Cover
For one of the front covers that I analysed I liked how it contained synergy with the articles inside and the contents page. This made the magazine look complete and didn't make anything seem out of place. I also liked how the model broke conventions by not looking into the camera. It was also clever how his clothing and jewellery match the brand of the magazine, for example, he was wearing a rolling stones logo on his necklace whilst posing on the cover of a rolling stone magazine. On another one of the covers that I analysed I really liked how the "I's" in 'Stadium King' are red and joined together even though they were on separate lines. This connected the words and made them seem as one. I loved the pull quote and how it matches his facial expression. I think it is very important that if the quote is very serious or sad that the emotion on the main/biggest picture represents how they were feeling when they said the quote. It also says that I liked the rural background and how it is blurred out, this will include the basic colour conventions of country music (for example, green in a field, or rusty red next to a brick wall). I think it would be great if I could get a shot in a wheat field and blur it out to get the background to a yellow/ orange colour. The lighting in one of the front covers was very nice and doesn't look difficult to replicate because it used natural light from the sun. I will have to take into account that I will get different light intensities at different times of day. Like, if I plan a photo shoot in the morning, the light will be much softer than when I take the pictures during a sunset.
Contents
In my first analysis of a contents page I liked how only a little bit of colour is used to give it an edgy vibe. I think what I meant by this is that I should stick to a colour scheme that doesn't have a lot of contrasting colours in order for it to look more natural. "I like how simple it looks": Similar to my last point, I thought that it looked very neat which makes it look more aesthetically pleasing to the reader. I like how classy serif fonts look. On another contents page I loved that how even by adding the slightest bit of red to it, it ties the whole magazine together by creating synergy. I like how some of the stories have images to show the reader what is on that page without even having to read anything. By doing this it simplifies the magazine and invites the reader into wanting to read about that page. However, I didn't like how vacant it looked and I felt like only using red didn't make the page look full enough. They should've added more colour to make it look less boring.
DPS
I like how the DPS's contain synergy with the front cover and contents. This helps the magazine to be tied together nicely and contributes to it's house style. I also thought it was cool how on one of the DPS's that I analysed had a huge title which spanned half of the page. This was very attention grabbing and people would be able to recognise it by simply flicking through the magazine pages. Another thing I liked was how the pull quote matched the expression on the artists face, so since it was a really serious quote that resembled his rebel lifestyle the way his eyes pierced the camera made his face look haunting. On the next DPS I analysed I thought it was really well presented because of how the gutters create symetry within the page. There were three columns separated by thin lines otherwise known as gutters and they cut the text up to make it look nicer on the page. I thought it looked great the way the picture spreads throughout the two pages, so for my magazine I could incorporate a picture of someone laying down to blend the two pages together to make them seem like one big A3 sheet instead of two separate A4 sheets. I like how they used pull quotes and I liked that the background looks 3D since it is layered in front of the artists (the background became part of the foreground).
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