1. STYLE SHEET MAGAZINE COLOURS The magazines seem to use black, red and white to represent the genre of the magazine, but the colour red sometimes changes to blue, green or yellow depending the theme of the magazine. E.g. – black, white, green if it talks about money, drugs, etc. The colours red, black and white talk more about poverty, gangs, street life, etc. which is why I have chosen those colours for my magazine as the theme is going to be about gangs, and poor. RED COLOUR SCHEME WHITE BLACK
2. MAGAZINE FONTS I decided to use this font for my magazine masthead because of the style and it will suit the genre of the magazine as it looks like a hip-hop, gangster style. This font also has the American style as its used more over there and the style of sporty, fitting with the genre; hip hop JIM THORPE I chose this font for my magazine cover lines because it has the style of hip-hop and is clear to read and blending the masthead front together. This font is also used in America, and fits the genre of hip hop, and all the sports wears and sports they play. E.g. basketball BN MACHINE BOLD I chose this font for the main text in which my article will be written as it’s easy to read, as is plain.
3. MAGAZINE IMAGES This is the photograph I chose for the front cover for my magazine as it will relate to the theme of the magazine I’m going to base and the genre; hip hop as it’s wearing a hat, a bracelet chain, and a watch. The shirt his wearing makes him appear aggressive, especially the pose as if his praying which signifies his life as a trouble maker and an aggressive person. I saw this kind of pose in one of ‘THE SOURCE’ magazine front cover but instead of the hand pose, he has a gun point at himself on the chin. That gave me the idea of taking this shot and the topic to chose. The photo on the left is the original. I decided to delete the background because I wanted a clear white background as you can see on the right image.
4. MAGAZINE IMAGES I chose this image for the content page in my magazine because it’s so catch and there is sometimes an image of a female on the contents page to attract men into the magazine by the clothes she is wearing; big heals, tight jeggins, and jewellery which is what we would expect in the magazine. The other reason why I chose this image is because I like the layout the image is taken and can easily make the cover lines fit on the side of the image and the contents title lay on the heal.
5. MAGAZINE IMAGES I picked this two pictures because the poses in which they are taken, making him seem important and in top of everyone. The image on the left makes him look aggressive with the way he poses, pointing his finger towards the camera as if his going to shot someone. Also the kind of baggy jeans his wearing, the shirt, the hat and the jewellery that just added up too this gangster, trouble maker life. The image on the right makes him look tough as he is all serious and looks straight down into the camera. The coat he wears is puffy and makes him seem as a ‘badman’ a trouble maker, who is in charge of everything
