Unit 51 Page Layout and Design

Tom Ross

Slide 1: Design ProgrammesIn making my front cover I took my pictures at salford lads club. I got my inspiration from the smiths poster as they are stood in the same place I was. I wanted to have a black and white image as well. I feel like this is common in indie magazines so I thought it would suit my magazine well to have a black and white front cover image.

Slide 2: FORMATSI Created my own magazine front cover and a double page spread. I made a music magazine which talked about upcoming band encore and used my own pictures of the band. I also talked about arctic monkeys new album AM.

My inspiration for a music magazine was kerrang magazine and Hammer magazine. These are two magazines which I used to read on regular occasions and felt like I could talk more about music than on a film or fashion magazine.

Slide 3: Conventions & Visual Language• I used classic indie/ rock themes like black and white images and added a free CD

in the bottom left corner as this is where you would usually see this on a actual magazine.

• In my final edit of my front cover I put my name of the magazine in the primary optical area. My magazine is called V music and I got my inspiration from Q magazine. I put my free CD image in the week fallow area as this is where they usually keep stuff like this as it is the area where people don’t often look first but they look there last.

• In my final edit I used black and white to create the theme of an indie rock magazine. The black and white are commonly associated with these magazines as people have stereotypically assigned emos and goths the these dark colours. However I added a light blue colour to the text so the magazine seemed allot more happy and inviting so it not just aimed at the goths and emos like all the other rock/indie magazines.

Slide 4: Audience• My target audience would be mainly people aged 14-21 as I feel like anyone older

would enjoy a more mature magazine which takes about he same style of stuff. It would be aimed at people with less money like people in class C2-D as anyone higher would go for a more sophisticated magazine like Q magazine. I think my magazine would be aimed more at males with the topics and genre however some girls may like the magazine.

• I tried to make my magazine appeal to a younger audience with the bright blue font as it would catch their eye and make them want to buy It. I also tried to make it appeal to an older audience as I took a picture of a band in the same place as the smiths took their album poster ‘the queen is dead’. I feel like this would attract the older audience as they would recognise the similarities.