Magazine Cover Inpirations

While doing the first drafts of my own magazine, I have taken a lot of inspiration from magazines which covers are displayed in the colour pallet of Black, White and Grey. I think they particularly work well for this genre because these colours compliment the dark coloured clothes that Rap artists tend to wear. I also like how they have used Black and White images from how the black and white makes the dark colour clothes display well.

Colour Palette

This list starts from the most best colours to use on a magazine to the worst...

Black on yellow

Yellow on black

Green on white

Red on white

Black on white

White on blue

Blue on yellow

Blue on white

White on black

Green on yellow

Black on orange

Red on yellow

Orange on black

Yellow on blue

White on green

Black on red

Blue on orange

Yellow on green

Blue on red

Yellow on red

White on red

Red on black

White on orange

Black on green

Orange on white

Orange on blue

Yellow on orange

Red on orange

Red on green

Green on orange

These are some of my ideas on what colour palette I may use:

Fonts

I used the website 'http://www.1001freefonts.com/' to look at some fonts and these were some I liked:

Audience Profile

These are my two fictional people who I would imagine to be similar to my target audience

This is Ryan. He likes to hang out with his friends, play football, watching TV and go skateboarding. He is very interested in reading about his favourite Rap artists from Britain, and also in finding out about new Hip-hop artists so he can download their music to his Ipod. He is also very concerned about going shopping and keeping up with fashion trends so he reads my magazine weekly to get this information. He likes reading it because it has the artists he is concerned about with reviews and it is not too intellectual of a read.

This is Chloe. She likes to see her friends, go shopping, listen to music and go to the cinema. She is tired of all the girly pop magazines and really just wants to read a magazine that features all her favourite UK Grime artists. She wants a magazine like this so she has more pictures to cut out and stick on her wall as posters. She doesn't exactly dress like the other teenage girls and wants to style herself by looking at pictures and fashion of her favourite female R&B artists.

 

Institution that would produce my magazine

IPC Media

IPC Media, who used to be know as International Publishing Corporation, are a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc.. It is a digital publisher in the United Kingdom. It also has the largest portfolio in the UK, selling over 350 million copies each year. They own lots of magazines but the music magazines they own include 'NME', 'Guitar' and 'Bass' 

I decided that I thought they would produce my magazine because as a company they produce a very broad selection of magazines so it could accommodate any kind of magazine. Secondly, I hope that my magazine would reach a wide audience in the UK so with the size of there current portfolio would be able to achieve this. Finally, I don't entirely want my magazine to be focused at one audience because that narrows the amount of readers. So I would like my magazine to be like NME from how they incorporate one strong theme, which in there case is indie and in mine R&B, but are not afraid to include other genres of music.   

Moodboard

This is my Moodboard that I created on microsoft publisher from magazine covers. I want my theme to be based around British Hip-hop/R&B/Rap, to do this I only used British magazines with British music stars featured. I used magazines such as D101, RWD, The Big Issue and Disorder.

Contents Pages Analysis

This is a contents page from American R&B and Hip-hop magazine 'Vibe'. Pictured is American Rapper Kanye West













This is my second contents page analysis. It is a contents page from American Hip-hop magazine 'XXL', pictured is American, Rapper B.o.b

This is my third contents page analysis. It is a contents page from British magazine 'NME' pictured is home grown, Leicester band Kasabian

Double Page Spread Analysis's

This is the cover of Hip-hop music and culture magazine 'XXL'. This double page spread article is on American Rapper Rick Ross.

This is a double page spread interview promoting the game 'Def Jam Rapstar'. The interview is with British Rappers Tinchy Stryder.












This is my third double page spread analysis. It is a double page spread from British Rap magazine 'D101', the article is featured on Rapper/Actor Bashy

Mgazine Cover Analysis

This is my first magazine cover analysis. It is a cover of NME magazine with American rapper 'Tyler, the Creator' featured on the cover.

This is  my second magazine cover analysis. It is a cover of the magazine 'Vibe', on the cover is American Rapper Kanye West.

This is a cover of UK Grime, Rap magazine 'RWD'. Featured on the cover is British rapper Professor Green.












By posting this work on my blog it finishes my personal homework that I set on 17/01/12

Magazine Evaluation Idea

I was looking at a past blog (http://samburnham-lcasmedia-coursework.blogspot.com/) suggested to me by my teacher and I have decided to make my front cover evaluations in a similar format to this.

Fashion Ideas

These are few items of clothing that I like and I would consider using on the model on the cover of my magazine, a lot of the items I have chosen I own myself :

Chinos

Chinos are trousers that are quick skinny and particulary thin around the ankles and shin. I think chinos would be good to use for my magazine because they come in so many different colours, as you can see in my images, you can pick any colour to match other clothes. The best places to buy chinos is shops such as Topman and Burton. I personally like them so much I own two pairs myself. They usually cost between £25-£40

Snapbacks

Snapbacks are caps that are originated from American sports teams. I think they would be appropriate for my magazine because they have been adopted by the genres of Rap and Hip-hop which are the kind of genres I am looking at for my magazine.
I like them because they are all good at encorperating colour schemes with the same kind of layout. You can purchase these at shops such as Footasylum and JD Sports. They usually cost between £15-£30




Hoodies

Hoodies, but I am particularly focusing on the ones with zips down the centre. They are light weight jumpers that are casual in colder weather. Hoodies have been a style and used by Hip-hop artists such as one of my music inspiration Rizzle Kicks as you can see in my picture. Hoodies can be purchased in pretty much any colour so would be a flexible piece of clothing to be able to use. They can be purchased in shops such as Topman and River Island. They usually cost about £20-£40.

Vans shoes

Vans is a brand of youth culture skate wear. These are the most common shoes that they make, they are a form of plimsolls. They are most commonly just known as 'Vans' after the name of the brand. As well as being produced in many different colours they also can have different patterns on which gives them a broader range of products. They usually cost between £25-£45. They can be bought in most shoe stores such as Burton or Schuh

Gillets

They can also be known as body warmers. They are padded, sleeveless coats that were originally just made as a body warmer but has now become a fashion item. A lot of Grime and Rap artists wear them as casual jackets, They are sold in shops such as JD, River Island and Cult, in brands such as Nike and Addidas. They are quite expensive and usually cost between £35-£60.