These are the stages that I went through to complete my cover page. The first stage shows the original image that I had chosen for this cover. Initially, I was concerned with the colours in the background and not being able to write on top of the colours in a way that would still represent a Hip Hop magazine and be seen clearly. I also chose this image because the mood of the model is bold, showing confidence and slightly intimidating, which is a clear convention of a hip hop magazine.
Firstly, I cropped the image to a standard magazine shape and size.
Next, I had the idea to make the background all one colour and then use a bold font to contrast this on top and doing this would also allow me to keep the background setting the same urban tone. To do this, I had to select everywhere around the model and then set this so that everywhere other than the model would be in greyscale, this would also make the model stand out more and be the main focus of attention.
After this, I aimed to find a font that would clearly represent the magazine and stand out with my target audience. I chose the same 'Sique' as this is a word commonly spelt 'sick' used among young people to represent something 'cool'. I chose a slang word as it would be identifiable within my target audience and would also represent the branding that I wished to create with my magazine.
I wanted a sans-serif font as I feel this is a bolder font choice and serif fonts are often more elegant and this style of font would not have matched to the genre of my magazine.
This is the font that I decided on, I believe it is bold and modern and best represents my genre of music magazine. I chose to spread the letters so that the masthead took up the whole of the top of the magazine. This was the most common placing of masthead amongst many hip hop magazines. I chose white as I felt this best contrasts the background and makes the effect have much more of an impact.
Next, I began to add the coverlines and small details of a regular magazine. For example the date, issue, website and bar code. This was all very simple as they were simply arranged in separate text boxes and positioned around the model.
For the final product, I took another very common convention of hip hop magazines and added a 'plus' symbol to show what artists the magazine featured. I also slimmed the text on the side down so that it was spread down the whole of the side of the magazine. Also, I added the price and magazine name above the bar code to make the magazine seem more authentic.
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