2. House Style (throughout) – I decided that to follow a house style, I would choose something vibrant and
contrasting to appeal to a younger audience. By picking primary red, blue this has connotations of
immaturity and childish levels of intelligence. Also the red has connotations of danger for the rebellious
nature of my audience and how that shows the genre. The white is relevant for the ethnicity of my target
audience.
Masthead – My font
Main Image – In existing choice is large, bold and
products they would, by contrasting against
convention, normally have everything else on the
a white male on the front page due to the strip of
but considering my age white. Younger audiences
range, I have decided to like the idea of 3D more
branch out into having a than older so I have
female dominating the initiated that and all other
main image due to them text to be brought up off
having attraction for the page to present the
females and that its childish nature more so.
extremely uncommon for a
woman to be on the front
cover. Therefore, I believe
that this will appeal to my
target audience more so
than male.
3. Images – My choice of images all have connotations of the
indie genre such as the Converse type of shoe and images of
indie-dressed people and all images/photographs used are
relevant to intrigue the audience.
Layout – By similarly developing
the NME layout with a similar
target audience, I decided that
because of that and referring to
my questionnaire that was said
that a clear view of page
numbers and visible content
was wanted!
4. Word choice – By choosing a selective vocabulary, not too advanced but a
decent GSCE education-worthy student would understand it. Therefore this
enabling the readers to understand what social class this is aimed at.
Layout – I have
decided to stick with
convention of NME
so it would not be
too different to what
others believe is
normal.
