Analysis of Kerrang's double page spread

This is my analysis of Kerrangs double page spread.

Analysis of Kerrang's Contents

This is an anyalsis I done of a contents page in a popular magazine, Kerrang.

Final preliminary task (Contents)

This is the content page of my Preliminary Task. I didnt plan my contents page out so I dont have anything to compare it too.

I've done a logo at the top left hand corner of the page, I've used the logo in both the front cover and the contents. I've also used the same font of writing. This is because you can tell that the front page and contents belong to the same magazine, so if for example, the two pages (front cover and contents) arent connected, like stapled etc, and they both got dropped, you could tell what pages belong together.

Things that went well: I was able to copy the logo to the best of my ability from my front cover to my contents. I also was able to use the magnetic tool slightly better in comparison to my front cover, as the photos up the top dont have much of an outline from the orignal background.

Things that went badly: Theres not much going on in my contents and is quite boring. Theres two pictures, text and a logo, so when it comes to doing the real thing, I will make sure theres more going on within the contents to make it look more professional. Also, I say I done better using the magnetic tool in my contents comapred to my front cover, but its still not the best I could do as the image at the bottom of the contents could have been cutted out more carefully so that none of the orignal background is left on the image.

Final preliminary task (Front Cover)

This is the front cover of my Preliminary Task. From my first plan, I've changed the front cover in mulitiple ways. I havent included a pricing of the magazine on the final draft on preliminary, whereas on the plan, I did include a pricing. On my plan, I also laid the preliminary task so there would be six headlines on the front cover, whereas on the final plan, I only included three headlines.

I've done a logo at the top left hand corner of the page, I've used the logo in both the front cover and the contents. I've also used the same font of writing. This is because you can tell that the front page and contents belong to the same magazine, so if for example, the two pages (front cover and contents) arent connected, like stapled etc, and they both got dropped, you could tell what pages belong together.

Things that went well: considering this was my first time, I was able to add a background of Paris in, use the magnetic tool to cut the boy out of his original background and add him into the new background, and I found adding text and shapes to my work really easy.

Things that went badly: I didnt use the magnetic tool very well because surrounding the boy a little bit of his orignal background, this could have been prevented if I was to be more careful when using the mangetic tool. I also think that I could have laid the headlines out in a more neater and professional form, because they currently look a bit messy and unprofessional.

Start of Preminlary

This is thet start of my preminlary task, the school magazine. I used a magnetic tool that allowed me to crop out the boy from the original background and place him in the Effiel Tower backgroud.

Preliminary task contents photos

Preliminary task front cover photos

Annotations of classical magazine

This is my annotations that I done of a classical music magazine.

Layout of preliminary

This is an image of the layout of the school magazine. I've colour coded everything so its easier to understand.

The top boxed which is colour coded with the colour dark blue is the title. The title will be eye catchy which I hope will attract more people. I will make the title eye catchy by making it a colour and a font that will stand out.

Below the title box is a small pink box, this pink box will be where the pricing is for the magazine. It won't be overly expensive as my target market is school children (including sixth formers), and they won't want to be paying for an expensive school magazine.

The multiple boxes that are shaded with the colour light blue are where the most important headlines will be placed. This will once again hopefully attract my audience because to some of my target audience may find the important headlines that are shown on the front page interesting, resulting in them buying the magazine.

Lastly, the large orange box in the center of the page is going to have a large image. Either of the head boy/girl or an image of who's done something inspirational.

Plan of preliminary task 1

My target audience for my school magazine is 14 to 19 year olds (which includes sixth formers). I chose this target audience because this age group covers most students within the school and in this age range, most people have similar reading abilities. Also, my school magazine is aimed at both females and males.

The language that I will use in my school magazine is informal language. This is because it would hopefully meet the students standards as they don't want complex words and they want to be entertained.

The content (which includes audience expectations) is that my target audience would expect the managzine to be entertaining but informative. This could be done by the magazine containing some news about the school as well as some entertainment, like a few games etc.

I would have multiple images within my school magazine, in the post I made after this, I uploaded a plan of what the layout of the magazine would look like. I would have one main image in the center of the front cover which would be of a student. This image would be a large image, so it would stand out. Other images would be with the important headlines on the front cover, these would be reasonably smaller than the large one in the center of the front cover.

I would attract my target audience by making the magazine stand out and making it eye catchy. I would do this by using a variety of different colours and different font styles. I wouldnt be overly girly with the colour and font, for example using pink swirly fonts beucase my magazine is aimed at both genders.

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