Mood Board

I have done this because I wanted to look at a range of different magazine covers to get ideas for mine and the genre I can use. This will help with my layout and font, as for each genre of music you can use a different font, to suit it. 

Music mind map

I have done this because I am going to produce a music magazine, it may help me with ideas for a genre to cover in my magazine. It may also inspire me a title using some of the words I have found during this part of the task, to make it original but also so it relates to the magazine.

Spider Diagram, Planning my school magazine cover

During the planning of my magazine I created a spider diagram to come up with an idea of what could be the title of my magazine and why I would call it this. I also needed to think about the shape, colour and size of my title. I also needed to take into consideration what my magazine front cover should say about the school, as I would not want to give a bad impression of the school to perhaps new pupils who are coming up from year 6 into their first year of high school.

Teasers

Teasers are important on a magazine as they give the reader some sort of idea as to what the magazine is going to have inside; this particular magazine cover has teasers on both sides of the image. They have used sub headings and then added a sentence underneath; they have used red for the sub headings and then black for the short sentences underneath. by using teasers it makes the reader want to read more about the story, and it will encourage them to buy it if the stories that have been shown on the front, for example if a female was to buy this magazine, and she was on a tight budget she would see the 'cool customer' teaser and want to know what she could get for her money, that would make her look and feel good. The use of alliteration on the cover will also help because it is catchy and easy to remember. Magazine covers would look very boring with just an image on the front so in a way it makes it catch your eye more because most people would prefer a cover giving you hints as to what is inside than just an image and a title. This magazine has a main headline going over the models arm and that is what will stand out as well as the title, also that will suggest what the magazine is about. They have used different types of font for the sub headings and short sentences underneath. 

The bright yellow font right at the top of the page instantly catches the eye of the audience as it stands out from the navy blue background. They have used free because everyone likes getting things for free, although they have probably paid the price they would have for the poster with the magazine cost. 
It says 'world exclusive' on the front cover to make the reader feel like they are the first in the world to get this information. This would make the customer feel valued to the company.
The word 'massive' is used to make the reader think that there is a lot of new never seen before information to read inside of it.