Chosen Font

This is the font i chose for my magazine that will be used throughout.

Possible Advert's

This was my first Advert i made for a Electric Guitar.
I used bright Bold fonts coloured red to stand out, and grab the readers attention.

I then changed it to advertise Headphones instead of a Guitar because Guitars are rock and roll and so shouldnt be in a hip-hop/rnb magazine so i advertised headphones which are more related to Hip-hop/rnb.

I looked at usual adverts in hip-hop/RnB magazines and they genericaly have beautiful models wearing or showing the product, which i have done i then used bright colours and a bold font to grab the readers attention. I then used the colour green for the price as green is ascoiated with money.

I also used an artist 'GG' that is mentioned in my magazine to advertise it so that the reader may want to buy it because GG has endorsed it.

Experimentation with Editing

These are pictures i took of myself and then edited them to see different effects and then choose how i could use them in my magazine.

This is a Cinematic effect, as if it is in the cinema.

This is a black and white effect.

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This is a Boost

Album Covers

These is my album covers i had to make for my article in my magazine. All these articles are going to be put on my article "The top 5 new artists of '09". I edited all my pictures on picnik.com. This will fit into a normal magazine as they have reviews and news of new artists and their albums.
This is my album for the fictional duo Azzamo. As it is an RnB album i made it look very inresting with the picture edited. I planned to call it 'Glass Windows' so i took a picture of the model with some glass windows in the background. I didnt manipulate this image except add text to it as the picture is exactly what i intended it to be.
This is the fictional album of Saff, I did not edit the picture as i planned the albums name to be 'white black' so i took a picture of her against a half white and black background. This is also a raw image apart from the text.

This is another fictional RnB singer called Jessikahhh. i made the picture black and white except for her haire and eyes which are peircing red. I planned to call the album 'Back to the joint' as if she went into prison and came out but is now back in, so i took a picture to look as if she was in jail behind some bars.

This is the fictional album for GG an RnB singer called 'Flash' so i decided to make the album look as if its moving but her face is still, and have the font in a font typical to RnB. I used a application on picnik to make it focus on the models face.

This is the fictional album for Hip-hop artist Caesar i took a picture of the model singing into a mic just like the ones found in music studio's to make it look authentic. i darkened the edges and boosted the colour of the very handsome model.

Mood Board

This is my First Mood where i found pictures of Artsts famous for their RnB and Hip-Hop and put them together.

This is my second Mood board i got rid of some of the artists and added more hip hop and rnb themes.

This is my second Mood board i got rid of more artists and started to add more items associated wih hip hop and rnb, such as headphones, microphone, font, boombox.
This is my fourth Mood board i got rid of some of the items related to hip hop and rnb. I enlarged one of the theme pictures for hip hop and used it as my background.

This is my fifth Mood board i got added some of the items related to hip-hop and rnb. i also used another one of the hp hop themed pctures for the background.

Match the profle

This was one of our homeworks to match the magazine name to the description.

Preliminary Task

This is my Preliminary Research Task.

Different Magazine Front covers

This is my First, Second and Third Magazine covers.
This was my first draft of the front cover, I included the magazines name, Strapline, Masthead, Quote from the person in the main article, and puffs featuring who's inside.
In this second draft i changed the models pose, the title font and made it smaller, i added more puffs, changed the quote and added a lipstick mark,
This is my third draft i made small changes from my second one i added a issue No. and price, a plus sign next to whos inside puff, more lipstick marks to fill it out more, put black behind the pink font to make it stand out more, added some more puffs, put a black rectangle behind it so it stands out and i also changed the colour of some of the puffs to blue.

Rough Magazine Draft

My Chosen Colour Scheme

Hip-hop/RnB research fonts

Research of other hip-hop and RnB magazines

Questionnaire and Findings

1.) Do you buy or read Music Magazines?


2.) How old are you?

3.) If so which Genre do you listen to? (tick where appropriate)
R&B [ ]
Classical [ ]
Rock [ ]
Pop [ ]
Funky [ ]
Hip hop/ Rap [ ]
4.) How often do you buy or read music magazines?


5.) Do you usually listen to music channels or the radio?

6.) What do you like about Music Magazines?

The Gossip
The Artists
The Profiles/ Interviews with famous Artists
Upcoming news about artists
Other
If Other please state what.

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7.) Please choose colours that you would Associate with Hip Hop and R&B.



8.) Do you like large bright fonts or small stylish fonts?





Thanks for taking the time to do my questionnaire.

These are my findings from my questionnaire.

NME Front Cover Anaylisis

I analysised NME magazine which is a rock/indie magazine. The title is allocated in the top left hand corner underneath the strapline, it is brightly coloured red with a white outline to catch the attention of the consumer, it also is situated behind the main article image presuming the reader can tell it's NME by only seeing half of the title. This is done so not to take away attention from the main article. Another feauture used on the front cover is thier centre image on the main article. This image is of the featured artist (main article) and also related to the main article picture. Puffs are also included on the front cover of the magazine as circles to promote the big features inside of the magazine.

When analysing NME magazine cover, i have found that the house style of NME, it has a generic layout in every issue of theirs. They're house style colours were throughout the whole magazine. The colours that they had used were peach, red,black and white. These colours do not appeal to one specific demographic such as one sex or groupp of people. By using this variety of different colours for the front cover, made it all appealing to all demographics. By looking at their magazine and their techniques I could use it for my own magazine to draw more readers towards my magazine either people who are a fan of my type of music genre or it could convert people into listening to my genre. This would appeal to all the different demographs of people, and not leave out a specific group.

This can help me in future when I'm creating my music magazine as I can look at the cover and the layout and try to make mine similar to it so it looks more realistic. I listed the barcode, puffs, masthead, title of magazine, main article image, price and subheading. This is because I would be including these features on my magazine so that it looks like an actual published magazine.