2nd Draft- Music Magazine

These are my second drafts for my music magazine, I have made some small changes to it after I recieved feedback from my earlier draft, and I am still aware the more improvements are to be made for it to become a successful music magazine (cover, contents and double page spread).

Improvements on cover: For my cover I have decided to change the text of the articles on the right hand side of the magazine, changing the position of them also, as to make it look nice on the eye. I have decided to add a cover line to the front cover also, which says "THE BEST ELECTRTIC GUITAIRS ON THE MARKET", relating to one of the articles inside. The use of a cover line on the front cover will add interest to the cover itself, and be one of the reasons why someone would be drawn to it on a shelf.

Improvements on contents: On the contents page I have enlarged my title more as to try and fill up some of the blank space (as this was an issue which frequently arose when I was given my feedback), I have also changed the page numbers on the contents, leaving a bigger margin between each. This is to give an illusion that there are 40 pages or more in the magazine itself, contrary to the 20 I was advertising previously. The increased number of pages is also, now, more representitive of the price that I was aiming to sell my magazine at realistically. On the cover I have specified that I will be selling my music magazine (Amped Up!) at £2.99, and when I recieved the feedback, I was told that for the number of pages there was in the magazine, £2.99 was too dear. Since then I have "added" 20 more pages to it, so you would be getting more 'bang for your buck'- as it were.

Improvements on my double page spread: The double page spread itself has received some improvents since feedback was last made on the magazine as a whole. I have spread the title across the double pages as to make it look more professional (and to add more interest to the spread itself). From doing so I have repositioned the text (interview) slightly so it, again, would look more pleasing on the eye. Throughout the past couple of weeks I have attempted to wrap the text around the picture, but it has been unsucessful as far, though I plan to figure out how to do this in the coming weeks, thus to improve it even further.