My idea has changed slightly from before, instead of focusing the magazine on a girl band i have chosen to focus on one member who has 'fallen out with the band' and who wants to go solo. Focusing on one person rather than a group is much easier and allows for all attention to be on the single person.
Front Cover
I've chosen this particular front cover as it's colourful and vibrant to the eye and portrays a different look than other magazines which are the characteristics i want to be apparent on my magazine, however i won't be using childish animation of flowers e.c.t. as i would like the style of my magazine to be more mature.
The font of this magazine is bold and appears both behind and in front of the images/background. This is used to catch the readers eye and the extra emphasised 'Vibe' title of the magazine also jumps out and tries to compete with the other magazines in hooking in the reader.
The singer 'Nicki Minaj' is shown standing in front of the Bold title as the makers of the magazine wanted to make her the focus-point of the magazine. I however, am choosing to have my female artist appearing from behind the text as to promote the name of the magazine.
The text structure is alike what can be seen in newspapers, appearing in long columns as to provide space for images and text. I will be doing the same in my magazine, however in my magazine, there will be less focus on text and more focus on colour and image.
Contents page
This contents page is striking, colorful, yet sophisticated in style which is what at I'm wanting to portray in my magazine. The bold black background against white writing makes the page look sleek and simple. The use of the vibrant colour of the graphics either-side of the page spread makes the page look interesting and quirky which is exactly the style that i wish to convey to my readers.
However, the pictures shown on the page appear to have no pattern are randomly placed and vary in size. My contents page will have pictures which are similar in size and will look neat and formatted as i feel this will make for easy reading.
The layout of the pages is clear, precise and headings are underlined with page numbers bold. This technique will draw in the readers and is one in which i will be using but i would like my text to be a little more edgy to cater for my young (16-20) audience. I will add colour to the text so to separate the page numbers so that the reader does not get confused and un-interested.
As my magazine will have a 'punky' theme therefore attention to pictures and color will be paramount to my font cover and contents page to attract the readers.
I have chosen this particular feature article because it focuses on the theme of 'punk music' which will be the theme i will be focusing my magazine on. The pink paint effect seen behind the title would go perfectly with my initial idea of having the singer photographed on the front cover covered in paint, however this seems to be the only thing that attracts the page, as there're no pictures just text, however in my magazine i will be using pictures to illustrate my feature article to please the eye.
I will be keeping my text within this column structure as it gives-off that professional newspaper effect and allows for more pictures to be laid out on the page however i will show more emphasis to the main 'gossip' within the singers interview as although this feature article shows the sentence: "We set out to make an album to surprise ourselves" this doesn't seem like a striking enough statement to have made bigger and bolded as i will to hook readers onto every paragraph.
I like the way the title has been made the focus point of the article as readers are made aware of the subject of the whole text, this has been done by placing it in the middle of the article. I will be making the title the focus of my page also, however it will probably be placed at the top as to allow me to include my pictures.
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