This week we have looked at many online magazine prints. From looking at Vogue’s online interactive magazine we are able to notice that the main themes of Vogue still run even throughout their online magazine. By being able to click on images and adverts it makes this magazine more interactive and gives the audience more to view and see rather than just the normal page-by-page print style magazine.
“Significantly, Future has seen an impressive 8.2 million downloads of free preview issues globally since Newsstand launched, underlining the idea that mobile devices are the key growth area for publishers.” – http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/future-tablet-art-director-interactive-page-turning-magazine-apps
A gaming based magazine:
We found when looking at our chosen online interactive magazine that they had provided a live twitter news feed that stayed in the top right hand corner of the magazine. This allows users to frequently be updated on current affairs surrounding the article and/or article issues. Another favourite part of this magazine was that I was able to also see interviews from important figures within the gaming world. Another helpful thing about online magazines is that I was also able to play and watch an online youtube interview which allowed me to learn more about the game.
After looking at several magazines, we were then asked to form a group of 5 and to come up with our own idea for an interactive online magazine. After looking at quite a few gaming magazines we decided that keeping to the gaming theme would be an interesting idea. From reviewing other magazines we now knew what a ‘gaming magazine’ would need to conform to this. After many deliberations, we had decided that our gaming magazine would be one of many issues entitled ‘Game Hunters’ were week by week the issue would focus itself on one new game a week. From our knowledge of up to date games we found that basing our issue around new game ‘DESTINY’ would be suitable. This recent game release means that there will be lots of research around it online and therefore we would be able to use this information within our issue. Now we have our idea we will start to create a mock-up design of each page and ensure that we know what information is going on what page.