Flat plans: First cover

This is my first design. I have used the title Top of the Rocks as my brand logo because Top of the Pops is a very well known Name in the music industry and amongst the older half of my age range. People know that Top of the Pops is a show that used to show the top pop music for that week, they also brought out a magazine that talked about the top pop music and and artists. Therefore people will instantly know that my magazine will be along the same lines, but with Rock. In this flat plan i have decided not to use a tag line because the Rock in Top of the Rocks bigger than the rest of the because this is the genre of music that the magazine will be based on. The word Rocks will also be in big bold text so that it will catch peoples eye. The background behind the title will be all white and then the underneath the title will be a black background where the main image and main cells will be. The main image will be a singer of a band, they will be singing into a microphone. This will fit into the music theme of the magazine. The singer will be dressed in black and will have very rock style, this will engage people with a rock fashion making it a wider audience. Just above the image will be the main flash and this will be the name of the band that the singer will be from, it will be in a different text to the brand logo. The main cells will have a heading in bold witting and then a brief description about what the story will be about underneath. They will be on the left and the image will be more to the right. On the bottom left hand corner of the image there will be the word free in big bold red letters so that people will feel that they are getting more for there money by given people a free item when they spend money on the magazine. Underneath the word free will be a box that will have an image of a some kind of band but you wont be able to make out the band because there will be a Poster written across it and just above the image so that people who want to see the poster will need to buy the magazine in order to view the poster. At the bottom of the cover there will be a strap line that will have four columns on with a strip of different colour that will have names of bands in so people can know what bands will feature in the magazine. In the columns there will be bullet point and quotes of things that will be inside and navigation elements.