Friday, 19 September 2014

Key Features of Magazine

I found this image by searching on google for a UK music magazine cover to annotate, using key features that I have just learnt.

The main coverline "Sell line." is what allows the audience to realise what the main article/ context of the issue is.

I realised I put "Context." when I really meant Contents, this allows the readers to see what is also going to be involved in the issue.

Main image is very dominating, and is a picture of the artist that the issue is about, in this case Cheryl Tweedy.

Additonal information is in small print, this involves the price and web address for the magazine.

The logo overlaps the main image including the masthead (magazine name), this is so any fans of this magazine will insantly recognise it, but also it allow more instictive buyers to notice it is a popular UK magazine and will buy it, to see what it's like.

There is a section with a small Enigma Code, this allow the readers to see what is in the magazine without the stories being completely ruined.

The main colour scheme is very basic, using black, red and white. The red could symbolise the passion and lust because it is Cheryl Tweedy, so its advertising her looks as well as her music. White and Black are opposites, the black could be to symbolise her past and how bad it has been, and the white shows that she is now rising above it and taking hold of her music career again.

Finally, there is a bubble which is normally used for competitions or quizzess, which could appeal to the readers as they would feel more involved with the magazine. Its another advertising method.


Foundation Portfolio Print Brief


Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of DTP.

 

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group must produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).