Analysis of Double Page Spread Articles

• The main image is large and leads on to the next page to link the pages together.
• Also includes the photographers credit.
• Uses a simple colour scheme; 2-4 at the maximum.
• This one only uses 3 colours.
• The headline is bold and uses stylised fonts.
• This is to draw the reader although it doesn't mention what the article is about.
• That is only don't by stand first.
• There is a drop capital at the start to show where the start is.
• This article even has the first few words in bold and a slightly bigger type size.
• There is usually an emphasised quote.
• In this article, the quote is on the photo and in the stand first.
• Includes a byline; who wrote the article.
• This article is written by 'Dorian Lynskey'.
• Always arranged in columns. Average is 2-4 columns.
• This article has 2 columns only.
• There is a strap line at the top which shows what the article is about.
• The strap line here is "Q recommends"
• As well as that, music magazine articles are usually written informally and the personality of the journalist comes through.

Analysis of Professional Contents Pages

Analysis of Proffesional Contents Pages on Prezi

Analysis of professional magazine covers

Analysis of professional magazine covers on Prezi

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Initial Plans for my magazine

Ideas for my magazine:

Type of magazine: hip hop
Target Audience: 15+
Price: £2.30
Frequency of publication: monthly
Issue size: 75 pages
Regular content: news, reviews, gigs
Feature articles: band interview, live feedback

Evaluation of a School Magazine

I produced a school magazine front cover and contents page for the Preliminary exercise. During the construction of both media products, I used Photoshop and Quark Xpress. My strengths and weaknesses whilst using both programs are as follows. 

To create my school magazine front cover, I used Adobe Photoshop. The colours I have used are yellow and black. I chose these colours because they are simple and do not mismatch with each other. My main image is a medium close up of a student. To improve this, I could make the photo more in focus because it looks blurred and i could also add more colour to her face. Furthermore, I made the price stand out by adding a star-like shape to it. Therefore, my strength is attracting the audience to buy this magazine because it is cheap and that is how it challenges real media products. However, my weakness is in my photography and editing the images. I should also use more images on the front cover by adding layers to attract people to buy the magazine because it will make the magazine seem more interesting.

To construct my school contents page, I used Quark Xpress . It's the first time I've ever used this program and I found that it is very straightforward to use but I am limited on designing. My contents page follows the codes and conventions as it uses consistent colours and the text size is right size (11pt). Although I could have made my main article image the biggest image on the page.

Overall, my main strength in making both products is being able to attract the audiences attention with my use of bright colours. However my weakness is using the different techniques on both programs. Hopefully, by the time I construct my products for the main task i would've developed my skills, which will result in a much better media product.

Photographs For School Magazine