The document compares the media product's use of forms and conventions to several real magazines. It summarizes how elements like mastheads, backgrounds, photos, and text are implemented on its cover and contents pages compared to examples. Key differences noted are its use of brighter colors, less text, and a single model rather than fashion spreads or illustrations seen in the examples. The goal was to appeal to teenagers while relating to styles of Japanese and Korean pop music magazines.
Here are 3 fonts I tested that could work well for an indie/alternative music magazine:
1. Fretboard - A stylish serif font that has an artsy vintage vibe fitting for the genre. The varied letter widths give it visual interest.
2. Frutiger - A clean sans serif with subtle flair. Legible at small sizes but not too plain. Strikes a good balance between stylish and readable.
3. Archer - A playful script font that feels youthful and indie. The varied letter heights keep it lively without being too distracting. Adds personality without being overdone.
I'd recommend experimenting with combinations of these fonts for headings versus body text. Fret
The document summarizes research conducted on fanzines. It discusses key aspects found across three fanzines analyzed, including:
- Font used on the front cover is often carried throughout the fanzine and links to its overall aesthetic.
- Imagery and colors from the front cover are also represented internally to maintain cohesion.
- Additional interviews or reviews are commonly included to provide different perspectives.
- Font and layout are deliberately chosen to match the fanzine's topic or tone, such as condensed text creating a spooky feel.
The research highlights visual and structural similarities across fanzines that effectively tie their design together and represent their content or genre. This information can help in developing
The document discusses how a student's media product uses and develops conventions of real magazines. Specifically, it analyzes the masthead, fonts, color scheme, photography style, and text/image relationships used in the student's mock magazine covering hip hop music. The student aims to challenge conventions by using unique colors and fonts, as well as photography showing faces in a new style, while still relating to target audiences. Development of conventions includes integrating consistent colors throughout and linking cover lines and titles through similar fonts. Overall the student works to create a fresh look while meeting audience expectations of the hip hop magazine genre.
Zoë Bulmer plans the content and design of her indie music magazine. She takes inspiration from NME magazine covers, focusing on their use of block color. For her magazine name, she chooses "IndieGo" to represent the indie music genre and link to her color scheme. She develops plans for the cover, including placing the masthead left-aligned and using a studio photo of her model, Libby. Her contents page will feature columned text on the right and block colors at the bottom with social media links.
The document provides an analysis of magazine covers, contents pages, and double page spreads from various music and fashion magazines. Key points summarized:
1. Magazine covers are analyzed for color palette, font, image composition and how they represent the musical genre. Simplistic color schemes with 3-4 colors are most suitable for music magazines.
2. Contents pages organize information through section headers and discreet text listings. Images can attract readers if they take up 1/3 of the page.
3. Double page spreads examined layout, color palette, title/quote placement, and how photos represent the musical artist. Larger center images with minimal surrounding text look most like music magazine style.
For the last part of my AS Media coursework I have to complete an evaluation. Here is question 1 in a Powerpoint format to discuss my own Music Magazine.
If you want to see my progress to the finished magazine cover, contents page and double page spread this is my blog: http://sgracewhitehead.blogspot.co.uk/
The front cover uses a bold color scheme of blue, white, and yellow to metaphorically represent water and sunshine. It features a posed studio photo of a woman in a swimming pool, fitting the article title "in at the deep end." The fonts are bold but plain, letting the striking photo be the main focus. Most of the cover consists of the large central photo, with minimal text to entice readers without revealing too much. The overall design aims to portray the woman as confident and the magazine as well-known, through clever visual cues.
The document discusses the design choices made for various elements of a student-created music magazine, including the masthead, front cover, contents page, double-page spread, costumes, camerawork/framing, artists featured, and color scheme. The student aims to create an original magazine that stands out from existing publications like NME, Clash, and Q through unique layouts, shots, styling, and a pastel green color theme. While some elements are inspired by or similar to conventions from other magazines, the overall design strives to be distinctive and appeal to the target indie audience.
Here are 3 fonts I tested that could work well for an indie/alternative music magazine:
1. Fretboard - A stylish serif font that has an artsy vintage vibe fitting for the genre. The varied letter widths give it visual interest.
2. Frutiger - A clean sans serif with subtle flair. Legible at small sizes but not too plain. Strikes a good balance between stylish and readable.
3. Archer - A playful script font that feels youthful and indie. The varied letter heights keep it lively without being too distracting. Adds personality without being overdone.
I'd recommend experimenting with combinations of these fonts for headings versus body text. Fret
The document summarizes research conducted on fanzines. It discusses key aspects found across three fanzines analyzed, including:
- Font used on the front cover is often carried throughout the fanzine and links to its overall aesthetic.
- Imagery and colors from the front cover are also represented internally to maintain cohesion.
- Additional interviews or reviews are commonly included to provide different perspectives.
- Font and layout are deliberately chosen to match the fanzine's topic or tone, such as condensed text creating a spooky feel.
