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This magazine, Sight and Sound, targets an intelligent, educated audience interested in critical analysis of film. It covers international, independent, and art house films. The magazine's covers use a basic red, white, and black color scheme to attract a mature, intelligent readership. The main cover image is the central focus, with other elements placed around it to directly indicate the featured topic.
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The document analyzes conventions of the magazine "Sight and Sound" including its target audience and design elements. It notes that covers feature artistic photos with little effects to appeal to an intelligent, educated audience interested in art house films. The magazine uses a bleak color scheme of plain yellow and red throughout, with center images kept less colorful to convey serious meanings. The main story is highlighted by the center piece focusing attention on its topic through a simple background. The masthead stands out as the most colorful element to identify the magazine. Subheadlines and "puffs" provide additional context and entice readers with other stories covered.
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The document discusses the effectiveness of a teaser trailer, film poster, and magazine front cover created to promote the film "VERSES". Feedback was gathered from the target audience of 16-25 year olds. They responded positively to being drawn in by the main characters in the teaser trailer and wanting to learn more. The poster attracted attention with the protagonist's emotion and tagline. The magazine looked professional and featured information about the film and actors. Minor improvements were identified, such as sound issues in the teaser trailer and simplifying backgrounds. Overall, the marketing materials were deemed an effective way to attract the target audience.
Analysed magazines
The magazine cover features a striking mid-shot photo of artist Lily Allen staring directly at the viewer, looking powerful and confident. The title "SPIN" is in large capital letters with a red border to make it stand out against the gold background. The cover is designed to appeal to both younger and older audiences by including articles on other artists like Snow Patrol and Living Things.
beth Wright Evaluation
- The target audience for the magazine is fans of Japanese visual kei and J-rock music between ages 16-17.
- Research was conducted through a questionnaire to determine design preferences of this audience.
- Elements like font, color scheme, layout, and article style were tailored based on this audience research.
- Techniques learned include photo editing in Photoshop, blog setup, magazine design principles like using the left third of the cover.
Analysed magazines
The magazine cover features a striking mid-shot photo of artist Lily Allen staring directly at the viewer, making her look powerful and confident. The title "SPIN" is in all capital letters and surrounded by red to stand out against the gold background. Additional information such as upcoming artists and articles are listed in bold black text that contrasts the background. The cover aims to attract a wide audience through its use of the popular artist Lily Allen and bold design elements that draw the eye.
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This document provides a mind map and research for a TV magazine front cover created by Emma Walker. It includes ideas for the magazine's name, target audience, price, masthead design, headlines, images, and conventions. The target audience is identified as mainly middle to lower class individuals in socioeconomic groups C1 through E. Ideas are presented for the magazine's name, color scheme, positioning of elements, fonts, headlines, images, price, promotions, and social media integration. The next steps outlined are to purchase an inspirational magazine, observe other magazines in stores, and organize props and software for creating the front cover in Photoshop.
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The document analyzes the codes and conventions of magazine covers and content pages. It discusses the media language elements like mastheads, headlines, images, barcodes, and page references. It also examines the institutions that publish the magazines, their intended ideologies and target audiences. Finally, it analyzes how magazine covers represent and portray the key people featured through image placement and design.
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The target audience for this magazine is primarily teenage girls aged 15-25 from middle to upper class backgrounds. They are socially conscious and care about making a difference in the world. The light, airy aesthetic and mature yet youthful content of the magazine is designed to appeal to this demographic. Both the style and content aim to match what is popular in modern teen culture while still being meaningful.
Woman in Black Magazine Textual Analysis
The magazine cover is for Cineworld's film magazine promoting the movie "Woman in Black". The main image features the back of a character with a ghostly figure in the background to create intrigue. Bold text and quotes challenge the reader to see the "chilling ghost story". The magazine aims to increase awareness of new films to boost cinema profits through exclusive information for its subscribers.
Shot
This document discusses conventions for film posters and magazines in the noir genre. For film posters, key conventions include placing the title at the top, including a tagline to intrigue audiences, featuring the main protagonist prominently in shadow to convey moral ambiguity, and including credits and dates. For magazines, conventions include mastheads displaying the publication name, headlines to grab attention often featuring famous directors or actors, cover lines advertising additional stories, and black and white imagery to match the noir aesthetic of moral ambiguity and conflict through binary opposites. Both posters and magazines aim to entice target audiences through star power, intriguing plots, and distinguishing the product.
Magazine advertisements research
This document summarizes the research done on magazine advertisements for similar genres of music. Key aspects that were liked across different ads included a close-up of the main artist to identify them, basic color schemes that stood out, and including just enough information at the bottom without crowding the page. These elements were considered for the magazine ad being created.
Magazine analysis
This document analyzes a magazine cover created by Henry Malcolm. It discusses various design elements of the cover including the masthead, dominant image, barcode, date, teasing contents, selling line, and how they follow magazine conventions. It also analyzes how the dominant image connects with the audience and how the placement of the masthead is the most visible and common location. Overall, the summary discusses how the cover design elements were chosen and positioned to follow typical magazine conventions.
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- 3. For our advanced portfolio, for one of the tasks we had to recreate a magazine front cover- and we chose Sight and Sound. Sight and Sound is a very intellectual magazine and what we created had to follow previous magazines.
- 4. Target Audience - aimed at educated intelligent readers, interested in critical analysis of film. Sees film as art. Covers: • international, • independent • and art house (independent film aimed at a niche audience not a Hollywood blockbuster) films
- 5. • The colour scheme is very basic with red white and black as the cover lines. This colour scheme does not offer much emotion and it is not very bright, this is probably used because it wants to attract and older mature, intelligent.
- 6. • Main image is the central piece for the cover, everything else is placed around it and the girl is clearly the main focus. It directly tells you that she is the feature of this issue and the target audience know straight away what it’s about with the main cover line anchoring the image. The lack of colour in the image gives a very simple setting, attracting its target audience.
- 7. • Mast head shows audience recognition as it is the same as all previous covers. It is bold and stands out on the cover so that the target audience know straight away what magazine it is.
- 8. • Cover lines are more descriptive than Empire magazine to promote the critical analysis that is key within the magazine; the niche target audience know what they are looking for.
- 9. • Fonts are clear and stand out against the image, they are easy to read and do give quite a bit of information.