Front Page Planning

I have narrowed the name of my magazine down to two choices, either "ROCKIN' OUT" or "DARE". I have decided to call the magazine "ROCKIN' OUT" because I think this will show the genre of the magazine is 'Rock' and will therefore interest my target audience.

These are some of the ideas I have had for the title font and colour. I want the colout to stand out and to have a 3D effect as if it were jumping out the page. To do this is will use the 3D effect on Seriff PagePlus X2. The font that will appear as the logo font has to be bold and very loud as this magazine is going to have connotations of being full of volume and noise so I need a font to represent that.
Something like the 'Stencil' would be appropriate as this gives off a very rebellious theme as the letters are not attatched to each other and have hard edges to represent a rock look and feel which is very rough.
The Magazine name will be presented in a horizontal angle in the top half of the cover, this will allow the audience to recognise and see the name easily.

The fonts I have played around with here don't present a very "Rocky" feeling as the fonts have quite curvy edges and aren't as bold as some of the above fonts i have played around with.
All together I think that I am going to use a more sharper and bolder font for the front cover of my magazine and throughout the magazine as this shows the rough connotations and makes the magazine look very masculine and rebellious to read.



Planning idea:

This plan of a magazine cover is typical for magazines that I have looked at for research, I want to follow the same sort of structure however not include so many words, but instead include pictures which stand out and attract the audience as too many words on the front will not attract attention of people where the magazine is being sold. The Pull Quote I will use on the front cover will be very shocking and will entice people to buy the magazine to read more into the shocking storyline.
I will also include some circular pugs which will include "FREE OFFERS" around the edge of the front cover as this means that the audience will be drawn in by the bright colours and will be intereted in the offer as it is Free. Having prize give aways in my magazine means that the audience will think that they are geting more for their money.

Planning idea:

This is another plan I have done which is a lot more simpler than the one above. This plan is quite similar to what I am planning on doing with the final draft of my magazine, this is because I don't want too many words on the front, instead I want pictures and colourful pugs with little text in them to attract the audience. Having limited amount of text on the front cover will entice the reader to buy my magazine as from the research I have gathered the people I asked said that they prefer to have more pictures than text as text can sometimes clog up the pictures and they loose effect.
Smaller images of bands on the front cver will interest people who like Rock and Indie music as they will recognise bands and they could possibly like them so advertising the variety of bands by smaller images on top of the larger image shows that there is more than just 5 or 6 bands in the magazine. Again I need to use an appropriate cover line and pull quote as this is crucial because this is one of the first things that gets noticed by possible readers. Having a more interesting and shocking cover line means that more people are tempted to buy the magazine to find out more about the story.