Magazine masthead analysis

School Mastheads

School Magazine Analysis

Magazine Analysis

Music Magazine Covers

                            AT A GLANCE

When looking at all the different music magazines out there on the market I tried to find a connection to what make a good magazine cover. However due to the different factors such as the target audience, genre etc. it makes every magazine cover very unique to each other. 

Here are the few good quality points each magazine seemed to all have:

. Logo, every blog needs a logo on the front cover whether its slapped across the top and in the middle or hidden in the corner but still boldly shown. (The logo is something every company needs not only a magazine) however for the magazine its also the title and the logo needs to be bold and noticeable. One of the reasons for this is so that when someone is looking to buy a magazine one of the first things they'll notice is the logo and this will also persuade them to buy it or even put them off buying it. The magazines title says a lot about the magazine and who they are and what they have to offer.



.Taglines, tend to be a catchy statement which hook you in and make you curious about the magazine so you want to buy it. Taglines are not just for that though they also tell you what the magazine has inside to offer.



. Cover model, all the artists on the front cover are all looking at the camera directly, this is direct mode of address this make the reader establish an relationship with them through that connection, which convinces them to buy the magazine even more. Another thing they do is star a popular celebrity on the cover as more people will be interested in the magazine which will therefore increase the profits of the magazine.  


. Incentives, most of these magazines offer an incentive into buying it, sometimes it can be an actual item and sometimes it will be advice or a chance to win something. In the Kerrang magazine there's a chance to win which makes the reader wanting to buy it so they can win the prize. Both Country Weekly and Rolling Stones magazine use the word 'special' which makes you think the magazine has more to offer then some and on both magazine cover the word special is written in white to make it stand out to the reader.        

                                                                                                                                

. Central image, all these magazine cover don't really show the full length of the celebrity on the front. However in the Kerrang magazine you can see what the celebrities are wearing this could tell use that this magazine may not be as formal as some of the other magazine such as Rolling Stones.

Useful technolgoies

Write a short reflective blog post about your findings on new technologies. Which technologies did you use? Which do you think will be most useful to you in Media studies?

I have used lots of different technologies so far in media. One of these was this blog (google blog) this is because this will help me improve my skills and will allow me to upload my course work content up onto it, this means I will be constantly updating and improving my blog allowing me to completely understand how to use it to my advantage.

Flickr is an easy website to use and I think it will be helpful for my blog and also all the other parts of media I need to use it for. Flickr will be good for searching for good quality photos I may want to use for my course work and also good for storing photos and it ties in with other websites such as think-link which will therefore make it easier to find the photos I need and where I can access them as its online I can then access it at home.

Think-link will be useful for making my pictures interactive which will be good for making my blog look more interesting. Think-link will also be good for when I need to annotate  picture as it will look much more neater then having arrows come of the photo.

Slide share is a website that can be used to make slide shows for presentation, this will be useful for the future when needing to make my presentation look a bit more exciting. The great thing about slide share is that its really easy to share on social media to get your ideas out there.

I don't think I will be a big fan of firework because I don't think the software can fully help me produce the quality work I would like however it will be useful to make magazine covers and the results you get from the software probably get better with practice.

During my blog I will have to present a lot of information so I don't want to do it on all the same technologies so therefore I have researched different technologies I can use to present my ideas and founding: Prezi, zoho, emaze and visme.