My magazine ‘DOOMED’ challenges
and develops forms and conventions of a real magazine. Firstly, my front cover follows
some of the conventions of my case studies, both ‘KERRANG’ and ‘ROCKSOUND’. My
magazine has a similar layout to the layout of Kerrang magazine, as both my
magazine and my case study includes a puff in the right side of the front cover
which has different posters on it. Also, the main cover line of both the case
study and my own magazine is in the middle of the page in front of the artist,
and there are other cover lines around on the sides of the artist. In addition,
they have a ‘win’ section at the bottom of the magazine in the left corner of
the page. All three magazines include posters to promote the artists and
attract the audience as they are getting something free that they will like.
The colour scheme of my magazine Doomed and Kerrang are very similar as they
both use red, yellow, black and white, both of the headlines are red and are at
the top of the page from one side to another.
My bar code, price and website
are all placed in a very similar place as my second case study Rocksound (
bottom left corner of the page).
The photography of my front
cover is quite similar to the one of Rocksound magazine as both are a mid-shot
and both of the cover stars have their hands in front of them lifted up.
I have taken conventions,
features and layouts from both of my case study in order to create a magazine
that follows the genre of Rock music and make a unique and professional
magazine cover. Both case studies were very inspiring and helpful as I picked
out different parts of the magazine from my case studies to create something
fresh.
Contents Page
As for my contents page, it has
been inspired by Rocksound magazine. The layout of the subtitles were an
inspiration to my contents page. My Doomed magazine also has the ‘hit us up..’
section at the bottom of the page as in the Rocksound magazine, it is very
similar and it has the different social media where we can be found with a
image of the logo of the social media app. Another similar thing is that there
are three images on the right hand side of the page.
However, one thing that my
product challenged is that my contents page is only one page, whereas, the
Rockshound magazine contents page is two. I was inspired by my other case study
of Kerrang magazine as their contents page is also only one page instead of
two.
The colour scheme of my contents
page was influenced by the colour scheme of my first case study Rocksound, as
both consist of black white and red. The colours used are the same I used on my
front cover in order for it to be consistent and flow.
DPS
My double page spread was
inspired by my Rocksound magazine case study, I have a similar layer to it as
the image is on the left page and the article/interview is on the right page. I
also followed to structure of Rocksound of the interview as I chose to do a
Q&A to make it easier for the audience to follow and make it for
interesting.
However, my product challenged
some of the conventions of the double page spread of Rocksound because the dps
of my own magazine Doomed has the title and a pull out quote if the middle
instead of at the top of the page. This in my opinion attracts the audience’s
eye quicker and I also made it really bold to make it even more eye catching.
The colour schemes are also
different and opposite, as Rocksound magazine has a black background and white
text whereas, Doomed has a white background and black text.
I decided to use the same colour
scheme as my contents page and my front cover because it will make it all link
together and make it flow as it will all be similar. This challenged the colour
schemes of both of my case studies as both of their double page spread were a
different colour scheme to their contents page and their front cover.
Overall
Overall, my house style, layout
and colour scheme were all inspired by both of my case studies, in particular
by Rocksound magazine.
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