Front Cover (First Draft)

I have designed my Front Cover, and this is my first draft. I chose fonts that stood out from the background such as reds, and blacks on top of the whites. I also gave a lot of the text a background outer glow, to again make it stand out and to give at a good effect. The background image was originally very dark as the sun was bright which casted a shadow on me, so I had to adjust the brightness. However, I still look quite dark. I can get away with this though because my music magazine is all about metal where people are stereotypically dark, therefore it works out well.

Napster and Spotify

Napster and Spotify

Napster is the name given to two music online services. An 18-year-old called Shaun Fanning, with the help of his uncle and friends, founded it. When it was originally founded, it was set up as a file sharing service that allowed you to share audio files, in an MP3 format. The company that originally ran Napster ran into legal difficulties, and so was eventually acquired by Roxio. Napster was relaunched as a legitimate service with royalties paid to the major music companies, and it became an online music store in its second incarnation, when it merged with Rhapsody on 1^st December 2011.
 

Spotify is a music streaming service that offers streaming of selective music from some major and independent record labels including ‘The Big 4’: UMG, Sony, EMI and Warner Music Group. It got founded in 2006 and launched in October 2008, and has over 10 million users, over 2.5 million of who are paying customers. You can choose to have a six-month free trail period if you have a facebook account, where you can listen to an unlimited amount of music. After this has run out, the music gets limited to 10 hours per month. You can then have an ‘unlimited’ subscription which removes adverts and the time limit, and you can also have a ‘premium’ account which lets you have other features such as offline access and access to a mobile app.

Music Magazine Related Words

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Double Page Spread Design

This is a design of what my double page spread will look like. My questionnaire results have influenced the double page spread, as I had to make a design that the target audience would like (such as big pictures), therefore I took this into account and used a big picture. Also, I found out using my questionnaire that readers don't tend to like to read lots of text. So I decided to split the text up, and make it more interesting for the reader, such as there will be a paragraph about the music artist, questions for the artist and also questions from the fans about what they want to find about him/her. Therefore even though there is still text, it is not all about the same thing, which should hopefully make it more interesting.