MAKING DECISIONS ON CONTENTS PAGE AND IMAGES

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD: For my double page spread I am planning to create an interview with an unknown artist.  This is because my questionnaire results showed that 70% of respondents is looking for interviews within magazine content. I also created a question which asked respondents about unsigned / unknown artist. The responds were balanced meaning that the target audience doesn't mind hearing about new artists. Within the context I am planning to talk about present achievement of the artists as well as their future plans and goals. My aim is to introduce the unknown artist to the rest of the readers from the best perspective. Furthermore, the images that I will be using for the DPS will come from the same photo shot that I am going to take for my front cover. I am still not sure weather I am going to use a portrait or long shot image within the DPS as this will depend on the photo shot results. Besides, this also depends how I am going to structure the layout, as two last drafts are quite different from each other and I planned already to take different elements from each after making decisions on my context. However, the use of images from the same shoot will allow me to make a clear link between the front cover and double page spread. At the same time I will save lot's of time and I will be able to make my photo shot more challenging and interesting.

CONTENTS PAGE: For my contents page I will include a large amount of interviews features (as I mentioned above this is because 70% of respondents is looking for interviews within a music magazine). I will be also focusing on album reviews as 50% of the respondents is willing to see it as well as the upcoming gigs. I might also include small amount of reader interactions and competitions which will be placed in the 'regular' column. This is a list of content features which I am planning to include within my contents page:

 REGULARS:
- TRANSMISSION - more from the mailbox- COMPETITIONS- win Simple Plan's widescreen new album 'Obsession', two superb publications and the fantastic new 'Untapped Power ' vinyl deluxe edition 
- LETTERS - Got something to say? Let us hear it - shout it out loud!

 REVIEWS:
- The best releases and live concerts
- NEW RELEASES- The latest deliveries from Katy Perry, Annie Lenox, Janet Jackson, The Outfield, Carrie Underwood, Sean Paul, Rihanna and many more!
- Marilyn Crimson comes back with a new album
- The unstoppable rise of the Royal Muse!
- Live previews - gig previews from Lady Gaga, Kylie, Ciara, T-Pain, Brian Nash plus full listings - who's playing where and when!

 NEWS:
- Royal Sound and their duo debut at the World's Music Award
- Natalie La Rose -  New releases on the horizon
- Mainstream success followed by years on the ropes. In the eyes of Marc Anthony
- Freeze Frame - the story of the month!

 FEATURES:
- 'My whole starting point is that I have nothing to loose' Exclusive interview with Jason Posner
- Sam Smith - from the earliest days, through triumphs and tragedies until now!
- Failed journalist, turned singer and songwriter. All about Ed-Sheeran
- 'It was the most depressing night of our lives. No one looked at the stage' - Uptown Funk
- Who? What? Why? Where? 2015 UK TOUR
- 'The time of our lives' - Coldplay
- The news from The Victory Parade - multi-instrumentalists and songwriters geniuses

In terms of the images I am planning to capture photographs of both people and objects for my contents page, depending on the subject of the cover stories. For example; for the competition section I will take a photograph of a vinyl CD for the audience to visualise the promoted gift. Besides, for the new released albums I am thinking of taking an image of CD rows to empathize the amount of new albums being realised within a month time. Whereas for visualising gig events I am going to use images which I took during my holidays in Poland where I went to a concert. 

FRONT COVER: For my front cover of the magazine I am planning to use a portrait image of a young artist wearing Dr. Dre beats. In terms of the content I planned to use features such as ; 

•'My whole starting point is that I have nothing to loose' Exclusive interview with Jason Posner

•'The time of our lives' - Coldplay

•Sam Smith - from the earliest days, through triumphs and tragedies until now!

•Who? What? Why? Where? 2015 UK TOUR - Don't miss out 

•Natalie La Rose -  New releases on the horizon

While creating my front cover of the magazine I might consider adding or changing features listed above. However, these are the main cover stories which I want to introduce to the readers. I mostly focused on interviews and informations about famous artists as this is something the audience wants to see according to my questionnaire results. Besides, I decided to contrast the famous artists with the unknown as my Survey Monkey responses were balanced. Besides, for the main cover story I will focused on unknown artist whereas the other headlines are going to be dominated by famous musicians. This could encourage people to look at the unsigned artists and give them a chance to shine.