For my front cover I chose to use the design of Total Guitar's front cover as it gives of many different ways of expressing the magazine. For example a way to attract audiences would be to use the "Learn To Play" because it is something new every issue as the songs change each time and also is different from other magazines. This pulls the reader in and allows more sales on the magazine.
This contents page stood out to me as it covers more information on a contents page than most other contents pages. The only thing I copied of the NME contents is the margen on the left hand side. I feel it is a strong idea because it is simple and tells the reader the majority of pages that there are in it and what the pages are featuring.
Adding the double page text stories of Alex Laidlaw and adding his name creating a Head line of the double page spread filling the space. Next I will create a miner image for the top left hand side of the left page and insert a miner image in the bottom right hand side of the left page.