Flava - My magazine (urban)
Q magazine (indie/rock)
Top of the pops magazine (pop)
Vibe Magazine (Urban)
Talking about my magazine, in comparison with other music magazines (as shown above Q, Top of the Pops and Vibe) you can see many similarities between my magazine 'Flava' and professional music magazines. Firstly, all have a masthead, straplines, puffs, fonts, screamers, coverlines, use of text and images etc so therefore I have included all of these in my magazine. However it's easy to see which magazine is for which genre due to differences they have to target their audience. For example Top of the Pops have reversed out coverlines, as this gives a younger look, whereas I felt reversed out coverlines gave my magazine cover a less sophisticated look and made it look out of place and unprofessional. I also chose not to use a Serif font as I felt this made my cover look less sophisticated and more towards a female audience, as it looks more swirly than sans-serif, therefore I chose to use Sans-Serif. Q, Top of the pops and Vibe all use this font. My magazine contained no bleeding as I had my picture as a background and all the text on top, however all 3 of the professional magazine contain bleeding on the masthead, this connotes that the magazine does not need to show the title in order to sell. The colours used depend on what audience your selling to. Top of the pops uses pinks and purples to attract to young girls, where as Q has a much more sophisticated look and uses red, black and white, and has a mellow effect. Vibe use blue, yellow, orange and white which have a professional image but also makes it stand out, so it doesn't blend in. For my magazine cover I used the colours red, blue and white so there is no colour clashes which makes it look a lot more professional and not in your face, but makes you notice it. My magazine also features a contents page as does the real magazines. It features page numbers, articles and pictures. However it can not be compared as all contents pages are laid out differently. As long at it features these 3 things, then it should look like a real magazine contents page. Also most magazines will feature more than one double page spread. I had to only make one, however if I was doing the whole of my magazine I would have created more. Most magazine's double page spread's are interviews with celebrities. Therefore this is how I chose to do my double spread. Most interviews will feature numerous pictures of the celebrity or celebrities and then a small paragraph before the questions start. The questions will be in either bold or a colour, with a different colour/style font for the answer so you can tell them apart.
Both my magazine and real professional magazines, have all the right sections to a magazine and look like real media products, however all magazines have different styles and features due to what musical genre they are, therefore meaning they don't look the same. How the magazine is styled and wrote depends on what genre they are as this makes them look different to other magazines. As real media magazines have a lot more money and software to use on their products, theirs looks more professional than mine.
