Colour Scheme ideas

I want the colour scheme on my magazine to be quite simplistic as i think this will have a good effect on the magazine. I will use neutral colours and stick to 3 colours. I'd like the background to be either white or black because this makes the text and the model stand out more. I will maybe have 2 main colours and  1 contrasting colour that I will use either on the masthead, image on the cover or text. The contrasting colour can also be used to highlight the importance of something in the magazine e.g page numbers, pull quotes.  

I like this colour scheme as the blue contrast well with a black background and white text that would be on the magazine. A good example of this colour scheme is Clash magazines cover on above. The blue on this cover contrast really well with the black background and the white text. If I did use this colour scheme I will make my cover have a black background with white text or blue text and the masthead would be large in a bold white font.   
   

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Above is an issue of NME magazine, this uses a red/white/black colour scheme. I will use the colour scheme (red/white/dark grey) above in a similar way. With the red/white/dark grey colour scheme there are many different variations of ways I can use this on my magazine. I could make the masthead red on the white background and use the dark grey as the cover lines and text. Having a white background will make the image on the front of the magazine stand out. The white background would also be in on the contents page and double page spread because  white gives a magazine a clean look,  also having grey/black text will also make it look sharp and appealing to readers. The red can be used also to show the importance of something on the magazine, for example on the contents page, the main article could be highlighted in red to show it's more important the other contents on the page. Also red could be used as the colour for pull quotes in the double page spread interview because this would contrast well with the white background and the grey/black text.

I cant decide without seeing them on a draft of my magazine so I will try both of these colour scheme ideas on my draft  and decide from there which looks better and use this as my final idea.

Magazine Title & Possible Fonts

It's pretty self explanatory why i called my magazine 'BEAT' as every song has a beat to it. Also i chose this as the name as its short and easy to say, this makes it much more recognisable & appealing to readers. I wanted to included 'Music Magazine' and the issue date somewhere on the title as i think it will look good if there both included on the masthead. The bottom masthead is the one I've chosen to use and i'll improve it when making my magazine. 

For the font i wanted it to stand out and be large at the top of the magazine. So by using a bold font this helps it stand out. I decided to uses capital letters because it's quite conventional, for example NME, Clash, Spin and more magazines use capital letter on their mastheads. The fonts on the left are Myriad Pro (top), Abadi MT Condensed Light (middle) and Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold (bottom). I chose the bottom font because i think it stands out well and would look good at the top of a magazine. I will change the colour of the title depending on the background colour. For example if my magazine had a black background the masthead would be white. I decided to put 'Music Magazine' underneath the title to the left because i want the space to be filled by the model. The issue date on the side of the 'T' of Beat i think fits nicely and the font help it to do this.

UPDATE:
I changed the layout of the masthead slightly with now the month and issue number are both underneath 'BEAT' also now instead of Music Magazine i changed it to 'Monthly Music Magazine'. I've done this because looking at my draft the masthead didn't really work and looked out of place on the cover, so i've made it slightly simpler to prevent this.

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