Drafting and planning

This is a draft of an NME magazine and i produced it for three reasons:

a) To practise and become more accustomed to the editing process and the software i will be using for my official magazine

b) To enhance my drafting and planning

c) to further demonstrate my knowledge of the NME brand and to prove my skills in designing a magazine with conventions that comply with the style of the magazine and appeal to the magazines target audience

I like this draft mainly because of its colour scheme, red and white are the main house colours of NME and i made thorough use of these colours throughout my cover in order to create consistent, and overall, holistic magazine.

I also like the distinct cover lines which provide clarity for the readers and create a serious, formal approach which complies with the style of NME magazines.

However what i dislike about this, and therefore the reason why it is just a draft, is the abstract background, usually there is a blank, bright background whereas here there is a complex setting that distracts the readers. I also dislike the size of the main cover star, as i feel in comparison to most NME magazines, he is too small and therefore he doesnt look too important or authoritive, which he should be as he is the main cover star. I am also questioning whether it was necessary to include two secondary images to accompany the main image as they are not used too often in NME magazines but i think here in this context it works reasonably well.