EVALUATION

Question One

I used the magazine Kerrang to get ideas for my own magazine. I used Dafont.com to find a similar font for my masthead or a font that had connotations of alternative/rock.

(My Masthead)

(Kerrang's Masthead)

As you you can see, the masthead are of the same colour but yet an entirely different font. However, the font used for my masthead, still has connotations of alternative/rock music. Also, the fact that the letters are of different inconsistent sizes, represents the change and inconsistency of volume.

I measured the length and width of Kerrang so I could make my magazine the same size. This was so I could try and make my front cover look as real as possible.

(My Front Cover) (Kerrang's Front Cover)

I challenged the colour scheme slightly by keeping the red, white and black but adding yellow, as this is seen as more of a feminine colour than the grey used in Kerrang. Making my magazine appeal to both genders.

Also, when putting a barcode on my front cover, I realised that if I used a similar one to Kerrang it looked too big and in the way, so I developed this by making it smaller and deleting some information from it, like the price etc and putting it under the masthead. I could then put the barcode on the bottom right hand side of the magazine without it standing out for the wrong reasons.

(My Barcode)

(Kerrang's Barcode)

On my front cover, I used a band called ‘Infected Hate’; the band was made up of two guys and one girl and was very much a rock/’emo’ type band. This gave connotations of what music my magazine features just like it does in Kerrang

On the contents page I used very similar colours as the ones used in Kerrang as I thought they worked really well and would fit in with the genre of music I had chosen. Also I chose to use fewer pictures on my contents page as I didn’t want to make it look too cluttered or look like there is too much going on.

(My Contents Page) (Kerrang's Contents Page)

By making the contents page similar to Kerrang's it makes it look a lot more realistic and professional.

The layout of my text on both the front cover and double page spread follows the house style of my magazine. Its set out in a way that's easy to read and follow. The colours match and don't clash, making the text readable from afar.