- The masthead
- Selling line
- Dateline
- Main image
- Main cover line
- Cover lines
- Bar Code
Monday, 10 October 2011
Elements of a student magazine (Front Cover)
After short research of a student magazine front cover, i've realised that the front page needs to be attention grabbing to reach out to the target audience and convince them to buy your magazine. Key elements in doing this include:
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You still seem to be ‘describing’ rather than ‘analysing’ magazine front covers. Remember analyse! Ask yourself ‘what’ and ‘why’? Don’t merely describe! So as to get a full understanding of how magazines create meaning and reach their target audience.
ReplyDeleteFor example compare the magazine in your first post to a student magazine.
Look at the uploaded magazine you have analysed, are the colours employed conventional?
What is the colour schemed telling the audience? Is this conventional for a magazine?
What about the image/pictures? What you stated as ‘black and white’. What are these pictures in silhouette adding to the magazine? Why have they done this?
Why has the magazine not used normal coloured pictures? What are the images telling its audience?
What about the position of the masthead, how it is positioned? Is this sticking to convention? Why have they used two colours for the masthead? What fonts have been used and why?
What about the positioning of the cover lines? Why have they employed this sort of layout? Is this a design magazines will employ?
Will you say this sort of colour scheme, design, layout is convention as far as magazine go? Is it effective or is it merely breaking convention?
Upload other magazine front covers you've looked at, and analysed to inform the preliminary exercise.
You have also not included any research for the contents page.
Please scan in your rough drafts/mock-ups for both the contents and front page and update your blog.
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