Sample cover

I have created a sample magazine cover. I took a picture of Trent Reznor and deleted the white space around him so I could bring the image to the front of the masthead. I then added a main cover line to the cover.

Conventions of a magazine

I have analysed a music magazine cover which is therefore showing my knowledge of the conventions of a cover.

Questionnaire Results

 Questionnaire results

After asking 10 people whether they would expect to see a colour scheme in a school magazine 100% of people said that they would. As an extension to this question I then asked which colours they would then expect to see. The majority of people asked mentioned red and black with the odd addition of white grey or silver.

When asking people whether there should be weekly features 100% of people said yes. Some people mentioned sports reports and highlighting weekly achievements of pupils.

The cover of the magazine should be reflected around the students and the school community according to the people who answered my questionnaires.

80% of people asked said that they would prefer to see more photo’s with shorter captions than larger sections of writing. The other 20% would prefer more writing.

Photos of students were said to be used by 100% of people.

Teachers were said to be included by 80%. 20% said disagreed and said it wasn’t a good idea. One person gave the idea that a “Get to know our teacher” was a good idea for a feature in the magazine.

The majority of people asked said that comments from students and real life experiences in school  would be the most interesting part of the magazine.

90% of people agree with areas of the school building being contained in the magazine.

Humorous parts would be preferred by 90% of people whereas 10% would prefer a mixture of both humorous and serious.

The magazine is expected to released monthly with a new issue.

Analysis of a magazine cover

Large photo being the focal point of the cover. Draws the audiences attention to the magazine cover.

House style all over the cover mainly bright yellow and pink which contrasting text colour.

 

Brightly coloured sub headings of things featured in the magazine.

Sub headline written in black and bold.

The Main attraction for the magazine is ‘Lana Del Rey’ so the cover features a bright and ‘in your face’ title to present this.

Band Link

http://www.thespicegirls.com/

Cropping skills

I have cropped a picture and added a masthead which makes a magazine cover.

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I'm Caitlin and I am doing AS Media Studies. This is my blog where I will upload all of my work.