The research highlights visual and structural similarities across fanzines that effectively tie their design together and represent their content or genre. This information can help in developing
The document discusses how a student's media product uses and develops conventions of real magazines. Specifically, it analyzes the masthead, fonts, color scheme, photography style, and text/image relationships used in the student's mock magazine covering hip hop music. The student aims to challenge conventions by using unique colors and fonts, as well as photography showing faces in a new style, while still relating to target audiences. Development of conventions includes integrating consistent colors throughout and linking cover lines and titles through similar fonts. Overall the student works to create a fresh look while meeting audience expectations of the hip hop magazine genre.
Zoë Bulmer plans the content and design of her indie music magazine. She takes inspiration from NME magazine covers, focusing on their use of block color. For her magazine name, she chooses "IndieGo" to represent the indie music genre and link to her color scheme. She develops plans for the cover, including placing the masthead left-aligned and using a studio photo of her model, Libby. Her contents page will feature columned text on the right and block colors at the bottom with social media links.
The document provides an analysis of magazine covers, contents pages, and double page spreads from various music and fashion magazines. Key points summarized:
1. Magazine covers are analyzed for color palette, font, image composition and how they represent the musical genre. Simplistic color schemes with 3-4 colors are most suitable for music magazines.
2. Contents pages organize information through section headers and discreet text listings. Images can attract readers if they take up 1/3 of the page.
3. Double page spreads examined layout, color palette, title/quote placement, and how photos represent the musical artist. Larger center images with minimal surrounding text look most like music magazine style.
For the last part of my AS Media coursework I have to complete an evaluation. Here is question 1 in a Powerpoint format to discuss my own Music Magazine.
If you want to see my progress to the finished magazine cover, contents page and double page spread this is my blog: http://sgracewhitehead.blogspot.co.uk/
The front cover uses a bold color scheme of blue, white, and yellow to metaphorically represent water and sunshine. It features a posed studio photo of a woman in a swimming pool, fitting the article title "in at the deep end." The fonts are bold but plain, letting the striking photo be the main focus. Most of the cover consists of the large central photo, with minimal text to entice readers without revealing too much. The overall design aims to portray the woman as confident and the magazine as well-known, through clever visual cues.
The document discusses the design choices made for various elements of a student-created music magazine, including the masthead, front cover, contents page, double-page spread, costumes, camerawork/framing, artists featured, and color scheme. The student aims to create an original magazine that stands out from existing publications like NME, Clash, and Q through unique layouts, shots, styling, and a pastel green color theme. While some elements are inspired by or similar to conventions from other magazines, the overall design strives to be distinctive and appeal to the target indie audience.
The document analyzes the design elements of several music magazine covers, including color schemes, photography, writing styles, and layouts. It finds that the covers generally use simple designs that represent the genres and images of the featured bands. Punk magazines emphasize rebelliousness through bright colors and informal fonts and layouts. Older band covers depict the artists as established through historic photos and classic color schemes. Overall, the covers are designed to attract intended audiences through visuals that align with the musicians' brands.
The cover uses bright colors like red, blue, pink and yellow to represent the variety of music genres covered in the magazine. An image of David Bowie suggests his return to music again. Text boxes promote the magazine as "new" and better. However, the small font size and lack of bold cover lines means the text is not very readable from a distance and the cover design does not stand out on shelves or clearly indicate the magazine's contents.
The document analyzes the design elements of several music magazine covers, including color schemes, photography, writing styles, text-to-picture ratios, and fonts. For each magazine cover, it examines how the design choices represent the bands featured and target audiences. Overall, the document finds that the covers use punk, rock, and indie aesthetic styles that align with their genres and eras to attract intended readers.
The document discusses the conventions used and challenged in the design of a pop music magazine. For the masthead, a bright pink bubbly font was chosen instead of a simpler black font to better reflect the bright themes of pop music magazines. On the front cover, the main image features a model with a blank expression to match the cover story, following conventions. However, the cover story focuses more on gossip than music, slightly challenging conventions. The contents page includes smiling models and section titles to organize information, mostly following conventions, while using an unconventional grey color scheme. The double page spread features a large solo image set in an urban background, challenging conventions to portray the artist as down to earth.
The document provides details about the production process of a magazine cover and contents page. Key steps included choosing colors, adding text and images, and laying out the design. Black was used as the cover background to make gold, the main color, stand out. Headlines were added in yellow and red. Images were edited and placed, including a portrait on the cover. The contents page lists article sections in colored boxes.
This document evaluates the student's media magazine project. It summarizes how the magazine uses conventions of real music magazines in its design. The front cover includes a large masthead at the top to identify the magazine title. It also has a selling line above the masthead and cover photo in the center taking up most space. The contents page lists features in two columns, one with text and one with a large artist photo. The main article focuses on an artist through a large headline photo and interview-style text in two columns. While drawing from real magazine conventions, the evaluation finds the project does not challenge any conventions.
