Sunday, 26 January 2014

Interview Analyzing 3 Different Magazine Covers





For my focus group, I spoke to my brother as he is a teenager, and like Indie/rock-pop music, which is a genre I am considering doing my magazine on. It was useful getting his perspective, as he likes art and designing, so looking at the magazine covers and getting his opinion on them was very useful.

The covers I used were:

1)



2) NME




3) Q Magazine

I chose each of these magazine covers, because I think they are all quite different to each other, and they all have different qualities. Therefore, there are different things to draw upon from them, such as the size and style of the artist on the cover.

From listening to what my brother said, having bold clear fonts is a must. It must be clear and easy to read, but not over take the image. Again, we realized that bright colours quickly attract more attention, like with the second image. The fact that it uses the primary colours makes it effective, because they contrast with one another, and make it bolder and brighter. It was also effective that there were more pictures on the second magazine, which was something that both magazines 1 and 3 didn't do. On the third magazine, there was a lot of colour, but maybe not enough text and my brother pointed out that he didn't like the fact that it isn't obvious who else is featured in the magazine. It is therefore important to include other artists featured in the magazine so that it appeals to more than one person.

Another common feature in all these magazine covers is that they both feature the colour red quite heavily. The red is a loud, eye catching colour, which tells me that red is a colour that I must use when creating my magazine. I should ideally also include more than one image on the front cover, but also make sure there is the correct amount of text; not to much, not to little. 

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