Analysing Previous Student Work

Analysing Previous Student Work

 

Name of Magazine	Strengths	Weaknesses	Grade I awarded and reason
Star Quality	·         They use a continuous house theme of black, white and yellow in the magazine. ·         Good quality images throughout that fit to what the magazine is about and easy to read, clear writing that draws the reader in. ·         The masthead is original and uses shapes rather than letters for their A’s.	·         They overuse the house theme on their double spread on the band. Could have followed the bands house theme. ·         The font they have used is very childish, but easy to read. Could be more professional. ·         The cover on two of the girl’s heads the photo shop skills aren’t very good. ·         The contents page is over cluttered, and looks too crowded.	Low B
Reckless	·         Has a house theme of black red and white. ·         The title fits what the magazine is guessed to be about.	·         Looks unfinished. ·         Pictures are very emotionless and badly photo shopped. ·         Not easy to read the details on the cover. ·         The double spread page’s background is plain and boring. Does not follow any theme. ·         No page numbers.	E

 

What have I learned from looking at last year’s student work?

 

I have learned that in order to make a good music magazine is to keep it simple without cramming the pages full of images. Also to use simple backgrounds so the text is more clear and a continuous house theme is the way to go.

How will I apply this to my own work?

I will choose a simple colour theme and have my images also match this colour theme in some way whether it be the background or the colour choices. I will also allow my contents pages to have only one image to allow the page to not be cramped up with other images. The text will be easy to read and the double page spread will follow the house theme also but with minor alterations to suit what the article is about.

Double Page Deconstruction

 

 

Layout:

The layout of this double page takes a more simple approach with taking a pull quote from the article as a title using a mix of capitals and lower case letters as if someone cut the words out of a magazine. The colour scheme follows red, black and white which seems to be the typical choice for many music magazines. The letters in the title are bright white in a dark background mkaing the title more eye catching to the reader. Red is used to highlight important information such as who created the writing and Lily Allen's name. The writing is small and in colums to allow more focus to be on the main image to the side and the title above. Themain image to the side fits with the layout.

 

Image:

There's only one main image in this double page spread and it is of the main person who is in the article, Lily Allen. She follows the colur scheme with her makeup and clothing. Her makeup and hair is dark/black matching the title and her shirt is red matching the main information of peoples names which is also in red.

 

Language:

The pull quote is made out of cut up black blocks to make it look like someone has cut up a newspaper article to create the title.

 

Layout:



The layout of this double paged spread is has a main image that covers the left side and a bit of the right. The bands name takes up as the masthead and a theme of black, blue and white. Dropcaps appears at the start of both paragraphs and the writing is in two columns with a small pull quote through one and a half of the text.

Image:
The image is of the band and takes up a lot of the double page so the reader knows it is the main focus. The way in which they are posed is serious and almost rock like. The colours are washed out and the clothes have sort of a retro feel to them pushing them more to the category of indie-rock or alternative-rock.

Language:
The article is well informing and includes a pull quote. "We are a pop band and we want to be a pop band." This lets us know that the band is more into pop music and allows the reader to understand that they won't be anything else.

 



 

 Layout:

 

The Layout of this double page spread is the same as the ones above with text on one side while a main image on the other. The colour theme is a basic black and white which differs from the image which is mainly blues. A bubble advertising where they are performing next and the paragraphs have drop capping at the beginning of each paragraph.

 

Images:

The image shows the band that are being talked about in the article who are known as The Arctic Monkeys. They all are dressed in blue which differs from the theme of black and white which is on the article.

 

Language:

 

 The article is not very useful and includes speach from a youtube video rather than an actual interveiw so what is said by Alex Turner is out of context.

Contents Page Deconstructions