EVALUATION OF MAGAZINE COVER...

The name of the magazine that we have decided to create is titled ‘Streez Sound’, this magazine is aimed at teenagers who are interested about the hip-hop scene and the genre of our magazine is under the grime (hip-hop) music title. We came up with an idea to do the grime as our genre because I think it’s the most selling music paper and most listening music nowadays if we put categorise it the genre, so I think these statistics are an advantage for us.

We first started planning about our magazine by thinking about the images that we are going to use for the front cover for the magazines. We have had a long discussion about the style of the magazine, what type of images we are going to use. Then we decided we should use two boys to model which is I and Omar for the front cover because majority of the grime artists are males and we started doing the photo shoots of our faces for the magazine front cover.

We started our first big task about the magazine by taking pictures after being tutored for the photo shoots. We had about ninety minutes for to take photos, which will be landed in the main cover of the magazine, which is called main cover image. We have lent a camera from the college and we went to different places in the college in order to capture the most suitable picture that can be on the main cover of the magazine. We took about tens of pictures then when we looked at then we hade variety of options to choose from for the main cover image.

After looking at the details of the images we took, the group and I decided the two different photos to use for the front cover of the two issues. The photo that we chose for the first issue was Omar and I listening to music and looking directly to the camera. This photo was taken outside the college, where the benches are in Owens field, the photo we took also included the nature lighting i.e. trees in the background. For our second issue we have discussed about what image to put from the variety of photos and came up with an idea that one boy will be enough for the second issue so we used Omar sitting down in the empty corridor while listening to music. I think it was a good idea that it had an empty background because the audience will concentrate on one person rather than having a complicated background.

After doing all this hard work we have to produce the magazine cover, which we were planning to do. We have completed our magazine by using the terminology, which included; strap-line, masthead Banner etc. For us to work faster and better we have separated into two groups which one group had Karess and me, the other group had Omar by himself. Karess and I produced the first issue of the ‘Streez Sound’ after deciding the fonts, styles, banners, promotions between us. We have decided to keep the magazine simple for the audiences to understand better instead of giving them a headache and used different terms in the English language, which will attract them more. After working for hours, we have finished our magazine and used the terms like Masthead, Banner, Promotions, and Strap-line in our magazine in order to be successful.

Our music magazine represents the Hip-Hop genre that can be represented by the 16-25 year olds who listens to grime. Hip-Hop has being a big impact on people because they find it interesting to listen and the lyrics attracts people i.e. Immortal Technique who mostly raps about the politics.

We have attracted our audience by the images, which we used, that is related to the grime genre. We have used the tracksuits in the images and the dirty looks that the most grime artists give in order to attract the audience that this is a Hip-Hop magazine.

I have learnt how to produce a magazine from the program we used in the new computer, which benefited us from the new technology. If I was to make an another front cover I would choose R and B rather than grime. I would choose R and B because it is partly related to rap which involves in grime as well. R and B would have being an enjoying magazine to do differently from the grime because I got knowledge on that genre as well.