The fact that the colour is grey and black of the whole contents means that any colour would pull in the reader and draws the attention to it. The arm over the shoulder of the artists with the red heart in her hand shows possibly what he may be like and he is hiding his feelings but she knows what he is like with the red standing out of the grey dominant colour. Red represents romance and love which may show a different side to his personality. The artist is making clear eye contact to the reader which draws the reader in. His expression shows quite edgy and it may reflect a different side of his personality. The fact that the artist has his hands in his pockets shows that he has a much laid back approach.  May show confidence and make the reader feel very laid back and at ease.  Even though the colours blend in with the background you can identify the artist his outfit clearly stands out.  The font and the text is also very laid back with the colours that also flows with the headings which draws the reader into reading the contents page. The writing is show onto the left side of the page which is effective because it is the last thing the reader will read. The way the title is positions it draws in the reader straight away it is bold and makes a statement with the capital letters. The black title links in with the colour scheme of the back ground.

LLIIAR analysis of front cover and double page spread

 

Existing music magazine analysed

 

Planning/ Development

Music magazine ideas

In these examples of contents pages you can tell there is a constant theme running through them which are taken from different issues of vibe magazine. Each of the contents pages have a dominant picture witch pulls in the audience. The colour themes which run through all seem to be similar with the dominant grey and black background unlike the one with a dominant red background. The colour schemes all seem to go with the text and picture. The title all have the same layout with the bold writing and capital letters which draws the audience straight in. The colour links in with the background with the colours being black or white which fits in with the dominant grey and black colour themes. The main images of the artists are the most dominant feature in the contents page because they take up a huge amount of space. The writing and headlines all flow which it’s easy to read the colour and font are very laid back and the text flows with each headline.

I have picked 3 different music magazines to compare I have picked an issue of vibe, source and XXL. These 3 different magazines are all based on the genre of hip hop and r&b. All the titles on each front cover are a main feature of the front cover.  The XXL magazine title is partly covered by the artists head which then makes the artist the most dominant feature which also the same with vibe the artist covers some of the title which draws away the attention to the artist. The issue of the source the full title is shown; all the titles are used with a bold font which is mostly bigger than the text shown on each front cover. They all have a dominant colour scheme running through the front cover which flows with the text and font.  Each magazine has the artist name as a main headline on the front cover. The colour schemes are all very different but the main colour that is features in all 3 magazines is red.   

I have picked 3 double page spreads from various different magazines and I have looked at how the way they are all presented. The main thing that pulls in my attention is that most of the double page spreads one page is dedicated to a page of the artist which the double page is about. The page on Lady gaga shows a dominant picture one left and the writing is on the right hand side which means that is the last thing that the reader will read which is affected because it pulls the reader in to read it after seeing the dominant picture. The dominant colour red also pulls the reader in because it is very bright and bold which is spread across the text. On one of the magazines the dominant colour is black and gold which also a dominant picture and shows importance. On the other photo is also has the pattern running through with the picture of the left hand side.

My chosen genre

The genre of my music i have chosen to look at is Hip Hop and R&b I have chosen this genre because i am interested in that particular type of music and i think that there is a gap in the market for music magazines suited for this genre. I looked at the the UK top 40 to see how much music of this genre was featured in the charts, this research showed that a lot of the music featured in the charts there is quite a lot of Hip Hop and R&B featured. For example drake, Nicki Minaj, Rita Ora, Misha B. This shows that people are listening to this type of music and i think the music magazine industry would defiantly benefit with more magazines featuring this genre and i think it would benefit a lot of the young people also interested in this style of music.

Music Magazine- Brief

Music magazine main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

- All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate, minimum of FOUR images.   

Contents page

This is a rough outline of what I want my contents page to look like and the layout. 

College magazine

This is my final college magazine front cover. Using selected images from my original photos, and my chosen layout. 

Camera angles

I looked and experimented with different camera angles when taking pictures of my magazine. 

Original images

These are the original images I took to feature in my college magazine.  

Existing college magazines

I then looked at existing college magazines and contents pages to give me ideas when producing mine.  

Mood Board

I got a collection of images together of Google images that related to the college magazine I wanted to produce. These gave me ideas when planning my college magazine. 

Analysed contents page

I have analysed a contents page of a magazine. I looked at the layout and the pictures included and how it linked in with the text. I looked at how they created subheadings and how it helped draw the reader in. 

Analysed front cover

I have analysed a front cover of a magazine. I did this because I think it will help me when creating my own. I have looked at every part of this front cover and focused on which bits caught my attention.