Task 5 Magazine News stand

Magazine newsstand task

I visited my local newsagents store 'Tina's Supermarket' where the music magazines were displayed on the news-stand. Unfortunately there wasn't a variety of music magazines and therefore the magazines in the image are very limited.

My music magazine is RnB, however most of the magazines placed in the front are rock magazines. One of the most popular rock magazines known is kerrang. Kerrang magazine is placed in the centre of the new-stand and right in the front. This gives the designer much more freedom with the layout, hence the magazine Kerrang has the masthead covered. You cant read the masthead but since its a popular magazine everyone is bound to know it. This shows us that designers with popular magazines are allowed to have more fun with the layout. Also the teasers and additional information is important. In this case the most popular rock band is slipknot and their name is placed in the sky-line bringing all the attention to this magazine.

Also as we look at the magazines, they are all layered on top of one another portraying the left half of the magazine. As we look closely at them we are able to see all the important information is on the left side this conveys that most designers place the important information on the left side as this is the first part that we look at.

As we look closer, the rock magazines are the most popular since they are placed in the centre and front. The Hip-hop and Blues&Souls magazines are placed beside the rock magazine however are in the front, this portrays they are popular magazines and eye-catching grabbing the attention of readers. Also the magazines are all placed in the same pattern with the same genres. However the unpopular magazines within the same genre are placed behind them. This tells us that the unpopular magazines are placed in the back and this makes the designers of the magazine more cautious of the Masthead since they have to be extra eye-catching to catch the attention of buyers.

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