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Feeback on first magazine draft

 

Ideas for Magazine Layout

I decided to make a collage of different pages from a selection of different issues from Q magazine to get ideas from. I want my magazine to look as professional and realistic  and I believe by looking at a magazine that is already popular in the magazine industry will help me to gain a better understanding on the successes of music magazines. However,  I also believe it is important to not entirely base my magazine on one particular music magazine and I will therefore think about this in the process of creating my magazine. I will also include elements such as box out texts and social media which are not shown in this magazine to make my music magazine 'TMM' look more original.

Magazine Research: Q

 

Q magazine ideally appeals to young adults and both genders male and female. The use of the colour scheme – red, black and white appeals to the target audience and makes the magazine appropriate for mixed gender. From first looking at the magazine we are welcomed by the big bright company logo ‘Q’ this immediately brings the reader’s attention and would make the magazine stand out from the others when displayed on a magazine rack.  The magazine is followed by a well organised and sophisticated layout; this makes the product much easier to read and gives the idea of a professional look. The colour scheme – red, black and white is repeated through a series of Q magazines and makes the reader aware this is a product made by Q.  Furthermore, we are introduced to a main image of a popular music artist, the artist is portrayed to have a serious look and has been not been captured smiling.

The popular music artist Cheryl Cole displayed on the front cover is viewed by many girls to be their ‘role model’ and is depicted by young guys to be a ‘sexual icon’ therefore her presence within the magazine is suited to the dual gender target audience. The image portrays Cheryl Cole to be classy and elegant through the use of her body language. Her facial expressions convey her to not be smiling emphasising her seductive image for men. The use of her red lipstick reinforces this idea and contrasts with the red coloured masthead and sell lines pictured around the around cover of the page. The colour red is a key element of the image as red has strong connotations of love, romance and passion as well as wealth, superiority and importance. The use of this colour indicates her dominance and suggests her popularity within the music industry. She is presented to be standing in the rain against a black all and is captured from a front angle to emphasise her beauty. Her chest is shown to be partly bare as her jacket separates from the front– this again reinforces the idea of her being a sex symbol for the male audience.  Overall, I believe looking at this particular front cover has helped me to develop my ideas in the design of my magazine. 

Institution Research

Audience Profile

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Existing names and mastheads

 

 

Audience Survey Results

Audience survey

Conventions of music magazines

 

 

 

Feedback about proposal

 

Double page spread analysis

 

Analysis of contents pages

 

Analysis of a range of front cover magazines

 

 

I found this task to be very useful as it helped me gain a better understanding of the different layouts, images, colours and mastheads I could incorporate into my own magazine. This task also helped me to develop my ideas further into the style of magazine I should create - do I want a multi genre magazine such as Q magazine which includes pop and rock artists or do I want a heavy rock based magazine such as Kerrang? While researching for different front cover magazines I decided to choose these three; Q, NME and Kerrang! as they all look professional and follow the typical conventions of a front cover page. Out of the three front covers I most like Q as the layout of the page is much more simple in contrast to Kerrang! In addition, Q magazines includes a variation of different text sizes, fonts and subtitles. I believe this task will help me for future tasks to develop my magazine further.