Selection and Rejection

Image analysis on front cover of rnb mag

I love the image on this magazine. Its got no colour to it and got no lighting in it at all. The props work so well in the dark though, the gold chain and the gold ring and the gold sides on his shades have all been made to stand out and add colour to the image. The gold is also a conventional code telling the audience that he has money, is confident to wear these, is rather bad but not too bad, you wouldn't see anyone on the front of a pop magazine wearing all gold chains and rings and being dressed in black with a hat and shades on. So the props give away the genre, so the targeted audience will know straight away what magazine it is. He also has tattoos, more than 1, which shows the representation that he's a masculine male, he likes to dress nice and look good and wear all designer, expensive stuff that stands out in peoples faces, but he doesn't overdo it, he still has the big build body and tattoos which shows of his masculinity side. The pose adds to this, his arms crossed, hand over mouth, the head tilt just tops it off and shows that he is confident, strong, not aggressive but arrogant. 

RnB masthead Analysis

This is a masthead from a music magazine called 'R&B'. You can tell straight away from the masthead what the genre of music is. I love this font because its looks handwritten, like a lot of songs that RnB singers sing, it looks like its being written fast, fast like the rap songs RnB rappers rap. The use of the letter 'n' is conventional, its a shorter way of saying 'and' because when you say and really fast it sounds like 'n'. This is the house style for all of the RnB magazines, they use the same masthead and place it in the same position in he top left hand corner of every issue the magazine makes. The only thing that changes is the colour, depending on the background or what the main story of the magazine is. It varies from blue, to white, to yellow, to orange and many more. Im thinking of making my masthead in the same way that this one is, because i really like the font. 

Front Cover Analysis for Classic rock magazine

This is the front cover magazine for Classic Rock. As you can see, the masthead of this magazine is in the back ground, you cant see it as Slash in the main image is covering it with his hat. Although the masthead isn't very visible, you are still able to now what this magazine is and also what genre it is. The masthead is big, bold, and white which stands out on the dark black background. Its written in serif font and is all capitalised. 

The colours used on this front cover of the magazine are very dark. They mainly use black, as its rock. If they'd of used brighter colours and a lot more light you might not be able to tell that it was a Rock magazine. There is the yellow also used in some of the buzz words such as 'revealed' and 'buh-bye' and the sticker on the right hand side making an article inside the magazine stand out to attract the audiences attention that that particular article. The use of yellow stands out on the back ground and stand out even more than what the white fonts do. 

The main image is a medium close up of Slash. The convention of this image to make you know that he is part of the same genre as the magazine is the representation of him. The hair, the props, the colours, the outfit, the pose and expression on his face. He's smoking, giving of the stereotypical impression that he's bad, he's harsh, people involved in this kind of genre do drugs and smoke and are bad and aggressive. Not the kind of person you'd see on the front cover of a pop magazine for example. His pose and his expression is expressionless. He has the shades on to cover his eyes, his hair is all big and curly and frizzy and in his face. He has piercings as you can see on his nose, the chains around his neck. He's not a young man, he's middle aged which links into the 'classic' rock. 

The target audience for this particular magazine i would say would be for the older people, maybe when they was younger and this genre of music was the big thing and also some younger people will be targeted at this audience to as they might like this genre as well. Younger children wont be targeted at this magazine because it wont appeal to them; all the dark colours and smoking and aggressiveness. They'd want more colours and cleanliness and happy smiling celebrities on the front cover, preferably not smoking. 

The main headline is big bold and yet again white linking into the masthead. Serif font still but this times it's not all capitalised. 

The only thing that doesn't work for me on this magazine is the 'free cd!' sticker in the corner, its red and white which stands out but looks out of place, that sticker could be put on any magazine, it doesn't link up the rock genre. 

     

Front Cover Magazine Analysis

The banner on the front cover of the Top of the Pops magazine is in a text that stands out on a coloured background. The target audience for this magazine is young teens preferably ages around 13. So the bright colours will catch their attention and want to know what its about. Its all about One Direction so the fact its in big bold fonts and its colourful; it will make them want to buy the magazine and see what its about. They use a puff to substitute the word 'love' with an icon. In this case the love heart. Its semiotics, the connotation of the love heart is that it means love and its a world wide connotation, everybody who sees a love heart used in this way will understand the meaning of the icon, meaning love! The colours used are all bright bold and stand out, the hot pink and sunshine yellow and the bold bright blue, this will draw in the target audience because bright colours attract the younger audience, if they were to use darker colours and less colours it would be targeted at an older audience and the younger audience wont be as appealed to the magazine. At the bottom of the banner is a film strip, the film strip links up up to the words in the banner, the banner is telling the audience that One Direction are making a film so the film strip links up that. 

The masthead of the front cover of the magazine is also in a banner. Its all bright pink, stands out on the page in the top left hand corner, this is also a house style. On every magazine that top of the pops makes, they always put the masthead in the same position. The font is in san- serif, all in capital letters, all white, they put the 'of the' in a white circle and make the font pink instead of white like the rest of the other fonts, this contrasts the colours used. They use images of stars around the inside edge of the banner, this is called iconography. It appeals to the younger audience and also has connotations, the stars could represent the stars they use in the magazine. 

My own contents page

Contents Page:
If i'd of gone ahead with the contents page for my college magazine id have made the word 'contents' bold and colourful. I'd of written the contents of my magazine in bold writing, all linked with images of the other stories. The main story of the magazine would of stood out above all the other stories, with bigger images and would have been a different colour to catch the audiences attention. 

College magazine front cover

                                                           Front Cover:

My front cover of my Collage Magazine. This was my first time making a front cover of a magazine. I created this using Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, it was also my first time using Adobe. On the front cover i have used a masthead, which is the title of this magazine in this case 'In House'. I used a big, bold and colourful font so i know that it'll stand out above the image. I also added the release date of the magazine and the issue number. There is a main story on the front cover which i used another font for; keeping the colour scheme the same as the masthead. The front cover is very plain and simple. Using only two colours and a medium close-up of a Sixth Form College student. I'm fairly pleased with this front cover as it is the first one i've ever made but when i make the front cover for my Music Magazine i shall make it a lot more busy and, a lot more colours to attract students attention, more main stories to draw the audience in and with the image, it'll make it more clear, as you can see on the photo there is a fair few blemishes and redness, i did try to use the spot healing brush on Adobe Photoshop but as you can see i only made it look worse, so on my next magazine i'll try to work on that more so i don't get any redness in the image. Many improvements need to be made but as this was my first front cover of a magazine i don't think i did too bad.