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This document provides details about a music magazine case study. It summarizes the key facts about the magazine, including that it is published monthly by Bauer, focuses on pop music for an audience of students and young adults aged 16+, and costs £3.95. The document then analyzes aspects of the magazine's design, such as its use of bold colors and fonts to draw attention to articles and plugs, inclusion of page numbers on photos, and division of articles with separators. Finally, it notes influences on the magazine's design, like varying font styles on the cover and use of different type styles within articles.

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Q. Music magazine case study.
Type of magazine • Similar genre: Pop music. • Same target audience, Students (16+) and young adults.
The Facts. • Published By: Bauer. • First Published: October 1986 • Distribution: Monthly • Price: £3.959 • Editor: Andrew Harrison
Light background – Bold logo – Large square with the Plug: ‘26 festivals to eye catching makes letter ‘Q’ for the magazines name. blow you minds’, the writing stand out. makes people want to buy the magazine and find out about Bold plugs: ‘140 the festivals. songs you must download now!’ tell the reader what they must do (download Cover image – Image now) – makes them of the artist which want to read more the main story is about the songs and about. Bright lighting. find out about them. Bright/Bold colours for the text Bold colour for the (Red, pink, black) main article ‘Lana Del Rey’ florescent pink – Light background bright eye catching. (white) with a darker coloured text (black). Barcode – conventional (bottom right of the page)
White background, Magazine logo, issue and page title at makes text stand out Main picture for the top of the page, conventional. more clearer, house article takes up most style? of the right side of the page. Simple font for title ‘Ariel Narrow?’ +Logo Smaller pictures for of the magazine to other featured the left. articles. Issue number below Page numbers at the the title in a simple bottom of the style. pictures to show what page the article Subheadings is on, with a red box ‘Features’ with a red around them – house box around style. it, matches house style + colours (white, red, black) Dividers for the Magazine name, date and issue at articles. – splits up the bottom of the page. the page, looks more appealing.
Plain background (White) follows the house style of the magazine. Title of the article ‘LANA DEL REY’ top Large letter for the start of the left of the page. – article – takes up 1/4th of the page. tells the reader what the article is titled. Picture takes up the whole of the left page. Larger font (16 maybe?) on the Issue information at bottom left quarter the bottom of the of the page. page. Much smaller font (8 Simple black font maybe?) for the style. main article. Split into columns – helps the reader digest the information included in the article. This makes it look more appealing to reader rather than a large block of text on the page.
Influences on my magazine. • Different font styles on the front cover. • Simple logo for the magazine – Recognisable to the readers. • Bright colours for plugs (pinks / yellows) • Page numbers included on the pictures for the contents page. • Simple style title for the contents page with the logo to the left of it. • Dividers for the articles, this makes it much more appealing to the reader. • One main focus image on the double page spread (the left page) • Using different styles of type (font and font sizes) in the double page spread to break up the article for the reader.

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  • 2. Type of magazine • Similar genre: Pop music. • Same target audience, Students (16+) and young adults.
  • 3. The Facts. • Published By: Bauer. • First Published: October 1986 • Distribution: Monthly • Price: £3.959 • Editor: Andrew Harrison
  • 4. Light background – Bold logo – Large square with the Plug: ‘26 festivals to eye catching makes letter ‘Q’ for the magazines name. blow you minds’, the writing stand out. makes people want to buy the magazine and find out about Bold plugs: ‘140 the festivals. songs you must download now!’ tell the reader what they must do (download Cover image – Image now) – makes them of the artist which want to read more the main story is about the songs and about. Bright lighting. find out about them. Bright/Bold colours for the text Bold colour for the (Red, pink, black) main article ‘Lana Del Rey’ florescent pink – Light background bright eye catching. (white) with a darker coloured text (black). Barcode – conventional (bottom right of the page)
  • 5. White background, Magazine logo, issue and page title at makes text stand out Main picture for the top of the page, conventional. more clearer, house article takes up most style? of the right side of the page. Simple font for title ‘Ariel Narrow?’ +Logo Smaller pictures for of the magazine to other featured the left. articles. Issue number below Page numbers at the the title in a simple bottom of the style. pictures to show what page the article Subheadings is on, with a red box ‘Features’ with a red around them – house box around style. it, matches house style + colours (white, red, black) Dividers for the Magazine name, date and issue at articles. – splits up the bottom of the page. the page, looks more appealing.
  • 6. Plain background (White) follows the house style of the magazine. Title of the article ‘LANA DEL REY’ top Large letter for the start of the left of the page. – article – takes up 1/4th of the page. tells the reader what the article is titled. Picture takes up the whole of the left page. Larger font (16 maybe?) on the Issue information at bottom left quarter the bottom of the of the page. page. Much smaller font (8 Simple black font maybe?) for the style. main article. Split into columns – helps the reader digest the information included in the article. This makes it look more appealing to reader rather than a large block of text on the page.
  • 7. Influences on my magazine. • Different font styles on the front cover. • Simple logo for the magazine – Recognisable to the readers. • Bright colours for plugs (pinks / yellows) • Page numbers included on the pictures for the contents page. • Simple style title for the contents page with the logo to the left of it. • Dividers for the articles, this makes it much more appealing to the reader. • One main focus image on the double page spread (the left page) • Using different styles of type (font and font sizes) in the double page spread to break up the article for the reader.