drafting and planning

This is my improved front cover for my magazine and i am more pleased with this version than i am with the previous version because of the improvements that i made which makes it more realistic.

Firstly, i changed the font size of the anchorage text that accompanies the cover lines because these should be much smaller than the main cover line and overall helps create a more realistic scale to a music magazine. I also added another cover line to fill the negative space left by shrinking the font size.

secondly i changed the pug because its rare that a magazine like NME would advertise posters so i changed it to tickets for 'Glasto' an abbreviation of a festival that my target audience would understand and therefore be more interested in because they are mostly of a young demographic who use abbreviations frequently.

Thirdly i changed some of the featured bands like example because looking back, i don't think David Guetta was too realistic for an NME styled magazine but i think example fits well.

Finally i added an appropriate dateline and price in the top right hand corner above the masthead as this is a conventional location for a dateline, particularly in NME and i made it a realistic size so that it does not attract attention away from the masthead. I also altered the colour of the main cover line so that it matched better with the cover lines and masthead