Front cover features

In the beginning, I chose my layout so it was surrounding the model, however, because I had to change my image, I had to change the layout of the text which was mostly brought to the right. I increased the size of the masthead by removing 'time', which as stated before sounded childish. Removing the 'time' also allowed for 'Grhyme' to stand out more due to the fact that there was enough space for it to be made larger.

Furthermore, I used the font 'Tw Cen MT Condensed' for my features as it was bold and readable. I further went to adding 'Bevel and emboss' along with 'contour', 'texture', 'stroke', 'outer glow' and lastly 'drop shadow'. All of these effects allowed for the text to be easily distinguished.

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Masthead and font decisions, front cover linked to research, Cover layout decisions

 Grhyme time masthead was changed just to Grhyme as Miss Collins said it would be too small and sounded childish like ‘Story Time’

I chose the bristle brush font as I will be writing an article on Grime being an art in hopes of stopping people from looking at grime as a negative influence in society and instead looking at it as an art that people use to express their daily struggles and this brush relates to art as artists use paint brushes.

Also, I increased the size of the text to ensure that it stood out as the masthead should be the first thing readers notice in order to create a brand and the readers kind of know what the magazine is about from a distance. Also, if people want to buy the magazine again, they will know what title to look for.

I took this picture of the model and placed it on Photoshop and in doing so I felt as if the picture was giving the wrong message and felt as if people would have criticised me for that saying that if the young audience just saw the front page they would take it in a wrong way so decided to change the image of the model holding her hands out towards the screen rather than at herself and made a pull-quote ‘Shooting for the stars’ in order to create a link between the content and image.

I changed the picture to Rozay pointing her fingers towards the audience with a pull quote saying 'Shoot for the stars' and a gun shoots which created that link.

The masthead related to Grime as it looks like there are strokes from a paint brush but I thought it didn't stand out enough and looked very generic.

After choosing this font for the masthead, I realized that it was too blocked and it was difficult to distinguish between the letters within the masthead.

This font caught my eye as there were splatters on it which related back to the graffiti splatters I placed on the front cover.

Increasing the intensity of the yellow on the masthead allowed for it to be more noticeable but still, this font looked very generic as it was simply in block capitals and didn't have anything attractive about it.

Continuing my research I stumbled upon this font. I decided that this was the best font and adjusted the size of the 'G' but left the rest of the letters small so it appears as if the 'G' is capital and the rest isn't.

Changing the masthead to yellow was a decision that I made from my research. When I searched for Grime magazines, a lot of the colors that came up were yellow, grey, white and black.

Final shot/Photographic manipulation

This was the final image I chose. In the magazine front cover, I cropped Rozay out so there wasn't a grey background, which dragged all the colours down with it. Moreover, this image related to the features on the front page as there is a pull quote saying 'Shoot for the stars' and it looks like Rozay is making a gun with her fingers.

Contents page features

All the text used on this page relates back to music as this is the main focus of the magazine. I ensured all titles and sub-headings were bold to ensure that readers may find what they need quickly and have a brief overview of the topic. Furthermore, I included a quiz as it can help ensure readers are engaged with the publishers of this magazine. Although a grime magazine wouldn't normally have a quiz, other genre magazines do and so I wanted to add a unique twist to my magazine as a whole. There is a pull quote on the page which replicated the real media text which I especially liked (previously posted).

Contents page features

All of the features used within this contents page all relate to music as this is the main focus of this magazine. I included a quiz as I have seen that a lot of magazines have these. Although a grime magazine may not have this sort of quiz, I added it anyway and made it relate to Grime. I intentionally chose to do this as I wanted my magazine to be unique and teenagers would want to win money so it is aimed at my target audience as well. Moreover, I included a pull quote like the magazine I posted earlier.

Front cover test shots

These are the test shots for my magazine cover:

Contents page colour choices

I chose the colours, white yellow, grey and yellow because most of the grime magazines that I saw were consisting of these colours and because my front page has these colours, I have to ensure that the rest of them have most of the colours due to the fact that all four pages which I am producing need to link with each other. Also, colours like yellow stand out on dark backgrounds as it is a very vibrant colour.