2. Things that would attract my target audience:-
•Masthead
•Photograph(s)
•Colours
•Layout
•Cover lines
3. Attracting my audience
Masthead
The masthead attracts people because it is red on a black background and
because of the colour difference the masthead stands out more and easily
read and found. The font of the masthead is distorted because it
represents the stereotypical people that would read my magazine.
It also has the main picture covering it making the connotation that the
band must be very important to be in front of the masthead.
This masthead is similar because it is a bold colour on
a bright background causing it to stand out to
someone just scanning through different magazines.
The masthead is also covered slightly giving it the
same connotation as before.
4. Photographs
The photos I used are all posed
because I noticed in my research that
most of the pictures in the magazines
were posed for and very little were live.
The only time they were really live
photographs was when they were
talking about a new tour. All the
pictures focus on the models because
they are what the article inside is going
to be about, this gives the audience an
insight of what to expect before they
buy the magazine. The backgrounds in
some of them have graffiti on the walls
because it gives that rock style to it.
5. Colours
In this issue of Kerrang and many other I only used red white and black because
issues they use the same colour scheme I didn’t want too many colours
because that’s what partially makes it a throughout the magazine because it
Kerrang magazine because regular buyers would change the genre I was going for.
will associate the colour scheme with the
magazine. It also helps it fit into the genre
it is aimed at.
6. Layout
The obvious similarity is that the main article has a
big picture on the front cover so the reader knows
exactly what's taking up the most amount of pages
this week. The existing one has pictures around it
as well and I have tried to do something similar by
putting headlines and a picture on mine as well but
due to lack of models I could only do one more
picture on the front cover.
My contents page is completely different to the
existing one because when I was making mine I
had planned on using it from the beginning but
when it came to the flat plans and designing I
realised I would need lots of different people for
models and I didn’t have that resource. This
caused me to change the layout but I think it is
an easy contents to find a specific page and is
easy to read because the font is simple and the
text stands out due to the colour scheme.
7. In the layout of this double page spread, it
has a main picture covering up half of the
whole page and then more pictures across
the bottom, it then has the article and
band name and other information down
the right side of it.
My double page spread is very similar
because it uses half the page for the main
singer and main picture and then has other
pictures down at the bottom and the
article and other information on the right.
8. Cover lines
In my cover line I have the name of the band in
big writing that would attract the readers eye. It
also has a quote from the article so that the
reader knows a little about it before they buy it.
It also tells you that it is a world exclusive which
This cover line stands out and attracts
will make even more people want to buy it
the readers eye. It also has a quote
because they will not find out in any other
from the article and tells you that it is
magazine.
an exclusive.
9. Things that would address my target audience:-
• Writing style
• Pictures
• Colours
10. Writing style
My writing style is very
formal and doesn’t really
attain to any specific
group or genre. I didn’t
involve certain words or
phrases because then it
would be too direct and I
wanted to make a
magazine for people that
aren't necessarily that
into music and know
everything about the
genre that my magazine
was covering.
11. Pictures
For all my pictures I used posed ones because I wasn’t reviewing any live shows that had
been on recently I was doing an article about a band that was about to go on tour. If I were
to do a story on the same band after the tour I would have live pictures from that as well
as posed ones. This would interest someone that maybe went to the event because they
could re-live the experience in pictures from the event.
12. Colours
I used only colours that would fit with my genre of music. The colours I used
throughout with a lot use were black whit and red because they are all colours in
which if you put any two together they make the other one stand out. I also used
yellow a little bit as well because it helped make parts of my contents page stand
out.
