Front Cover

This is my front cover. This is the most important part of my magazine as it sets the first impression of it. A magazine front cover should have a big bold attractive Masthead and other details. My front cover has a very attractive and eye-catching masthead which I made my self-using Photoshop and After-Effect. My masthead is multi coloured outlines and has a chrome coloured text. This combination is excellent for artistic and exciting look. I have an eyebrow article advert to show that the magazine is very detailed in a professional way. The masthead is in the middle and the letter ‘A’ goes behind and around the Artist hoody to split the reader’s attention to the 2 columns on article adverts. For the cover’s main article I have chosen to go with a new artist review as it is more suited to go with the theme of Appling an image to the front cover. This model/artist agreed for me to take pictures of her in my college’s photo studio. I have used my Photoshop skills to edit her features to suit my front cover. Her style and fashion shows she is a Hip-Hop/ R’n’B artist. I have done this to represent the main genre of mu magazine.

Contents Page

This is one of the most important parts on my magazine as a potential buyer will judge the magazine on its content so it is expected of a contents page to give as much information about the content without giving away the actual content in a short and simple line for each part and be very attractive. I have done exactly that. In my contents page has simple yet detailed introduction to each article my magazine would have. I have given clear page numbers on the contents page. In terms in attraction, I have carried the trend of pink outlined text from the front cover as it shows style and is very striking. The page numbers are in red to be carried on to the Double Page Spread background which will be red. The red stands out and it introduces a new colour scheme. The background was planned to be just plain black. But as there is not much text on the contents page, the background must be interesting. So I gave it a gradient background from black to grey (top to bottom) and to give it some extra ‘kick’ I applied a pixelated and bubbly effect to it using Photoshop to top it off I added some images to some of the articles to show what they are about and to make the contents page more relatable to the articles. This made the contents page some character and made it very professional.  The main change was the actual layout. Before I was going to use the plan (which is in a post below) but I changed it to a list format. I did this after some research where I found  that it is more easier to read. Also there were too much content to fit into the plan and the list format was the best way to present so many titles with the images.

Double Page Spread

My double page features an article about the latest album releases. I can across the idea when I was doing research on music magazine features. I thought this idea was very good as it has a connection to the genre of my magazine and it is something many readers would find interesting. Latest gossip and latest news is what my audience desires. My audiences want to know all the latest news and this article is the best way. My mind came across many other ideas such as gossip on celebrities, upcoming Artist reviews and interviews but the album review idea outshone the other ideas as it was the most relevant to my audience. The layout was designed this way as it made the article look less confusing and more attractive. The bright red background goes well with the magazine as it is a bold colour and I have been using bold colours like red throughout the magazine. The main point is that each review is my own honest opinion on each magazine. I had some of the albums and I borrowed the others so that I can listen and I can review them. I scanned the album covers in so that the reviews have an image to tie in together. The images make the article less bulky and more enjoyable to read. The album; ‘The E.N.D’ was on my friends album so I thought I can take an image of the that to show music being played on an IPod which ‘cross promote’ my advert.

Advertisement 

This is My Advert that will go opposite the contents page. I have tried to lay it out like most magazines do. As the contents page is very important, it is a good I idea to put an advert opposite it to attract the attention of readers. The image is my own. I borrowed my friend’s new IPod touch and made it into an advert. The reason I choose an IPod is because my magazine is about music, so it was wise to do an advert that has a relationship with music. Also my research shows many IPod owners are teens and young adults who happen to be a part of my target audience. The IPod touch logo is also my own creation although I tried to make it similar to the original. My first idea was to advertise my own brand of headphones but as I designed it, it started to look plain, unappealing and unrealistic so I decided to change the whole concept.

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Mock Ups/Plans

 

This is the plan for the front cover. I have designed this layout as it is very practical and it works well with the concept of a Hip-Hip/R’n’B magazine. It is well spaced out but it have a few cramped areas the cramp look is well suited to my magazine.

 This is the Contents page. I have designed it like this as it is quite spaced out. Also the contents page shouldn’t be too detailed as it is mainly used to give the audience a ‘taste‘ of what the articles are about so I have left space to add images to represent the articles

This is my main double page. The layout suits the article as my article is a review on the latest hip-hop/R’n’B albums. I have chosen to do this article because it appeals to my target audience and it is quite practical as it is information people want to know about. The layout suites the article as it is orders and it has sections for the album reviews, however I am still debating where to make it a normal latest album review article of to make it a top ten albums review article.

Frontcover Image

For my front cover I have taken a photo of my friend Leoni Wick. I took this photo in a Photography Studio in my college. I have chosen to take a photo of her as fellow media students and I think her outfit and herself portray a hip-hop symbol which is best suited for my magazine as my target audience are hip-hop and R’n’B fans. For example, She is wearing a Hoody with the hood up, many Hip-hop/R’n’B Artists like Eminem have this style too. The photography studio in my college Have a plain green canvas as it is ideas for editing the background which is what I plan to do in Adobe Photoshop CS4/5.