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Analysing Indie Magazines

This magazine is fairly simple and doesn't include much information on what is in the magazine. I do like the font used for the masthead and the choice of colour, it stands out to the target audience because it is bold and vibrant. However this magazine gives the look that it would appeal more to the female audience. I would want my magazine to appeal to both male and female. It also doesn't really stand out much either to other magazines, because besides the masthead, there is only really the images and names down the side, which would be included in the magazine. The main feature in the magazine, which is the image, doesn't have a cover story to match which doesn't give it much definition. Even though this magazine is different which is what i'm looking for, it looks to plain to gain any ideas from for my own magazines. I would want to include a lot more to make it more interesting and appeal to the target audience.

How Research has Informed my Planning and Creativity

My initial ideas

1. Masthead: related to the genre
2. Photograph: preferably main image to be taken outside, of musician/band 
3. Any other images: include with cover stories to give more of an inside to the magazine
4. Colours: suited to the genre, thinking about black and white
5. Puffs: include to show more inside on the magazine
6. Font styles: font that will represent the genre, unique/different 
7. Banner: make the magazine look too crowded
8. Main feature/cover line: main feature will be the image thats in the centre of the magazine and will have a cover story to give it more definition
9. Strapline: link to the main image to make it more interesting
10. Representation: use as many as possible so that the audience will know straight away what the genre of the magazine is, it will draw more attention to the target audience and makes it look more interesting (image that I use, colours, fonts)


Targets and Further Research
1. size of masthead, colours
3. what the images will be of, where they will be taken
4. other colours as well as black and white
5. what shapes, words to put inside the shapes, colours 
6. what font to use, colours of the fonts
9. what it will be based on

Analysing Indie Magazines

• The main colour scheme on this front cover is red, white and black
• Obvious conventions being the masthead, barcode, price
• Direct address from the model, looking and pointing at the camera
• Two puffs, one being in the corner promoting the magazine itself and the other next to the main image promoting something inside the magazine
• Main cover line linking to the main image
• Strapline '100 ways to get free music!' written in caps and placed at the top of the cover drawing the target audience to read the magazine
• Alternative special about U2 album

Overall this magazine looks quite crowded which isn't something I would want for my own magazine. It does include quite a lot of features, some of which I will probably want to try experimenting with and use for my ideas. The image has a direct address to the target audience which again I will experiment with doing, aswell as taking some photos that aren't giving that effect. I like the idea of a strapline because it draws more attention to the target audience, and encourages them to read the magazine. However I don't really like how the colours and fonts have been used and placed; the fonts look abit too bland and have no originality or representation to the genre or the image. I would want something more unique and more fancy for my magazine so it gives it more edge and it gives it some originality. This magazine isn't something I would gain many ideas from because it looks too typical and doesn't look the most eye-catching magazine there is.

Analysing Indie Magazines

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