Designing My Masthead

After reflecting on my artist research, I have chosen the genre pop/mainstream music for my magazine. I chose this because I found that in my questionnaire the artists people said they liked were in the charts and the most popular tribe in the UK from "find your tribe" was Townies which seemed to be a group that was interested in mainstream, popular music. I have decided to call my magazine "play" because I think it is a catchy name that relates well to modern music. I like the idea of making the "a" a play button to give it an interesting twist. After choosing this genre and name I started to draft up some ideas for my masthead.

I then designed a masthead using the idea and colour scheme I thought would work best.

But I decided I didn't like this masthead because of the font and the colour scheme didn't look as good as I hoped. I then created another masthead using a different font and colour scheme. I used black with green because I liked how Billboard's masthead was black with hints of colour. I think this masthead worked very well and I will use it on my cover of my magazine. Here is my final masthead.