A2 Football Magazine

In order for my magazine to appeal and be more regional to the North East I have looked into some magazines in the regional area, although the majority do not relate to my genre of choice that (that being football) I feel that these magazines can help me understand how to make my own magazine appear more regional.

For this I looked into magazines that are distributed on a wider scale and are sold all across the country, this allowed for me to looked specifically at my genre of football as it was difficult to find regional football magazines where nationally I looked into the likes of Match and FourFourTwo as well as others to gain a greater understanding as to what I need to do for my own magazine.

For my recreation of a billboard I decided to choose 'welcome to Manchester' which was used by Manchester City to introduce the signing of Carlos Tevez, with image (as seen below) shows the player celebrating in the colours of blue which link to the clubs main colours as well as giving the player a warm welcome. My reasoning for choosing this billboard was fitting as it is in the same genre of my choice in magazine which is football and I also saw this as being quiet simplistic and not as challenging to replicate as my photoshop skills are not the strongest but this will help improve them. For my recreation of the 'Welcome to Manchester' billboard I attempted to make it regional, specifically for Newcastle through using only the colours of black and white as that is the main colours of the club. I also included a player celebrating, using an unrealistic example of lionel Messi, which can be seen in the original. Although I think that my recreation does take some rese