Discussing names for my magazine

Name for my Magazine by Meg Noble on GoAnimate

Potential name ideas

I want to give my magazine a name that instantly resonates rock music - loud, crashing, rugged.  So I used an online thesaurus to discover a wider range of possibilities from an extensive vocabulary.  I've circled the words that have inspired me in red.  Crash is a good place to start because it was the first word I thought of when I think of 'loud' and 'rock'; however, there is already an existing magazine called crash so I couldn't use that name.  

'Detonation' has too many syllables to sound catchy when said aloud, so 'detonate' might be a better name.

'Dynamight' could be a good name because it includes the word 'might' which means strength and power - relating to rock music.  But it's a bit of a long word so I'll use it in a mock-up to see how it looks.

Double page spread mini analysis

Contents Page mini analysis

Mini analysis of front cover

Double Page Spread examples

 

 

 

 

 All of these magazine double page features have a big picture of the band/artist that takes up 1/2 or 2/3 of the page with chunks of text in smaller font.  They all have large, capitalised titles; the majority of which are quotes from the feature.



Contents Page examples

There is a lot of variation in contents page layouts for my chosen genre.  This suggests that there are no real conventions in layout which makes me think that I could possibly choose my own; however, I think I'll try to follow the conventions of one magazine whilst choosing elements of others' that I like.  The main and most important convention of a contents page is identifying the page number on which the different features are. 

Secondly, there is again a consistent colour theme of red, black, white and sometimes yellow; similar to front cover colour themes. 

 

It's also always stated clearly at the top of the page in big lettering what the page is and what time period it's for.  There are normally lists of features with the page number next to each item.  The most important features - logically the main image/sell lines - are the largest on the page or at the top of the list of contents.