evaluation

Evaluation

I have decided to create a rnb and hip hop magazine. I have chosen to do this because I feel rnb and hip hop are the most popular out of the music genres and I am interested in hip hop music the most.

Title
The title of my magazine is “YO!” I decided to use this name because it s a way young people who tend to listen to this kind of music greet each other. So I thought it would be suitable for this magazine to be called this.

Front cover
My front cover is very basic this is because I don’t want any thing to be taken away from the main image. Also on most hip hop magazines they tend to have a big picture on the front of a famous person. So I have decided to do this as well most of the front cover is covered by a large picture of the person I feel people will be interested to read about.
I decided to put them man I was taking a picture of on a car. I have done this because the car is nice and glamorous this indicates to the reader that this person has done well in his life and has a lot of money to spend. This hopefully invites everyone to want to buy the magazine and find out how he has become so successful.
I have decided to use a black back ground because a convention of most magazine is to use dark and hard colours and black is obviously the darkest and hardest colour of them all. I used white writing on my front cover because I feel it goes with the contrast of black and makes it easy to read for the audience.

Double page spread

I have decided to do my double page spread about the newest instruments in the hip hop business. I feel this is a good thing to write about because people are interested in the way the music is made and how the industry is make the new sounds they are making and how they are doing it.

I decided to use a black back ground for my double page spread because I feel it looks good and is also a convention of other hip hop magazines. it keeps real with the culture of hip hop also no being stereotypical but most people of who listen to hip hop or read hip hop magazines are of black culture or have a black back ground.
I have decided to use red writing because I feel it sticks out on the black back ground and makes the page look hard and not soft. What I mean by hard is touch and strong rather then using pink which looks girly and fairy like. I also think it looks really good red on black but I also could of done white writing because this adds good effect, but because I have already used white on black background for the front cover I decided against it for my double page spread.

Contents page

I have decided to do a very plain contents page again so nothing is taken away from my picture. I have decided to use a different picture of the man I have to pictures of. I have done this to add a bit of variation and again to attract the audience to see what else this person might be doing in the magazine. I decided to use the man just stood there on his own because he is stood in a strong stance with his hands crossed, this could give the impression that he is stable and in control of his life.
Again I have gone with the black back ground this is because i want to be consistant through out the magazine and also I want to be individual and some points. And not a lot of hip hop magazines have a consistent colour scheme through out the whole magazine which I am with “YO!”
The white writing looks good on the black ground it stands out and gives the magazine and crisp and hard finish.

Conclusion

I feel my magazine has come out well and I have achieved everything I would of liked to have achieved. I have made the magazine individual and I have also followed conventions of some hip hop magazines.
I feel I have made the magazine look hard and touch and manly this is what hip hop is about looking hard and big and not scared about anything. I feel I have done this through my colour scheme and pictures.
I feel my pictures have come out clear and have sent my message across. I feel the audience will be drawn in by my images and will find them interesting.
My double page is very interesting and I will feel the audience will agree with me on this. I feel I have achieved what I wanted in informing the audience about the new instruments that there is in the hip hop game and also how much they cost and what they do.

I feel my magazine will be a hit and the audience will agree.