The title of my magazine is called "Revolution" to imply it is something new, and something big, enticing the audience into believing it is an important magazine. I used a font style called "Trashed" that looks quite grungy and unique, compared to other magazines that use simple, and plain fonts.
I haven't used any decorated backgrounds or props, I wanted to keep the main focus the models, and I thought for the genre of magazine, it would look much more appropriate for it to be kept minimalistic.
The clothing the models are wearing is quite casual, but quite indie/rock. They are stylish girls, meaning they are suitable to be models. Their hair colour makes them stand out more because they have red hair, and people like this colour due to celebrities like Rihanna, Hayley Williams and Cheryl Cole having the same colour. Their image fits in with the style of some people in current times, meaning the audience feel like they can associate with the magazine more.
I used a font style called "TRASHED" for my title of the magazine, I found this on the website dafont, and used this because it is quite quirky, and the destroyed style of it makes it seem more appropriate for the genre of magazine.
For the written content of my magazine, I used an interview with the band for my double page spread, and used numbers and text on the contents page. I decided an interview is more appropriate for the type of magazine, as me and most of my friends prefer reading interviews to articles written on the artist, by the magazine.
I haven't used any decorated backgrounds or props, I wanted to keep the main focus the models, and I thought for the genre of magazine, it would look much more appropriate for it to be kept minimalistic.
The clothing the models are wearing is quite casual, but quite indie/rock. They are stylish girls, meaning they are suitable to be models. Their hair colour makes them stand out more because they have red hair, and people like this colour due to celebrities like Rihanna, Hayley Williams and Cheryl Cole having the same colour. Their image fits in with the style of some people in current times, meaning the audience feel like they can associate with the magazine more.
I used a font style called "TRASHED" for my title of the magazine, I found this on the website dafont, and used this because it is quite quirky, and the destroyed style of it makes it seem more appropriate for the genre of magazine.For the written content of my magazine, I used an interview with the band for my double page spread, and used numbers and text on the contents page. I decided an interview is more appropriate for the type of magazine, as me and most of my friends prefer reading interviews to articles written on the artist, by the magazine.
The genre of my magazine is rock/indie, I have created this by using a simple colour scheme, using lots of black and white, and using images to suggest a rock band. I have used people that are likely to be interested in this style of music and magazine as the people in my magazine to ensure its suitable for the audience. Most parts of my magazine are quite quirky, like the image banner on the contents page isn't typical in magazines, and the film strip on my double page make the magazine more quirky.
The layout of my magazine is quite simple, and similar to existing magazines like Kerrang and NME. The cover has mainly text towards the bottom of the page, meaning the middle of the page's focus is the main image of the band "The Red Feathers." I did this so that the main focus of the cover is the image, meaning that some people that don't usually buy the magazine might be attracted to it by the artists. The contents is split into three sections, the listed contents, the images and captions and the band index, this makes the page easier to look at, and more professional. The double page spread has been kept as one page with one large image and little text, the other page being kept as the start of the interview and some images. I used one of the pages without much text to ensure it didn't look too cluttered.
As mentioned before, the contents page is kept in three columns to make it easier to read, and the images used are all relevant to the cover and contents of the magazine, I used some images from gigs I had been to myself, and ones I had took of friends that look suitable for the genre of magazine. I added a band index to make it easier to find certain bands/artists in the magazine.
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