Analysis of PagePlus Magazine Draft

PagePlus  [December 23^rd]

Beginning with the front cover, the design I tried to use was a sophisticated layout, including the use of different typography including my favourite font, the headline. The masthead of my magazine, VOCALIST, is in a large busy font which is covered slightly by the large photograph of cover star Christina Aguilera. I chose this image as it was previously a cover for a well-known magazine and would (obviously) fit perfectly on the front of mine.

My main cover line uses rhyming to grab the reader’s attention and the dark, bold typography which is at an angle down the front cover, was incorporated to show a modern, yet stylish side to my magazine. The other cover line underneath the main one reads ‘The Voice coach is BACK’ and this (although not shown in my draft) is in a better font to this basic one, but is basically to give a better insight to my magazine.

I added this cover line, as it was one of the necessities to my magazine, that I inferred from my questionnaire results. The questionnaire stated what kinds of topics people wanted to see inside a magazine they might buy and ‘other aspects of their lives’ was one that scored quite highly.

PagePlus  [December 29th]

My contents page includes a large font, laid on top of the photograph of Christina Aguilera (from the same photoshoot) which reads ‘What’s Inside’. I used this instead of the classic ‘Contents’ as I wanted to make more of statement with a different heading.

Also, the page numbers are spelled out in the same font as my masthead which shows consistency and also, it imprints in the reader’s mind which page something is on. The bright pink colouring I chose as a backing to my photos and text was to show the femininity of the issue star and also to appeal to my predominantly female audience.

PagePlus [January 5^th]

The large photograph I used from the Maxim magazine (2013) I thought would look good as covering half of my double page spread. I placed two quotes from the article on the other side of my double page spread to show a link between both pages. The large quotes are easily noticeable by the reader and keep them reading.

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Most of my fonts and pictures have changed from the original piece as it is a different computer and the fonts haven’t been installed.