Consistency and Branding

Throughout the construction and planning of my music magazine i made sure that my housestyle, layouts and colours were consistent. I needed to do this because it made the magazine look a lot more professional and interesting. It also shows that you ahve put alot of thought and effort into making the magazine. You know when your magazine is consistent when a reader is able to recognise that the front page and the contents page look similar. For example if you ripped out different contents pagesm contents and double page spreads from different magazine form a table and gave someone just your fornt page of your magazine, will they be able to look at them and figure out which is the contents page and double page spread of your magainze. If they picked it successfully thats when you know you have made good use of consistency and branding in your music magazine.


Here is my contents page, front page and double page spread:

As you can see from the thrre different magazine pages i have tried my best to keep them consistent in colour. The main colours is tried to use all the way through my pages were green, blue and black. I had to make sure that in each page somewhere these colours were inserted if not i would not be making my magazines pages consistent.

I also had to use branding in my magazine so each page clearly showed what magazine they came from. One way in which i did this was through the magazine logo on each page: