2. Front Cover
The ways we went about both attracting and addressing our
audience with our front cover was firstly to make it as eye
catching is possible. The main inspiration of our front cover was
Hip Hop music which gave our work an underground feel to our
front cover which was what we were after. In my opinion I feel
that we have challenged the conventions of other magazine in
the fact that we have only featured a minimal amount of
information to this front cover. The ways that we have kept to
the hip hop aesthetic is by keep it to the darker more grungy
colors that keep the urban associations to hip hop music's roots.
Even though we tried to challenge the conventional hip hop
magazine, we have also had to keep some of the aspects to
conform to what makes a hip hop magazine a hip hop magazine.
This brings us on the model, we wanted to portray the model as
a stereotypical hip hop artist. This will address the audience of
our work because when they look at our work they will expect
to see to see some sort of hip hop artist, so if we make our
model resemble the stereotypical hip hop artist people will feel
at home with what they are reading. Going back to the
simplicity of our front cover we feel that this is the key aspect
that makes our work so appealing to our audience. I feel this
way because it means that our audience will not be swamped
with information and for people that have gone from front
covers crammed with information this could be refreshing.
3. Contents Page
Our plans for our contents page was to keep it very simple
similar to our front cover. Even though we have made it fairly
simple there are certain aspects which have challenged the
stereotypical layout of a hip hop magazine. With our layout we
wanted to dedicate space for the contents information but we
also wanted to offer more to the page then just the information
this is why we have included a decent size photo taking up more
of the page. In doing this we feel that we have made the
contents page much more attractive to our audience, but at the
same time also challenged the conventional contents page
layout. In our research task we found that one key thing the
contents pages were missing was the combination of text and
pictures on one page. The magazine analysis showed us that
most contents pages struggled to fit the contents information
on one page. In my opinion I don’t find it necessary to take up
two pages just for a contents page, if it can fit on a single page
and not look cramped and of a low quality I feel that the page
saved could be used more productively.
4. Double Page Spread
The ways in which we went about attracting and addressing
our audience with our double page was in the whole just to
make the content as interesting as possible. The ways we went
about achieving this is firstly making it attractive, I believe that
you can have to highest quality articles but if they look
unappealing people are not likely to read your work. In our
magazine we tried to keep a reoccurring color scheme
Throughout. Our reasoning for this is so that our audience are
familiar with what they are reading. But when it comes to the
layout we have made both pages a different layout so that our
work seemed fresh and didn't’t get repetitive. So we have
used the same colors so that the audience have something the
same throughout the work but they have also got the fresh
layouts so that they also have new features to stop them
getting bored of the content,