The document analyzes the design elements of several music magazine covers and contents pages, including color schemes, photography, writing styles, layouts, ratios of text to images, and fonts. Key points analyzed include how the design represents the bands featured and aims to appeal to the magazines' target audiences and genres of music. Overall the document provides detailed breakdowns of the visual rhetorical strategies used across different magazine covers and pages.
media school homework coursework questions one a levels sixth form media studies exams preparation powerpoint presentation music magazine front cover contents page double page spread article images editing text layers text masthead coverlines
The document discusses how the author's media product, a music magazine, uses and develops conventions from real music magazines like Kerrang and Rocksound.
To make the magazine appealing to its target audience, the author researched conventions from these magazines, such as using a "busy" front cover full of images and text. The author incorporated these conventions into their magazine's design.
The author refined their magazine through iterations, making the front cover and contents page more visually appealing and coherent with conventions like prominent images, varied text sizes, and consistent color schemes. The magazine develops conventions through carefully using white space and following principles of design.
The document discusses the author's process for creating their own music magazine. They began by researching conventions from popular magazines like Kerrang and Rocksound to determine style elements. For the front cover, they incorporated conventions like making it "busy" with graphics while also including an article strip for readability. Through iterations, they developed a design that targeted teenagers and young adults by including a group image and bold colors. Interior pages also followed conventions for elements like the contents page, double-page interview spread, and use of design principles. The author's final magazine successfully emulated conventions of real music magazines.
Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and ...ciaraoakes
The document summarizes the development of forms and conventions used in the media product of an indie rock magazine from its initial concepts to the final version.
The key developments included changing the magazine's theme from a Brit pop focus to solely featuring indie rock music. This led to changes in the magazine title from "Vertigo" to "Indigo" and the color scheme from red/white/black to blue/white/black. Images throughout were also updated to better represent the genres featured. Additional changes refined the layout and design elements to improve clarity and aesthetics. The final versions of the cover, contents page, and feature article demonstrate how conventions of real magazines were both followed and challenged during the creative process.
The document describes the process of designing a magazine cover and contents pages for a magazine focused on the genre of Japop (a hybrid of Japanese pop and jazz music). Key details include:
- Choosing a black background color and Elegante font for the title to help images and text stand out and relate to both jazz and pop genres.
- Deciding on purple shadows behind titles to associate with both genres while allowing for individuality in separate magazine issues.
- Filling the cover with images, captions, and details like the barcode to attract the target audience visually while providing necessary information.
- Iteratively testing font styles, colors, and layouts to balance representing both jazz and pop equally and
Product Research (3 double page spreads) - Task 4vcolquhoun12
This double page spread uses minimal colors and layout to focus on one main image and article. The image of Lady Gaga on the left page depicts her in a provocative way to appeal to the male gaze. The text on the right page is written in a blog style across three columns. While there is a lot of writing, the language is sophisticated and the columns make it easy to read. The simple black, white and red color scheme and layout with the image separate from the text is effective at clearly presenting the content.
Evaluation of my own music magazine productionAshleigh Foy
The document provides an evaluation of the author's own music magazine production. It summarizes the key ways the magazine uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. This includes using a longer masthead word, full page cover images, eye contact directing to the right, medium close-up shots, and color schemes inspired by other magazines. It also discusses representing a target audience of women aged 16-23 by featuring a female artist and portraying her style and interests. Finally, it suggests IPC Media as a potential distributor since they distribute a key inspiration magazine, NME, and have a large female audience.
Evaluation of my music magazine productionAshleigh Foy
The document provides an evaluation of the author's own music magazine production. It summarizes the key ways the magazine uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. This includes using a longer masthead word, full page cover images, eye contact directing to the right, medium close-up shots, and color schemes inspired by other magazines. It also discusses representing a target audience of women aged 16-23 by featuring a female artist and portraying her style and interests. Finally, it suggests IPC Media as a potential distributor since they distribute a key inspiration magazine, NME, and have a large female audience.
The masthead is red which attracts attention as it stands out from the background. There is an information skyline in blue above the masthead. The preview image on the skyline has light green colours that stand out against the dull tones used elsewhere on the cover. The colours give the impression that the magazine focuses on non-pop music genres. The image and words fit together well as the cover line references the image of Arctic Monkeys. The fonts used are bold to draw attention. The cover line stands out the most as the main story. The fonts are in capitals so they stand out clearly to readers. The image represents the target readers who enjoy that genre of music. The cover stands out on shelves due to the
Evaluation of my own music magazine productionAshleigh Foy
The document provides an evaluation of the student's own music magazine production. It discusses various ways the magazine uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. This includes using a longer word for the masthead to fit the indie genre, positioning the cover model to turn pages, and including typical magazine elements like barcodes and prices. Formats like the contents page and double-page articles are analyzed against magazines like NME. The target audience is identified as women aged 16-23 interested in indie music and style. The student concludes that IPC Media, which distributes NME, would be a suitable institution to publish the magazine due to the similar audience demographics and conventions used.
The document discusses the student's media magazine project from start to finish. It covers the development of the front cover, contents page, and double page spread, comparing early drafts to the final products. The student acknowledges areas for improvement, like the front cover photography, but feels mostly pleased with how the magazine fulfills the task brief. Overall, the document reflects on the progression of the project and what was learned throughout the process.
