2. Or any other and compare them and how they
attract
Medium shot
16 coverlines all used
around the model (nothing
overlaps on hime)
No background
Edited model
(black and
white)
Black male
model
Bling
Direct address
Main coverline (to the
right of the model and
overlaps a little)(position,
colour, content..)
Selling line
Tag
3. My magazine is the one on the right, Bling, and the other is an example magazine with Jay-Z in the
magazine called King. We’ve both put our models over our masthead, but enough so that we can see what
each letter is. As you can see we have both included a selling line above the masthead to show something
that would be in the magazine. King has also added an extra selling line between the masthead and top
selling line, which denotes how big their magazine is and how worldwide it is. In both Hip-Hop fronts covers,
a black male is used and has a strong body posture, a straight face and having their hands in the pockets to
connote their hardness and that’s what the genre is about. By both of them wearing the low dark jeans,
giving direct address and jewellery reinforces the stereotype of black people and what they wear and the
rebellion from these things. This would attract the main stereotypical target audience of black people. It
would also target women as well, who are my main target audience, because he is male giving direct
address and type of clothing allows the audience to see the models figure to influence female gaze as the
women will pick up the magazine if they find the model attractive. I’ve used a puff although this King
magazine hasn’t but Vibe has also used one to attract their target audience as an enticement to bribe the
reader with freebies or more information that’s within the magazine. Both magazines used a barcode with
the date and issue number contained in it. A similar colour scheme is used to attract our target audience
because we’ve used a gradient that focusses on the main image and red on the coverlines because red
stands out to the audience like a warning sign.
6. The contents page I done is to the left of the page. A black header is used behind the
masthead, title and issue number to make it stand out. The masthead is smaller than the
contents title. We both used the same colour scheme red, yellow, black and white because
the colours stand out as you can see, even though they are two different genres. In this other
example magazine’s contents page, we both use a range of images with page numbers at the
corners and explain the page number and a bit of information about it on the side. We also
only use one column about features. Although these magazines haven’t used editor’s letter to
attract their audience I did as this is my first issue and it makes sense to have my audience
get to know me as well. The example contents page
9. This example magazine on the left and it has similarities to mine as it has a main image on
one side of the page and an article on the other. The example magazine have only 2 columns
and the grab quote is at the bottom of the page, even the main title is on one side of the
column, which is different to mine as it is across the whole page. The backgrounds of my
magazine and theirs both extend in the background of the page, which is open and bright,
although the example magazines is one whole image together, where as mine is two of the
same image but one faded in the background. Our main images are full body and give direct
address. The example double page spread has the headline anchoring together in colour
whilst mine is only black so its visible above the background whilst they have a white box
behind the text.
