BriefAyan fidar

Student to produce the front page, contents page and double page spread of a new music magazine. Photoshop will be used for image manipulation and InDesign will be used for page layout and design features on contents

page and article.

Magazine covers

• I like these magazine covers because they all very eye catching and very different from each other. Especially the Q magazine (second) is very eye catching as the rain in the images looks 3D.It also uses great colour contrast: the use of black and white and the unexpected attention grabbing red brings readers to want to read the magazine.

• The VIBE magazine also uses a great colour contrast: the colours black and white ,take the audience back sentries to the time there were no colour pictures it also makes the picture look more sophisticated and formal. The white background limits the attention so that the artist gets all the attention possible.

• Lastly I like the music magazine because its very different genera from the other two as its seems more elegant, formal and posh. Also the use of the mid-shot of Sarah Chang makes the magazine stand out from Q and VIBE magazines as they are both medium close up shots .

Contents page

• I have been doing some research into magazine content pages and these are the three I like. The first content page I think is very successful in my opinion as it contains a lot of images which makes the writing on this page seem very limited. I personally like this because the images tells me what topics the magazine is covering. The Q content page is very eye catching as there is a close up shot of the celebrity which is looking directly at the reader. The images is taking fairly a big amount of space which again makes the writing look very small and again I like this. The SPIN magazine has a very attractive content page .I personally like this because of the image as it gives out a message that the magazine is going to cover some ‘Fun!’ topics .

Articles. I have been doing some

research on music articles a and these are there I like .The Q magazine is very effective as the image is in black and white which makes it look more sophisticated and formal and the information on the pages is neatly laid out and easy to read . The other two articles are about band and they both have long shot images .The images attract the readers as they use good amount of space and the readers will know who the article is going to be about.