Planning and My final Front cover

For my front cover i had looked at other magazine as i said before. i had listed down the things that i thought all front cover magazine all ways have :

• Masthead
• Teaser
  
• Images
  
• Conventions
• bar code
• price
• issue number
  
• other information ( what else will there be )

And many more other things i had used these into my music magazine so i had everything a music magazine would have to make it realistic as possible. I had also stuck to the house styles as i wanted my magazine to contain at least 4 colours so that all the issues that will be coming will have the same colours i had this idea from the NME magazine as all there magazine contained the same colours through out.

Before and After ( Contents page)

My contents page is completely unique to any other magazine. When i had analyzed any other magazine i had seen to many complicated words being used and to much information on one page. So i had made my contents page easy and straight forward so it will be less complicated for my target audience. my contents page consist of one image of my male model which will be a ' upcoming artist'. The image on the left is the old contents page that i had created which looked plain and the numbers where to close and also the colours that i had used was not the housetyles that i wanted to carry on through out my front cover and the contents page so this is why i had change it to the image on the right and put the name of my artist across the image so the readers will know who is the man and what he will be saying about his music as he is a upcoming artist in the UK. i had chosen my contents page image to be black & white as the other contents page are bright and colourful i wanted my page to be different and straight forward and i also done this so that the information that was in red will be easy to read.

My Final Interview Page

This is my final interview page. As i had told you before i had chosen this design and layout by looking through other magazine this is why i had come up with my final page. My interview page consist of the colour palette of blue and pink this is because i wanted to give it a bright colour feel as the other pages are black , red, grey and white so i thought i would give the interview a unique look to the other pages. i had noticed many other interview pages in the magazine i have annoted one whole side on the right is where the artist image will be, however, i chose to do the opposite to make it a bit unique from the others. I had added a subheader and the name of my artist to let the readers know what this page will be about this will be above the image. on the side of the image there is a pull qoute " my music means the world to me" which was taken out of the interview to reveal to the audience that the interview is about her music, below the quote there 'Aaliyahs' upcoming album underneath that album there is a caption which tells the audience when the album will be released and the name of the album. On the right hand side of the interview page there is another pull quote which is birght and bold so that it is eye catching. Then the interview comes following the questions will be in bright pink and the answers in blue to show the diffrence so it will be easy to read. I had put anotehr image on the left hand corner with a innocent look to my artist which reveals the otehr side to her and the image on the left shows her sophistacted side. On the bottom of the interview there is a teaser which tells us what webiste to go to find out more about 'Aaliyah' and her music industry.

Planning My Interview

The person that my artist 'Aaliyah' who is the main person that will be in the magazine is my friend Mehreen so i had the opporunity at school to ask her as many questions as possible to do with her and the upcoming album that she will be realeasin. The questions that i asked were not boring and formal they were questions that were in 1st person so the readers feel apart of the interview.These are some of the questions that i had asked her: 'Are there any collabiration in the album?' and also ' Congratulations on where you have come Aaliyah....?', however, some of the question that were asked my artist was unable to answer herself so i had to expand on what she had said and made the answers realistic as possible to reveal to the reader that the interview is real.On the other hand, I had not introduced my artist as I had analsyed many other magazine and many of them do not introduce them so i though i would go straight into the interview as my target audience will want to know about her and the album which will be realsed.

Rough layout ( interview page)

On my interview page i had a rough idea of what i wanted as i annotated and analyzed other magazine that was the similar genre as my magazine which is R&B. All of the interview consisted of at least 2-3 images and the interview. So my rought idea for my magazine will be containing a image which will be taking up one whole page which will be on the left hand side and the interview which will be on the left hand side. The layout of the interview will be easy to read and will not be complicated as my target audience are the type of audience which will like the interview easy and readable as the questions will be in a diffrent colour to the anser so they will know whats the question and what is the answer. Also my interview will have a sub heading which will tell us what the page will be about and also the artist name which will be bold and big so that the readers will know who the artist is and will have a idea on what will be coming up.

Noting My Conventions

Evaluating My language choice

For my masthead i had used the word 'Bumpin' this is informal and slang so that it attracts my target audience.