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.