MastheadsMedia Coursework

Rolling Stonedescribe

audience would see it

genre magazine writes and indication

NMELarge bold “NME” in a bright red colour. irt captures your eye

and therefore attention. Very noticeable.

It also has a thin white outline on the red and that's followed by a black outline. This makes the white outline stands out.

Because of its appearance it would draw the reader in with its bold masthead with contrasting and bright colours that would stand out from other magazines.

VIBEThe basic black out print of “vibe” gives it an

simplistic yet strong look to it. The letters have sharp edges and distinguish lines, the height of all the letters are the same and in block capitals.

To a reader this would make them think this has a very urban or Rocky genre however the text “vibe” makes me think it's more urban.

The dark strong black and sharp edges will make the reader feel like this magazine has strong and straight to the point articles.

QSimple yet effective.

All it is, is a white Q in a rather simple oldie styled font surrounded in a light bright red colour. These colours work well together have have happy motifs to Christmas and gifts.

To a reader this would make them feel happy and possibly the simplest masthead would deliver the best magazine articles as it's simple.

The genre of music attached to this I think would be chart and cover a huge range of genres.

How are they different?

They all have the similar colours, apart from VIBE. These colours are red, black and white. All the texts are bold which is for making is stand out so the reader will notice and buy. They are all easy to read and don't use complicated language for the reader, increasing their accessibility to the reader. However they are different styles for different genres as it's clearly seen, for example vibe is more urban so it doesn't include red or white when NME is more contemporary so they use a mixture to attract readers.