Starting my proposal

unfinished leyton magazine contents page

Evaluation

what went well would be the image manipulation on Photoshop for my magazine cover as i manipulated it to make it look more professional. also another thing that went well was the photography because i had all the pictures required to finish the task which was required of me. furthermore the page layout, text, masthead and cover lines came out better than expected and fit well with my magazine
what i could improve is i could have finished the the contents page plus i could have added more detail to work.another improvement would be time management as i did not manage the time taken to complete the work accordingly.
one key point for development when producing a music magazine is to have an iconic form of typography so we know what magazine this is from afar, every issue has the same font and bold red coloured text.
The best thing about the magazine is that it caters for different tastes of music, therefore this attracts a wider audience to read the magazine. Not a lot of music magazines today include more than one area of music and normally focus on one.
another key point is it most be targeted to the right audience as they will be the prime consumer and are essentially the main focus of producing a magazine.
one final key point is that the magazine has to be recognisable by the audience hence why they need to be more conventional then unconventional so that the audience can decode what type and what genre of magazine it is.

leyton mag cover

My textual annalysis

                                  Cover page

• has a conventional 3 colour scheme of black, white and blue to make it more professional and it gives it a more clean look
• contains multiple cover stars of different hip-hop artist which will make the magazine sell more issues as it contains more than 1 main star so it will reach a wider audience
• has a bar code  for people to scan and view for information about the magazine
• the magazine contains a long shot to ensure that all the cover stars fit into the frame which is essentially unconventional due to the fact that most magazine contain 1 cover star which a medium close up shot.
• the cover stars all have a direct mode of address which gives them power and authority
• the posture and body language of all the cover star connotes that they are all associated with rap and hip-hop music.
• there target audience would mainly been teens and those interested in the hip-hop genre
• the font is very simple and the main cover line is in bold to give the reader more information of what is featured in the magazine.
  
  

                                    Contents page

• magazine features other celebrities to attract a wider audience
• the contents page also contain the cover stars which is conventional for most magazine.
• the image takes up the most amount of space and therefore stands out and is noticeable by the audience. this supports the effectiveness of the magazine as the image is able to attract the reader in. 
• also they have page numbers at the bottom
• uses rather informal language to relate to their target audience
• the logo is also featured in the contents page to remind the reader of what magazine they are reading
• the contents page also follows the same colour scheme of the front cover.
• the main features are written in bold and are essentially the first piece of text the audience will read due to the fact that it stand out

                                                             double page spread

the double page spread has an unconventional design as in most double page spreads the image would be on one half of the page and text on the other. However in this one the image is on both sides and takes up most space as it is the anchor and is practically the main important piece as it attracts the audience.

the double page spread doesn't contain as much much text as other but the most important piece of on text (on the left) is in bold and has been highlighted white.

the contents page also contains all the cover stars

unfinished leyton mag plan

practice exercise - photoshop

this is the magazine i created during the practice exercise in class