Masthead Research!

Masthead Research: Professional

NME is a famous music magazine, the colours of this masthead attract and stand out from others the black and white outline make this masthead look as if its 3D. I also think its good how at the bottom it has the meaning of the words NME not in big fancy writing just clear and imputed for curious reasoning.

This is Q magazines Masthead, the Q doesn’t have much of a meaning however its put like as shown on every magazine with a red border to make it really stand out in the shelf's, knowing that Q is one of the largest selling music magazines, it always has an effective way of attracting the audience eye.

Kerrang! another big top music magazine, now there masthead can vary in colour as each edition of this magazine has a slightly different look, this would depend mostly on the big photo they use on the front cover, as they can then create a Masthead with still the same font, but varied colours stand out.

The Mastheads below are all fully published and belong to some of the worlds largest magazines and production companies.

Masthead Research: Amateur (College)

This masthead isn’t the most appealing however the heats all across the name make it look unusual and could catch someone's eye.

The Mastheads below have all been made by students taking A-Level Media.

This masthead is rather effective as it uses a good variation of font, with the big A which stands out, as well as the MP, The way the word ‘Magazine’ is nicely sitting underneath these letters makes it look tidy, however the dull colour in this lets it down as it isn’t the most eye catching.

This magazine is similar to the above, however the as in the middle really catches the eye, the way it has a website address underneath the Masthead lets it down as it doesn’t really need anything, this website address could be placed somewhere else on the front cover, however this does stand out and attracts the audience eye. I would say the masthead above stands out more because the Text size is larger.

My Masthead Idea! This slide contains my final Masthead idea, I Named my Magazine –

These two Mastheads were a couple ideas however below is my final Idea!

This is my final Idea, I will be using this for my final piece.