I have found a few magazines which have inspired a few elements I will be using when creating my magazine - disregarding the colour scheme and other crucial factors. I am showing them in this post because I want to explain my choices for the way I am structuring my magazine front page, e.g. why I place the main cover line where I have.
The image of NME magazine which I have shown above has encouraged me to structure my cover lines in a similar way. In my post below labelled 'Plans for my magazine' I showed a computer created and hand drawn plan for my front page of the magazine which will show how I am planning for it to turn out. The magazine above has a main image of a man, waist up, and surrounding him are cover lines. The cover lines on the right are smaller than the ones on the left which represents the importance of the information, which I will be doing. Also, the main cover line is a lot bolder than most things on the page (except the masthead) and is positioned across the whole bottom third of the page - across the image of the man and in white amongst the black background makes it stand out a lot. I plan on making my magazine share similar structure to this because I think it is an effective way of showing the audience which information is the most important and intriguing.
The other magazine I have mean inspired by is a different issue of NME magazine. Although I will not be using the same colour scheme and font choices the layout of the page is what I am interested in. The main image is Noel Gallagher shown mid-torso up which is the position I am planning on my model to do, however her body will be facing forward. Also cover lines are positioned in a similar way as the previous NME magazine which I am interested in adapting for my own. There is a small image in the top right hand corner which is intriguing because it shows the versatility of the magazine so I will have an image in that position as well, one I have taken myself of course. One thing that is featured on these front covers that I will not be adapting is that main image overlaps the masthead, which is acceptable in an infamous magazine such as NME, however my niche audience will not be able to make out my masthead if the main image goes over it. Therefore I will not be doing this.
The other magazine I have mean inspired by is a different issue of NME magazine. Although I will not be using the same colour scheme and font choices the layout of the page is what I am interested in. The main image is Noel Gallagher shown mid-torso up which is the position I am planning on my model to do, however her body will be facing forward. Also cover lines are positioned in a similar way as the previous NME magazine which I am interested in adapting for my own. There is a small image in the top right hand corner which is intriguing because it shows the versatility of the magazine so I will have an image in that position as well, one I have taken myself of course. One thing that is featured on these front covers that I will not be adapting is that main image overlaps the masthead, which is acceptable in an infamous magazine such as NME, however my niche audience will not be able to make out my masthead if the main image goes over it. Therefore I will not be doing this.
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