Este documento describe la programación orientada a aspectos (AOP), la cual busca resolver el problema de la separación de asuntos en el desarrollo de software. AOP permite modularizar los asuntos transversales, que afectan a distintas partes del sistema no relacionadas, mediante la definición de aspectos. Los aspectos contienen pointcuts, que identifican puntos de unión en la ejecución del programa, y consejos que indican acciones a realizar en esos puntos.
Este documento resume las principales características de la Web 2.0 y cómo han cambiado la forma en que las personas acceden a la información y se relacionan en línea. Explica que la Web 2.0 permite a los usuarios crear y compartir contenido fácilmente a través de herramientas como blogs, wikis y redes sociales. También introduce el concepto de Salud 2.0 y cómo estas nuevas tecnologías pueden aplicarse en el campo de la salud, facilitando la comunicación entre pacientes, profesionales y la creación y acceso
The document provides guidance on meeting transportation needs through wise consumer decisions. It discusses considering various transportation options and setting priorities. Key steps include doing research on used and new vehicles, leasing versus purchasing, insurance requirements and options, and factors that impact premium costs. Making an informed decision requires evaluating priorities and researching options, costs, safety, reliability and other factors.
The document analyzes the design elements of several music magazine covers, including color schemes, photography, writing styles, and layouts. It finds that the covers generally use simple designs that represent the genres and images of the featured bands. Punk magazines emphasize rebelliousness through bright colors and informal fonts and layouts. Older band covers depict the artists as established through historic photos and classic color schemes. Overall, the covers are designed to attract intended audiences through visuals that align with the musicians' brands.
The cover uses bright colors like red, blue, pink and yellow to represent the variety of music genres covered in the magazine. An image of David Bowie suggests his return to music again. Text boxes promote the magazine as "new" and better. However, the small font size and lack of bold cover lines means the text is not very readable from a distance and the cover design does not stand out on shelves or clearly indicate the magazine's contents.
The document analyzes the design elements of several music magazine covers, including color schemes, photography, writing styles, text-to-picture ratios, and fonts. For each magazine cover, it examines how the design choices represent the bands featured and target audiences. Overall, the document finds that the covers use punk, rock, and indie aesthetic styles that align with their genres and eras to attract intended readers.
The document discusses the conventions used and challenged in the design of a pop music magazine. For the masthead, a bright pink bubbly font was chosen instead of a simpler black font to better reflect the bright themes of pop music magazines. On the front cover, the main image features a model with a blank expression to match the cover story, following conventions. However, the cover story focuses more on gossip than music, slightly challenging conventions. The contents page includes smiling models and section titles to organize information, mostly following conventions, while using an unconventional grey color scheme. The double page spread features a large solo image set in an urban background, challenging conventions to portray the artist as down to earth.
The document provides details about the production process of a magazine cover and contents page. Key steps included choosing colors, adding text and images, and laying out the design. Black was used as the cover background to make gold, the main color, stand out. Headlines were added in yellow and red. Images were edited and placed, including a portrait on the cover. The contents page lists article sections in colored boxes.
This document evaluates the student's media magazine project. It summarizes how the magazine uses conventions of real music magazines in its design. The front cover includes a large masthead at the top to identify the magazine title. It also has a selling line above the masthead and cover photo in the center taking up most space. The contents page lists features in two columns, one with text and one with a large artist photo. The main article focuses on an artist through a large headline photo and interview-style text in two columns. While drawing from real magazine conventions, the evaluation finds the project does not challenge any conventions.
The document analyzes the design elements of several music magazine covers and contents pages, including color schemes, photography, writing styles, layouts, ratios of text to images, and fonts. Key points analyzed include how the design represents the bands featured and aims to appeal to the magazines' target audiences and genres of music. Overall the document provides detailed breakdowns of the visual rhetorical strategies used across different magazine covers and pages.
media school homework coursework questions one a levels sixth form media studies exams preparation powerpoint presentation music magazine front cover contents page double page spread article images editing text layers text masthead coverlines
The document discusses how the author's media product, a music magazine, uses and develops conventions from real music magazines like Kerrang and Rocksound.
To make the magazine appealing to its target audience, the author researched conventions from these magazines, such as using a "busy" front cover full of images and text. The author incorporated these conventions into their magazine's design.
The author refined their magazine through iterations, making the front cover and contents page more visually appealing and coherent with conventions like prominent images, varied text sizes, and consistent color schemes. The magazine develops conventions through carefully using white space and following principles of design.
The document discusses the author's process for creating their own music magazine. They began by researching conventions from popular magazines like Kerrang and Rocksound to determine style elements. For the front cover, they incorporated conventions like making it "busy" with graphics while also including an article strip for readability. Through iterations, they developed a design that targeted teenagers and young adults by including a group image and bold colors. Interior pages also followed conventions for elements like the contents page, double-page interview spread, and use of design principles. The author's final magazine successfully emulated conventions of real music magazines.
Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and ...ciaraoakes
The document summarizes the development of forms and conventions used in the media product of an indie rock magazine from its initial concepts to the final version.
The key developments included changing the magazine's theme from a Brit pop focus to solely featuring indie rock music. This led to changes in the magazine title from "Vertigo" to "Indigo" and the color scheme from red/white/black to blue/white/black. Images throughout were also updated to better represent the genres featured. Additional changes refined the layout and design elements to improve clarity and aesthetics. The final versions of the cover, contents page, and feature article demonstrate how conventions of real magazines were both followed and challenged during the creative process.
The document describes the process of designing a magazine cover and contents pages for a magazine focused on the genre of Japop (a hybrid of Japanese pop and jazz music). Key details include:
- Choosing a black background color and Elegante font for the title to help images and text stand out and relate to both jazz and pop genres.
- Deciding on purple shadows behind titles to associate with both genres while allowing for individuality in separate magazine issues.
- Filling the cover with images, captions, and details like the barcode to attract the target audience visually while providing necessary information.
- Iteratively testing font styles, colors, and layouts to balance representing both jazz and pop equally and
Product Research (3 double page spreads) - Task 4vcolquhoun12
This double page spread uses minimal colors and layout to focus on one main image and article. The image of Lady Gaga on the left page depicts her in a provocative way to appeal to the male gaze. The text on the right page is written in a blog style across three columns. While there is a lot of writing, the language is sophisticated and the columns make it easy to read. The simple black, white and red color scheme and layout with the image separate from the text is effective at clearly presenting the content.
Evaluation of my own music magazine productionAshleigh Foy
The document provides an evaluation of the author's own music magazine production. It summarizes the key ways the magazine uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. This includes using a longer masthead word, full page cover images, eye contact directing to the right, medium close-up shots, and color schemes inspired by other magazines. It also discusses representing a target audience of women aged 16-23 by featuring a female artist and portraying her style and interests. Finally, it suggests IPC Media as a potential distributor since they distribute a key inspiration magazine, NME, and have a large female audience.
Evaluation of my music magazine productionAshleigh Foy
The document provides an evaluation of the author's own music magazine production. It summarizes the key ways the magazine uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. This includes using a longer masthead word, full page cover images, eye contact directing to the right, medium close-up shots, and color schemes inspired by other magazines. It also discusses representing a target audience of women aged 16-23 by featuring a female artist and portraying her style and interests. Finally, it suggests IPC Media as a potential distributor since they distribute a key inspiration magazine, NME, and have a large female audience.
The masthead is red which attracts attention as it stands out from the background. There is an information skyline in blue above the masthead. The preview image on the skyline has light green colours that stand out against the dull tones used elsewhere on the cover. The colours give the impression that the magazine focuses on non-pop music genres. The image and words fit together well as the cover line references the image of Arctic Monkeys. The fonts used are bold to draw attention. The cover line stands out the most as the main story. The fonts are in capitals so they stand out clearly to readers. The image represents the target readers who enjoy that genre of music. The cover stands out on shelves due to the
Evaluation of my own music magazine productionAshleigh Foy
The document provides an evaluation of the student's own music magazine production. It discusses various ways the magazine uses and develops conventions of real music magazines. This includes using a longer word for the masthead to fit the indie genre, positioning the cover model to turn pages, and including typical magazine elements like barcodes and prices. Formats like the contents page and double-page articles are analyzed against magazines like NME. The target audience is identified as women aged 16-23 interested in indie music and style. The student concludes that IPC Media, which distributes NME, would be a suitable institution to publish the magazine due to the similar audience demographics and conventions used.
The document discusses the student's media magazine project from start to finish. It covers the development of the front cover, contents page, and double page spread, comparing early drafts to the final products. The student acknowledges areas for improvement, like the front cover photography, but feels mostly pleased with how the magazine fulfills the task brief. Overall, the document reflects on the progression of the project and what was learned throughout the process.
Este documento describe la programación orientada a aspectos (AOP), la cual busca resolver el problema de la separación de asuntos en el desarrollo de software. AOP permite modularizar los asuntos transversales, que afectan a distintas partes del sistema no relacionadas, mediante la definición de aspectos. Los aspectos contienen pointcuts, que identifican puntos de unión en la ejecución del programa, y consejos que indican acciones a realizar en esos puntos.
Este documento resume las principales características de la Web 2.0 y cómo han cambiado la forma en que las personas acceden a la información y se relacionan en línea. Explica que la Web 2.0 permite a los usuarios crear y compartir contenido fácilmente a través de herramientas como blogs, wikis y redes sociales. También introduce el concepto de Salud 2.0 y cómo estas nuevas tecnologías pueden aplicarse en el campo de la salud, facilitando la comunicación entre pacientes, profesionales y la creación y acceso
The document provides guidance on meeting transportation needs through wise consumer decisions. It discusses considering various transportation options and setting priorities. Key steps include doing research on used and new vehicles, leasing versus purchasing, insurance requirements and options, and factors that impact premium costs. Making an informed decision requires evaluating priorities and researching options, costs, safety, reliability and other factors.
The document discusses various aspects of sports event marketing. It defines sanctioning bodies as organizations that set rules for sports, lists some examples including FIBA, USOC, and NCAA. It also distinguishes between professionals, for whom playing a sport is their job, versus amateurs, who play for enjoyment. Finally, it outlines key aspects of event marketing, such as using advertising, publicity, and information distribution to generate excitement among spectators and boost sales, raise brand awareness, capture market share, and meet customers face-to-face by promoting an intangible, unique experience that is produced and consumed simultaneously.
This document discusses the design choices made for a magazine cover and contents. It examines several existing magazine covers and contents pages as inspiration. Some of the key design elements copied include bold mastheads, large cover story text, limited color palettes, full-page cover photos, varied letter sizing, and double page spreads with introductory sentences. The document focuses on consistency of design elements throughout the cover, contents, and spreads. The target audience of pop music is also considered in design choices like more sophisticated layouts. Elements not copied include designs deemed too comic-book like or only appealing to niche audiences.
The document describes the design choices made for various elements of a music magazine cover and contents page. It explains positioning a pug graphic and band names to draw attention. Color schemes including yellow, red and white are used throughout for consistency and to make elements stand out. The masthead, coverlines, splash text and images are also described in terms of size, color and positioning to maximize visibility and emphasis on key information.
The document discusses a student's process for designing their own magazine cover and contents based on conventions from example magazines. The student chose to follow conventions like bold mastheads, large cover story text, limited color palettes, full-page cover photos, varied text sizes in contents pages, and double page spreads with introductory sentences and text wraps around photos. The student avoided designs they felt were too comic-like or only appealed to niche audiences.
The document provides draft designs for the front cover, contents page, and double page spread of a magazine. For the front cover, the designer plans to use a large central image of a female model to attract young female readers. Additional images and advertisements will be included. The contents page lists sections in color-coded blocks and previews the double page spread. For the double page spread, a large celebrity image will run alongside brief questions and answers about them, using a consistent color scheme across all pages.
The document is an evaluation of a magazine created by Emma Dunn. It summarizes the key elements of the magazine including:
- The magazine is modeled after "Top of the Pops" magazine aimed at girls aged 11-16 and focuses on pop music.
- The layout, colors, and cover style are similar to conventional teen magazines to attract its target audience.
- While similar in overall style, the original content like celebrity interviews adds an element of originality.
The document compares the author's college magazine to their music magazine, noting the differences and how they have evolved. Some key differences include:
- The music magazine masthead uses a slight glowing effect while the college magazine does not
- The cover lines are much smaller in the music magazine to avoid crowding the page
- The puff used vibrant colors and informal language in the music magazine to appeal to teenagers, unlike the college magazine puff
- The magazine images feature the same model against different backgrounds, with the music magazine choosing a black background to draw attention to colors used.
This document provides an analysis of the layout, design, and content of several issues of the 'i' newspaper by a media student.
The student examines multiple front pages and inside pages, noting the use of color, images, text size and placement, and overall layout. They find the front pages to be too "claustrophobic" with many large images and articles crammed together. Inside pages also have a "cluttered" feel despite clear column structure.
While some elements are praised, like bold masthead colors and labeling of article topics, the student ultimately finds the layouts inconsistent between issues and not always effective at guiding the reader's eye or breaking up dense blocks of text. The content seems
This document provides an analysis of the layout, design, and content of several issues of the 'i' newspaper by a media student. Some key points made:
1) The student critiques the cluttered layout of the front pages, noting too many articles and images leave the pages feeling crowded. Inside pages also have a cluttered feel due to extensive use of text.
2) Color schemes and structural elements like column lines and article separators help provide continuity across issues, but the student sees inconsistencies in layouts between issues.
3) Political content and images of politicians indicate the newspaper targets an older, politically engaged audience. However, the student feels not enough images are used to break up dense blocks of
This document summarizes a student's magazine cover and contents page design project. The student was inspired by hip hop magazines and chose colors, layouts, and elements consistent with those publications. Key aspects included using images of rapper N-Y-B, block colors for text, and a serious tone to match the "No Joke" magazine name. The contents page continued these design choices and featured images and tilted text for visual interest. A double-page interview spread was organized with a large portrait, smaller photos, and columns of question text.
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Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. The ‘masthead’ of the ‘Teenage’ magazine is always brightly coloured and outlined, often with a background shadow. I didn’t use an outline or back shadow because I felt that a lot of the text on my front cover already had it. My ‘Masthead’ takes up less of the page because of the cherry illustration, which makes it stand out less than the ‘Masthead’ of the Teenage magazines. The backgrounds of all of these magazines are bright and colourful, the Teenage magazines, however, use sparkles and paint stripes that overlap the figures to make the backgrounds more interesting. I intended for my background to be bright enough to catch attention without it being too overwhelming, hence why I used a light blue turning to white. The text within my front cover looks like a mixture of the ideas used in the two examples. The paint splattering idea used a lot in the first example I have also used in the title ‘Nameless’, which I intended to use to make it look like the name was painted on. Continuing with the ideas used in the text on the page, this magazine uses a similar idea of having text on blocks of colour. This example uses the blocks to make the text look like paper that has been stuck on, but works well to make the text stand out. My blocks of colour are in the background and act as a way to make the background more interesting and to make the names of the features stand out. Both of the examples also use smaller pictures on with borders. The first example uses the paint splatter idea again to outline the photos, the second example uses writing to make it look like someone has drawn on the ‘Poster’. I decided to use a border that made it look like the photos were being pealed off the page. I really like how the ‘Teenage’ magazine fitted the date into their title by putting it into the arrow in the ‘e’ of the ‘Masthead’. Also, how they put ‘The official youth magazine’ in different formats in each example, depending on the theme of the magazine.
