page, changing the background back to white and adding some blue love hearts all the way around this page. I believe this makes the cover have the 'scrapbook effect' that I have mentioned (in previous posts) that many pop music magazines have. This use of cartoon love hearts is also used within this front cover (in the bottom right hand corner of the magazine.) 

2nd Draft

2nd Draft:

This is my second draft, as you can see I have changed the font color and added images and a new slogan. I have also moved the date and added a price in order to obey to the codes and conventions of print media. I changed the background color to experiment and see what my magazine would look like if a deeper color was use. Although it makes my images seem brighter I feel that it drags the magazine down. My magazine could also use more slogans, images, cartoons etc. in order to fill the empty spaces.

1st Draft

1st Draft:

This is my first draft, although I am pleased with it I feel it is a little too bare and altogether quite dull. I have used a white background as that is what I have seen used in other Pop Magazines (e.g. Top of the Pop's). I have also taken a few ideas from the Top of the Pop's magazines that I have looked at. The Top of the Pops magazine with Cher Lloyd on the cover (see right) is the main inspiration for many of my ideas. e.g. the three black boxes with images and captions and the footer at the bottom, which I have 'copied', 'pasted' and edited so not to break copyright rules and restrictions, I have also used the idea of bar codes and introduced a QR code in order to keep up to the trends and allow my readers to access the magazine's features from anywhere. However, as mentioned before; unlike these Top of the Pops magazine's, my magazine does not look  full enough to fit in with the conventions of these. I have also taken an idea from the second magazine cover (Justin Bieber cover). I have decided to look at the use of circles and the '107 brilliant bargain buys'. I like how this stands out against the images and other captions and therefore decided to use it in my own magazine.