These are rough sketches of my flat plans. To make improve them and make add more detail, I have compared them to issues of Kerrang and Rocksound. This will help me to make my magazine look more professional and to help appeal to the target audience.
These are my final designs. I took ideas from Rock Sound (issue 165) and Kerrang magazine (issue 1413) and borrowed some of the layout designs of the contents page from Kerrang rather than Rock Sound as my previous research had told me that their contents page was flawed and quite unappealing. Kerrang's content page has an easy to follow layout so I had taken some of my ideas for my layout from the magazine. This should appeal more to my target audience as it is less cluttered and also follows the house colours of reds and blacks to fit with the genre of my own magazine.
When I found out about my audience, they liked the cartoon style of Rock Sound, so to incorporate that into my own magazine, I have decided that in some of my images, I may decide to give a graffiti/cartoon style in the backgrounds. This would work if I took images outside against a brick wall outside, then I could photoshop it to look either more realistic or have more of a cartoon style.
My masthead also looks more broken up, this follows the style of Kerrang, but I have only used it on the "L" to create more of a logo out of my magazine which I took inspiration from Rock Sound magazine. This would make my own more prominent and make it more of a brand.
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