2. Do a mood board of different
music magazines…..
3. Place a music magazine cover here, select
one which will have a similar target
audience to your own
4. Title of Magazine
- The title of the magazine is
simple and bold
- The colour blue is really
attractive
- The masthead doesn’t use
serif styles
5. Masthead & Selling Line
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Masthead is very simple, big
and bold
It is also bright which makes it
very appealing
The selling line are about the
role models themselves which
would make it appealing to
that role model's audience
The text on the left tends to be
bigger than the right, this
makes the magazine look
more eye catching
6. Main Image
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The celebrity in this magazine is
Kanye West. He is a very
famous rapper in todays music
industry
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People who like rap will get
attracted to this type of
magazine
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The facial impression that he
has is very simple
7. Cover Lines & Main Sells
- From what we can see we have
a lot of selling stories that we
can see in front of the
magazine, this simply attracts
the audience.
- The text of the stories are also
very bright and bold, this just
simply makes it attractive to the
audience
- The placement of the text is
very eye catching as well, we
can see that it gets bigger from
the left then gets smaller to the
right, this makes it appealing
because the bigger stories are
on the left
8. Do the same thing for another magazine…select
one with adifferent genre to make a good
comparison.
- This is a magazine aimed
specifically for women
- The audience for this
magazine from what we
can see is people who like
pop music
9. Comparisons
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The appearance of the
magazine is more bright and
colourful
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The image of the role model
is a female
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The colour is a lot more
aimed at females in general
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The text is simpler and
easier to read, it uses no
serif style of writing
Vibe is an R&B magazine whereas
Blender is a pop magazine who are
targeted at women. Blender magazine
looks a lot more softer to look at where
as vibe looks a lot more edgy. The sub
stories on the magazine, in terms of
text looks a lot more softer and light.
Whereas the text on vibe is a lot more
sharper and the colours on the text are
darker.
10. Ideas for your own magazine
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Bright and bold colours
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Non serif type of text
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Simple use of text
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Masthead to be simple as
well
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Catchy title
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The background to be bright
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Slanted type of imagery to
attract the audience
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