1. Posture Clothes and Props
A models position is Outfits are another important factor as this shows us
important as it show; their which target audience it is aimed at, where in this case
confidence e.g. 84(hands on the ‘youth black community’. Because of this I chose
hips) their profession e.g. my model based upon their fashion which included
68(hands on keyboard), skinny jeans, Nike trainers, ‘Dr dre beats’ and such
popularity e.g. 37(making alike. All of these are popular fashion traits among the
signs that their known by) youth nowadays , allowing my target audience to feel
and personality they can relate to this.
e.g.29(innocence and
casualness),- this is all is
necessary in convincing the
audience the magazine is Ethnicity
qualified and worth reading. Although not all people who
listen to gospel rap/hip-hop
Background are black, this genre is known
It’s not only the model that makes up the picture but as a genre for black people. So
the setting as well, With p29 being an interview - I to appeal to the right audience
have it outside showing the casualness of her I chose my models carefully so
character to persuade them when reading the text that they will attract the right
this was the real her with no barriers up. P84 – the crowd.
curtains in the background give it the idea of fashion
e.g. a photo shoot. P68 has the chair, mouse and Yes, although she
keyboard to show that she is doing something on the is a youth her
computer despite a computer not being in the frame. fashion and image
Lastly p37 has a wall behind the ‘artist and fans’
showing that their in a hidden place, supporting the
will not appeal to
idea that the ’fans’ got to see them where no one my target
else got to. audience.

2. My masthead being in one straight line
would be to formal and plain so, I took
example from my research and made it
more creative. The effect of this is that
the magazine does not come across to
serious and the youth audience I am
aiming at do not like things to be too
basic .
Putting in the effect of a drop shadow
creates the impression that it is a photo
on top of many others. I want this photo
theme to create an impression all these
articles were not written quickly but have
had effort put into them, so much that a
photo album could be made of the
journey in making each article. This
shows my readers that the ‘editors’ truly
invest in making the magazine quality
and worth the money.

3. When creating a new text box upon a photo to make it transparent click on the ‘apply’ tool
and select ‘apply none’.

4. I wanted to make sure all of my pages were related and one way of doing
this is by having a colour trend and I wanted to make my contents page link
to my front cover. I started off by opening up my front page on a shared file.
Then I highlighted the text that I wanted to use for my content page (the colour will come with it
as well) after clicking on the eye dropper tool on the front page I would hold the right click of the
mouse down and then drop it on a text on the contents page and resize it.
Result
Highlighting