Final Product – Music MagazineAnalysis

Front Cover

The Masthead is bold and has a thick dark outline to appeal to my target audience. The Title of the magazine is ‘Pause’ so where the letter ‘u’ should be, I created a pause sign using InDesign.

I layered the model in the image over the top of the masthead because I wanted the model to stand out from the background and it makes the page look more professional.

On InDesign I used the gradient tool on the image to lighten parts of the edge of the image so the text was easier to read and it helped the model in the image stand out.

The body language of the model has a very relaxed and slightly angry, in your face attitude. The model is leaning forward and making eye contact which might intimidate the reader and make them read the article.

Contents Page

FreebiesI have used a freebie to entice people into buying the magazine. To make it eye-catching and stand from the rest of the page I used a large font for the buzzword ‘free’ and filled it with a gold colour.

I have continued the colour scheme of red, black and white to link the front cover and contents page together.

The layout of the contents page is sophisticated because I use bold fonts and do not use any curvy shapes or fonts as I wanted to appeal to my target audience which is mainly males.

I only used one image on the contents page. I used an image of the band which was used on the front cover to add emphasis to the article. Both models use eye contact to help attract the audience to the contents page.

Front Cover

I have used a typical layout for my double page spread. I used an image fills all of one of the pages and the article on the other. I did not use a large title for the article as I did not want to take the emphasis away from the image. I have used the same fonts throughout the magazine and I have kept the red, black and white colour scheme to let the reader familiarise this article with the magazine.

I kept the sophisticated style as I have used the same fonts and I have used two columns for the text and no curvy shapes.

I wanted to appeal to the younger side to my target audience, so I used a large font of the letter ‘K’ which is the initial of the band in the article. I used the same font as the masthead of the magazine and used a bright red colour to make the page more visually appealing and to help the page stand out to the reader.