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This was my first time using the software Illustrator.

Magazine Proposal so far..

Contents page

Double Page Spread

Front Cover

This is the front cover of the XXL Edition featuring G-Unit.

This front cover is a very stereotypical cover because it represents black male rappers in a generic way. There are specific aspects on how XXL Magazine represent G-Unit (or G-Unit represent themselves),  they use hand gestures to symbolise their characteristics of being hip hop rappers. The use of costumes is also typical but significant bease it allows them to embrace their individualistic ways on how much money they invest into clothes and jewelleries to wear. Gold chains, big jackets, hats, sunglasses, gold watches and rings are the common fashion wear that hip hop rappers wear to embrace their wealthiness.

The masthead  (XXL) is at the right hand corner of the magazine appearing behind the artists. There are 2 colour schemes including red and black and a hint of y

Distribution of Magazines

Distribution of Magazines

Billboard Magazines

1. Do they offer subscriptions? Discuss reasons why.

Billboard Magazines do allow their consumers to access on a subscription, on a monthly subscription. They have three different types of subscriptions that consumers re able to pick and choose from,

• A Digital Access- which is only an iPad edition  access which allows you to get the Daily Bulletin Newsletter into your inbox and give you Breaking News 24/7. For just $9.99 per month
• A Print Access- which also is an iPad edition access with 44 issues per year. This is also for just $9.99 per month. 
• All Access- which is the Best Value that offers: iPad edition access, 44 issues per year, Breaking News 24/7, Over 50 year of of Billboard Charts plus Archives and a Daily Bulletin Newsletter to your inbox.

People sign up for monthly subscriptions because it benefits from you having to always go out to purchase a magazines to your local corner shop whereas if you were to sign up for a subscription you could just sit at the comfort of your own home and it would be posted to your door every month. They used Katy Perry as their front ad for their subscription offers because know that Katy is a popular artist that would attract a lot of a consumers because of her strong fanbase.

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Evaluation, so far..

This just shows my evaluation so far, explaining on what I wanted to achieve and why I wanted and how I did it. 

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Case Studies: Front Cover

From these two music magazines covers, we can identify a range of differences form the magazines, Billboard and the Rolling Stones are both globalised and international receiving a lot of recognition and consumers purchasing see them. 

Billboard 

Mise -en-scene : Billboard cover shows Rap sensation, Eminem in a black background with a black, big hooded coat with a black top with the colour grey showing on the collar. The connotation of the colour black shows the use of the colour to infer to him being very dark, mysterious and dangerous. As a rapper, he is stereotypically being recognised because of his appearance, on top of that, he is also shown to be very mischievous and 'cool-looking' because he is not smiling in the front cover but he is giving a stern look towards the camera which gives us an audience that he is trying to make himself look intimidating and catch us off guard. This is a very typical pose for a rapper, he wants to embrace his masculinity amongst his fans/consumers. The lighting also emphasises on how intimidating he look because their darkness appearing on one side of his face and then there is 'normal' light appearing on the other side of his face.  This infers that he has a dark side to him but people perceive as to being 'shone to the light', this shows versatility on how he has the best of both worlds. The hand on his chest can be identified to be that he is protecting his heart or that he is swearing upon an oath. This could be seen to be a spiritual gesture or just a 'cool rapper' gesture. The colour scheme is neutral with the colour scheme of white and green.

Rolling Stones 

Mise-en-scene: Rolling Stones covers Pop sensation, Rihanna. Rihanna is known to be a female that is very confident in embracing her skin. There is no surprise in her wearing a white string vest with a necklace, diamond studs and her hair covering one side of her face. Her facial expression is the highlight of this cover because she looks pleasantly sexual and not lazy looking. She, again isn't smiling, this is a contrast because as her being a pop star you would expect to see her smiling and jumping around with full colour effect. However, the lighting is very bright making her makeup look flawless. The choice of pink for her lip wear relates to her pop antics. Her body language is slantly to the side and neck bent back, this is presented to reveal her skin so that she can the male sex attention. This is effective because it wouldn't just make her primary audience, females to purchase but along with her secondary audience, males would also want to purchase it too. She is grasping a diverse audience. The colour is very neutral with the choice of Black and white. 

My College Magazine Cover

This is my College Magazine cover featuring one of my classmates, Iptihal Kharni. This cover magazines some of the highlighted events/tips/courses that will be featured on the magazine itself. From C.V and Fashion tips, expecting a brighter future, competitions, getting involved in activities and revision tips.
The best colour for my title is Red because its a bold and an attractive colour, so it would very easy for my audience to capture. The colour scheme is Blue and Yellow. I knew that these two colours compliment each other according to the contrast that the each colour connote. Blue connotes calm, tranquil and relaxation whereas yellow connotes  to be very joyful, happy and full of energy And that's exactly what I want to promote for magazine, for it to stand out and make people feel happy to purchase it and are willing of purchasing it again instead of it being a waste of money. I want them to be able to stay calm during their exams instead of being too peer pressured and stressed.

College Magazine

This is a quick look of my updated version of my College magazine featuring Rihanna.