Rough cut analysis

For my magazine I decided to uses technique's and styles that I had seen, from the popular magazines which I have analysed in my previous blog posts. For my double page spread I used a a full body two shot for my models, high lighting their clothing and style to immediately express the genre of the magazine. this was done so that I could relate the artist on the front cover to the target audience as they would wear the same style and would easily recognise the rapper and see he is able to tell their stories through his experiences.
the artist i used was picked as he came from a London background, where grime artists are from, he also had the image of a rapper and this fitted perfectly with my magazines theme. I decided the theme for  my magazine was a take to the ghetto and streets. To create this image I purposely chose certain area's to take the photos of my models. the location that I chose to use was an old bridge which had fantastic amounts of graphitey, which was exactly the image I was looking for my magazine. With the style of the models and the carefully picked background, the two fitted together very well to create the image I was trying to portray. When I chose the fonts, I was under a very limited amount of time, so I decided to pick the first fonts that looked street and fit with the theme of my double page. After the feedback on my work, I realised I needed to very carefully pick out my fonts and make sure that they look professional and fit better with the theme of streets. At the same time I was also writing my article and once I was done I thought it looked a bit plain and hard to read so I decided that I would but a box around it too make it stand out more and easier to read. However this stood out too much and took away some of the attraction from the title and the artists. in my future improvements i will be sure to edit this and make it more appealing, but also clear and easy to read. 

For my front cover I spent 3/4's of my time editing the image I used as the main attraction. This hugely limited the amount of time I had to design and create the layout,  the heading's and background ect. The image I used was a mid-shot which was enlarged to proportion to fill the majority of the page as I wanted him to be the main attraction and stand out most on the front cover of my magazine. The background I originally took the image on had a terrible background which wouldn't have gone with my magazine and also wouldn't have looked very professional. Therefore I went onto Photoshop and cut him out of the original background the place him on a different background.  once I'd done this I had too create a background to place him on, however I didn't have any backgrounds that i had taken as a picture. therefore I had to make one from scratch. To do this I digitally created a grey pix-elated background which was intended to look like a TV screen with no signal, however with the low quality of design on the computes, it just looked plain grey and didn't work at all. So for my new front cover I decide to restart it completely, by going out and retaking the photo with a different model and a new background I was happy with and which followed the street theme of the rest of the magazine. For my future cover page i will create a theme in which the Contents page and the Double page spread will follow to create and easy to recognise pattern linking all of my work together,  therefore making it easy to identify all of these three from the same magazine(AMP). I will also add a new image as this will be with a graffiti wall background the same as the rest of my magazine images too follow the pattern of the magazine therefore creating a theme which i can follow throughout all of my work. 



Unfortunately I had little time when creating my contents page as I spent the majority of my time using Photoshop to perfect my images and make them look as good quality as possible, therefore I decided to use inspiration form the least detailed contents page I analysed which was very simplistic and used only white background with black text and one singular image of the artist. For mine I tried to add more information than this to make it more interesting and appealing. I also wanted the image to fill the full page and look more appealing to the target audience. The artist in the contents page I based this off was wearing all white so that he blended into the white background, do not think this is very effective as makes it look less professional and lazy therefore for my magazine I tried to make the artist stand out from the background. The costume I used for my artist was plain ordinary clothes as this would appeal to my target audience, and also revealing the culture of the rap kingdom. For my future contents page intend to make sure there is very little white, and to fill it with colour and follow the theme of streets to make it look more appealing to my target audience. I will do this by adding more information around my new image, including titles and banners to make it look as professional as possible. I will also insure that all my text stands out and is easy to read for the audience as this is key to attract people to read it otherwise my audience will be disinterested and will not pay attention to it.