title block analysis

 ‘The source’ magazine focusses on hip hop and rap music, the style of text used for the masthead connotes this well as it is bright, bold & urban, and the colours of the text also contrast with the background. The use of the hand wrapped around a microphone as a logo also supports the suggestion that the magazine’s genre is mainly hip-hop and rap. This is because hand held microphones are most commonly associated with hip hop and rap freestyles. The microphone embedded within the logo is good for advertisement as it allows the source to stand out from other magazine competitors, as the logo is eye catching and unique.

 

The masthead of this magazine is a single letter; it therefore doesn’t give anything away about the genre of music it focuses on. This could suggest the magazines covers a wide range of different genres and appeals to large target audience. However the font used looks to be quite traditionally, this infers the target audience could be of an older age, the letter does stand out due to the contrasting white on red but its doest look too modern and so therefore wouldn’t appeal to a younger audience.

The use of dark colours on this logo aswell as slashes through the text suggests that this magazine focuses on genres such as rock & heavy metal. The magazine would therefore appeal to a young middle aged audience who are passionate about there particular music, that being rock and heavy metal.

Designing my title blocks

After deciding the genre of music that my magazine would focus on I had to decide on a title/ logo, after hours of thinking I came up with the idea of zone as I believe the word zone links closely to the aspects of rap and hip-hop music. As the masthead is the first thing the reader see’s it is import to get the text and font perfect as the title says a lot about what is inside the magazine it can also be the key thing that convinces someone to either  read the magazine or buy it. My next step was to decide on the font/ style of text I would use, after going through several websites I managed to shortlist down to a few which I believed were the best. The last font looks to be the best so may use it on my front cover, however my mind may change.