Pre-production Planning - Cover Lines

Cover lines are placed on a magazine in order to entice the reader into buying the magazine. They are a small blurb on the front cover which gives a small amount of information about an article, or feature, inside. A magazine conventionally has one main cover line and several other cover lines. I have decided for my magazine to feature 6 cover lines overall, with 1 main cover line and 5 normal cover lines. This is all reliant on the image and space left on the page.

The main cover line will be directly related to the cover image, which will be solely featuring the same artist for the double page spread. As I plan for the artist, Aggie Champion, to have quite a diva-like personality, I need the main cover line to express this. The anchorage text beneath the cover line will directly reference the content of interview, which mainly focused on the negativity fame brings.

• Main Cover line: Queen She
• Anchorage: Aggie Champion on taking the good with the bad

I tried to be as inventive as possible, with 'Queen She' a play on 'queen bee'. The direct reference to royalty clearly connotes her diva attitude. The anchorage references 'taking the good with the bad' which is similar to what the artist said in her interview; "you've gotta take the good with the bad".

Ideally, I intend to have 5 cover lines which will provide insight about both the regular and feature articles. The first features a band which I constructed to be listed in the feature section. I intend to have an image of them in the contents page, but not feature in my double page spread. I have also decided to include a pull quote which will further entice the reader.

• The Coos: "We're living the dream"

The other 4 cover lines are directly related to the article list, each of which is explained in an earlier blog post.

• Getting brave with the 1975 (in reference to the Alt Challenge)
• Jamming with the Foo Fighters (in reference to the Lyric Lowdown)
• Have your say
• Up close with
• Foals
• Lorde