2. To begin answering this question I will need to compare my magazine to
my first design and a professional magazine. I have chosen NME to
compare my final product due to it being my inspired magazine
throughout the construction of my magazine, additionally NME is a
similar target audience to my product.
3. Due to my music genre being
alternative rock I wanted to portray my
model as unique, colourful and vibrant.
I believe this will attract my target
audience due to fashion, colours etc.
Nevertheless, I have challenged my bright vibrant colours with the dull black and
white texts to keep a smart and professional image for my magazine. My main
model is framed in a extreme close up of her facial features, allowing us to see her
quirky-ness to attract my target audience. Her red vibrant hair is an instant
attraction due to it being unique, young and fun. My models eye contact is direct
with the readers, allowing a interaction instantly, which makes the reader want to
buy the magazine. My female model is wearing basic make-up to show her
natural and serious side as a artist which portrays to the audience that she takes
her music seriously.
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4. Font
In terms of font, NME have a
distinctive bold thick lettering to
attract their target audience from a
distance. Using a deep red adds to
this, creating a trademark for their
magazine.
However, I have used a graffiti style font which I believe is unique, young, fun and
appealing. This is because graffiti is associated with younger generations, music etc,
and this could be a trademark for my magazine due to it being different and
memorable. My main colour for my TMF would originally be a bright orange so it is
appealing to the customers. Its very distinctive due to no other branded magazine
having this particular style of font. Nevertheless, as an improvement I would have to
work with the size of the lettering due to it being hard to understand from a distance,
compared to NME’s lettering. I have also used the same style lettering for my masthead,
to continue my theme on, I have used a similar red to her lips so they combine well on
my front cover. My skyline and my main sell line are in an additional font to allow it to be
more clear and simpler to read, without it hurting their eyes or being unreadable.
5. Colour Scheme
My colour scheme is similar to my
inspired magazine NME, I have used
the colours; red, white and black. I
used these colours due to my initial
research into magazine and
audiences these colours were
popular and most appealing.
Additionally, my female model had
bright vibrant red hair which
combines well with the other
colours.
6. Contents
Page
When I was doing my initial research
I seen a NME contents page, which
since I always liked the layout of,
due to it being easy to read, helpful,
interesting and young.
I like how a quarter of the contents page is taken up by an image and caption of a
band or an artist. This attracts the audience instantly to see what the gossip or
information is containing. The other side is additional text explaining what stories
are also included within my magazine. This allows an equal balance of both
images and text which is an excellent combination and when doing my primary
research, many student feed back was they wanted to see 50% of each photos
and text on the page. I believe I have benefitted from using NME as an inspired
contents page due to it being a creative and interesting layout which many
readers will find useful and appealing to read. To improve I would use a better
image and make it more thicker to get a better quality image for my readers.
7. Design
A main feature which caught my
eye with NME’s contents page is
they use small banners on the sub
headings to notify the different
sections within the magazine, this
feature allows it to be easy for the
audience to read. I therefore,
used a similar idea in my
magazine however, adjusted my
colour scheme to fit
appropriately.
8. Double
Page
Spread
When creating my double page spread I liked the idea of a main image
dominating the left hand side of the spread attracting the audience to the main
artist or band – also allows them to cut the image out, to have a mini poster. Due to
the article being based upon the right hand side of the spread it’s a feature where
you can always refer to the dominating image to the side of the article. In my initial
research, the feed back I was given was to involve a dominating image and to lay
my article out in large paragraphs – I took this information on board and created
my final product.
