Digital Drafts

These are my digital drafts which I will use as a guideline when creating my real magazine. When creating the digital drafts I had to consider the conventions I would need to use. For the front cover it was compulsory to include:
-  Atleast 3 feature stories
- Mast head
- Main story
- A barcode location
- Price
In some of the drafts I also included the following:
- Skyline
- Footer
- Plug

In the first draft, I choose to have the feature stories at one side of the page and the main story separate at the other side to make the page more ordered. I also chose to include a plug to fill space at the top. Doing these drafts also allowed me to experiment with different fonts that I could possibly use. I used an italic style font in the first one so I could see what the effects were by using an italic masthead as opposed to bold or just regular. I chose the second draft to base my front cover on and I drew all focus to the 'Main story' and liked the idea of having this almost centered and the contrast  between the italic and non-italic words emphasied the story as important. I did not use a plug on this one and kept to just three feature stories, on reflection I think this draft could of had a plug or another story featured under the main story so when creating my magazine I will make sure to try and include some more text under this to fill the space. On the last draft I kept most of the text at the bottom of the splash and included the main story at the top to separate it from the feature stories. I made the masthead very bold and large, since the main story and feature stories were smaller. Unlike the second draft were the main story was large and the mast head was more subtle.

When creating the contents page drafts I looked at other magazine contents pages such as the Rolling Stone one I analysed the conventions of. This gave me inspiration for ideas for the layout I could use. I looked at how the different parts of the contents page was sectioned off and the placement of the image. I liked the idea of having the page number big which stands out on the page therefore used this in two of the drafts to see how it could work in different layouts. I tried a 'listing' layout were the stories are more in a traditional contents list. I also tried a more separated look were stories are separated into different sections.

For the double page spread I created three different ones choosing a different look for each one. In one i used the basic layout of having one page a main image then the page next to it with writing on the article and main title, similar to the Rolling Stone double page spread of Lana Del Rey. For the second one I chose to have the writing in the middle of the page and separate the images into the side of the page. I had two columns for the writing and a diagonal divide at the top to allow space for the main story quote/information. For the third one I took inspiration from the Vibe magazines double spread of Solange Knowles where black and white images of her are used as a divider. These images will be where 'Images from shoot' are. The biggest main image is in the oval although this may be changed depending on how 'fit' the image I am going to use is. I decided on this one the name of the artist will be the biggest piece of text and the next biggest will be a quote from the article to attract people to read.