2. Similarities:
•They all share the same colour scheme – red, white and black (mainly).
•All of the logos are situated in the top left hand corner of the page.
•Each have a masthead at the very top of the page, highlighting some key features within the magazine.
•In the top right hand corner of the front covers, there is a large captioned box saying a special feature within the magazine –
concerts.
•The mentioned articles all run down either side of the front cover, Q magazine and my magazine for example have the majority of
article previews along the right hand side of the page, NME is on the right.
•They all feature a male artist as the front cover image.
•The names of the artists on the front cover have been made bold to stand out on the page.
•The image of Eminem is of him staring out into the distance, likewise so is my front cover image.
Differences:
•The professional magazine images have been edited onto a single coloured background, whereas my background to the image is
of a certain place.
•Only my magazine front cover appears to reference the popular site Twitter as a reference for readers to use.
•The professional magazines’ logos both consist of letters that, perhaps, stand for something whereas my logo is not an
abbreviation and is instead an actual word.
3. Similarities:
•Each of the contents page’s has the colour scheme red, white and black.
•More than one image has been used on the page, at least one is larger than the other.
•Each image is numbered accordingly to the page number that the article features on.
•Other features that have been mentioned through the magazine are presented in a single column either down the right side of the page
or the left.
Differences:
•My the background colour of my contents page is black whereas the professional contents pages have a white background.
•The professional contents pages have positioned the word “contents” in the top, left hand corner of the page in a bold yet relatively
small font, dissimilarly the positioning of my “contents” takes up the width of the page and is white separated and noticeable.
•The writing on the pages of the professional contents page is in black whereas mine appears in white as a contrast against the black
background.
•My largest image on the page is of a female and in the professional pages, they mainly feature males as the larger images.
4. Similarities:
•An image of an artist/band features and takes up the space of a whole page. Although in the second professional magazine above, the
image spreads across one page and a fraction of the second.
•The colour scheme red, white and black is present throughout the double page spreads.
•Columns have been used to present the articles.
•Main quotes from the articles have been selected and positioned in quote boxes. The second professional example and my article both
include a large circle to place the quote in.
•The images are all mid-shots so we get to see the vast majority of the body and the images of the artists have been positioned in the
centre of the frame.
Differences:
•The professional magazines’ images all have a plain background colour included whereas my image has a setting and scenery to make
the image look more appealing and interesting.
•The professional magazines have included large, over-sized letters to begin the article and at the beginning of another paragraph.
•The background colour of my article page is black and the professional pages are white.
•The writing in the professional magazines is all in presented in black apart from the large letters and mine are colour co-ordinated to
show who is speaking throughout the interview.
5. By using the website After sketching my ideas I then continued by
“odosketch” I was able to out, I decided to being creating a draft of my
sketch out my initial ideas laying out, in more detail, front cover. By doing this I
of how I wanted my where things would be was able to get a clear
magazine to look and be positioned and what image of how my
presented and also what certain article or image magazine would look like
would feature. would be featured. once I started to work on
it.
6. After I had taken and After receiving some audience feedback, I made
edited my pictures, I a few adjustments to my final front cover. It was
moved on to actually mentioned that there was too much writing on
creating an almost final the page, so I cut down the amount of writing
draft of my front cover. I so that the page looked less busy and more
decided though to make appealing. Also, I thought that the top right
some changes, for corner of the page looked quite blank so I
example, I decided that I decided to add another feature article. I also
did not want to have a changed the margining along the sides. I
mid-close up shot of my decided that I did not think the black sides had
artist and instead I would any relevance to the magazine and just looked
have a full length body as though it was distorting my image so I
shot to make my front removed them. Also I added a black background
cover look more striking for my masthead, as before it was quite hard to
and eye-catching. read as it is written in white writing.
7. By using the website
“odosketch” I was able to After sketching my ideas I then continued by
sketch out my initial ideas out, I decided to being creating a draft of my
of how I wanted my laying out, in more detail, contents page. By doing
magazine to look and be where things would be this I was able to get a
presented and also what positioned and what clear image of how my
would feature. certain article or image magazine would look like
would be featured. once I started to work on
it.
8. After I had taken and I thought that my previous contents page
edited my pictures, I looked too busy with the battling black and
moved on to actually white background, so I decided to make it more
creating an almost final simple and stick to one colour, black. Because I
draft of my contents did this, I had to change some of the colour of
page. I kept all of my my text and dialogue boxes so that the writing
initial ideas the same as was clear.
my audience feedback
was positive about it.
9. By using the website I then continued by
“odosketch” I was able to creating a draft of my
sketch out my initial ideas double page spread. By
of how I wanted my doing this I was able to
magazine to look and be get a clear image of how
presented and also what my magazine would look
would feature. like once I started to work
on it.
After sketching my ideas
out, I decided to being
laying out, in more detail,
where things would be
positioned and what
certain article or image
would be featured.
10. After I had taken and edited my I altered a couple of things from my previous
pictures, I moved on to actually draft such as I decided to make the background
creating an almost final draft of my black as before, the white made the page look
double page spread. I changed a to plain and dull and because of this I changed
couple of things from my draft as I the colour of the quote circles so that the
decided not to include a large sized balance and contrast looked appropraite.
letter at the beginning of the article
as I wanted to break out of the cycle
of the stereotypical magazine. I also
decided not to include another
image of my artist in the article
itself as it would have looked too
busy on the page.
