Annotated Magazine Cover

Annotated Entertainment Magazine Cover

This is an annotated Entertainment Magazine Cover, I did this in order to analyse all the different features that were going on including puffs,lures,images tag lines and subheadings. This was a simple task as I had to pick out all the different techniques being used. At this point I had learnt more about what makes a good magazine and what is it that makes the cover look attractive.

I picked out the main things that stood out to me as a cover. Such as the language used as well as who was starring on the front of the cover.

For example the image that is used, instantly would catch someones eye as it is bold and a large image that takes up a lot of space, adding to this you can also see that the masthead is covered slightly, this happens often if the magazine is popular, the idea behind this is because it is famous and well known therefore would be automatically recognised as a  'Heat' magazine.

What I have worked on so ?

 Worked on the following:

  I have worked on the following from the beginning of the course:

-A big research about media itself
-Genres of generic magazines
-Generic conventions of magazines ppt
-Created a ppt on fav band, to get an idea of genres
-Magazine front pages 
-Exercise on the connotations of colour
-Created a ppt on magazines 
-Analysed a magazine cover, i.e what is on the cover tag lines, puffs and lures.
-Also worked on a type of magazine, the BBC Magazine, and analysed different genres of magazines.
- Started to produce a preliminary school magazine cover and a contents page.
- Produced a final piece of a country music magazine cover as well as a contents page and a double page article.
-Evaluation

The information above is exactly what I have worked on so far in media, which allowed me to gain knowledge on how to produce my own final piece of a music magazine front cover, contents page and a double page article.

Genres of Magazines

Genres of Magazines:

I looked at different genres of magazines in order to allow me to acknowledge what differentiated all the different genres of magazines. By carrying out this activity it allowed me to make sure I understood what exactly made each cover look different. I found that different colours represented a whole different mood for the entire cover, for example looking at teen magazines, many bright colours were used, due to the target audience it was aimed at, i.e because it was aimed at a young audience the cover was more attractive looking with large headings, everything was placed according to the audience it was aimed at.

However looking at home/living magazines, this was a total opposite to teen magazines as it was so much more simpler, because it was aimed at a maturer audience, it was aimed at someone who owns a home and is looking to design the place. Again the colours were purposely used such as the brown and white to allow the cover to create a neautral look to the magazine, adding to this an image was also used to allow the reader or passer by to look at the interior of the house and how it is styled.To conclude this by comparing and looking at all of the genres of magazines I found this task to be very helpful as I knew what to look for when creating my front cover.

 

1) Gardening

2) Home/Living

3) Teen

4) Music

5) Lifestyle

6) Fashion

7) Men’s

8) Women’s

 9) Health/Fitness

10) News

11) Entertainment

12) Videogames

13) Football

Creating a front page for a school magazine

Creating a front page for a school magazine

This is the final school magazine aimed towards students, I was assigned to this task, as a preliminary task, the focus of this task was to allow me to gain skills on how to simply use photo shop as well as learn of the genres,conventions and how a magazine simply looks like, as well as gain a deeper understanding in producing a magazine cover. I had to look at past preliminary school magazine covers as well as real school magazine covers. By looking at other magazine covers, I was able to identify which features allowed the magazine to look sharp and eye-catching. The features I looked out for was, how were the puffs and lures being used as well as what content did the cover have on it. I also looked at the graphics used on the cover, the graphics played a huge part in the make up of my front cover as, in reality the students want to see something that catches their attention on what is on the inside of the magazine, therefore I added in a little humour through graphics such as the 'Keep calm and join the Student Council'.

In addition to this I also made sure that I used three colours throughout producing the cover, i used red,white and black which went with the image I used in the background of the student.I used the colour red to allow the magazine to look bright and lively so students would be tempted to pick up the magazine and read it, however to tone it down I used black and white to allow the cover to look informative as well as fun for the students. 

Adding to this by looking at examples of other school magazine covers I found that the magazines all had a house style running through the contents and cover, which helped me in producing the content as well as the cover.By carrying out this preliminary task I found it very helpful as i learnt what to include as well as what not to include when creating a magazine cover.