School mastheads

School magazine analysis

Music magazine front covers

Music Magazine Front Covers 

Music magazines come in all different genres, Billboard for pop, Q is mostly rock and pop, NME for rock and Vibe for R&B. All the magazines have similar features, even if they specialise in different genres, these would include:

Bright and appropriate colours which are used on each magazine, the rock associated magazines use a lot of red which symbolises fear or death which some rock artists try to create. The pop magazines use a mixture of different colours which means creativity such as yellow, blue and purple. Bright colours will make the reader stop and look and it may attract them to purchase it.

The main image on each magazine is looking towards the camera, even if their face is in a different direction. This can mean that they want to interact with the reader and draw in their attention. All the magazines have anchorage texts which link to their main image to give a bit more information about the story inside. Each magazine also has at least 3 cover lines which details other stories inside the issue.

On 3 of the 4 magazine cover above, the masthead is being overlapped by the main image which can show that the image is more powerful and important than the name. Each masthead is at the top of the magazine and this seems to be a similar trend in the music magazine industry.

All of the images show no more than a mid-shot image, with Q magazine choosing a close up shot. This means that the attention is drawn to their face rather than their body or outfit. It means the image can have more of a connection with the reader if just the face is on show.

Music magazine cover analysis

Technologies

For the first part of my coursework, we were asked to try out some new technologies such as TubeChop. This is a site that allows you to adapt and manage YouTube videos so that they are more relevant to the blog that I'm creating. This allows for all the important information to come through without having any unnecessary parts of the video. It is easy to use and isn't complicated to understand how it works.

Media fire is a website that allows you to store and share all your types of media including photos, songs, videos and documents. You can access it from any device, mobile or computer so its easily accessible. Its helps me to be able to manage and develop my blog.

Tricider is a good app used in media because it allows you to brainstorm ideas and anything you want really and you get feedback from the people you know such as students and teachers. The website is slightly more confusing to use because the home page has much more information on it so its tricky to know exactly what it can do, however its a useful website to have.

Overall, I preferred TubeChop the best because it was very simple and an effective idea and I think it can be very useful to me in my AS Media Studies.