Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Planning for Main Task - Music Magazine - Layouts

Layouts

The masthead of magazine covers is always featured in the top of the magazine, mostly to the left. The masthead is often the most eye-catching thing on the page; mastheads are always kept the same, same font, same colours etc. So that the audience can remember and associate that particular masthead with every new issue, they allow magazine covers to me instantly recognisable, so it is crucial not to over whelm the reader. The masthead also sets the scheme of the rest of the magazine, if a masthead is red, the main colour scheme of that cover will be mainly red. This is again not to confuse and overwhelm the reader, it also allows a particular colour scheme to become instantly recognisable, the colours scheme of a magazine can become part of that magazines identity. For example NME masthead is red & white, so the majority of there issues will be colour schemed in white, and the producers will only diversify from this for a special edition issue, however even then the masthead will always remain the exact same.

The main image of a magazine cover will often be a hint towards the main story of that issue, for example if the main story of my magazine advertisement is a bands new Digi-pack release, then the main image must be associated to that release, e.g. The band. The main images of magazines are all different some will be close ups some high angled, some low angled, some action shots, and some not. However one thing hey all have in common is that the people in the main image dominate the page, they are never covered by text or other images, and if necessary they will even be placed in front of certain things on the page like the masthead. This is something I will need to take into account when making my own cover that the text follows the path and shape of the image.

From looking at the main text headlines of various music magazine covers, I found that the name of the band is almost always printed more vividly than the actual story itself, something I was unaware of before, when making my own cover I need to bare this in mind, e.g. My bands name needs to be more eye-catching than the story of their album release in order to draw the attention of the readers who may be fans of the band. It is also essential that the main story is placed in the centre of the page and does not cover any important points of the image; it must work with the image.



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