For my
contents page, I wanted to keep it simple but looking effective at the same
time. The only way I knew I could do this was to get ideas from successful and
established current music magazines such as Kerrang! I am satisfied with my
pages from doing this as I believe they gained a more professional and
effective approach.
I used key
conventions that were recognizable from other contents pages such as artist
image, page numbers & what will be included etc. This made my product more identifiable
that it was a contents page.
I tried to
create the same effect for my feature article page. I noticed that on Kerrang’s
feature article page, it appeared fairly jumbled and crammed full of information;
I however, didn’t want to achieve this particular kind of design. I avoided
this by keeping the colours of my feature article page the traditional and
plain black & white. This worked in making it look effective as the odd use
of red and yellow made it stand out and eye catching, this worked well for what
I was aiming to achieve as it remained simple.
Initially, I
designed my feature article page so that it was a page only. I discovered that
this wasn’t going to work as I couldn’t include all of the information I wanted
to on one page only. This is when I made the feature article page 2 pages which
also allowed me to include an extra image.
My house
style between the pages is very obvious and noticeable. I believe that it is
clear which colours I chose to use throughout the layout of my design as they
continued from my front cover right the way through to my feature article page.
The colours I chose are those which are considered related to my chosen genre
of music which contributes to the purpose of my magazine and fluent house
style.
When creating my contents page, I took a
lot of inspiration from Kerrang. I believe that it is noticeable I used a lot
of Kerrang’s features due to the similar use of colour and layout. I aimed to
make my contents page slightly simpler compared to the Kerrang layout and
design.
Some of the features on my contents page
are similar to the Kerrang ones. For example, I used an image for the top half
of the page and placed text in similar places. However, I made my page slightly
more simple by not including as many images and bands of text.
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