This is a draft for my contents page, I made the contents page on Photoshop instead of using publisher as I am much more familiar with the program I think I will use Photoshop for all my final pieces as I found it much more productive and easier to accomplish the style I wanted, I did it as double page spread with the intention of making it look more it artistic and stylish; but by doing this I only created more work for my self I think using a similar style in my final piece but making in a single page will make the page much stronger as there is a lot of negative unused space at the moment. My favourite part of the contents page is the images at the bottom with the corresponding page numbers I think that part works really well but if I only used a signal page spread there would only be room for about three of the images which could possibly spoil the effect of the images as a series. I am still unsure about the text within the piece, I wanted a text that made the contents page seem quite stylish and smart but I think that the text I used was a little to cliché and made the contents page look like I was tiring to hard to be stylish and sophisticated, I think I will use one simple font throughout because I think it is not so much the style of the font but what the font says that is important.
I wanted the contents page to look quite simplistic and minimalist the way I went about creating this by leaving large areas of negative space, but the problem was instead of the contents page looking simplistic it just looked empty for this reason there will really only be one key feature coming from this draft contents page and that will be the layout of images at the bottom of the page.

This is the draft for my front cover, the image itself is not mine but i wanted to inculed an image so that it would be easier to see what i was trying to acomplish in my magazine. The colour sceame for this magazine front cover is red and bule but it is used very subtly as i didnt want the magazine being full of over exaggerated colours, because i dont want bright colours to atrack the buyers eye i would like it to be the photographs and articals.I really like this layout and there is one thing i would like to change the arrows in the bottom left hand corner i feel look slighlty childish i would like to use somthing else instead of them and i am still unsure about the font and may change that aswell.

After having so much respose from my questionar i have decided to call my magazine Forfront i think this is quite a clever title as it shows that the magazine is at the 'forefront' of the musical wolrd. I want the font for the magazine to be quite simple because, my idea for the magazine is for it to be a monthely instead of weekly, this would give the magazine a much more profesional feel with the photographs being a higer standard. The magazine would not be aimed at people who are just interested in music, i am hoping the magazine can be more rounded posibally with fasion and art aswell as music.

I am trying to decided on my magazines names i have managed to narrow it down to these
few, please could you give me some feedback on the ones you think are the best
:Learn To Soldier
:Modernity
:Late Night Breakfast
:Meat Pie
:We Sound Better
:Forefront
:Pulse
I am also trying to decided on a font to be used on my magazine i have enclosed a few pleased tell me which on you like the most 1 being to top font and 6 being the bottom.

This front cover is from Q magazine a music magazine that is published monthly in the United Kingdom.

Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were appalled by the current music magazines in circulation, Ellen and Hepworth felt these magazines were ignoring a older generation buyers who were buying CD's (at the time still a new technology). Q was first published in 1986, doing its up most to sett itself apart from the other music magazines by having a monthly instead of weekly production this leading to much higher standards of photography and printing. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled "The modern guide to music and more". Originally it was to be called Cue a reference to the cueing of a record). Reasons, cited in Q's 200th edition, is that a single-letter title would be more prominent on newsstands.

The first thing that is noticeable on this front cover is the large picture of a topless Lily Allen posing with two black leopards, this straight away shows the notability of the magazine as they have been able to persuade a 'A list' pop star to pose topless with dangerous leopards on the front cover for the whole world to see, this could also be seen as a bit of a cheat by the publishers because by putting a scantily clad women on their front cover, this could possible attract all types of different buyer.

Apart from the main striking image there are no other images on the front cover just the headline and a few cover lines, these over lap and under lap the main image for example Lily Allen is placed in front of the Q magazine logo but behind the main headline one of the leopards is in front of the main headline, all these very little touches give the magazine front cover much more depth making it seem like you can look into the front cover instead of it being one flat boring image.The magazine logo is widely recognized because of the way it stands on the front cover there are many reasons why it does; firstly the fact that it is almost a quarter the size of the magazine cover makes it stand out because not many magazine leave so much space for there logo, secondly; it is one of the only red things on the front cover the only other things are three small cover lines and two very small forward slashes this make the logo jump out of the page because it is so bright and large.

I really like the simplistic approach taken by Q magazine as it makes the single image and ares of text stand out much more, i think i will use quite a simple approach in my work.