Friday 10 May 2013

How did  i use my inspiration?

(Using my blog post from 30th march 2013)

Cover.
I used the look and style of these to get my final magazine to look like a real Hip-Hop magazine with a minimal look. For example the on the covers shown some have strap lines above the mastheads which relate to that magazine and i used this to my advantage when trying to attract my target audience. Also i used the style of smart clothing and black and white together to make the magazine fell worth the price. Also doing this meant that i could keep my ties having a fashion section within the music magazine. Finally as shown on Vibe and Clash there is only one headline that stands out to the reader which gives the Hip-Hop/minimal look that I was going for throughout.
Contents.
Here i have mainly gone for the look of The Fader magazine contents page as it is minimal and worked well with my images. However i did take strong inspiration from other, for example my draft was similar to the vibe ones and had an appealing look with the layout but did not contain enough textual information.
DPS.
The double page spread of my magazine has a very Hip-Hop feel about and has the language and colour pallet to make it feel very real. I wanted it to look like it could fit into almost any magazine and I think that i have done that. One thing i have taken from the 'Over here hustlin'' article is the use of a bold heading to grab attention, then i also used the quote like in Q and a different text colour like the bold in the Vibe Usher article for my interview questions. Finally i feel the Wiz Khalifa article has used it question 'How High?' to attract the audience well and so i used the idea at the start of my text.