This document discusses the design and feedback of four different masthead designs for a music magazine. [1] The first masthead was simple but not successful because it was not in capital letters. [2] The second grew the letters in size to reflect "increasing volume" and received positive feedback for visually representing its name, but was disliked for looking odd on the cover. [3] The third in all capital letters was seen as too simple. [4] The final design in red capital letters with a strap line was deemed the most successful as it stood out and visually represented the magazine's purpose.

1. Typography for Masthead.
This masthead front is simple and Sharpe. It wasn’t as successful as the others
because firstly, one of them students which said “its not in capitals letters so its
doesn’t really stand out as much.” Because of this I decided that this masthead
front wasn’t going to be used as I want my masthead to stand out and for it to be
eye catching,
This masthead front was created to fit to the connotations of the name ‘Amplify’ as it
means to increase the volume of something. To reflect this I made the masthead grow
into bigger letters showing the increasing part of it. I also added the strap line at the
bottom which signifies the increase of the volume. I asked one the students to tell me
what they like a dislike about this masthead. The successful outcome of this masthead is
that the student “can see that the font of masthead and the letters becoming bigger
reflects to whole increasing the volume.” the student disliked the fact that the
masthead “would look out of place on the front cover and it would look odd because
one side would be bigger than the others.”
This masthead was creased to be simple but yet eye catching. The successful thing
about this masthead is the fact its in capitals makes it stand out more and also, by
it being spaced out again makes it more eye catching for the readers. A student
said that this masthead doesn’t tell you much on and doesn’t give anything away
about the music magazine. I decided that I wasn’t going to use this masthead as it
as to simple and not really eye catching.
This masthead was designed to be Sharpe and very eye catching which was
successfully done. On the other hand, the front that was used doesn’t really fit into
the genre that I will be doing as this type of front that I done doesn’t really show
anything about music.
This last masthead that was the most successful masthead that was created.
Firstly, the front that’s used is very eye catching as its in capitals letters, spaced out
and in red which makes it stand out more which is exactly what I want my masthead
to do. The strap line also makes it effective as it shows the connotations of the
masthead and it fits together with the masthead.