School magazine: masthead

To start off our school magazine I did a spider diagram on the computer of a few masthead ideas and what the masthead needed to be like.

I drew some ideas on paper as what I wanted the masthead to look like, things such as the colours, font and font size. I decided to call my school magazine '#emrys' so that is what my masthead says, I want to under line my masthead and have the prize in some sort of shape by the side. I will now do a draft on the computer and take pictures to go on the cover for my magazine.




I Then went back on to the computer to look at different fonts in which I could write my masthead in, and decided which to use.

task 2: teasers

today we looked at different magazine teasers, I looked at GQ magazine, ELLE magazine and OK magazine.

 This magazine has teasers on the left hand side. They show part of the story that are in the magazine, but not the full story, they are there to make people want to buy the magazine to read the full story.  The way teasers are written are in the least amount of words possible. The teaser in the middle which is bigger than the rest, most probably because it is the most important or the best story they have got in the magazine, it has more information that the rest because it has bullet points about the story but still does not give away the full story, you can also tell because the size of the font is the same size as the masthead.  The other teasers at the side are secondary teasers. This magazine has 4 teasers and they all have pictures of who it is about.
                                                               ELLE magazine has a lot of teasers on the front which are all a similar size this could mean there is no main teaser or secondary teasers, although there is a picture of a celebrity on the front and her name is written in a teaser in bold, this could be the main teaser but as there are about 10, it is hard to tell. This magazine is cluttered with a lot of words and a lot of teasers, 2 of the teasers are even written in between the letters of the masthead. This magazine looks more of a fashion magazine more than a gossip magazine, OK magazine looks more like a celebrity gossip magazine because it is a paparazzi’s picture on the front and not a photo

This magazine is kind of a mix between both of the above magazines; this has 6 teasers on the front, and the main teaser is about Harry Styles from the boy band One Direction, you can tell this is the main teaser because there is a picture of him on the cover as the main image and the name ‘HARRY’ is wrote in capital letters almost as big as the masthead. This magazine is not as cluttered as ELLE magazine but has more teasers than OK magazine, I think this one looks more appealing than OK magazine as the photo on the front is clearly from a photo shoot whereas the photo on that one looked like a paparazzi picture, which does not look as professional.

task 1: masthead

our first task was to look at different magazines and analyse the masthead of them, we had to look at things like the size and colour.

LOOK magazine is a popular fashion and celebrity gossip magazine; it is that popular that the masthead is covered by celebrities heads almost every time. The name of this magazine ‘look’ tells that it is most probably going to be something to do with fashion, and as on most issues the colour of the masthead font is either pink or red with a female celebrity on the front shows it is targeted for women, you can also tell this as there are women’s clothes on the front. Another magazine like this with the masthead almost completely covered is Vogue.




Other magazines that are not as popular or long established and well known do not have the masthead covered; this may be because when people are looking for it, if the masthead is covered then they may not find it, or if it’s not popular they will have to put a masthead on their magazine so people will know what magazine it actually is.




Bazaar jewellery magazine does not have its masthead covered because it is not a fashion magazine it is just for jewellery, so you would probably only get this magazine if you were specifically looking for it, if it does not have a masthead it would be harder to recognize and find.

what makes a magazine influential.

in the first lesson of media we looked at magazines and the different types of magazines, why they were influential and what actually makes them influential, I chose to analyse OK magazine.



OK magazine is an influential magazine because it shows pictures of celebrities, interviews and stories about them, this is influential because people may want to change the way they look or do things to be like celebrities or a certain celebrity. Some celebrities want to be in this magazine because they know it is a popular and influential magazine. OK magazine is similar magazine to HELLO magazine, OK magazine is similar to HELLO magazine which was launched in the United Kingdom in 1988 and covers over 100 countries, whereas OK magazine's first published issue was in April 1993, which could mean OK magazine could have been influenced by HELLO magazine.