Title Block

Analysing Music Magazine Title Blocks

 

The title block in this magazine is large, bold and clear. This allows the title to maintain its bold and outstanding look, in contrast to the background which changes from time to time. The title itself being an abbreviation for extra large, allows the audience to remember and recognize the name with ease. However the title doesn’t reveal the genre of the magazine but suggests that there could be plenty of appealing and exclusive news inside.

The font of the title is stocky and bold, creating an outstanding personality about it, purposely to catch the reader’s attention. The colour of the title is based on the colour scheme used for this issue in particular; normally it’s in contrast to the background which makes its clearer to read. ‘The’ in The Source has been cornered into the side in small font, giving greater emphasis to the main part of the title. The microphone used as the hole in ‘O’ strongly suggests that the genre of the magazine is hip hop related

The colour of the title block is bright and contrasts the background colour, giving the title a clear and distinct appearance. The title being a single letter doesn’t give away the genre of music in the magazine, although would be easy to remember the name due to the bold and simplistic image it displays. This magazine may be targeting an older audience, considering the type of font the title is presented in, which gives it an old fashioned, prominent feature to it; this would fail to attract a younger audience in my opinion.

Designing Title Blocks

Seeing as the title would be the first thing the audience would look at, I intend to create a bold, stylish and modern design for me title in order to represent my magazine in.  The title I’m going to have should be suitable for the type of magazine that it is as it will ultimately be the largest font and the source of attraction. The name vision doesn’t give away too much about it being music based magazine but simultaneously connotes the relevance it has in regards to music song structure. Font 1 is too basic, very old school but wouldn’t consider it to be suitable. Font 2 has a comic look to it, which would fail to attract my target audience. Font 3 is bold and well structured, most suitable for my magazine. Font 4 well structured but not bold enough for my liking.