How did you attract/address your audience?

Brandon Evans

Photos

• When I designed my music magazine, I used 4 different photos which made it to my final magazine. I captured over 100 different photographs over 3 different photo-shoots. I had my model wear the same clothes on each different photo-shoot for continuity. 4 of the photos of model made it into my final production.

Photos

• In the photos, my models clothing is a main focus on all of the photos. This photo seen on the right is from my double-page spread, the image shows my model wearing a green round neck t-shirt covered by a grey zip-up hoodie and a black and dark grey mock leather jacket.

Photos

• Multiple effects have been added to the image including adding a drop shadow and altering the saturation of the image. I also flipped the image so that my model would appear to be facing one way and so that I would capture a photo of my model from a good angle.

Photo

• In the photo seen on the left, I have chosen an image of my model specifically not smiling, this was done so that the genre wouldn’t be mistaken for anything but rap. The photo features the same attire seen on the last photo seen. The saturation of the photo has only slightly been tampered with.

Photo

• I have not added any background effects to the main image, this was done to make the main image stand out more. My models pose and angle of the photo was chosen so that my model looked slightly intimidating.

Colours

• The colours that I used in my music magazine cover have been limited to red and black aside from the main photo and the yellow circle. Red is the colour associated with blood and it also looks somewhat intimidating.

Colours

• I have limited the use of colour to mostly red so that my front cover doesn’t look like a rainbow. The colour scheme used on the cover also makes the cover look masculine, this is 100% intentional.

Colours

• On my contents page, I have used purple for the masthead, red for decorations and mostly black for the text. I have also put it a feint, purple cloudy texture as a background. The title has been chosen to be purple because it goes well with the colour red.

Colours

• I have also added long, thin rectangles in red. This was done to separate the different sections of my contents page. The colour red was chosen as it is distinctive. I have changed 3 of the names of artists listed in the contents page to different colours, this has been done to differentiate their names from the rest of the text.

Colours

• On my double page spread, the colours I have used are: purple, brown, black and red. The colour red was used for the titles in which the questions asked are written. I used this so that the questions would easily stand out from the answers. I used the colour brown for the innovative information box seen on the right of the page.

Colours

• I used the colour black for the text and I used the colour purple for everything else including the title and the background. I chose these colours specifically so that they would complement each other.

Fonts

• The font used for my masthead is called 28 days later and it looks effective, it is easily readable and stands out well. I used the same font for the strip on names above the masthead. For the subtitles around the page I used a font called Burn out, Fade away. I chose that font for the same reasons I chose my title as well as its informal qualities.

Text

• For the body text on this page, I used the font: Charcoal CY. I used this font because it is easy to read and has a relaxed aura surrounding it. The font I used for my body text is excellent as it is completely legible, looks professional and also has a relaxed feel about it. For the title, I used the 28 days later font that I used on the front cover as it is very good and there were limited fonts which were ideal for the job that I needed them for.

Layouts

• The layout I used on my Magazine cover was a traditional design which features the masthead/title atop the page where it should be. There is then a large photo in the centre of the page and it is surrounded by subtitles. Above the title is a list of artists names. This is a creative design which suits the genre of my magazine and makes it more appealing to customers. I also have a barcode featured in the corner of the page, this is also a traditional design used in magazines.