New Rnb Music Magazine

By Emee

The Front PageBefore After

Reflecting upon my research I realized that my old magazine cover was too colorful for an Rnb Music magazine and it wasn’t consistent like the “Vibe” Rnb magazine. I played it around with the layout and decided to put it across and top of the picture like the existing magazine as I found out in my research that it’s successful as it catches the eye of the audience, a it is bold and explicit.

I changed the name of my cover to “Flame” as I thought “Lemz” was too plain and had no vibe of Rnb, whereas “Flame” does. In my audience research for the magazine name, “Flame” was popular. I changed the color to red so that it reflects the fire effect and is compatible with the title, as it shows conventional dangerous, vibrant, sexy and hot aspects of Rnb genre and its artists.

I kept the picture same because it reflects the style of Rnb as the picture is represented as dangerous, sexy and has an attitude which will attract my male targeted audience, as I found that in my research male audience are attracted to hot artists at the front cover. Thus, they are more likely to buy it.

 I kept two simple colours and kept it consistent on the cover so that it is appealing to look at. I thought my other cover was too colorful and wasn’t colour consistent like my updated one. Also, in terms of the font style, I kept it consistent using only three but different font sizes at suitable position so that it looks appealing to look at for my audience.

I changed 50+ to just 50 and this is because I realized that 50+ was more like how you would write for age category and I didn’t want to confuse my target audience since my audiences are young. Also, to make it stand on the background I added drop shadows where it suited for an effect as it was plain without it.

The improvements

I made:

Contents Page

Before After

Reflecting upon my research I have found that my contents page was too colourful and had no consistency to the front page like my updated one right here.

I changed the picture of my contents page, because this picture represents him like an RNB artist who seems to be fed up with life and looks tired and arrogant . Also, as it’s dark, it reinforces the danger of RnB and in my research I found that Rnb artists tends to look directly at the camera and therefore I took a new picture of Michael looking directly looking at the camera and photoshopped it. I have photos hoped

this picture to make it look more high quality by playing around with saturation, brightness, contrast and also cropped him out from an background. I also made his cap bright so that it matches the colour, thus making it colour consistence.

Again, I added drop shadows for an greater effect and to make it look appealing, unlike my other contents page in which all the texts were plain.

Reflecting upon my old one, I felt that my page was crowded with many elements so in my updated magazine I only kept two simple and main ones.

Since my contents page is simple, I made a curve that fits along perfectly with the picture to make it look complex and appealing for my audience to look at.

I took out the logo since I have changed the name but I did write the date and had the website link as it is a convention for all magazines to have as I have found out in my research.

The improvements I

made:

Double Page Spread

Before After

Reflecting upon the research I found that the inside page also has to be consistent to the front cover and contents cover which the other inside page didn’t. in my updated inside page, I it colours and font style consistent.

I added drop shadows for an special effect and to make it stand out more on the page rather than being an plain text.

I added just one different font style on to the page so that my audience finds it appealing and that they don’t get fed up seeing the same font.

I put the quotation marks in yellow and this is because her earing are yellow and merges the whole colours consistency perfectly.

I changed the box colour to red and that is because her clothes is red and it maintains the colour consistency.

The improvements I made: