Rough Finish

Here are a few quick drawings of how I would like my magazine to look:

Pros and Cons of Ray Gun

Pros:

• Stands out
• Eye catching
• Unique
• Reflects the type of music
• Push other magazine to up game
• Cool/good

Cons:

• No consistency/ hard to recognise
• Too alternative
• Too busy
• Expensive
• Overcrowded

I think that this style is very eye catching and works well although some designs are slightly overcrowded, this sort of design appeals to my taste in music and magazine.

First attempt at a school magazine

If I was to do this again I would take more time in planning the magazine before I made it. I would also choose a different colour scheme as the colours I chose often blended with the background and made it harder to read.

The four F's of magazine design:

• Format- Magazine's overall look and feel
• Formula- What is in the magazine
• Frame- Margins and gutters
• Function- What the magazine is trying to achieve and the message it is trying to get across

These are commonly found in magazines to create an overall image for the magazine. A company tends to use the same designs for each magazine to give it a 'standard' or 'trend'.

Music Genres

• Rock
• Punk
• Jazz
• Pop
• Dubstep
• Country
• Garage
• Heavy metal
• Rap
• Classical
• Dance
• Alternative rock
• Metalcore
• Death metal
• Pop-punk

Magazine conventions

Masthead: The name of the magazine displayed in a specific typeface. this is the visual branding of the title and is often done in a specially designed typeface to be easily recognised and unique. the masthead- also called a title- is usually used on the contents page inside as well as the front cover, and as a logo for advertising and branding purposes.

Main Image: In the case of this front cover there is a single image of the model Shania. The image is used in a classic way, the face is big enough to stand out on the news-stand, with the model making full eye-contact.

Coverlines: From the 1950s, greater competition on the newsstand resulted in more cover lines. Today, some magazines print special covers for subscribers' copies that use few cover lines. cosmopolitan magazine uses a lot of cover lines, which are distributed around the main image without detracting from it too much. A mistake often made with cover lines is that they run over an image that has a lot of colour changes, rendering that words difficult to read. This is a problem here with the red text on the hair on the left and the smaller yellow text against Shania's skin.