Colour scheme ideas, Name ideas and feature story ideas

Colour Schemes

I have been researching successful colour swatches from other magazines and have found that they all have a select few colours. These are usually very bold colours as they stand out on the shelves. Colours such as red, blue and yellow are used often, these are primary colours so will be recognized by a lot of people at a far distance and will also attract them from a distance too.

My first colour scheme utilities blue and red, with red being the main colour. as they are colours used in other magazines. I like this scheme the most and I feel will look quite good as the bold red suits the blue.
I think I will use this scheme as my colour scheme for my magazine.


My second colour scheme uses a triad method, where three colours are used. I feel this is my second favorite scheme however, I'm not a huge fan of the yellow. I think I like this scheme because it uses the red and blue of the first scheme.

 My least favorite color scheme uses yellow and purple as they are opposing colours on the colour wheel. In my opinion it doesn't stand out as much as the first two.

Name ideas: 

I have chosen several names I feel are suitable for by product.

• Tone
• Tune
• Beat
• Cena
• Unplugged
• Vocal
• Sharp
• Awake
• Hyped
• Mic.
• Window
• Hustle
• Loyalty
• Respect 

I feel that they are all suitable, however, I feel that Tone, Sharp and Beat are the most appealing. As they are short and snappy, They also have very sharp sounds in them, making them sound bold. I have decided to choose "Tone" as my name as it is simple and also got the most positive comments when I asked my peers for their opinions. 

Cover Story Ideas

I have looked at several covers of successful magazines and noticed that the cover stories are usually short and brief and have a smaller piece of text underneath them to also engage and attract the reader to purchase the magazine. They follow the genre of music and often has a bit of relevance to the world at that moment in time, for example, a new album or song being released. Here are a few ideas for main cover stories:

• For my main cover, I will have one artist, so they could be possibly trying to get the number one spot on the charts
• Another idea is that they might have just released an album. 

I feel that the first ones will be the most appealing for my audience. 

Next I will have a few other, smaller cover stories. 

• An artist releasing a single, 
• Possibly a "Live Music" section. 
• A competition.
• A writers top songs?
• Interviews 
• Photos
• "Gossip"

I feel that the first four would be the best, and the last few could be implemented on the contents or in a different section on the cover.