CREATING MY MASTHEAD

Instead of creating my Masthead within a editing software such as Photoshop I decided to use a professional website in order to create a quality sealing.

The website is called 1001 fonts. I have determined that my magazine will be called Beat which I have entered in the top the website. The fonts which came up immediately were not useable as a masthead as they did not fit the parameters of my research.

In order to be useable on my magazine front cover I switched my selection to headlines.

I spent time going through the website deciding which headline would look best at the masthead for my magazine. Looking for a style that was pop based. In the end I choose the three that I believe look best and then submitted them to my target audience.

After much deliberation I decided that if I was to go with a pop, vintage look that the font/masthead did not fit into the style that I wanted. For this reason I changed the masthead to something less bold as my target audience had already informed me that the masthead was less important than the image. In order to ensure my masthead would appeal to my audience I used social media.

Overall feeling generated from personal messages and comments on the post were extremely positive and for this reason I have decided to include the masthead.

To create this masthead I started by inserting a black circle into Pageplus, this I coloured in entirely black in order for it to contrast to the eventual magazines background.

I then overlaid text over the top of the circle in white as seen above. This text is in the font of Embassy BT. I also purposely left a full stop beside it in order to emphasise the name: beat. As a ‘.’ can be viewed as a beat.