Magazine Evaluation

Magazine evaluation

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Contents Page

Here is my completed Contents Page:I continued my colour scheme of red, black, and white, from my front cover, as this makes it more professional as it is a continuous theme. I also used the same font on the "Contents" title as I did on the title for Mayhem on my front page. From my research, I found out that most magazines divide their contents pages into the main features in the magazine, and then the recurring features which they include every month, so I decided to used this in my magazine. I have included the page numbers on the left hand side, and under the main features I included a sentence about what the article includes.I used the font Myriad Pro for my text as it is a clear and easy to read text. I also included pictures relating to the articles, and put a caption on these images of who the person is, and what article and page number.

Contents Page Research

Before I started creating my contents page, I did some research into music magazine contents pages so I knew the features that were usually used, and got ideas for my layout and articles.
I researched Billboard and Q magazine, as these are the magazines I looked at the most when creating my front cover.

These contents pages both include the articles and page numbers, as well as a bit more detail about the articles to interest the reader. They both have different sections for the categories of articled, and include a number of pictures which are linked to some of these articles. Q magazine continues the red, black, and white colour scheme which they include on the front cover.

Magazine Front Cover

Here is my completed magazine front cover:
I used my research for ideas about the layout and also what articles to include, and what would appeal to my target audience.I have included typical magazine conventions such as the central image, the price and date, and a slogan, to make it look professional. I have used the colour scheme red, black, and white, as these are popular and common colours in other music magazines, as the are not specific to one gender, and they work well together. The colour red is also very eye catching, so will catch peoples attention. I included a lot of articles and artists on the front, so that people interested in them artists would want to buy the magazine to read about them.

Magazine Name

For the title of my magazine, I thought of words connected to music and came up with the name Mayhem.
I went on the site dafont.com to find a suitable font which will attract the readers attention, and suit the style of the magazine. After testing various fonts, I decided to use the font "Reboard" as it is big, bold, and eye catching.

Photo Ideas

For my magazine photoshoot, I am using one male to act as the lead member of a band. Before my photoshoot, I looked at magazine covers featuring solo males to get more ideas for what I could do.

Research

Before I take the pictures for my magazine, I researched magazine covers which would be relevant to my own. My magazine is going to be based around popular music, similar to magazines such as Billboard and Q which feature popular & upcoming artists. They are not tied down to one particular genre, unlike magazines such as Kerrang, which is just rock music, or Top Of The Pops, which is just pop music.

Billboard Magazine

These magazines all have one central image, which takes up quite a large proportion of the page. The title is big and bold at the top and there is quite alot of text around the central image, letting the reader know what else is in the magazine. There isn't a specific colour scheme for the magazine, as each cover includes different colours, unlike magazines such as Q & NME, which contain mostly red, black and white. The artists featured in Billlboard vary from Pop, R&B, Country & Indie.

Q Magazine

Although Q magazine focuses mainly on bands and indie artists, they feature a wide range of genres. The main colours in Q magazine are Red and Black, which is also used in other music
magazines such as NME.

Print Prelim

For our print preliminary exercise we had to create the front cover of a magazine which was aimed at college students.
For our magazine, we used students from the student union as the central image, and had another image of an art sculpture. We had our title and slogan at the top, and a barcode at the side. These features are all typical features you would see on a magazine cover, so we used all of these to make it look like a realistic magazine.

From this exercise I developed basic photoshop skills, which I will have to develop further for my coursework piece. I will also improve on the layout, to make it more appealing to the audience and look more professional.

Research

After doing the preliminary exercises for film & print, I decided to do the print option for my media coursework as I enjoyed the print exercise the most. Before starting my magazine, I have researched different genres of music magazines to give me ideas and to help me decide which genre I wanted to do for my magazine.

AS Group 7

AS Group 7