•The layout of this magazine makes it look complex as well as being well thought out.
•The colour scheme on the other hand is really bright girly colours which most probably only attracts a young female audience.
•The shot types are all the same, mainly mid-shots.
•. The stars and bubble wrting, make the magazine even more girly and childish.
i like the layout of this magazine as it looks complex and shows a varitey of skills but the colour scheme and starts etc. make it look extremely childish and girly and i dont want my magazine to be childish and girly. So because of this, I will use some ideas of the layout from this magazine but with much more suttle colours, to give it that mature and grown up look.
- the layout of the masthead and the strapline stay the same in every eddition of the VIBE.
- the straplines are really blunt and to the point. breif information just letting you know whats inside the magazine.
- the VIBE masthead is always behind the artists head, this is a on-going thing that VIBE magazine does.
- the shot types used are always medium or medium to long shots. They never have full body shots and on the rare occassion or special eddiitions they will have close ups.
- they always have puffs in the front cover that relate to the artist in the photograph.
- they sexualise women, making them look more attractive and sexy to the reader but not to sexy that only men will want to purchase it and they make men look more casual / american swag type clothing meaning they dont look over dressed but at the same time they dont look underdressed either.
- the colour scheme are always simple and consistant throughout the magazine.
- if the artist is more well known there story will take up majority of the magazine which results to less puffs on the front cover, for example,
whereas if the artist is not as well known then more puffs will be on the front cover, for example,
- The housestyle of the contents page all follow the same housestyle and this is a continuous theme throughtout all VIBE magazine
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- The colour schemes are very simple and basic which keeps with the houstyle and this is consistant throughout the magazines plus the 'V' for VIBE is in the background behind the model. This also follows VIBE's particlar housestyle.
- The amount of information is limited in the contents page, its not crammed and detailed with lots of different stories within the magazine, only the main stories are exposed within the contents page.
- Also there is a famous artist as the main image on the contents page, usually the model on the front cover of the magazine.
- The housestyle of the double page spread's vary depending on the artisit its focused on. The language used in the articles are very informal but not too informal. They give off a friendly welcoming tone throughout the magazine and do a lot of question and response(Q&R) within the double pages spreads.
- VIBE takes out a lot of the answers the artists have given within the interview and just include the ain highlights of the interview and they do this throughout different issues of the magazine.
- VIBE magazien tend to have a full body shot and a medium to long shot type on the double page spreads. It very rare that they have a close up of the artisit.
- The layout of the text is pretty simple and as it is written in colums and justified it makes the magazien and double page spread look neats.
CONCLUSION:
- I have decided that i want to use specific things from VIBE and WORD UP! magazine to help construct my final magazine. I particularly like the simplicity of the VIBE magazine when it comes to focusing on colour scheme and the small 'V' logos in the corner of the pages.
- The clear, clean cut within the double page spread as well as the housestyle layout of all the text and the justified colums to enhance the neatness and simplicity of the magazine.
- I like the idea of having a simple contents page but at the same time i would like to have a lot more detail on the contents page, to give it more attraction and excitment. I dont want to go over board with the detail and design on the contents page so i will keep it controlled and not have a caotic colour scheme, such as the WORD UP! magazine colour scheme but it wont be as simple as the VIBE magazine contents page.
- My contents page will only show the important feature stories to grab readers attention and there will be a number of pictures on it as well, just to add detail and make it look more complex.
