Recently within the past few weeks I have been looking at the different types of magazine article layouts to help inspire my own. I am going to be talking about the different areas of the following ones that I like, so that I can select the type of layout that I would like to use to inspire my own music magazine article.

Within this set up I really like how the only picture used wihtin the article is really big and eye catching. It is really contrasting to the article itsself due to the bright colours within her make up and hair compared to the solid monochrome colours of the article. I really like the contrast as it makes the apprearance of the article seem balanced and is asthetically pleasing to see. The use of the bold drop letters I feel aslo has a really big impact on the appearace of the article, due to standing out and making the article look visually appealing due to having the starting words of what looks like an interesting strory be very visible and excentuated.

I feel that within text part of the article there isnt too much and it is nicely spread out so that we are able to clearly see how it is set out as well as also look asthetically pleasing to the eye due to the very clearly set out columns. Some may feel that there is too much text, but I feel that there could have been a lot more there is the drop letters werent

there so I feel that on the page overall it feels balanced.

I like this double page spread because there is the use of one main picture which covers the entire spread as well as really brings life to the article by using such a bold background. Within the article the body of the text is organised to fit around Cheryl, this makes it look more artistic because it isn’t within the basic bog standard columns. I like how this articles text is in an organised fashion as it makes it easier for the reader to follow when in the different format but it is still easy to read as the different sections are numbered and are sectioned off so that a reader can’t get mixed up.

Within this double page spread there is very little writing within the article compared to the space that the number of pictures within the article take up. There are a number of quite big pictures within this article which were clearly placed purposefully so that there wasn’t enough room for a large amount of text to be included within the article. The use of more photos instead of text is a less common format to come across and is going to attract readers that don’t want to read long articles due to limited time or interest, so this article will attract a new kind of audience. The photos help to make the article look appealing as there are going to be people within the article that the audience will recognise meaning that if they are flipping through the magazine they will be able to easily locate it due to seeing familiar faces and a more unique article layout.