3. ‘ NEO’ is the only UK magazine that reports on the Japanese charts and in general is the only magazine that gives information on Japanese and Korean bands and concerts in the UK. It is also a magazine dedicated to Anime, manga, games and asian films (basically, many parts of asian culture). The idea for my band came from a group called ‘Beat Crusaders’ who hid their identity with masks, I designed my masks to look like emotional anime faces which I felt made it relevent to compare it to NEO magazine. NEO’s ‘Masthead’ is quite large, and whether the figure is in front or behind the ‘Masthead’ changes with each magazine (depending on the picture). NEO often uses text that is straight and in line, but sometimes changes according to the photo (for example, in the largest example where it is slightly diagonal to make it work with the figure slashing a sword). The magazine also constantly has a border that changes colour with each magazine-I feel the border works nicely with the magazine and is also relevant to the magazine as it looks like the borders of a film. In comparison, my magazine is obviously going to look different because it is a real model on the cover and also because it is a music magazine. NEO uses more text on the cover then I do in my cover and so it can often look more packed and interesting, making mine plainer looking. NEO is also usually quite colourful because of the colouful pictures used. My aim from the beginning was to make quite a colouful cover to make it appealing to teenagers and to relate it to live and colourful J-POP and K-POP.
4. ‘ Oricon style’ is a fashion magazine which I chose to compare to my magazine because it often has a single figure on the front page, like mine. ‘Oricon’ tends to use a photo for their front cover and then adds text on top. It would have been good for me to do that, however, there was the problem of locations for photos and how my band would need to a bright and colourful background. ‘Oricon’ have proved in these examples that actually a normal photo with even a white or grey background can look good because of the bright text in front of it. In comparison, you could consider that my front cover is a bit to colourful and it could have looked better with a plainer backgorund. The straight and ‘in line’ text that has an oriental look which I aimed to achieve has also been used in the ‘Oricon’ front cover, which of course has been written in Japanese. Having the title of the magazine on the side of the page looks very stylish for the ‘Oricon’ magazine. It may have worked for my magazine, however, it probably would have just made the page over packed on one side and empty on the other. The colours that the models are wearing in ‘Oricon’ contrast really well with the colour of the text used. Unfortunately because of circumstances the model that I used for my front cover had to wear what she was wearing (so the outfit is quite grey compared to the bright colours).
5. ‘ Ponteen’ and ‘Ageha’ are two examples of Japanese magazines that are aimed at teenage girls. When I was creating my magazine I didn’t want it to be aimed at a particular gender, despite the fact that I used a lot of pink on my front cover (which I used to go with the theme of cherries). A few of the examples also use a single figure, but have done it in a better way to me because the figure has taken up more of the space on the page and is more noticeable that way. The colour themes that these examples have used are mostly pink, white and blue. My magazine also uses a fair bit of these colours, however, I also used different colours in the blocks of colour. They also use sparkly effects and large glistening text to attract female readers. All the examples have female models on their front cover, dressed in quite frilly clothes and with styled hair in a pretty ‘lolita’ style. My model obviously doesn’t have frills and the model is meant to be a musician rather than showing a fashion. In general, my magazine has much less sparkles and does not have huge text to cover the half the page. Because of this my page seems much plainer and empty compared to the examples, however, you could also turn that around and say that my front cover is much less overwhelming. I would hope that boys would be attracted to my magazine as well, not put off by the pink used in some of the text and background.
6. The first thing I noticed from the examples I had chosen was that the two examples are almost complete opposites. The first example has a dark theme with a dark purple background and purple text, the second example has a light theme with a white background with yellow and orange text. In a way one magazine could be winter themed and the other autumn themed. My magazine uses more spring colours if you compare it to the examples so it seems much brighter. The ‘Masthead’s of these magazines are much bigger compared to my magazine, interestingly, in the first example the ‘Mastheaad’ has been left in front of the figure and in the other example it has been put behind. Most likely because the figure in the first example would have covered too much of the ‘Masthead’. It may have been an idea to have a slightly bigger ‘Masthead’, however, it would have meant that there wasn’t enough room for the cherry illustration. The figure of my magazine is the smallest when comparing it to the two examples, however, I did try making the figure bigger when I was experimenting but I didn’t like how the front cover looked. By making the figure smaller it allowed more room for text and images on the cover, however, it has also made the cover look a bit plain compared to the examples as it seems that there is more space. The examples use a constant colour theme through the text that they have, because of this they have a neat and stylish theme and in general, the overall feel of the magazine is easier to see. My magazine has a range of colours, even though the text only used pink, blue, black, white and yellow. The different colour blocks in the background and the blue background makes the cover more colourful and also much brighter compared to the other two.
7. I chose this contents page to compare because it has a slightly oriental feel to it because of the arrangement of text on the page and also the first two pictures used. I chose this contents page because it is quite different to the other example and has a very different feel to the asian style examples (this one has a western feel to it) The first noticeable difference when comparing these three is the colours used, in the first and last examples they use quite dark colours like black and grey and then put brighter colours in their headers and page number (In the first, yellow, in the second, red). In my contents page I used much brighter colours, so in comparison, mine looks much brighter and may look like it is aimed at a younger audience. The first example has text at angles, which is similar to my header, however, I decided to keep the main part of my text straight to continue with the idea of lines of asian text in straight lines. The images are also at angles, which could be similar to the film strip idea I used. The second example has text which is much more in line, which is similar to the main part of text on my contents page. The overall appearance of this contents page is much neater, which is similar to my contents page, however, because of the colours and the arrangement of the header and film strip mine can seem much less in line, so much less neater. My favourite part of my contents page is the film strip idea because it is a creative way to place the images on the page, while still being able to identify which topic goes with which photo. By having a different colour on each page number it could be seen as too much colour, however, I think it goes well with the coloured blocks I used throughout my magazine and it makes it much brighter.
8. I chose this example because of the bright colours and original use of paint splatters, which has similarities to my contents page through the use of multiple colours. This example uses many colours in the text and paint splatters in a creative way. In comparison, my contents page looks much more organised because the example has text in various different fonts. I tried to use many colours in my contents page, however, despite the fact that the background is white, the example looks much more colourful because I used pastel colours where the example used bright colours. The first example and my contents page both have headers which are at angles, the last example has a straight header, however, it is colourful and a strange font to fit with the illustrations. Also, while the first example and mine uses headers which suggest at a contents page, the last example just states the name of the magazine. This example uses many colourful illustrations, which makes the page look bright and interesting. My contents page is also bright, but because of the colours and obviously no illustrations were used. Despite the fact that the page is covered in illustrations, it is still clear that the magazine is aimed at an elder audience (teenager and young adult) because of the style of the drawings. My magazine would also be aimed at this age range. I chose this example because of the bright illustrations and original feel of the contents page. I really like that the background is textured like wood because it makes the illustrations stand out and could suggest that they are drawn on the wood. I aimed for my contents page to suit the age range of teenagers to young adult while still suiting the J-POP and K-POP style, which is often bright and colourful and fun, despite the age of the singers or listeners. The font I used was to follow the style of the magazine, so I used the same font that I used for the front cover masthead with the header on the contents page.
9. I analyzed these examples in my initial research as I wanted to aim to arrange the photos in the style they are in the first example. My photos ended up in a much neater arrangement on the page, to go with the constant theme of straight lines of Japanese text. By having them in straight lines and also in colours blocks, I also felt that they fitted well with the colours blocks that I used on all the parts of my music magazine. The photos on my page were inspired by the example with colour backgrounds and single photos thrown on the page, however, I didn’t want to follow the example exactly so they came out slightly different. Although the examples, and many of the other examples I looked at, had white backgrounds, I decided to stick with the blue background that I used throughout my magazine. By doing this the double page spread looks more colourful and bright, but also faces the possibility of the page looking much less professional because of how smart white looks on the page. The example used colour blocks to put the text in-I also used this idea, however, I decided to make my blocks see-through so that the colours would merge and images could be seen through the text. My double page spread also has much more space in comparison with the example.
10. I took a lot of inspiration from the NEO magazine, which is the only magazine in the UK which provides interviews Japanese and Korean bands. I decided to stick with the colour background because NEO nearly always use a colour background with patterns when reporting on an interview. The example also shows their use of smaller black boxes to give little bits of information [see green arrows], which I used in my double page spread. Comparing the front covers completely on appearance, it looks like it would have been a bettter idea to have two clear borders as it helps to define the magazine, as well as a outline around my Masthead, which has been mentioned a lot in my evaluation.
11. The example is another example which uses a white background instead of a colour background, unlike mine. The example uses large green text as a colour theme through the pages (The same colour used in the masthead). I didn’t use the same colour, however, I used the same text to represent the band on the front cover and the double page spread. The example uses large photos and blocks of black text, which makes the page look smart and neatly arranged, however, it could also be considered that it makes the page look plain and boring as there is a lack of variety. Although my double page spread is very colourful, it is also very neatly arranged with everything in line. On the front cover of the example I really like the band of colour across the image (which otherwise would look like quite a boring image), however, it is debatable whether the front cover of my magazine would have looked better with a photo rather than a figure cut out and put on a colour background. My front cover is overall much more varied in colour and style.