The Time I Labelled Everything

As the beginning of my final task (music magazine) begins, I am going to start off by comparing and analyzing two magazines, one created by a Media A Level student, and the other by an actual magazine company. The genre of my music magazine is going to be hip hop, so firstly, I will take a picture of work made previously by another student. This is what it looks like.

This magazine is a hip hop magazine. The magazine that I shall compare it to will be a well known pop magazine: "We Love Pop".

I used a blog tool called 'Thinglink' which enables users to hover around the 'tags' and see what they are. The red points all have tags which shows you what the correct terminology is. For example, the title of the magazine is called a Masthead, which will be shown in the 'tag' if you hover around the title. 

The first labelled picture is the hip hop magazine called The Reign.

  





Both magazines use the basic components of using additional images, extra cover lines and even bottom strips. 'The Reign' is a Hip Hop magazine and has a distinctive style and layout to the Pop magazine 'We love pop'. 

The colours on The Reign are very masculine yet has a feminine element to it by using purple, in order to link to the main image of a female. However, We Love Pop uses a range of bright colours, which mainly connote hyper feminism by using pink and purple as the main colours for the bottom strip and main cover line. There is a significant difference between the two magazines such as the layout.

With The Reign, everything looks 'ordered' whereas We Love Pop, the cover lines have no organisation. It seems as if all the cover lines and images were placed without structure. This is because of the fact that pop magazines are associated with scrapbook like themes in which everything looks mounted on top of one another. This layout also connotes that the magazine is easy going and bubbly - exactly what a pop magazine should connote. 

I like the colour scheme used on The Reign as I think it is very simple and gives off the Hip Hop classic theme of red, black and white. However, I feel as if the masthead itself is too complicated as it is a white text with a red and black layer of the same text. The masthead essentially looks 'bulky' and does not appeal to me. 

With the We Love Pop magazine, I like the font of the main cover line and the colour scheme of it however I feel as if the overall look of the magazine is messy and unsophisticated. The range of colours is unappealing to me, especially due to the fact that they are all very feminine and bright colours. The problem with this magazine is that it looks very complicated and is overpowered with the variety of colours. 

Overall, both magazines appeal to their own respected target audience but there are positive and negative aspects of both magazines.