This is my blank document before I started.

And this is when the image has been finished being cropped and fitted to the page.

I then decided on the font I was going to use, the colour and background and then inserted the

masthead that I wanted. This is because of the audience my magazine is designed for; I think it will

suit the hip hop audience.

I then put on a barcode because every legitimate magazine has one. I put it in the bottom right

corner because that is the general convention of where you put the barcode, on hip hop magazines.

I then put my slogan underneath the title, after deciding on a colour I wanted to use for the rest of

my magazine. I chose this colour because I could use on both light and dark backgrounds, and is

again a good colour for a hip hop audience.

I then wrote the cover line. I put the cover line there because it takes up all the free space that isn’t

over the hip hop artists. This will draw attention the cover line and the artists.

I then put the teasers in. Although I wanted to leave the artists with no writing over them, there

were no other places to put the words, and I think that having some teasers and some puff is more

important. The artist’s faces are still clear and one is completely clear, and there is more content

that will pull in the reader.

I then finished off the front cover by putting “Flash’s” about the teasers. This is because from

audience research I know that audiences want to know more before they buy a product, so giving

them more information that will apply to them will pull them in more, especially when there are

buzz words included.

I then decided to make all of the cover lines, teasers and flash’s either ‘All Caps’ or ‘Small Caps’

depending on the nature of the text. This made it more professional looking and making it bolder,

making it more likely to pull readers in.