Masthead Fonts experiement.

I have decided to go with this Font and colour because the style fits my hybrid genre of my magazine as I am doing a fashion and music magazine. I think this font suits the style because it is classy and easy to read but has a slight detail to make it look exciting. I think it is vert presently to be my masthead for my front cover as it will fit in with the images used and the style my magazine will be in.

 

I have chosen to stick with different tones of purple because in my survey, the colours purple black and white came up popular therefore i cam going to stick with a basic black and white background with a purple masthead. I have chosen to use the colour purple for my masthead becuase it is a bold colour that will stand out against the simple blck and white background and also because my magazine is targeted to females aged 16+ , so this colour will fit in with the age and gender as it is a sophisticated colour suitable for my target audience.



Definitions

Genre - The way a magazine is constructed ( put together) such as what images and colours are used that link to the themed text that belong to separate different themes. This can be important for example, when distinguishing between a Heavy metal magazine and a Rock magazine, which can deal with similar subject matter and may slightly look the same, but have a separate genre to them
A media text is said to belong to a genre, as it adopts the codes and conventions of other texts in the genre, and lives up to the same expectations.

This is an example of Rock Genre as it is a magazine that shows ranges of Rock  music.















Sub Genre - Further categorises a genre into a specialist area. For example Kerrang is a metal magazine which is a sub-genre of Rock.

Hybrid  Genre - When two genres conbine into one magazine, for example when fashion and music are put together into one magazine.

 

 

An example of this is A pop magazine called 'We love Pop'.

Summer Photos for music magazine.

From looking at my survey, High Street Stores such as River Island and Topshop seem popular for young people to shop at, therefore this image is good because it is an image of Manchester Centre where all the high street shops are.

 

 

I will show many features on concerts and venues by including these pictures of different artists performing at a concert. These features are popular according to my survey.

This image is good because it will be part of my meet and greet feature page.

As part of the competition feature, these pictures are good because they show different tourist attractions in London that I can use for my competition to win a trip to London.

These images are also good because again they will link with the competition page as a chance to win a holiday to Egypt. This will be a good feature as my audience enjoy going on holiday.

These images will either be used for my main image on my front cover or my contents page. I have chose these pictures because they are all clear facial or body shots that will go well with my magazine.

Mood Bored

Survey Monkey Questionnaire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My music magazine ideas

Front cover base

Double page spread analysis

There is only one image used in this double page spread to automatically inform the reader who the article is based on. The image looks as if it has been taken at a slight low angle at a mid shot, to imply the character is strong, and almost as if he has power of the page as the text is based on the character.

There is a consitant house style used made of pinks and white which may imply that the article is for female readers as we usually relate pink as a femanim colour. The denotaion of the tattoos on the characters arm my connect to the idea of him having power as having that lot amount of tattoos shows that you must be a strong person. The connotation of this represents the genre of music he plays, for example Rock music.

The connotations of the colour pink usually symbolises love and affection and calmness which relates to the word 'Casual' used in the Pull Quote as it make show that although he is in a loud rock band, he may have a calm loving personality.

All of the colours contrast each other highlighting the text form the different headings and sub-headings.

The pull quote used " Do I ever have a casual Friday?, Absolutely" links to the character used in the made image, as his body language looks relaxed as he looks slightly leant back. He looks causal the way he is present as he doesn't look like he has any stiffness in his body. Anchorage is presented here as his body language connects to the quote that he feels casual.

Contents page evaluation

 

For my preliminary task i was asked to produce a front cover and contents page for a new college magazine. I believe I was successful in completing my contents page by including many features that came up popular whilst doing a quesstionair to find out the interests students have in my class. I used a range of features to make my magazine contents page look exciting and detailed such as winning money for the most popular High Street shop 'Topshop'. I used a consistent house style both for my contetns page and front cover, and stuck to lighter femain colours as it suits the gender audience my magazine is mainly directed at. I used clear and safisicated fonts that is clear and easy to read on my front cover and my contents page, so the audience have a clear sense of what they are reading. I tried to vary the style of fonts to make the text look more exciting to read instead of the orginal standard text that everyone is used to reading. I used approrpiate language suitable for the target audience as that is very important that the reader can clearly understand and that it is suitable for them. Although i have only limited my images to one on each page, they are appropriate for the magazine style. I would improve on this when i create my music magazine, but adding more images to the front cover and the contents, that links to the features advertised, to make the page look more exciting and interesting, and also to preview the reader what they are going to see on that certain page. Also, on my contents page, I didnt set my page numbers out apprropriately as they are all in random order, so in my music magazine i would create a suitable order so that the numbers are equally spread out, to make my page look more presentable, and also to help the reader find what they are looking for alot easier. I would also improve the layout of my contents page by putting the different page features into labelled sections. For examnple, I would put all the competition features in a competition section with a clear tag of what this section provides. I may also use a more define use of font by sticking to a certain basic tone, that is suitable for both genders so anyone can feel comfortable reading the magazine.

 

Overall, I am happy with my contents page desgin, but i would definately make improvments if i was to do this again.

Contact Sheet

Contents base

Front cover evaluation

 

For my preliminary task, I was asked to produce a Magazine front cover and a contents page for a new collee magazine. I believe that i have been successful with creating my front cover although i do feel that i could improve on a number of things that I would then adapt to, to help my music magazine look a lot better and more presentable. I have used a variety of features in my front cover that relate to my questionnaire I produced to find out different hobbies and interests that my media class enjoy. This aloud me to advertise the interests that were the most popular, to make my magazine exciting for students to read. I used a variety of colour and fonts to make each feature contrast against each other. I decided to use a plain background so that any text or images would stand out alot more bolder and also more clear to read. I think I was successful doing this because it allows the text to look more exciting. Although, if i was to improve on this, I would keep the plain  backgound but use the colour white, to make my images and text look more bright and bigger. I would also stick to a certain range of colour scheme instead of different colours, to keep the consist house style that I can refer to in my magazine. I would also add alot more pictures to my front cover that relates to the advertised features so that the audience have an idea on who or what the feature presents. I feel there is a lot of empty spaces on my front cover so if i was to improve then I would make sure my page is packed with lots of exciting bright features and relative images. One of the main things that I feel have success with is the barcode that I created in the bottom right corner because I have stuck to the rule of no images from the internet so i created it myself on Publisher.