PLANNING - Ancillary Task 2: Magazine Cover Research

For my second ancillary task, I decided to design and create a magazine cover. I based my design on the Rolling Stone Magazine.

In order to design and create a magazine cover I carried out research into similar products. I looked at various examples of front covers from exisiting music magazines to help distinguish the codes and conventions used in music magazines. I looked closely at the colour scheme and fonts used on a cover, the format and layout of the page and the images used.

I then identified the Rolling Stone magazine closer and picked out the features that I thought conformed to magazine codes and conventions.