- There are around 5 different fonts I used on my cover. This is because some fonts I used - such as the ROB PARKER - I used to give the artists their own font. With the other sell lines I used identical or at least very similar fonts but put them in different colours to create distinctions on the page
- I tried to stick to a 3 colour, colour scheme and did with all of the text using only White, Navy and Yellow. My cover image I put in black and white to reach the vintage and timeless look that is very apparent in a look of Indie texts. I let the guitar colour appear through as I wanted to make it stand out and draw the readers attention to it to reinforce that its a music magazine
- The cover model isn't looking at the camera to appear less intimidating as Indie is quite a 'soft' genre.
- There's a burst in the top right corner saying 'new'. This isn't hugely noticeable but would just let people know its new so hopefully they would want to try it out.
- The only words on the page in yellow are 'Rob Parker', this is because he is the main artist article and so this needs to be largely promoted as it's what draws a lot of people to the magazine
- I used '50 best selling tracks of the month' as one of my most noticeable sell lines as its a curiosity statement and would make people wonder what the 50 tracks are.
- The main image on this page is the only one and is consistent with the cover image, this fits with the idea of formula which is part of the four f's. This just means that the articles and contents should be similar throughout and weekly/monthly.
- The orangey colour of the numbers are nearly matched to the coloured guitar in the picture. This presents the colour scheme of the page which is quite simple like the front cover is.
- I didn't put many items on my contents as I just wanted a few main things so people would go to look at these and find other things in the magazine.
- There's only 3 different fonts on this page for the title, numbers and written words. This helps to make the page look neat so it's easy to navigate.
- The main title is what you see first on the page and immediately tells you what the article is about. It's written in quite a messy young font. I also used little picture symbols in the top right corner to fill the white gap and also because it fitted well with the feel of the article.
- The writing is in three columns as this looked most conventional. I put a quote at the bottom of the middle column to split the text up.
- Under the heading there's a tagline reading 'how to survive the music, mud and mayhem'. This is the wording used on the cover again contributing to the formula of the magazine keeping with a consistent style.
- The photos are all tinted blue to make them seem more unified. It also dulls down some of the colour to give it a more mellow festival look.
- Within the article there are sub-headings which separate the writing and allow people to read what they want to on the page. At the beginning of the article there's a section saying 'ingredients' with bullet points to introduce people to the article.
- There's a 'drinkaware' warning at the end of the article which was put in to contrast the amount of talk of alcohol in the article. I put this in because as a 'gatekeeper' I would control what people read in my magazine and although alcohol is fun they should know there can be dangers.
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