Critical Analysis

Raygun Magzine.

Raygun magazine is a music magazine with a heavy art influence, this magazine really inspires me as i am very into art and would really like my magazine to have a strong art influence that is very apparant. Raygun does not follow the typical dynamics of a magazine as the masthead it not placed the very top of the magazine and all of the text is the same size. I particularly like the'typewriter' font that has been used as it has given the cover a very rustic look. Andy Warhol has been used as the cover star of this magazine, in the picture Warhol is showing the whites of his eyes the whole way around his iris, this makes his seem shocked and the wide-eye look is very effective at helping to pull the consumers in as it really makes you stop and look at the picure. The pictures only reaches just beyond half way up the magazine cover and it stopped at the bottom of the mans forehead, this makes the picture look fascinating and unconventional which hlps the magazine to seem unique. Making a magzine unique is very important because with sucha wide variety of magazines in display in the shop it is important to do whatever is needed to make the consumer take a longer look at your magazine. I am very fond of the black white and red colour scheme that is used on this, i could adapt this colour scheme to work with my magzine buy substituting the red for a pastel pink. I like the granulated look that has been given to this picture as it makes it look vintage, i will not be using this effect on my main picture as it is very important that my magzine looks brand new and up-to-date so that reflect the up-to-date artists featured inside. I will be very interested in using elements of this cover on my own cover, espeically the off-centre writing and a-semetric lines. I will also be looking through differnt issues of 'Raygun' to see what other ideas the designer has to offer as i am very inpired by their work.

The masthead to 'Raygun', unlike other magazines, is not the same evry week as the font, postitioning and size variates from issue to issue, this is yet another element that sets this magazine aside from the rest. I would be reaslly pleased if i was able to make my magazine as unique as 'Raygun', i canachieve this in a number of ways such as, a 'lob-sided' layout with lines that are not parelell, a picture cut off with a straight line and a simple but effective font.