Front Cover Editing

Here i am editing the picture and giving it an effect.

I edited the picture to give it a black and white effect and fixed up the colour balance to make it lighter.

I used the colour meter to edit the brightness of the background and the colour on my face.

Chosen Front Cover Photo

The photo i have chosen to use for my front cover is this picture. This is a mid shot of myself with a low angle.

Front Cover & Article Photoshoot

Magazine photo shoot from DBoysBeTheLivest

Photo Shoot Preparation

This is a brainstorm which tells us what we will be using in the photo shoot for my magazine

Plan For Artist

This is a draft of my artist telling you how his personality is, what his style is, his clothing and a short biography of my artist.

Peer Assessment

This is a peer assessment of my work which has been marked by other students. This shows that my magazine still needs a bit of improvement so it looks more appealing to my target audience.

Music Magazine Draft

This is my first draft of my music magazine front cover.

This is the contents page to my music magazine. Please give feedback on how i could improve my front cover and contents page.

Moodboard/Double Page Spreads

This is a mood board for music magazine double page spreads.

The artist in the article is Tinie Tempah. Tinie is a rapper and this would be aimed for young people aged 10 to 25 because there are a lot of people that really like rap music some of those people are teenagers and others are adults.

The language used in the article is informal. Words like “FOR FUCK SAKE!” and “man” is informal language and is placed in the article to suit the target audience

Bright colours are used to show it’s a happy and really cheerful article. The colour of the title is in black so the reader isn’t drawn away from the actual article.

For the title of the article, a big bold font style is being used to present the article and because it’s a really big font size it’s noticeable. But the rest of the text is in a smaller and skinnier font style and size making it look like it’s not really important.

On the double page article it has one big picture on the first page on the top half of the page and below it the title. Below the title you then have two paragraphs which run along the bottom of the page. Next to the two paragraphs you have three picture of Tinie Tempah in the studio recording and that takes up the bottom half of the second page. At the top of the second page you have a medium sized picture of Tinie Tempah in the studio. Below that you have two columns of text which have been separated by a must know rectangular box which goes down the middle separating the two columns of text.

Most of the pages have been taken up by images and a small percentage of the page has been taken up by text. 70% of the page is taken up by images and the remaining 30% is taken up by text.

The tone used in the magazine when addressing the reader is an informed intelligent fan because it’s not making the reader feel involved in the article.

The artist is presented as a cool, easy going and hard-working guy. He’s shown to be having fun at times and enjoying himself while he’s working.

 The style of the article is shown to be well organised. The font of the article is big and bold and black and the colour red is used frequently. In the front cover everything is laid out the same. The colour red is used to symbolise the logo of the magazine and the bold title shows the more important articles.

The article doesn’t demand any prior knowledge but you would have to know who the artist is to fully understand what is going on in the article. 

Moodboard/Contents Page

Dolvani convetions of contents pages from DBoysBeTheLivest

Mood Board/Front Cover Ideas

In the magazine covers you can see that most of the camera shots are mid-shots and have slight low angles. These shots are mostly used for front covers with men as the central image. These are more masculine shots and shows power and aggression. Their costumes are mainly suits and this shows that they mean business; making them look rich and boss-like. The men in the magazine covers were made to look like rich and intimidating businessmen. The other camera shots in this image board are close ups and normal mid-shots which are used on the women. The women in the magazine covers are made to look like sophisticated women. The close-ups show more detail in their expression and the mid-shots show their face and what they're wearing which by the looks of it show that the women look sophisticated and empowered because their clothing is so good looking and expensive and the facial expression look quite happy. The magazine covers have made the women look like divas.

In the magazine cover the title blocks are quite bold, big and simple which is seen in the Vibe magazine. Its also the same for the Billboard magazine which has a really simple font style. The font size is also really big and bold.

The colours on the cover are really bright and clear and also quite vibrant.

The types of articles in these magazines would be interviews on Hip-Hop or RnB artists.Could be introducing new artists to audiences and also biographies about the artist.