How did you attract/address your audience-
Cover-
The cover is the first thing that the reader will see of your magazine so it is important that for my magazine that the cover was bold and statement but kept within the classic conventions of a magazine such as I-D, i wanted my cover to be within this style as it is featured a lot throughout indie alternative magazines. For my mast head i noticed that throughout magazines mast heads were often the colour black and in a bold font, i followed this and made my mast head black and bold but placed it on a grey background so it was able to stand out more on the page without taking away from the Centre image. As i learnt from various research it was important that for my artist to feature on the front cover they must have an approachable looking face with simplistic looking clothes and make up so it doesn't draw away from any of the magazine but also is still able to make a statement, this is why i chose to follow generic conventions and dress Luna Grace in black clothing and kept her make up to a minimal for the natural indie styling vibe, also it was important for the artist to address the audience by looking straight into the camera lens creating eye con act with the reader, to create a feel for the reader as though they felt like they knew the artist, this can be seen to of been created on magazines like SPEX magazine as they feature a lot of head on shots with the artist looking straight into the camera lens
Contents-
The contents page is something that will strike the reader to want to read more and more, it is important that within the contents page you carry on the style that you have to run with the rest of your magazine, but it is also very important for the reader to be sucked into the page to want to read more about the interesting headlines you have featured to grasp their attention, i went for a design that is simple but statement include bold black font and having the page number a little larger than the font, by doing this i am challenging conventions as this isn't often seen throughout other contents pages, but it allows me to explore ways in which i can potentially trap the readers eye and the ways in which they are easily able to access story lines without having to search what page number it is on. it was important for the contents page to be very informative and to feature images to again draw and catch the readers eye but also to break the page up so it looked attractive to the eye, by keeping it black and white i feel as though the black and the bold font allows itself to stand out on the crisp white background following the look and styling on the double page spread.
double page-
On my double page spread have followed very generic conventions of many magazines like id magazine and spex magazine, i have chose to feature on side of the double page as a full sized image and the other side with two colours of font, this reason for me doing this is because i didn't follow generic conventions for my contents page i felt it was needed for me to follow the conventions to be able to attract my audience as they may not like taking a risk with something different as for the young alts category they like things in a certain way and that how they like them, and with something like a double pages i felt necessary for me to include a bigger picture on one side to showcase the artist which is often found in many other magazines, whilst keeping the other side with a mast heading in a bold font but then in a smaller font having my interview with LUNA GRACE which was kept to two Collums long but featured a lot of interesting questions which are often found in and other indie alternative magazine
The cover is the first thing that the reader will see of your magazine so it is important that for my magazine that the cover was bold and statement but kept within the classic conventions of a magazine such as I-D, i wanted my cover to be within this style as it is featured a lot throughout indie alternative magazines. For my mast head i noticed that throughout magazines mast heads were often the colour black and in a bold font, i followed this and made my mast head black and bold but placed it on a grey background so it was able to stand out more on the page without taking away from the Centre image. As i learnt from various research it was important that for my artist to feature on the front cover they must have an approachable looking face with simplistic looking clothes and make up so it doesn't draw away from any of the magazine but also is still able to make a statement, this is why i chose to follow generic conventions and dress Luna Grace in black clothing and kept her make up to a minimal for the natural indie styling vibe, also it was important for the artist to address the audience by looking straight into the camera lens creating eye con act with the reader, to create a feel for the reader as though they felt like they knew the artist, this can be seen to of been created on magazines like SPEX magazine as they feature a lot of head on shots with the artist looking straight into the camera lens
Contents-
The contents page is something that will strike the reader to want to read more and more, it is important that within the contents page you carry on the style that you have to run with the rest of your magazine, but it is also very important for the reader to be sucked into the page to want to read more about the interesting headlines you have featured to grasp their attention, i went for a design that is simple but statement include bold black font and having the page number a little larger than the font, by doing this i am challenging conventions as this isn't often seen throughout other contents pages, but it allows me to explore ways in which i can potentially trap the readers eye and the ways in which they are easily able to access story lines without having to search what page number it is on. it was important for the contents page to be very informative and to feature images to again draw and catch the readers eye but also to break the page up so it looked attractive to the eye, by keeping it black and white i feel as though the black and the bold font allows itself to stand out on the crisp white background following the look and styling on the double page spread.
double page-
On my double page spread have followed very generic conventions of many magazines like id magazine and spex magazine, i have chose to feature on side of the double page as a full sized image and the other side with two colours of font, this reason for me doing this is because i didn't follow generic conventions for my contents page i felt it was needed for me to follow the conventions to be able to attract my audience as they may not like taking a risk with something different as for the young alts category they like things in a certain way and that how they like them, and with something like a double pages i felt necessary for me to include a bigger picture on one side to showcase the artist which is often found in many other magazines, whilst keeping the other side with a mast heading in a bold font but then in a smaller font having my interview with LUNA GRACE which was kept to two Collums long but featured a lot of interesting questions which are often found in and other indie alternative magazine
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