Flat Plans

My front cover shows big bold pictures of a musician showing that they are the main focus in this article. The caption "What's Jesse Walton smiling about?" relates to the graphology of the musician showing hes smiling creating a semantic link between the two. The rhetorical question speaks to the reader make them think and hooks them into the magazine. The tagline "It's time for your fill" is surrounded by a sharp jaggedy object which creates semiotics that this magazine is going to be different and straight to the point. The lexis used in the tagline says that this magazine is like a drug and you need to get "your fill" as it will become an unsustainable addiction it also personlises it to the reader by involving them which relates to my target audience as they like to be involved with things. The triangles used in the logo, magazine title and throughout the rest of the page have been put there because of the sharp and jaggedy rock feeling as there not smooth like a circle. Also it relates to the rule of three a key theme that will run throughout the magazine and shows that this magazine is very informative by using the tell them, tell them again and tell them some more rule whilst remaining straight to the point this is important as my target audience will want to learn about the alternative rock genre that includes rock, indie and acoustic styles. The colours that I've used relate to my target audience as my research has shown that blues, whites and reds are the most popular colours of my intended demographic of 15s-45s. Throughout NME and Kerrang! front covers the colours white and red are used. I have decided to put blue in as well as it is a cool colour and slightly different to the rest of the rock music magazines. Similarly to the other front covers my masthead is the boldest thing on the page apart from the title, the main sell is the biggest image on the page and like both Kerrang! and NME I use numbers to show how much of something is to make readers think that they are getting a lot for their money. Like NME I use the bottom of the page to show other important added features. Compared to both Kerrang! and NME my front contains a lot less images and is more copy heavy, I have done this becuase I believe that if your interested in music you will want something that is more fact based.

My contents is different to that of NME for the simple fact it actually says contents on it and it shows a bigger picture of the main sell of the picture compared to mine. I keep the main sell, the logo and I put the contents title in a similar style to the magazines title and the magazine logo to have a running theme throughout the magazine. Unlike NME also I have decided not to put a band index in my contents but I use a more substantial contest showing directly where everything is. I do this to show that even though my magazine is slightly different it stills follows a slightly traditional format to made it as accessible for a wider range of my demographic as possible.

My double page spread follows a very simple format. Unlike Kerrang! my magazine shows its logo in the top corner keeping with the semantic field. The page is split in two so that it can provide for people who are interested in looking at the band and people who want to learn about the band. This is very similar to Kerrangs! double page spread as there one shows a huge picture of the band as well.