Here is an box of what features I might use in my music magazine because I am seen them in the magazine I have been analyzing and the must haves are the features that most of the time see and the could haves are the optional features that have been found in the magazines I have been analyzing.
Criteria
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Must have?
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Could have?
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Where seen
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How I will use it
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Intended impact
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Masthead
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√
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On front cover
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On front cover for audience to identify
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Aware of the magazine name.
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Barcode
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√
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On front cover
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To make an professional properly magazine
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Price
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√
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On front cover
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To know how much it cost
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For the audience to be aware of the cost of the magazine
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Picture(main image)
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√
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On front cover
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For the audience to see it to get attracted by it.
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So the image will attract the audiences
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Drop-cap
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√
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On double page spread
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So the audience know where to start from.
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Depending on what the target audience of my magazine it’s a starting
point for young people to know where to start and it kind of makes the text
less boring to read and it keeps the attention and the colour of these pages.
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Copy
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On double page spread
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Information about music magazine.
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Provide information for the audience to read and engaged them.
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Overline
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On double page spread
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To introduce the headline
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To expand from the headline
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Kicker
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On double page spread
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So the audience know where to start from.
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Attract the audiences and to alert the audiences about how important
the words that has “kicker”
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Subhead
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On content page
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On the content page and the double page spread so for the audience to
know what this part of the article is going to be about
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It will give a belief about the story as a title.
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Wob
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On double page spread
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The text is in white because it’s to get the audience’s attention
also its easier to read when the background is black.
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It makes the text easier to read for the audience and this helps the
audience want to read it.
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Headline
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On content page
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To know what the overall article is about.
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Topheads
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On double page spread
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So for each section the audience will know what it is.
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It breaks the text into sections and this makes it easier for the
audience to read.
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Double page spread
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On double page spread or Content
page
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As a double page spread
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House style
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On double page spread and Content
page
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The spelling and use of grammar is in a certain way to help the
target audience for my magazine.
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That grammar and spelling should be in a way how the target audience
does.
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Teasers
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On front cover
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Short phrases on the front cover to tempt the audience to buy the
magazine.
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It will attract potential audiences if the teasers applies to them.
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Free items
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On front cover
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To get potential audiences because they might buy the magazine due to
the free gift and this will give them an opportunity to start reading the
magazine and get into the magazine that they might start to get an
subscription for the magazine
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To give a free item to the audience and though the free item could attract them to buy the magazine.
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On double page spread
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To express how they feel about something or a certain situation
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Emotive Language(language feature)
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On double page spread
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I will use in the double page spread to express there emotions and how they feel about situation or something.
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To express the band or artists opinion about a certain topic
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