Draft of website

My magazine would have its own website, http://www.pandoramag.com/
I have put this on the front cover of my magazine so readers can visit the site.
The website would be useful for competitions as it will be easier for readers to enter. It will also advertise the upcoming magazines and only giving limited information. Reviews would be available online and tracks of the day for online users to listen to so they get a taste of what the magazine is about.

Readers will have to buy the magazine if they want latest interviews and stories.

Here is a mock up of the layout of my website.

The grey boxes are where the main features will be. The name of the magazine will be at the top so people know it's for that magazine. The box below the masthead is the buttons to press for the main pages. The colours will be the same as the magazine so the readers will recognise the website. The band names will be in purple font.

The main pages I would include are home, news, forum and gig search. On the home page there will be photos of different bands who would be on the front cover of the upcoming magazine so the audience will have an idea on who will be featured. The news page will just have updates on bands so it doesn't spoil anything for them so they can buy the magazine to find out more. The forum will be available to any one who is signed into the website. The forum will allow them to chat about their favourite bands or any thing to do with rock music. It is allowing them to give their thoughts. The gig search will be a page for users to find out where the latest gigs are.

The website will allow other music fans to see what rock music is all about and to let them experience it and give them a choice of liking it or not. The website will attract a larger audience.

draft of front cover

In the end I decided to change my colour theme to black, purple, white and grey instead of black,white and red. I've kept my original layout idea.

Contents page

This is another draft of my contents page. This was going to be my final draft of the contents however others suggested the photo didn't apply well with the genre of rock so I need to retake the photos throughout my magazine.

Draft of contents

Here are some drafts of my contents page. In the first one I have used the same colours as the front cover but included grey. The photo is on the right.

The other draft I have changed colours to the same as my double spread page to see what they would look like and also added a large number under the photo to show it's a feature story. I'm not sure what colours I'm going to use yet but whatever I choose they need to be the same as the front cover and double spread.

Double spread page

This draft of my double spread page was going to be my final however I am going to change the sizes of the font and the photograph. I will keep the quote on the right page.

Draft of double spread page

This is a further development of my double spread page.

Photos

Here are some of the better photos I have taken as the rest were blurry. I am going to use the first image for my double spread page, the fourth one for my front cover and the last one for my contents page. I was going to use the close up of Jess but if I had used it on the front cover you wouldn't be able to see what she is wearing as her costume is important. I didn't use the other photos as it looked like she was fed up in them so it wouldn't appeal to audiences as they may stereotype her as stuck up.