These are the two adverts i would like to use.

This Nike advert would really speak to our audience as they are all into fashion and accessories to look like famous stars. Most famous stars or idols have the most expensive designer collaborated sneakers so i think it would suit it a lot. This would suit the magazine as it has features that are promoting designer clothing and shoes. This is a high end magazine for anyone who is that interested in the form of rap and drill music.

This is a D-Block Europe poster for their 2020 tour which would fit perfectly in my music magazine as they actually feature already so it would just help promote their music and tour. D-Block is a drill group which is booming currently in the charts so putting their poster in will boost sale tickets and get the magazine and affiliation.#

I looked at my dating profile and refereed to the fact that we are aiming at the top end of the rap industry

This is my new and improved final copy of magazine.

My targets were:

• Front cover
  • Make the Vers title bigger
  • Put the plug on the top left
  • Align the ‘Dave’ and ‘Grammy award winning’ to the right
  • increase the size of the word ‘Dave’
  • Move the date and bar-code bottom right
• Contents page
  • Align the text boxes on right side better
  • Make the numbers bigger
  • Add a number on the photos to know where they relate too.
• DPS
  • Move the text in a bit allowing the same spacing around the outside.

Targets

Front cover

• Change cover photo on front cover
• Change the date and put it near the bar code which will be moved more into the corner.
• Adjust the Grammy award winning to the right
• Tilt Dave to the left
• Make Vers bigger

Contents page

• Change electric background and take a lot of the white out.
• Make the page numbers bigger
• Take the red logo off as it doesn’t fit with the colour scheme

DPS

• Change font – too old fashioned

This is the draft of my contents page!

I have made a cross like box out of two orange boxes which i have faded to add a bit of colour. The photos and boxes are positioned in the perfect place to catch a readers eye.

Next?

• More text, make the captions very nice and smooth to make the reader want to read my articles.
• I want to add more text and photos on the page
• Page numbers
• More catchy captions

Contents pages  are used to direct the user for certain content, by using a content page, the reader can flip to any page they want, and know what it is about. They are used to hook, entice, intrigue and inform the reader.

Here are the conventions of a Contents Page :

• Title
• Page Numbers
• Photographs as well as graphic illustrations
• Editors Hello
• Title
• Catchy Captions.

The contents page (table of contents) is a crucial aspect of any magazine. It tells the reader what to expect – how many chapters there are, what the sections of the magazine look like, how long it is, and what pages they can find certain topics on.

In this post, I will be analyzing a front cover of a professional magazine. This magazine is with my chosen genre Rap.

In August 1997, Harris Publications released the first issue of XXL. It featured rappers Jay-Z and Master P on a double cover. In December 2006, XXL took over the struggling hip-hop producer and DJ magazine Scratch (another publication owned by Harris Publications), re-branding it as XXL Presents Scratch Magazine.

What we see first on the front page is the big bold red ‘A$AP ROCKY’ text which stands out very nicely while using a sans serif font. This helps us to identify who is the cover start almost instantly.

Next, we see the logo in the top left-hand corner, again this is nice and bold with a box around the outside. The producer has used again a sans serif font as this fits more with the rap genre.

The use of boxes outlining the text really catches the eye and makes us want to read more as it sets a nice modern feel to the rap magazine which is following the rap culture.

The target audience is people aged from 16-32, as this is an age group with the majority listening to rap or hip-hop. This age group has proven with the amount of social media posts.

Some message that is given from this genre of music is not very good for some of the younger views with a lot of smoking, drinking and drug use which is also referenced in most of the songs. Some messages are good, showing good signs of a good role model. Things like the support at Glastonbury for banning plastic bottles from the festival encouraging the use of cans that could be recycled which all the artists and groups at the festival supported to help climate change.

This is my new and improved front page

I have improved my front page a lot. The color scheme has changed completely from the blue to the orange to represent the bright color from the jumpsuit. The font are all of those to represent the hip hop rap magazine.  I have added a logo in the corner and added exclusives banners.

What is new?

• Colour scheme
• Logo
• Exclusive banner
• The colour on the photo

What is next?

• Start to work on a contents page to put at the back of my music magazine
• Perfect the contents page, so i can reflect on it
• Start to create an advert to place into my music magazine

11th draft

Targets for development? What’s new and what’s next?

My targets set by my peers are;

Will said,

• He wanted some patterns on the background at the top on the left page.
• He would like the paragraphs to be the same length.

Mrs Cobb’s targets,

• Get rid of hyphens
• Choose a sons serif font
•  Paragraph the article
• Break it up with quotes or photos
• Drop capital – needs changing.
• No page number
• No date.

My targets

• Complete listed above
• Pick final story and photo
• Adjust story
• Cut photo
• Fix paragraphs
• Fix paragraph length

How will i do this?

I will look through some internet story’s and adapt the story around a photo i took of harry on my location tour. Then i will complete the rest of my targets.