Tuesday 1 March 2016

Magazine cover layout pre-feedback, pre-photographs

This is the layout of my front cover of my magazine. I've tried to use conventions regularly seen in grime/hip hop magazines and magazines as a whole. The genre based conventions include colours which connote 'edginess' and 'danger' for example the red and black colour scheme I use. I also try to be creative with my use of font for the masthead, using the word 'Grime' vertically standing and 'Jungle' horizontally. In regards to magazine conventions; I've used common ones such as using barcodes, putting social media and website links and outlining a main cover story over the other ones. I've also used a consistent colour scheme throughout the magazine pages of black/red/white. Magazine covers rarely change their colour scheme throughout the publication. Once I add the photos I have taken to my publication, I hope it will look like an authentic grime magazine cover. Thanks to my research, I will use my photo in a way which relates to conventions. For example, I will put my model covering parts of the masthead like I have seen in many other publications.