Headline The headline has a very important function on a magazine, as it will inform the audience what your magazines main story will be. The headline must be big, bold and use a font the will become a common house style for a magazine in order that the audience will associate that font with the magazine. The types of font that I will use for the headline of my magazine are:

Contents page To make my contents page pleasing on the eye for the readers I will spilt my magazine into sections, this will make it easier my the reader to find the section that they most enjoy reading. My contents page will include the sections such as

News

Features

Posters

Reviews/ Live shows/albums

Gig guide To help me with my contents page I am following a similar format that Kerrang uses for their contents page. I feel that it is a well-structured layout of a contents page. Here is an

example

Main story The layout of my main story will be set out in two columns in which I must leave enough white space between them as I do not want the reader to get confused between each column. I will include pictures on my double page spread as it will visually please the reader and will even out the text as too much text will frighten the reader and they will probably not want reading the article. The main story that will be on my double page spread will be about a band the fits into the magazines genre of music, and it must be about a band that I have heard of and like myself as it will be easier to write the story. The bands that I am considering to use for my main story are:

All Time Low

Black veil Bides

Green Day

Kiss

Mallory Knox

Paramore All these bands have been in a rock magazine at some point which reassures me that people will be aware of these bands, and if they are featured in my magazine then people will buy it and read the story that I have written about them. To make sure that I am fully confident and know what I am writing and the plot of the story I will write a couple of rough drafts and ask peoples advice to see whether they would read

the story, if not what they would change and why on the pages.

Masthead of my Magazine The name of my magazine is very important as it will be the main thing that will be recognised by the reader and other people. When I am choosing a name for my magazine I need to think of something that is short and snappy and it will not take the reader very long to read. I also do not want to copy another magazines mast head or change it slightly as it will be copyright and likely that someone will notice that. Here are some names that I have thought about for the masthead of my magazine:

ABRock

Destroyer

Asymmetry Rock

Mega City Tunes The name that I like the most out if these given is Asymmetry rock as it is a name that I have come up with myself and not taken from a website or another magazine. The font that I like the most out of the ones that I have selected is between Necrotype and 28 Days Later as they are really simple fonts which are easy to read and they have not been used on a magazine

that I have seen or read.