2. Large and bold
masthead
Eye contact
to catch the
audiences
Strong pose
attention
Different sized Hip hop
cover lines to clothing
show importance
of articles.
Carefully placed
so that the main
articles catch Simple white
the audiences and grey
attention fading
background

3. Pointing and
eye contact
makes the
Large image eye
masthead catching
Strong pose to
catch the
audience’s
Simple grey attention
and white
fading
background
allows the
people in the
image to
stand out
Size of the image
is larger than the
conventional form
of a magazine front Hip hop
cover but this clothing
allows it to catch Bar code
the audience’s makes the
attention and to be magazine
unique seem

4. Photographs of artists featuring in the magazine.
This catches the readers attention and makes
them want to read on
Typical
white
backgroun
d
I have kept my
contents page
simple with
minimal reading
and on a single
page, as my
young readers
aged 16-24
would not be
interested in
Minimal writing in a simple reading large
font amounts of text

5. Backgrounds in both
articles are quite
naturalistic without
Full bleed Traditional question and a lot of editing. This
photograph answer layout with the gives the article a
of musician questions in a different relaxed atmosphere
colour to the answers which is important
Bold title
in an interview
where the reader
Stand first should feel like they
can relate to the
artist.
Drop cap
I used this article layout to base mine on as it
is a British hip hop magazine of the same age
target group, 16-24.
The ‘get to Page number
know’ box and date make Pull quote
provides quick magazine seem
information realistic Smaller photograph
which is of musician
appropriate for
a new artist
who readers
don’t recognise

6. My magazine is a hip hop magazine so my
models are wearing hip hop style clothing
as my audience will be able to relate to
them
For my front cover and article I have used
models of different races so that my I have used slang in my article as you can see in this
magazine can appeal to a range of quote as the audience will be able to relate to this
ethnicities because slang is used in hip hop music
The poses of my models and mild use of “I spit about the kind of boys in gangs and shit
swearing make my magazine appealing to because I used to be like that.”
readers who probably consider themselves
quite rebellious My article refers to my musician being rebellious and
involved in gang crime which is suitable for this
The models are the same age as my target magazine as there would be readers in the same
audience of 16-24 so that readers can situation aspiring to break through and become
relate to the magazine successful like the musicians in hip hop magazines.

7. “IPC Media produces over 60 iconic media
brands, with print alone reaching almost two
thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men – almost
26 million UK adults”
-Statistics from their website.
I would suggest IPC media to be the publisher of my magazine because they
already publish many successful magazines across the UK such as NME but do
not publish a hip hop magazine, so there is a gap in their market. They also have
the money and experience for my magazine to be distributed across the UK in
popular supermarkets and newsagents as IPC have a good reputation and
companies would be willing to buy into BOP as their new product as they can be
sure that they will receive a profit.

8. Males and females aged 16-24 who listen
to British hip hop and rap music
Any ethnicity, the models in
Male and females means that there is a my photographs are different
larger target audience and therefore
more profit
races
I will attract this audience by
having up to date articles on
new musicians that people want
to hear about
I will also attract this audience
by using adverts which would
appeal to them, such as popular
and stylish shops or adverts
for CDs and concerts of the
hip hop genre
The magazine costs £2.60 which makes it
affordable for students and people with
part time jobs

9. Eye contact and body Eye
language attract the catching
audience’s attention pose
Readers like to hear about
musician’s pasts and
everyone loves to hear a
‘rags to riches’ story. Models
dressed
Swearing is in a
something similar
which often way to
features in hip how the
hop music. readers
Readers think would
of themselves dress
as rebellious
and look up to The
these artists colour
who can rebel scheme is
and still be black,
successful. It white and
is also red, which
language which is classic
is used in and
everyday appeals to
conversation everyone
and makes the

10. InDesign is a Power point is a
programme I hadn’t programme that I
used before this have used many times
task. I used it when for creating slide
constructing my shows. I used this to
article and putting create the evaluation
cover lines on my you are reading now.
front cover.
I used word press as a blog to Photoshop was
upload my magazine coursework. useful for editing
I’d never used it before and the photos for my
found it quite complicated. front cover and
article. I found it
very confusing but
it was very
effective for
producing
professional-

11. In the preliminary task I had a
chance to practice taking
photographs and I feel I
improved from the photograph
here to the one on my front
cover.
This was also the first time I
used InDesign so I gained
experience which was needed
for my magazine.
From this task I also learnt
Now that my magazine is completeaI can
more about how to lay out
compare it to my preliminary task and see a
magazine, such as where to
big improvement. My photography and
place cover lines.
editing skills have come along and it looks
far more professional. My colour schemes
and font choice make my magazine a lot
smoother and it looks more like a product
that people would buy, as opposed to my
childish front cover in the preliminary task.