Front Cover

This is my final front cover. This is an improvement from the first one I had tried done. The logo is much more improved, I've changed the puff and the font of the words in the banner and I've made the barcode smaller. I feel that this is more presentable than previous attempts I'd made before. Overall, I'm happy with this and feel that it does attract the rap genre as my model is not exactly smiling and cheery as you would expect in a pop magazine. When researching my star images for this genre, the artists on the front cover don't seem to smile.. however they connote seriousness and 'no-play' as such. I feel that my model has done this very well. The colour scheme , yet again, has been kept to and maintained throughout the cover, contents and 2 page spread.

Contents Page

This is my final contents page. As you can see I have tried to follow the 'Empire' Magazine contents page as that was my template. I wanted my contents page to be simple and not crammed with page numbers and information, as its not necessarily a page where the reader should be on for long. I also added Facebook and Twitter links at the bottom as I realise a few magazines tend to do this for their audiences. I also remembered to make the same page numbers as my two page spread that I had done separately as people tend to forget to do so. I also incorporated a banner much like my template also.

Contents Template.

2 Page Spread

This is my final 2 page spread. I have made the interview continue to both pages and the picture is slightly stretched across the two also. I included a little picture at the bottom right of two of my models, however made them to be in a relationship that the audience would know about. I remembered to include the logo again on the bottom right next to the page number as my Empire magazine does similar to this. I also did efficiently secure the red, black and white colour scheme which was something crucial that I was trying to maintain.
The sub-heading is like some I've seen when reading magazines myself and thought it would be a perfect little intro for the interview at the bottom.
I included a caption at the bottom left of the main picture, saying 'Mammi-C (pictured above) poses for Rap-id'. I remembered that most magazines have these little captions informing the reader of what is going on in the pictures on the page.
The only distinctive 'problem' would maybe be the shadow in the main picture, however, the audience wouldn't necessarily critique this minor error as they'd be far more interested in Mammi-C's answers.

School Magazine Link

http://sophiabahas.blogspot.co.uk/

This is the link to my preliminary task of the school magazine.

Evaluation Q7