On my front cover I have
conventionally place my masthead ‘BaZe’ at the top of the page since I planned
to put it there. The masthead is the largest text you see on my cover meaning
it has the most influence to the audience. The color scheme on my cover is red
and white, which easily noticed my audience since I used a filter to make
everything look more reddish. I used a filter since hip-hop artists usually use
them in their videos as affects meaning my audience would already be used to
it.
My cover page is capable of
attracting both the female and male audience since I used a color scheme of my
magazine is unisex, this is conventional for hip-hop magazines since they try
to reach out to both genders using color scheme which appeal to them. My
magazine will be informing my young adult audience about the latest gossip and
interviews relating to hip hop stars.
I placed my bar-code in the
left corner of my cover page, I placed it on left instead of the right because
the bar-code blended in with white chinos. However, I did not place the date on
my magazine nor did I put my magazine website which is unconventional for
magazine not to have. I will put these in my final production. In addition, i should change the price of my magazine to make it appeal to my audience. I can achieve this by change the price from £2 to £1.99 since it look
more consumer friendly and the masthead is hiding the main image, i will need to change this by putting the masthead behind the main image
In this draft I used a
conventional heading by putting it at the top and making it the biggest text in
the page. I used the same colour scheme as my front cove which is red and
white, I also put the name of my magazine at the top of the content page since
magazine producers regularly use it for their magazine.
However, I did not
include images in my content page which is not good idea since the readers
could lose interest and it is unconventional to not include an image, therefore
I will have to add images to my content page. In addition, font that I used is
not easy to read so I will have to change it to gobold thin for the text that
describes the page and gobold bold for the article names because the text and
the subheading need to be in different text.
In my double page spreed
draft I kept a similar colour scheme to other two drafts. I chose to keep the
same colour scheme since it was the professional thing to do. However, I didn’t
keep my writing only on one side and used 4 columns, this unique and different
to other magazines since I spoke about two interview, one was related to the
heading whilst the other was as well but was a bonus for the readers I used a San serif font for all 4 columns so the audience could stay focused. For my heading
I used batman forever alternate which is a serif font. I chose to use a serif
heading since it would stand out from the rest of the San serif text, this will
let the reader know it is the key part of the article and clearly the heading. i
used broken in English in my text since my audience would be able to read it
with easy because teenage tend to talk in broken language until the mature. This
will mean my audience will be entertain by the language as they can relate to
the way the hip-hop star speaks.
