My Article

The image above shows a screenshot of my article which I wrote as a practise for the double page spread which I will be creating as part of my coursework. I decided to do an album review for AM, the new Arctic Monkeys record. I chose to do this because it is new music news and it is also a link to the genre of music which I will base my magazine on. I wrote my article in columns to break up the text for the reader, in a double page spread there are normally 3 columns per page. The image that I have included is from the internet, although I have credited it at the bottom of my work, I understand that when it comes to creating my own DPS all the photographs must original work by me. The way I wrote the article was quite informal but not too informal, kind of in the middle. The reason I did this is because I feel as though it's more personal to the reader if you're informal in a magazine. A magazine should be fun to read, it totally depends on your target audience though. If your magazine is aimed at very high class people with high income, they would probably prefer the formal stuff. If the target audience is a student, they probably get most of the formal stuff at college or university, so would probably prefer to read something a bit less serious and personal to them. The colour scheme was black and white, I chose this because it is classic and a sophisticated way to present the band, but also because the colours on the new album are the same, which shows a link.

The title of the article was very basic to what it was going to be about. On the other hand, the second part of the title was a reference to an Arctic Monkeys song lyric, which the reader would know straight away.

I completed a check-list given to me by my lecturer, this was to make sure I had included everything I needed to make a successful article. My work was also marked by my lecturer and she gave me constructive feedback on how I could have improved, I will consider the improvements when creating my DPS. The article I created was not a double page one, which I would obviously change if I did the task again.