Thursday 24th 10

The type of music magazine I have decided to make is a grime magazine based on upcoming youths. The purpose of my magazine is that it shows the targeted audience of rising stars of the grime scene. The idea of the magazine come from my personal background and what I’ve been brought up around which involves the streets where grime is taken place everywhere you go. My magazine is aimed at people who revolve around music on the grime scene that are aged from 16-21. This will affect the design of my magazine because I got to make it presentable in a way it'll grab attention to their eyes because it’s hard to impress customers when you are new on the market and not an existing company. For the magazine that I’ve created and now published, I had to think about many things on what it will be based on, such as the colours, images, titles, text, etc. For the colour I went for a simple theme to go with which was using the colours black & white to make it look professional along with colours that may be suitable with the page I create. I used the colours black & white mainly just for the fact to make it look more appealling and fits well with any colour if I was to add a colour. I used number of images which I’ll right about when I show an image of every page which I’ve created and talk about the colour, images, titles and text.

For my front page the colour theme I went for was black and white because personally I find it appealling and it stands out which most customers my age would find it eye catching. I used a range of fonts for different purposes but they all was large and bold so it catches the audiences eyes with the headings they'd find inside the issue. The background image used was a long shot image with other smaller images placed on the page that are mid shot images.
For my contents page I kept it simple as possible by keeping it plain with a white and black theme with no other colours used. I used the same layout as the front cover by keeping the title of my magazine on the contents page at top so they remember the name of the magazine so it can be recommended to others. Also used some graphics on this page with the star, 3circular design and a splash. 1 image was used on this page and it was an image of myself which I made blend in with the white background of the page with a black outline so you know where I've placed it on this page. For my double page spreed the colour theme I used went along with the background image and the image placed on the page which was black, white, purple and yellow as you can see for yourself. I used a mid shot image on this page; I've only used 3 images but 2 was made into 1 image which you can see on my background, where I've duplicated the image but made it face the opposite direction. The layout I went for throughout the magazine was having the title of the magazine at the bottom of each page.