The next step in constructing my music magazine front cover was adding a few sell lines and thinking more clearly about the layout and presentation. I made sure they were kept to the sides so they don't get in the way of the main image. I then had to decide on the colour scheme, in the end I chose to continue on using beige as it goes nicely with the drums and title. After a while I thought about the coherency of the product and realised that the beige was slightly too over powering as all the sell lines were in one colour so I changed a few of the sell lines and made them green to go with the artists t-shirt. I decided to make the artist's name green to to make it stand out clearly on the pink drums. Each sell line has the special effect of 'stroke' used on them so they stand out and are more eye catching. For the sell lines I thought about what males really want to read about in music magazines, my survey also came in handy here. From the feedback I found out that they are interested in who the top bands are, how has this newish genre know as 'dub step' come around and what happens at gigs that the public aren't allowed to attend. This helped me generate my sell lines. As the survey revealed that the audience are particularly interested in the exclusive gigs I made sure that they had a chance of attending them, I chose to make the '100' stand out to show that they can attend loads of them, this was done using the 'outer glow' tool in Photoshop for it really to stand out. I have also used this effect on 'DJ Woody' so people are attracted to these areas and notice them more, they have a chance to have an exclusive interview with a talented DJ on the dub step scene which would appeal to the target audience as I had researched this in my survey. For the mode of address I have chosen words like 'exclusive' to show that my readers are lucky to find out about this information as it is restricted and selective so they must buy this magazine as they won't find this information anywhere else. I have chosen the word 'hard' to describe 'Lucas Greenwood' and 'DJ Woody' as it is a word that my target audience commonly use to describe good/talented artists therefore they can relate to this word, the magazine and feel they are inclusive. The size of the sell lines font is 18 this is small compared to the other writing on the page, it is important but not as important as the title and name of the artist on the front.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Music Magazine front cover - Step 4
The next step in constructing my music magazine front cover was adding a few sell lines and thinking more clearly about the layout and presentation. I made sure they were kept to the sides so they don't get in the way of the main image. I then had to decide on the colour scheme, in the end I chose to continue on using beige as it goes nicely with the drums and title. After a while I thought about the coherency of the product and realised that the beige was slightly too over powering as all the sell lines were in one colour so I changed a few of the sell lines and made them green to go with the artists t-shirt. I decided to make the artist's name green to to make it stand out clearly on the pink drums. Each sell line has the special effect of 'stroke' used on them so they stand out and are more eye catching. For the sell lines I thought about what males really want to read about in music magazines, my survey also came in handy here. From the feedback I found out that they are interested in who the top bands are, how has this newish genre know as 'dub step' come around and what happens at gigs that the public aren't allowed to attend. This helped me generate my sell lines. As the survey revealed that the audience are particularly interested in the exclusive gigs I made sure that they had a chance of attending them, I chose to make the '100' stand out to show that they can attend loads of them, this was done using the 'outer glow' tool in Photoshop for it really to stand out. I have also used this effect on 'DJ Woody' so people are attracted to these areas and notice them more, they have a chance to have an exclusive interview with a talented DJ on the dub step scene which would appeal to the target audience as I had researched this in my survey. For the mode of address I have chosen words like 'exclusive' to show that my readers are lucky to find out about this information as it is restricted and selective so they must buy this magazine as they won't find this information anywhere else. I have chosen the word 'hard' to describe 'Lucas Greenwood' and 'DJ Woody' as it is a word that my target audience commonly use to describe good/talented artists therefore they can relate to this word, the magazine and feel they are inclusive. The size of the sell lines font is 18 this is small compared to the other writing on the page, it is important but not as important as the title and name of the artist on the front.
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Good use of terminology. Remember to divide your work into paragraphs or maybe use sub headings to help to keep your ideas clear and well structured.
ReplyDeleteKeep your work analytical rather than descriptive. Why did you make choices about colours and photos?