Cover Star Identity

Diamond R

Today I'll be presenting you my cover star for my magazine, Diamond R. He is aged 21 and was born in Croydon, South London. He first released his song when he was 14 and like that he gained attention and made people talk about him locally . However, it all changed when he dropped his first mixtape around the age of 16 and the as a result he was known nationwide and when he was 17 Drake invited him to his Gig and made him go on stage with him which is why now he's known all around the world. He is now producing an album with both Drake and Young Thug and is described as 'one of the most upcoming artist'. 

Weekly Update

Hello everyone another week has gone by and we're getting closer to the start of the creation of my magazine. This week I managed two focus on my colour scheme and Masthead for my magazine. I created the colour scheme that I'll be using in my magazine and done this by going on the website called 'https://coolors.co' and I presented you how I ended up with my colour scheme and my actual colour scheme. After that I decided what my masthead will be and the font I'll be using and posted you my reasoning for it and then decided the colour the Masthead will be.

Next week I'll be showing you my Cover star, magazine pitch and my Flat plan for my front cover, double page spread and contents page. Hope you enjoy your week and hope to see you here again same time next week.

Masthead Colour (Actual)

Hello everyone as you can see I've finally decided my Masthead colour that I'll use on my magazine. The reason for me picking red is that I feel like because it's a bright colour that's eye-catching it'll help me reach my target audience more easily. Also the colour Red connotes Danger and Blood and as Hip-Hop is a serious genre. For this reason I believe it'll be easier for my target audience to spot it's a Hip-Hop magazine. For example a Pop magazine's masthead being red will be rare as the colour Red doesn't connote what Pop stands for so you're more likely to see Pink on a pop magazine. 

Masthead Colour (Potential ones)

Hello everyone here's the four colours that I've chosen that can be used for my masthead. I've tried to relate this to the colour scheme I've chosen for my music magazine but I couldn't include the white as it clashes and you can't see it properly. In my next post I'll be letting you know which one I decided to go with.

Final Masthead

I've decided to go with 'Unleashed' as my final masthead for my magazine with the 'Urban Brush' font. The reason for naming it Unleashed is because the word Unleashed is letting something strong or violent go so by naming it this I feel it adds more of an aggressiveness to my magazine and makes it suitable for my magazine as Hip-Hop is considered as a serious genre. My reason for choosing the font 'Urban Brush' is because I feel like it suits the word Unleashed as it's not something plain and seems like it's been unleashed as when something is unleashed you think of something impatient and rushing just like my font.

Masthead Design

Hello everyone today I'll be presenting you the designs of my five potential Mastheads for my music magazine. I'll be posting my final Masthead that I have chosen with the font soon and will be explaining my reasoning for it in another blog post.

Colour Scheme (Actual)

Hello people as you might remember from last weeks weekly update I said that I'll be creating a colour scheme for my Hip-Hop magazine and I've decided to go with this one. The reason for this is that the colour white and black I think is necessary as most Hip-Hop magazines contain it and also they both contrast well together. As you can see I've also included the colour Pale Silver in my colour scheme as I felt that it's a 'smooth' colour. I also included Red in my colour scheme as when I was looking as it's considered as a Dark and serious colour so by including this it makes it stand out more compared to other magazines. Finally I used the colour Purple in my colour scheme as I feel like it'll be unique as the colour Purple is not generally used in Hip-Hop magazines and also it contrasts well with other colours in my scheme too.

Colour Scheme (How I got I ended up with scheme)

Hello everyone today I'll be showing you how I ended up with my final colour scheme. I ended up creating my colour scheme on a website called 'Coolors' and had to go through different stages until I came to my final colour scheme and you can find the stages below with explanations of the colours I decided to keep and get rid off. You'll be able to find my final colour scheme in my next post.

Weekly Update

Hope you're all doing fine as today I'm going to go through my weekly work with all of you guys. This week I've managed to complete my Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page spread mood board and also I've analysed the front cover of two Hip-Hop magazines. I found the mood board tasks quite interesting as I managed to see different designs that I've liked for the front cover, Contents Page and Double Page spread and it helped me get a rough idea on how I can set my own magazine. Remember if you'll like to see the designs that I have pinned on more detail you can click on the link for them (Front cover, Contents Page and Double page spread). Final task I did this week was to analyse the front cover of two Hip-Hop magazines (As my magazine will be based on Hip-Hop). This benefited me as I looked in depth in different parts of the magazine and was able to spot why the front cover was suitable for a Hip-Hop magazine.

That's all of that for this week but next week I'll be able to show you my Colour Scheme for my magazine and also my Masthead designs so hopefully I'll get to see you all next week!

Analysis of 2 music magazine of the same genre as mine (Hip-Hop)

Hello everyone today I’ll be analysing two magazines with the same genre (Hip-Hop) as I’ll be creating a Hip-Hop magazine so it'll be good to go into detail of the magazines to give me some ideas on what to include in my one (magazine). 

As you can see both of the magazines Mastheads have both red and white wether it's on the actual font or background. This is very useful for both Vibe and XXL as it makes their Mastheads stand out which makes it easier for people to recognise as the colour Red and White have a good combination and is suitable for the magazine. In addition to that both of their Mastheads are in Bold which helps the Genre as Hip-Hop is known to be a 'serious' genre by having it in Bold this makes it more appropriate for the magazine. 

On both magazines the main image contains someone recognisable in the Hip-Hop genre which is the case for nearly most Hip-Hop magazines. This is beneficial as both Kendrick Lamar and Dr.Dre attracts people to buy the magazine as they're well known in the industry and people who like Hip-Hop would like to get to know them more. Also in both of the images you can see that the artists have a 'bad boy' expressions as they both look serious this like the masthead is very suitable for the Hip-Hop magazine as I've said before Hip-Hop is considered to be serious and by both of the artists looking like a 'bad boy' it links to the genre of the magazine. 

Finally as you can see both of the cover-lines on the magazines use the same kind of structure. On both of them they try to make the name of the person on the main image stand out by having their name eye catching to the reader by making the font size large. They both have simplicity on the front cover everything seems to be organised and neat. On both of the magazines the cover-lines are on the right side of the magazine and is a list on what is included in the magazine but nothing that goes into detail which is one of the reasons why the front cover looks neat and simple. Also they've both also ensured that no cover-lines get in the way of the image and as a result have left the bottom half of the front cover empty so the image stand out to the audience. 

Front Cover Mood Board

My final mood board is based on Front Cover of magazine designs that I like. You can view the images more clearly by clicking the link below.

Link - https://uk.pinterest.com/diyarkurnazas/front-cover/