Evaluation of Front cover

this is my front cover, i created and edited the page using photoshop, all photos used were taken by me. I used a title as OTG which stands for 'out of the ghetto'. i decided to use this title as it suits the hip-hop style and it sounds appealing to my target market. to attract people to the magazine i also included quotes from interviews to give the reader an idea of what they would be buying.

i have put the title of the group on the cover in the middle of the cover. this is because the reader can see the magazine is mainly on this group before they buy it, this is to filter the people that buy it. people that like the group will be more encoraged to buy it and people that do not like the group will be put off buying the magazine. This lets the reader know what will be in the magazine before they even buy it

My magazine is now completed, i have finished my front cover, my contence page and my double page spread on photoshop. (as you can see from the images above). after alot of research and time, i figured out how to use photoshop and i was able to create the pages i needed to make and make them look good with a house style that is the same all the way through. i feel this house style suited my magazine.

time and effort

photoshop is complicated to use but im getting the hang of it, my magazine is looking good!

I used XXL magazine to gather information in my research above is two screenshots of XXLs front cover and contents page. i used this magazine as it is a very big well known hip-hop magazine. i had a look at the front cover and the contents page of the magazine, i looked at the style and the pictures, colours, fonts etc on these two pages to find out whats the best style to use, the fonts and colours used to look like a good, legitement hip-hop magazine. for my magazine my target audience are teens up to younger adults so i want to keep headings and fonts bold and colourful to attract my audience and suit my magazine to my target market. 

In media today I had to analyse a number of different magazines and compare them in style, genre, quantity, add ons etc. i did this to gather ideas for my magazine. from this it helped me decide the genre and my target audience i am going to do. this allowed me to start thinking about the contence that will be inside e.g. what everything will be about, (it has to be suited to my genre).

this is my review of the magazine NME. i had a load of questions to answer about it and i analysed the front cover and inside the magazine aswell

this is my prospectus. i had to learn how to use photoshop and create a front cover for st marks. it needs improving but i have not had long to play around with photoshop. in time i will get better at it