For our main task in this unit we are to make a cover for a music magazine of our chosen genre. We are also to make a double paged spread for the magazines as well as a contents page. First however we will do some research on a couple of the magazine around already in this cicle.
My first chosen magazine is Kmag which is a drum and bass magazine. Other titles within this genre are such genres as jungle, dubstep, grime and acid house.
The font used for the title is modern. The letters are made of little white dots which seem to resemble lighting which is relevant to the scene. The K is really big and is the biggest thing on the page. Underneath is the title in the same font. The big K is the logo. The font is white as it stands out really brightly on the dark background.
The colour coding of the page is quite dark which is relevant to the scene as it is mostly heard in the bars and the clubs. The colour suggests that this is where you would hear the music.
The style of writing is informal and assumes the knowledge of the reader to understand the text and terms used.
Target audience for this magazine would be young males from 18 upwards and of English nationality. Although younger people who are interested in the scene and are disk jockeys themselves could also but this mag.
The image on the front cover is of a group of disk jockeys signed to the Friction label. These people are featured in the magazine and there is an article on each of them. It is a posed shot as the audience are meant to know who they are. The pose that they choose is all of them on a table at a club looking into the camera. Normally the cover stars are male. Kmag is a specialist magazine and is only sold in the UK.
The main sells to on the cover are the release of frictions newly signed acts. Other features on the cover show names of disk jockeys and groups.
Other information on the cover are the barcode, the price, the issue number and date, the price and the fact it is made in the UK. There is also a free CD with the magazine. There is a caption up the top saying who made it. Having a mix CD with the magazine also draws the specialist reader in as they want to listen to what the latest releases will be sounding like.
The font used for the title is modern. The letters are made of little white dots which seem to resemble lighting which is relevant to the scene. The K is really big and is the biggest thing on the page. Underneath is the title in the same font. The big K is the logo. The font is white as it stands out really brightly on the dark background.
The colour coding of the page is quite dark which is relevant to the scene as it is mostly heard in the bars and the clubs. The colour suggests that this is where you would hear the music.
The style of writing is informal and assumes the knowledge of the reader to understand the text and terms used.
Target audience for this magazine would be young males from 18 upwards and of English nationality. Although younger people who are interested in the scene and are disk jockeys themselves could also but this mag.
The image on the front cover is of a group of disk jockeys signed to the Friction label. These people are featured in the magazine and there is an article on each of them. It is a posed shot as the audience are meant to know who they are. The pose that they choose is all of them on a table at a club looking into the camera. Normally the cover stars are male. Kmag is a specialist magazine and is only sold in the UK.
The main sells to on the cover are the release of frictions newly signed acts. Other features on the cover show names of disk jockeys and groups.
Other information on the cover are the barcode, the price, the issue number and date, the price and the fact it is made in the UK. There is also a free CD with the magazine. There is a caption up the top saying who made it. Having a mix CD with the magazine also draws the specialist reader in as they want to listen to what the latest releases will be sounding like.
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