Contents page pictures re shoot

Since the original pictures were not great, i  decided to do a reshoot with the model so that i could produce better quaility pictures. These are just a few of the shots i took.

Magazine Audience Research

Front Cover Draft

Contents page draft

Magazine DPS draft

Front cover pictures evidence

Front conver analysis

 As you can see both magazines use big font sizes to make their text stand out and only the important bits are big as the reader only needs to read them to decide whether they want to buy the magazine and read on or just move along so the choice of words are very important.

 These two front cover images are mid-shots two well known artists in the hip hop genre. The colour scheme used is quite similar as black white and red seem to be mostly associated with music in this genre. The three colours help each other stand out and easier to read.

Both the images seem to go over the masthead in both magazines but these are well established rap magazines and people will be well aware of what it says.

Both models are facing the camera which is a main convention of magazine in general which is good and it is important not to go against these conventions. The banner at the top helps draw in readers as it provides additional information that they might find useful and may influence their decision in buying the magazine or not.

It is important not to disregard any of these conventions as they will affect how people percieve your magazine and whether or not they will buy it or not.

Magazine Contents Page draft stages

  To start of i tried working on the image first to try and make it simpler. I created a copy of the image after using the "lasso" tool to cut away the edges and opted to go for this back-to-back effect using the same model

Next i tried to place an effect at the edges of the magazine similar to the DPS to keep the same colour scheme. Also i decidd that the
"features" and "contents" should stand out so only used special font from dafont.com for this on this page.

And now the finished draft.

Magazine DPS first Draft

Magazine DPS pictures development

Contents DPS pictures that might be used for the finished product

Magazine DPS development stage

This is how i hope my Dps will look like and the image with the model will be added in later to suit the layout and how it looks. The title  "the beginning " represents that the artist is new and it is virtually the beginning of their carreer.

Magazine logo development pencil sketch

These are sketches of the magazine logo design that i hope to have on my magazine pages. Since the magazine is called " Illuminate" I have tried to incorporate the letters "I" and the letter "M" or word " Mag" like many magazine do that.

Masthead designs pencil sketch

These are some of the masthead designs i designed for my magazine, these pencil sketches allow me to see how this would look like if i pit it on my actually magazine later but it will need development on photoshop