Arrangement on front cover - Research into other music magazine covers

Arrangement on content page

I have been looking for ways to organise my content page . I need to rearrange my images and text on the page. I founf Kerrangs content page and I really like the way it is organised . It is slightly like mine already but by looking at it I think I will need to rearrang my photos on the left two thirds of the page leaving the right third to be a larger contents page . I think this will work well and more text will stop my content page from looking as plain.

Edits to contents page

Edits to double page

Edits to front cover

Analysing free gifts in magazines

Ideas for developed magazine subcription offers

As I need a better subcription offer on my contents page I played around on Photoshop creating a few ideas of basic subcriptions that I might use . The colours I used were bright and colourful , eye catching colours that readers will remember after they see it . I also used a photo of my front cover to show ownership and relating it back to the magazine itself . It is a good technique to keep repeating the magazine brand name throughout as it will hopefully be embeded in the readers heads , but without being to in their face . Magazines like Kerrang use an image of their front cover on their subscriptions and Kerrang receives most its profit from internal advertising in the magazine.

Kerrang advertisement for subscriptions