Evaluation
I called my music magazine Sorock as a play on the genre it would focus on which is soft rock. The text I used for the title was a font called hard rock, I used this style as it wasn’t too heavy and difficult to read but had a nice ‘rock’ feel about it which would attract the correct sort of audience in just the use of the title.On the front cover I used a picture of Brighton pier as this is the made up story of the main feature of the magazine is a made up group which started there. In the end I had to use two separate models because one was ill the second time I wanted to do a picture. (This picture was taken by myself with the timer function.) The idea was to make the two band members look like they were diverse and fun people with a cool attitude so in the front cover picture the band members were meant to look cool/sophisticated and fun happy people. In the double page spread picture there is in fact 3 separate picture elements that make up the picture. The picture of Brighton pier, the picture of me and the picture of the other model.
I looked closely at how other magazines lay out there front covers and found no real trend so I decided to go with a nice clear and clean front cover as many magazines in the genre over do front covers putting too much information on the front.
This is an example I found which I thought explains how magazines can over do their front covers. There is far too much going on on this page that it becomes unclear to the audience what their main focus is.
I called my music magazine Sorock as a play on the genre it would focus on which is soft rock. The text I used for the title was a font called hard rock, I used this style as it wasn’t too heavy and difficult to read but had a nice ‘rock’ feel about it which would attract the correct sort of audience in just the use of the title.On the front cover I used a picture of Brighton pier as this is the made up story of the main feature of the magazine is a made up group which started there. In the end I had to use two separate models because one was ill the second time I wanted to do a picture. (This picture was taken by myself with the timer function.) The idea was to make the two band members look like they were diverse and fun people with a cool attitude so in the front cover picture the band members were meant to look cool/sophisticated and fun happy people. In the double page spread picture there is in fact 3 separate picture elements that make up the picture. The picture of Brighton pier, the picture of me and the picture of the other model.
I looked closely at how other magazines lay out there front covers and found no real trend so I decided to go with a nice clear and clean front cover as many magazines in the genre over do front covers putting too much information on the front.
This is an example I found which I thought explains how magazines can over do their front covers. There is far too much going on on this page that it becomes unclear to the audience what their main focus is.
I think the text layout on my double page spread is typical of my genre as it is not too much to read enjoyable and stylised which makes the magazine a leisurely thing to do. My double page spread follows a similar format to this issue of kerrangs double page spread apart from they are the other way round and there is some text below the picture I think mine is slightly more nice in its text lay out in reality the market probably couldn’t afford to leave that blank empty space that could be filled with advertising but if it was aimed at a higher up market that could potentially be possible as they could charge more for the magazine. 
The hardest part about this whole process for me was learning how to use adobe in design. In my view it works in the most un convetional ways nothing is clearly marked out.
