Nathan Dack's Music Magazine Analysis

Music MagazineDevelopment and Analysis

Questionnaire The questionnaire I wrote was the one which showed me which genre to select and other features amongst that.

These are the questions I used

Analysis of Existing Magazine

Massive Magazine brand in red eye catching colour

Well Known star playing Glastonbury Festival

Eye catching Headline in Big white and Red colours

Sub stories done in same style to be just as appealing

Tagline made Huge to capitalise on Glastonbury hype

Massive Picture of Jay-Z makes for good selling point

Analysis of NME Contents PageMore Reiteration of NME

Column of band index lets the reader know which bands will be included

Picture takes up a major proportion of the page

Sub Article to keep the reader more interested

Contents itself separate from other area of the page

Advert for subscription early on in the magazine while the reader is still interested

Analysis of Double page spreadMassive Headline

Article writing kept in line in columns to appear more organized for the reader

Sub headline used mid page to highlight an important part or the article

Article uses double line spacing to appear that more has bee written

Massive pictures cut down to smaller pieces to look like more is written with smaller captions

Not Much White Space

Hand Drawn Design of ContentsSelling line to make the magazine seem more important A smaller

story than the cover story but still important

A list of smaller stories which aren’t important enough to be cover stories

Cover story emphasised for effect

Image made huge to make it look better

Tag line for the customer to make the magazine more attractive

Massive title for effect

Colours Used

Red and black for attractivness

Design of Contents

A way to appeal to the reader and show positive feedback

Small Article much like NME’s contents

Subscription with website to interest the reader early on

Big image to catch attention

Contents kept separate so as to keep the page organized

Title to establish the magazines presence

Colours used

Red and Black for effect and keeping with magazines house

colours

Columns used to keep it organized or to make it appear more organized so it is easy on

the readers eyes

Design of Double page spread

Images of each band Member

Biography on each band member with false names and stories

Interview style organized into columns to keep it looking neat

Big image of the band together

Page numbers at the top

Colours used

Red and black to keep with the House style etc.

My magazine Analysis Front cover

Massive title, Exclusive suggests the magazine was made just for them or contains things other magazines wont have

Smaller sub story given its own image and tailored sub headline

Smaller sub stories listed down the side to give the reader a taste of what's in store

Fonts used will be consistent throughout to avoid any clashes with other styles

As will the colours used

Massive headline for the story emphasises its importance

Words were made to be associated with what they stand for e.g. whiskey in the style of that which you may find on a whiskey bottle

Tag line used to make the reader feel special

Selling line to appeal to readers making the magazine seem popular

My Magazine Analysis Contents

Reiterates the magazine publication for effect

Reader comments box allows for comments that readers have made to give us feedback

Subscription advert shown early on to appeal to readers while they are still interested

Editors note box: many magazine sometimes do this, it is used when a magazine want to commemorate an editor for doing an excellent job

Original image used

Contents section kept separate to distinguish each part for neatness

Page is kept organized in columns and boxes to make it easier on the readers eyes

My Magazine Analysis Double Page Spread

2 Original images used as band members

Biography style article to gain insight on the new band

Black dividers used to distinguish area of the article

Final original image used as a band pose

Interview style article e.g. questions and answers

Page number at the top to make them noticeable

Colours and fonts remain the same for house style purposes

Original images UsedI used 5 original images in the production of my music

magazine. The ones which include the band member s were taken on the principle that they had to look like a real band but a fun band rather than the kind which get serious, so it was decided that I should take it in a light area to get emphasis on their happiness as sunshine is a symbol of happiness.

The poses they did in the photos with them separate had to be medium close up so the audience got a good feel for them rather than the band images which were taken a little further away, as I have said lighting played a huge part as the band were supposed to appear less gothic than a new alternative band but still produce the same music so the lighting helped pull that off.

The photo of the editor (top left) had to be one that was less professional as many magazines when they do this get ‘mug shots’ of their editors to use if they are going to edit them so this photo was immediately perfect.

FontsTheir was were a few specific fonts that I used throughout

this magazine, the most recurring was the main one, which was called ‘Feast Of Flesh BB’ this was the font that was used to write the articles and the titles of the magazine, it was chosen because of its look and its rock feel to it, it was a perfect choice as it can be seen on the right.

There were not many other fonts used in the creation of my magazine as the one which summed it up very well was Feast of Flesh.

However their were other fonts which made small appearances in the magazine, the first was the posh curly hand writing (example on the right) used to make the word Pope in the Pope discredits Metallica story, this was chosen because it highlighted the class of the pope and how he would most probably write and because it went well with the story and image used.

The other was another custom text called Metallica, this one was used in the same story and was chosen because it was the same writing that Metallica use, and it seemed to fit the story well, much like the posh writing for the pope.

The other font used was in the subscription advert on the contents page which was a bold font, this was used because it was the best thing to use to make an advert stand out, as it represents big block letters in white to stand out from the black to get the readers attention.

Pope