Vibe front cover examples

These images are front covers from Vibe music magazine, Vibe is generally a pop magazine but kind of overlaps with some artists. Vibe has Eminem and 50 cent witch XXL also has on their front covers. Vibe has a lot of big stars in it and is also a world wide magazine, it has stars like Kanye West, Rihanna and Drake and there are a lot of people in the world that would like to read about all of these people. The title of Vibe stretches right the way across the front cover at the top, the main images also cover some of the title because they are well known enough to do this but if you didn't know what vibe was you would still be able to see the title because the parts of the title that are covered is only small compared to the size of the text.

XXL magazine examples

This is one of the best examples of how XXL are very well know they have covered the title with the main image leaving just one X for readers to recognise that it is an XXL magazine but they still do. This is not the most recent example so it shows that XXL have been well known for a long time.

Music magazine front covers

All four of these images are of XXL magazine front covers, XXL is a worldwide hip hop magazine that features some of the best and most well know artists in the world. All of these front covers have really big stars on them, Dr Dre, eminem, 50 cent and tupac. XXL uses hip hop artists past and present because the third front cover is Tupac Shakur and he died in 1996, but Dr Dre, Eminem and 50 cent are all still alive. On nearly all of the XXL magazine front covers the title is in the top left hand corner and in the newer ones the artists head can be covering some of the title, this can now be done by XXL because they are a well known hip hop magazine and people will still know that it is an XXL magazine. Newer and less well known magazines will not be able to do this because people will not know the title.

Magazine analysis 2

This is another drawing/ mock up of a magazine front cover, this magazine also has a main picture in the middle like a music magazine to catch potential readers eyes but this is a gaming magazine, even though a lot of people play games not many people will want to spend their time reading about them in magazines. This mock up of a gaming magazine does not show a bar code but it should have one and when I make my music magazine it needs to have one be be amuse it is meant to be bought.

Magazine analysis 1

This is a mock up of a magazine that we did in class, it is to show how different types of magazines use different layouts to show the information that they want to. Most music magazines have a large image in the middle of a well known star that will catch people's eyes and make them want to buy it and an eye catching title to interest people and make them want to read about it. This magazine also has a large image in the middle but it is not an eye catching image it is more for technology enthusiast that will buy this magazine every week.

Questionnaire

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Contents page mock up

This is a mock up of the contents page of my music magazine/ newsletter for deyes high, i first planned to make it like this but i have changed it alot when making it because it didnt look that good. i have changed it to not having the pictures at the bottom but kept the title and the logo at the top. I have also kept the contents part but just moved it down to where the images are.