2nd Front Page Analysis

Possible Titles For Music Magazine

Here are some the possible titles that I am thinking of using in my music magazine. The second one, (The one that looks cartoony) is my most preferred, but I'm still thinking. Any ideas on which one I should use, feel free to comment :D

1st Front Page Analysis

Here is my Billboard Magazine Analysis. This is the first magazine I have analysed. When analysing this magazine, I have learnt that not all magazines stick to the usual conventions. For example, this magazine didn't have any sub-images, which is fairly unusual. It was still good anaylsing :D

What I Have Learnt So Far...

I feel I have done a good job in making a front cover for the Bede College magazine. I have included many conventions, such as Masthead, Date...etc. What I am happy with the most, is the picture I have used. I feel it relates to the other conventions of the magazine and so helps with the overall look. I also believe it is useful when it comes to making my own music magazine cover. This is because, when making my music magazine I will need to use similar features. On the front cover are shapes that help the sub-headlines stand out. It includes the main information that I want my audience to read. Since this magazine is free, I didn’t need to include a barcode which is one of the conventions in any magazine. Furthermore, I didn’t need the price, hence the previous reason about the magazine being free. I have named my magazine “Bede Daily”. The simple reason is because I want to make a daily college newspaper, which can inform the students and teachers about what is happened the previous day and what is happening in the current day. The making of my college magazine has improved my Adobe Photoshop skills as well, which is useful for the music magazine I will make. Although I had used Adobe Photoshop many times, I still needed a lot of practice if I were to know what tools to use. When making something on Photoshop, I now feel more confident and feel I could use the tools. What I could have possibly done better was to use less intense colours. Although, I do want it to stand out, I feel some of the colours I put onto my magazine made the text slightly hard to read. Yet overall I am happy with the outcome. Yet I know that it goes well with my magazine front cover, and so I happy with the final production.

Summary Of What I'd Expect To See In A School Magazine

On a magazine cover, I’d expect to see the main image standing out from all the other conventions on the magazine. When wanting to pick up a magazine, I wouldn’t necessarily want to see the barcode; therefore if I did play attention to it, I would want it to the side of the magazine. As well as the main image, I would want the main headline to stand out. The main headline would need to relate to the genre of the magazine. For example, my own magazine is literally called “Bede Daily”, therefore when people pick it up they know instantly what the magazine is likely to contain. When looking at the magazine front cover, I would expect the sub-headline to relate to the main headline, or at least explain it in more detail. Around the magazine, I would also want to see. On the contents page, I would want to see the page numbers with information about what would go on to each page. I would also expect to see images related to what will be in the following pages. For example, if there was something about coursework in a magazine, I would maybe expect to see a student working hard. In a contents page, I wouldn’t just want to see a list of everything that was going to be on the page. I would want it to attract me. I would want the producer to play on the words. For example in my own contents page, I put “Get your head into the future!” This is because the Futureheads were coming to the college; I feel that this is more attracting to a reader then just putting “Futureheads” I would expect to see the page numbers clear and spaced out. Therefore when I want to see the page, it would be easy to find. Similarly to my own contents page, I would also want to see pictures related to the magazine. Having pictures makes a reader want to continue reading and it can help relate to the target audience.

Contents Page

Contents Page Summary

My own contents page for my college magazine For my contents page, I did all the things that I would want to see, if I were to pick a magazine up at random. I did just want a list of pages with no meaning. Therefore what I did was make the information was intriguing and attracting. I decided to go for a very fair purple colour for the background. There was no particular reason for this, but if I had to say, it would be because my front cover was blue, and I feel when turning the page the difference in contrast of colours would be effective. Overall, I am very happy with my contents page. I have made nine pages for my magazine. I didn’t want to make too many pages because I knew that if I did put too many on then it would be hard to put something in the magazine the week after. I had to criticize myself about my contents page, it would be that I could have put more images on. I always feel that the more images there are on the contents page, the better it looks and it is very attracting

College Magazine Front Cover

NME Magazine Analysis

What potential meanings do you think might be encoded in the image? Most of the time, the main image will cover the magazine, and this is does for a certain reason. As said when analysing, the producer and maker will want the reader to be drawn in by the image. Apart from the masthead, the image will be the next thing that the reader looks at. The main image is nearly always someone famous, again adding to the attraction of the public. It could also be said that the image will be set for the main audience. An example of this is ‘NME’. The majority of the time it is a teenager who will be posing, and is effective as it is someone that the target audience, ‘teenager’, can relate to. The headline will be related to the image as well. Taking this example to right again, it is clear that the headline is talking about the man in the magazine. The sub-headline is a quote from the man in the image, again adding to the effectiveness, as it wants the reader to keep reading. There are many other potential meanings in the magazine beside the image. The list of names placed in the lower end of the magazine are effective as it is a list of bands that again the target audience can relate to. Oasis, Muse and Kaiser Chiefs are all popular bands and this has been done deliberately by the producer. They are all the same colour as well (red background and white text) these two basic colours are effective because it grasps the reader’s attention and is very effective. A magazines layout and design will be the same weekly. Using ‘NME’ again as an example, the position of the masthead, the headlines, sub-headlines, etc… will be in the same or similar position each week. In terms of lighting, a magazine always needs to stand out. Sticking to a certain amount of brightness and using a limited amount of colours makes it the text clear, makes the image stand out, and as a cover it is appealing to the target audience. ‘NME’ in this particular magazine have been very clever, as they write ‘exclusive’ in above their main headline. The chances are the interview with Pete, has probably been published in a wide range of other magazines and newspapers. Yet, to make the reader think that this is the only source that has this interview with Pete, they are more likely to but it.