magazine cover

 

This is my first attempt of a magazine front cover.

 

 

I created this front cover through several stages. firstly I chose my main photographs. This didn't matter too much as to who was on it, just as longs as the artist is a well known artist, they must be hip-hop as that's my magazine genre. The photograph I have chose is black and white, so I had to add in a colour to make the cover more appealing and less boring. I have chosen a deep blue for my additional colour as it keeps the mood very chilled and gives a classy feel to it.

 

I was inspired by a few of the magazine covers from 'vibe'. whilst constructing the layout of my own cover I referred to vibe quite often, for example on their front cover it is a recurring theme to have a a catch line above the main title so I interpreted this into my own cover.

 Another feature I was inspired by was the barcode, scan code and date line placement. They are always placed on the left rim at the bottom of the magazine horizontally. This feature particularly stood out to me as it makes the magazine have a very define structure which shows professionalism.

mood board

This is my mood board

My genre of music magazine is hip-hop, I have chosen hip-hop as not only is it a genre that I enjoy to listen to, but I think I can be very creative with the style that most magazines portray hip-hop in. However also I think by experimenting with the style of hip-hop, going against the usual portray, will be very interesting.

Here are some hip-hop artists:

 

Here are some hip-hop album covers:

magazine article

This is my first attempt of a music magazine article.









I have chosen Miley Cyrus to feature in my article as I feel she is a popular artist in the current spotlight.
The construction of my article is inspired by a cosmopolitan article that has a very similar layout. On the left hand side is a simple photograph of the artist, I have interpreted this into my own artical. It then on the other side has the text, I have again interpreted this within my own article. Something that I thought was key for this style article is the background, for example on the Cosmopolitan artical there is a pink background behind the photograph and white behind the text. This gives the magazine a define structure. I again interpreted into my own magazine by having black behind the text, fading into white for the photograph. Another key feature of the magazine article is the colour scheme. The artist, Miley Cyrus, is wearing pale pinks and purple colours, so therefore the font colour and background colour co-ordinates this. I did this in my own artical by picking out the key colours featured in Miley Cyrus' clothes, which is green, black and white.