Wednesday, 22 February 2017

3) Analysis of an Existing Contents Page

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Colour: This magazine follows a highly basic colour scheme, with black, white and red being the only colours on the page. This simplistic effect is something very typical in this genre.
I intend to include simplicity in my design in order to not alienate weaker readers, so my contents page will be blocky but will also feature lots of images rather than significant amounts of text.

Image: The images used are relatively simplistic; one is a midshot and one is a long shot, plus a photo of an album. The retro, old fashioned look/quality of the photos is one frequently found in this genre.
However, this is not a technique I intend to use; instead I am aiming for a more modern vibe in order to attract a slightly more generalised audience than this magazine is.

Font: Again, the titlular font and article headlines tend to be writtenin a relatively modern sans-serif font, but the article descriptions are in serif as is typical in music magazines.However, this magazine breaks convention slightly by having the featured articles on the right written in serif font, whereas in almost all similar media products I have researched, this has been written in sans-serif instead.
Again, I intend to follow the traditional conventional approach to fonts; modern, sans-serif font for titles and headlines,with traditional serif font for larger bodies of text.

Layout: The contents page uses a blocky layout, with photos down the side and purely text on the right. It is a very traditional look used which matches the retro look of this magazine.
In my magazine, I plan to use an image dominated look (although this may change) to be consistent with the modern themes running throughout my design.

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