Feedback 27.1.11

Well doen Kurt. You are working hard on this already. Good analysis of a front page. You need to do the same for as contents page and feature. Please also upload your completed prelim with a brief reflection on what you have learnt. What works and doesn't? What will you do again or work on? You should upload the front page but also get Nikki/Mike to scan your contents page sketch and then upload it to the blog next lesson as part of the same post. For homework, conitnue working through the research checklist. See me if you need clarification on anything.
Mrs A

Analysis Of A Music Magazine Front Cover

I will be using the aggressive, "loud" style of titles and images. Ill be adding more photos than this but with be adding many bands to the front cover similar to this (to give the impression I'm trying to reach out to a larger selection of audiences). I'd also like to use a front cover feature image with a full band or single artist looking directly out of the magazine towards the reader or if i chose a single artist i may have him doing some form of pose that is still directed towards the reader. I will not be using the same colour schemes (which i failed to mention in my analysis due to the lack of space). In conclusion my magazine is going to be very closely based on the one shown above but I will be adding my own twists.

Initial Ideas.

My initial ideas are to create a rock music magazine with a new rock band as the subject of my double feature and front cover pages, I intend on involving subjects of interest to the majority of rock style magazine readers, I'l find these out by studying other rock styled magazines such as Kerrang and NME. I will also involve subjects of my own interest so that designing my magazine pages won't become boring.

Conventions of Magazines

Magazines; although all very different, have many conventions that are frequently seen within them all. For example generally all front covers of magazines whether monthly or weekly sold all have conventions such as short memorable titles that are placed within a large header to catch buyers attention. Other conventions are thing such as subjects of interest within the front covers are always clearly presented, for example if a music magazine was to interview a new band the band members faces will all be clearly shown; this is relevant within all magazines whether about cars, fashion or women, all subjects will be clearly presented. For music magazines especially images of bands are generally quite large. Bright colour schemes are usually chosen to try and attempt the attract further attention of buyers and then of course all magaines have a price and barcode somewhere on the front or back.

Contents pages. Contents pages are also similar within magazines, they will generally have the title of the magazine on in a medium sized font (much smaller than the title page) and will obviously incude all the information and listings of the content within the magazine.

Double feature pages. Double feature pages within a music magazine example are usually used for famous or brand new bands or artists. These will generally contain the magazine title, a large image of the band or artists in question and a large header stating the band or artist name in a clear bold font to give an impact on the article. The articles withing the feature pages will be written in a clear font with certain sections highlighted to attract readers attention to points of interest. All of these thing will be seen throughout magazines and will all have continous colour schemes within these pages and front pages.