2. SIMILARITIES –
-MAIN HEADING - WHITE BACKGROUND IMAGE
-BANNER AT THE BOTTOM - SIDE ADVERTISEMENT
- MAIN HEADING OVER THE IMAGE
- BARCODE AND MAGAZINE INFO
3. I have taken my initial design ideas from Kerrang! And
Rocksound magazines that have a similar target audience to
Soundwave
The masthead is similar to the ones featured on K and
Rocksound. I felt that Rocksound’s name particularly was one
easily remembered so decided to follow suit.
I used the effect that less is more and coupled this with a white
background. I did this by using columns at the side of the page
so that the main focus was drawn to the image in the centre. I
feel I have adapted this technique on my own media product well
because it still manages to look professional with not a lot on it.
Similar to both of my research magazines K and Rocksound I
decided to put the main feature artist in bold and central on the
page. This would attract the onlooker and act as the most
interesting feature.
Finally; similarly I used the heading of the feature article on the
front of the magazine to act as a further advertisement on the
feature article.
4.
5. I chose to take components from Rocksound and from Kerrang!
Magazines in the layout and the features that appear on the page.
I also used the same headings and sub headings that appear on the
regular contents pages like ‘features’, ‘win’ and ‘reviews’ these are all
features of a mainstream magazine.
When it came to the colour scheme again I found that K’s magazine
often looked incredibly busy and it was hard to distinguish pieces
however when I looked through Rocksound’s the minimalist approach
worked for them but still having a lot of imagery on it.
When adapting the research pieces I decided to adjust the layout so that
the reader had a chance to digest all of the page and not just be drawn
to either ‘features’ or any other head articles.
I felt that breaking up the white and black with soft pink adds small
colour and keeping the colour theme running over from the front cover.
Finally on my contents page I used small numbers on the pictures that
coincide with the numbers down the contents page columns. In the same
soft pink which add a small injection of colour.
6.
7. Audience suggested that the most popular acts
were pop/rock which is represented with a rebel
like theme that is dark and have a large star
performer based image.
I tried to replicate this on my double spread
using a contrasting colour on a plain background
to add a theme of fun and live music.
I think that the two photos go together well
because they are different in the theme of
colours and represent a fun side as well as their
musical side.
