Magazine inspiration

1. Magazine Inspiration
By Martin Walsh

2. One technique that I plan on using in my
magazine is to give away free items with
some issues of the magazine for example
a free CD or a poster. This is often done
by a lot of music magazines as it entices
people to buy the magazine that would
not usually, this could help grow the
audience by creating return customers. A
lot of people would not see magazines as
something that is worth their price but
with a free CD they would be a lot more
willing to purchase it. In mixmag they
have a small arrow that stands out
stating that there is a free mix CD, the
arrow is bold and stands out as it is the
main feature that is selling the magazine.
PROMOTIONAL OFFERS

3. PUGS
Another technique that I am planning on
using in my magazine are pugs, a pug is a
small shape that is different to the front
cover or page background that stands
out to draw in the audiences attention to
a particular subject. The pug is usually
there to show a feature of the magazine.
The pug on the contents page usually
contains a cover line from the front page
this is done because this is one of the
biggest stories in the magazine.

4. Big double page spread big picture
On my double page spread one of the
pages will just be a image that fills the
page. The image will be on its own or
it will have a small piece of writing on
like the example I have used on the
right. The reason I would like to lay my
double page spread out like this is it
would take up most the page making it
bold and stand out drawing in the
audience. If I had this design I would
need to be using a very powerful main
image or it wouldn’t work.