5. Double page spread
Font styles Examples of Images-
Broadway
Pixie Lott
Arial
Lady GaGa
The Saturdays
I have decided to use the modern style font as I believe it looks the most professional Amy Winehouse
for my magazine genre. I think Broadway looks quite difficult to read and may make And fashion images of Celebrities
the read avoid reading this area or may skip to another magazine choice. However, wearing Doc Martens and a Fred
some magazines have a disguised audience who may only be able to identify what Perry Polo Top.
something means or reads but pop is short for ‘popular music’ so I want it to reach to a
large audience base, therefore I want the text choices to remain simple and easy to
read. In addition, I have decided going against using fonts such as Arial as I believe it
looks quite heavy and does not have a positive effect on the magazine genre.
Colour schemes
Green and white
Black and green
Red and white
I want to make my pictures in woodlands so the colour would have to relate to this
type of landscape, therefore the scheme will possibly look good if it is neutral. If I was
choosing double page 2 or 3 I would have to make the colours very similar to the
dominant colour in the image taken to continue the image flowing to the opposite
page.
However, I would like to choose the colour scheme of the double page to be red and
white as it is eye-catching and intriguing to look at. I liked the idea of using different
shades of red to highlight the text from the white background of the text and the
image. Although, I did mention before that the scheme of red and white wouldn’t
work in my magazine genre on the contents page although I think it would in a double
page spread as it highlights the text from the images in a positive way.
9. Font and colour scheme for contents page
Font types
Aerial rounded MT bold
Rockwell extra bold
I have tested all of the above fonts for my contents page to find the most suitable font which will best fit my genre on my contents
page. From the fonts that I compared, I found that aerial bold was too bold and heavy for my magazine choice. I also found that
Rockwell again was too big and wasn’t suitable for my magazine genre. This then could possibly confuse the reader by thinking the
magazine is a different music genre.
Colour scheme
Different shade of blue
Pastel colours
Red and white
I personal liked the different shades of blue the most as this also fits in with my colour scheme on the magazine front cover. This
shows the reader that both pages are linked and have been thought about and not just thrown together.
I thought that the pastel colours were quite good although im undecided that they fit the music style magazine and maybe suit
another genre of magazine such as fashion. I liked the red and white colour scheme as it does look clean and simple although I don’t
think it the music genre magazine.
Examples of images
Katy Perry live
Cher Lloyd
Ed Sheeran
Devil wears Prada Magazine editor
Britney Spears
