research and planning:social media feedback on masthead

The bottom masthead is the most chosen one because it is 'eye catching' therefore I will use the bottom masthead for the music magazine.

research and planning: music magazine masthead

These are my masthead that I chose for my music rock magazine. The fonts on these mastheads are clean and edgy like would see in a real rock magazine. It is conventional to see simple and clean fonts on a masthead from a rock magazine and also the colours are simple. I did a simple masthead which looks quit plain, I might not used that because it doesn't standout, it's not eye catching for the target audience. The other two are because of the boarderline and the colour of the font.




Aisha likes the third one because it stands out from the rest of the mastheads.


Megan likes the third one because there's more colour contrast and the font amuses her.

research and planning: rock music collage

These magazines have people of rock on the cover and the cover lines have different font and sizes and they are sharp looking to represent the edgy look. They are also placed either at the side of the magazine or at the bottom.

The mastheads are clean looking and most of them are in caps lock, so I would have to have my masthead similar to these. And also the mastheads are simple colours but mostly red and black.

research and planning: music magazine analysis

This magazine genre is rock, you can tell this by the people of chose on the cover, they are well-known in the music industry. The font of the masthead is smaller than the font of the story that says 'the beatles' in caps lock. This is to suggest that the beatles is bigger and well-known than the magazine brand themselves. And also the other story lines are smaller than the beatles story line, this makes the image stand out more and it is reflect in the target audience. The colour of the magazine follows a colour theme: black, red, white and grey. This magazine stories are about the people who are on the cover and also other similar artists, this is to aim their magazine at a specific target audience. The location of the picture is in America, this links to the magazine storyline.

This magazine genre is also rock, you can also tell this by the people of choice on the cover, he is well-known. The masthead is different from the rolling stone magazine because the masthead is in the top corner and it is the only one with a red background. It follows the three colour code this tells the magazine is conventional to other rock magazine. The image is always in the middle this is another conventional code. They do this because that is the first thing the target audience looks at. The story lines have rock and other artists from similar genre, this is to get different target market to buy the magazine. There is a colour code of black, white and red which another code convention followed by this magazine and the layout has more stories than the Beatles magazine cover because this one has no background, making it look professional.

research and planning: magazine evaluation

The font size-
The font size on the magazine cover and content is different. This is to make the cover lines stand out from the others and the content page numbers are big to make it stand out from the words but there isn't much difference. you can tell the difference between the heading and the cover line and this makes it look professional.

Three colour rule-
This college magazine does follow the three colour rule only in the content but not the cover page. This is because the colours look familiar to the student if I was to add all of the colours of the college logo. I would criticize the fact the front cover doesn't follow the three colour rule theme because it doesn't look professional.

Can you tell that the cover and content are from the same magazine?
Yes you can because the image and colour synergies between the cover and content and this follows the codes and convention of a magazine this makes it look professional.

Are the photos appropriate for the magazine?
Yes they are because the image of the girl is a student and the background is front/entrance of the college, the image is conventional to the college magazine. And you can also see the images properly and it's just right because I don't think there is any error.

Are there enough cover-lines in the cover and content page?
There are enough cover lines/stories in the magazine cover and they are appropriate for the magazine because the cover-lines are college related. There isn't enough cover-lines/stories in the content because there is a gap below the picture and the cover-lines does relate to the cover line in front of the magazine.

research and planning: final cover and content

This is my finished college magazine.

research and planning: magazine draft

This is my first draft of my college magazine, there are a lot of things left to such as more cover lines and add a barcode so it looks like a real professional magazine. Then I will do my content in indesign.