The author softened the background color of their front page to make it less overwhelming and aggressive for a gospel rap magazine. They added a yellow sell line and highlighted the word "Free" to draw attention to promoting a free bracelet giveaway to encourage magazine sales. The bracelet is a popular fashion item among black youth culture that companies may provide for free or at a low cost to promote through the magazine. The main front page image breaks stereotypes by showing an artist communicating naturally rather than direct eye contact, giving the magazine a sense of realism appealing to youth.
1. My front page was
starting to
resemble that of a
rock genre and not
one of gospel rap.
So I softened the
colour of my
background so that
it wont look too
overwhelming and
aggressive.
2. Here I am making a sell line to encourage
people to purchase the magazine. I made
the background yellow like the slogan to
create a trend and being the bright colour it
is will make it very noticeable. The word
‘Free’ being highlighted and larger than the
rest will call for peoples attention as people
generally like this word. ‘Shamballa’s’ is a
popular unisex bracelet amongst the youth
black culture generally can cost over a
thousand pounds or just £15. Being
tactical, my target audience does not know
how much I got these shamballa’s for and
they may just assume it is the most
expensive ones , loads of people buy the
magazine to get this prize where it did not
cost my company much – the industry is all
about making profit. B) Companies may give
away free shamballa’s to my company as Many famous black
they know that it is a fashionable item rappers wear this as
amongst my target audience and the more you see to the right.
youth that wear it the more people will be People may question
persuaded to buy it. Plan B not only what does this have to
achieves plan A buy getting people who do with gospel but this
wouldn’t normally buy the magazine to is a gospel rap/hip-hop
invest in it but there's the possibility that magazine aiming at
companies will even pay for my magazine to young people and
give away the free products they give as Christians still like to
they know in the long run they will benefit be fashionable.
3. Most front pages have the main image giving direct eye contact. I broke this code however
because it makes it look so stereotypical and unnatural. Where here where the artist is
communicating with someone, give the magazine a sense of realism and youth do not like
things to fancied up and like genuineness. With him having a smile on his face show us that
he is having a good time and that makes people curious of what was happening encouraging
them to buy it so they can find out. Him being a black youth will reach out to all of my target
audience both girls and boys , Christian and non- Christian. Having a ‘JESUS IS MY LOGO’
badge makes it evident to the audience this magazine has something to do with Christianity
and especially reaches out to my Christian target audience. The main thing however is that
there is a microphone and a headset which both shows that this is a music magazine.
4. It is hard to
cut pictures
accurately so
enlarging the
picture
makes it
more easier.
This tool
