The title of the magazine ‘Corrosion’ is displayed at the top of the magazine front cover, which is what one would expect to find in a music magazine, so it can easily be identified when on a shelf full of magazines. It needs to have a high level of visibility which the target audience can identify it by. The actual title, ‘Corrosion’ itself, comes from the title of a Sisters of Mercy song called ‘This Corrosion’ which reflects the tone of this particular genre. Part of the inspiration for this also came from reading the title of one of my inspirational texts. The title of this particular magazine was ‘Dominion’, which is another song by the same band, and this inspired me to pursue a similar approach to choosing my title.
With my images I made use of mise-en-scene associated with these types of magazines. In most of the inspirational texts I analysed, I found that the photos on the front cover tended to be close ups of just the head and shoulders, rather than the full body. I decided to do this in my own magazine, taking photos of myself which included just the head and shoulders. The location was also important. Particularly with the front cover image, the image was against a plain background, so that nothing in the background would distract the reader from the person in the photo and perhaps the kind of costume they were wearing.
I carefully considered costume for the photos, as typically bands and artists will have their own styles of clothing which they are famous for wearing. This use of costume also reflects the genre of the magazine, and the fashion associated with the music. Some of these are very iconic such as the black sunglasses, which were incidentally enough worn by the members of the band from which I took my magazine title. With props I also used a plastic skull, which has connotations of the kind of horror imagery which is sometimes adopted by bands within the genre.
I also chose to portray myself as an artist, giving myself a name which could reflect the trend of artists within the genre sometimes taking new names for themselves. This would make the magazine seem more conventional.
The title fonts were kept consistent throughout the whole magazine, just to show that all of the pages are from the same magazine. The font is large and bold, which is very eye-catching to the reader. The font style also somewhat resembles the style seen in some of my inspirational texts. The colour used was a red to make it stand out against the image and the background. In order to make the title slightly more interesting and to bring in more conventional colours, I also included some black shadow within the red text. The use of black and red as a colour scheme is reflective of the genre, and can also be interpreted as having connotations of anarchy, which may be an ideology adopted by some bands.
With the written content, I used a few sell-lines to notify the reader as to what exactly will be in the magazine, and to make them curious and want to read on. I listed some of the bands down the side on the front cover, which also gives the reader a general overview over what will be featured inside. On the contents page, the bands were listed in alphabetical order. This is because some of my inspirational texts also listed their bands in alphabetical order. I incorporated the use of a quote below an image of the artist, which connects the two together and again gives a sort of general overview over what will be inside. On the double page spread, I basically wrote an interview, which could be expected from a music magazine.
The layout of the magazine was based on some inspirational texts, and it was also made easy to read. A coloured box would be shown wherever text would be found, which draws the reader’s eye over to that piece of text and also makes the text stand out clearly from the background. On the front cover, the image was large and the text was on top of it. However, on the inside of the magazine the images were smaller and kept within a frame. This was mainly for practical purposes, in order to make the magazine readable as more space would be given to the text. A large amount of text also has connotations of the information being in-depth and detailed.
In the contents page, all of the bands were listed along with page numbers where those bands would be found within the magazine. This makes it easy for the reader to find a band they want to specifically read about from the list, and it also provides a list of all of the bands featured, as this would be too much information to put on the front cover.
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