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Title Block Analysis

This title block is very contrasting as we see; white on a black background. These letters are bold and stand out, almost as if they were about to jump out of the magazine as well as this,  they also look like glass shattering. Kerrang's target audience is mostly made up of those who are passionate about their heavy metal, hence the contents of the magazine and this title gives it away. The way that all the letters have the effect that they are shattering, in capitals and the exclamation mark is positioned at the end of the word, connotes some sort of aggression or almost as feisty-ness which make it a large part of the magazine’s identity. This title block is n excellent way to spot the magazine’s identity from all the genres.

The title block on this magazine ‘Billboard’ tells us that the target audience is a sort of young age. This is due to the font being Sans serif as this is seen to be a modern text, and also even though the font colour is black they use an element of fun to attract their target audience by filling in the ‘b’, ‘o’, ‘a’ and the ‘d’ with the colours red, yellow and blue – these are all primary colours. It also looks simple but is also effective and makes it easy to remember as well as attracting somebodies eye and making it well known. 

Designing Magazine titles

Focus group questions

Focus group questions

1. what do you guys think I should name my music magazine?

2. specificity, what will the genre be for this magazine?

3. what will the house style be? and why?

4. who will this magazine appeal most to (class and status wise)?

5. what type of contents do you look out when you buy a magazine?

6. how can we make this magazine unique and different from others?

7. how can we get this magazine to be well known, just like rolling stones, NME, Kerrang etc?

8.what draws you most to a magazine when encountering it?

9.where would this magazine be placed on a shelf? and why should it be placed there?

10.how much would you pay for this magazine? 

11. what's the maximum that you'd pay for this magazine and why?

The Inbeat Reader

The Inbeat reader

Jessie, 22 is a passionate music fan as well as a weekly reader of this so called “astonishing” magazine in her point of view. When not at work constructing music videos and being the editors’ assistant, she is with friends sharing new music from which she has discovered from this updated magazine. When not with friends she is downloading all the new songs out there as well as listening to them on repeat. A surprising confess she has made that Jessie in fact has a playlist called “Inbeat” and all the music she discovers from our magazine she downloads to that specific playlist, just showing us just how much she adores this magazine!  Jessie is music maniac, she loves reading Inbeat to discover new music as well as bands. Jessie’s genre interest is indie as well as alternative rock, dubstep and of course the old favorite  R&B. Jessie loves the live music experience, opting to go for a mixture of gigs, especially huge arena shows for the likes of Kings of Leon, Kasabian, The Killers and The Weeknd. Her biggest inspiration was the band The Weeknd she says, “Their lyrics are amazing and I’m so grateful I met him from that day he really did change my life and all thanks to Inbeat magazine which featured them in “new artists” page.”

Magazine key conventions

Media key conventions from Meteoritemarta

Magazine Analysis

magazine cover and contents

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school magazine analysis

Beside, we see that this school magazine is professional, simple and suitable for the genre and the audience they are aiming at. 
The first thing someone sees on the cover of this magazine is the photography. Here we see that there are six students, some sitting and some standing but we see that they are all in formal attire, correlating to the magazine itself and what it's all about. It is also set outside the university itself, attracting people with the scenery and background to the college/university. 

Seen as we read from a left to right way (West-end way) the title is the biggest and the boldest as well as having the college's logo contained within the Masthead of the magazine, which makes up the entire title. The font of the title is very simple yet classy but bold mainly because of the size of which the title is. As well as this, the font on the subtitles and headers is simple yet bold mainly because it suits what the magazine is about and its contents. You wouldn't chose funky and childish as well as rainbow colored font because it wouldn't suit and no one would take the magazine seriously, as well as it not consisting and demonstrating connotations of what the magazine is actually about.

The color scheme seems to be based around the colors blue and white in order to match with the mens' shirts which are blue and white because it matches and is able to compliment any color that they decide to pick.

Straight away the magazine connotes that this is obviously some sort of business and college magazine that it will inform the reader what the company is all about (without even reading the title.)

If we look at the young and rubicam stages this magazine would appeal to those who are mainly aspirer's and mainstreamers who are trying to succeed, especially getting into colleges like this one for example.