Google Mock ups

 

For this magazine mock up I started with a picture of Rihanna. I cropped in down so it was typical magazine cover size and added my masthead, PLAY. My masthead swaps the 'A' in 'PLAY' for a typical play button. I decided to do this because it makes the magazine stand out more as a music magazine because if someone passes they'd easily know what genre magazine it was. It is also quirky and fun to appeal to my teenage audience. I chose fun and bright colours which is conventional of a pop music magazine and a bold font so it stood out against a background. I added a main story and feature stories around the outside of the magazine to make it look more realistic and a barcode which is also conventional for a magazine.  

This magazine mock up features mainstream pop artist Beyonce. She is well known in the music industry and liked by males and females. To reflect this I chose the bright colours of green, light pink and red. Red being a mutual colour, green which is usually stereotyped to appeal to makes and pink for females. I also found it hard not being able to put white or black as a colour choice of the font, but both wouldn't stand out against the background because of the white background and the black leather jacket she is wearing. I managed to put some in to neutralize the cover slightly, at the bottom as a footer to show other feature stories in the magazine. I used rhetorical questions in the main feature story to entice and interest readers and draw them in to read the magazine.

This magazine cover feautres Katy Perry, a predominant female artist in the UK Top 40 right now. The main feature story is written across the centre of the page in a bright pink so that it stands out to the reader and catches their attention. I only chose two colours for this magazine cover - black and pink - because I think it adds to the simplicity of it. Adding another bright colour would just contrast and make the magazine look childish and not appealing.