Continuation of Question 1.

The MASTHEAD “BUMP” is a upper case font, which is a serif font which is a traditional font for a magazine. The bold white colour of the masthead contrasts with the pink and blue as they all contrast together which stands out on the front cover. The rest of the fonts are uppercase as it is the house style of the magazine as the fonts are all in uppercase this shows that the magazine is targeted at young adults as it isn’t seen as formal. SUPERIMPOSTION is shown here by the masthead overlapping the picture of the model slightly . The colours stand out as the background is bright blue and the writing is black, white and pink.

The target audience for this magazine would be for 17+ year olds, it shows that it is by the colours used and the content given to us about what will be inside the magazine.

The main image on the front cover is a sophisticated girl that goes against the male gaze theory as I wanted to portray females to be independent and not to be dependant on males. That is why my model is fully clothed and her assents aren’t portrayed to be inviting to males and to empower female rights.

However, although my model is fully clothed she still presents a sense of seduction by her direct address to the audience by her lips being slightly opened.

A black female was the model of my magazine as black females aren’t seen to be positive as they’re weak in the world. So by having a black model I am breaking the stereotype of a black female.

In addition, although I wanted my model to show dominance she still has aspects of a women as she has her nails done and also she is wearing a necklace and rings to emphasise her outfit.

Having a bar code is a “common” magazine feature which shows the audience which expresses professionalism and its on a magazine for retail & commercial purposes

An incentive is being advertise to the audience which will bring in more buyers as the incentive that is being advertised is a big in value. The main headline of the incentive is highlighted in pink as ‘Drake’ is a well-known R&B artist which will catch the audience’s attention. In addition the incentive has a black strip behind the context to stand out from the rest on the context on the magazine.

The ANCHORAGE TEXT & BUZZ WORD ‘ NADINE B. – THE NEW YEAR HAS MANY SURPRISES IN STORE’ . This relates to the central image as the model is called Nadine B and also the way she is standing and giving us direct address shows that she is being ‘fierce‘ and she is ‘sophisticated’ . She has a fierce look that she is giving, her position looks like she is giving the audience attitude and tells the audience that she has confidence in what she is doing.

As you can see my magazine has minimal context this is because I wanted the magazine to have a sense of enigma, ‘security’ and ‘secretive ‘ sense. In the left hand corner you can see the main artists which will be featured inside of the magazine.This was also done because my magazine is targeted at females as feminism do not get enough light in the industry but if they’re in the light it is in a negative, naïve and dependant on the male. I also wanted my magazine to present the hypodermic needle theory to advertise black female women. My magazine is to help portray females in a better light and that females do not have to conform to the stereotype of females and they should be independent and that they can succeed in the industry without having minimal clothing.

Analysis on Front Cover.

Logo: The capital ‘B’ stands for the name of the magazine to give reassurance to the reader that this is ‘BUMP’ magazine.

Issue date: This shows the reader what issue the magazine is. It shows that this is the first one out of twelve.Headings: This shows the reader a clear distinction of the content that the magazine will encounter in the music section of the magazine as it is labelled ‘features’. The other heading is ‘fashion’

Social networking sites: This shows the reader what social media sites that the magazine is on so they are able to access more information that is going on in the magazine.

House style/Colour scheme: This is the colours and fonts which will be seen across the magazine. The main colours are blue, pink, black and white. This shows conventions of other magazines.Layout: The layout of the contents page is conventional as it is styled in blocks which make it easier for the reader to be able to read.

Pull quote:The pull quote gives readers the insight of what the interview will be about, it also has the page number of the interview so they can find the interview easier.

Analysis on contents page

I personally felt that when creating my contents page it was a challenge because of knowing what content I should produce onto my contents page. The producing and navigation of the contents wasn’t hard but how to lay out the contents page was a very indecisive role. However, the due to my research of contents pages from ‘VIBE’ it helped me a lot.

An example of this is how the ‘contents’ text is laid out as it is very abstract which will catch the readers’ eye. In addition, I also took the idea of having the name of the magazine’s first letter to be placed behind the ‘contents’. The letter is positioned to the left side of the magazine so it doesn’t distract the reader from the image and also the context. I feel that my contents page isn’t conventional to most music magazines as the content of the magazine isn’t a lot which I prefer because then the magazine doesn’t look too busy.

I personally think that my final outcome succeeded as it looks quite similar to the magazine that research.

I also feel that I lead the consistency of the same artist to the contents page and that I only have one image on the contents page because I am trying to make the main focus of the magazine on how females should be presented in the music industry and to break down the stereotype of females so there isn’t the typical ‘male gaze’ image of the female.

The difference of the picture in the contents and front cover was done to show a range of personality of the artist. In the image you can see the top half of the model’s outfit more, which shows her fully clothed but also shows her wearing a necklace.

Analysis on contents page continued.

Like many magazines I separated the main image and the content of the interview, this is very conventional for most magazines.

The context of the magazine is conventional but also unconventional because most interviews tell the reader facts and statistics of the artist. However, conventionally the magazine does allow the artist to answer questions from the interviewer which were made from the readers’ of the magazine.

On the left hand side of the double page spread I included two pull quotes from the interview to show the reader a direct insight of the interview as it stands out as it is in a bigger font and in a different colour to the rest of the magazine. Also I placed the ‘logo’ of the artist name on the magazine, this shows the reader and has a sense of reassurance as the reader will be familiar of the artist’s logo name. It also shows superimposition on the text overlapping the image and also and anchorage as the name of the artist links with the main image.

To continue the house style and also the colour scheme of this issue of the magazine, I kept the same colour background and colour of fronts to show professionalism, which is conventional to most magazines as this artist is the main focus throughout the magazine.

Like most magazines when giving an interview to the artist with questions the separation of the interviewers words and the interviewees is obvious by having a difference in colour and in the layout.

A brief introduction or also known as a ‘stand first’ is given to the reader before they read the interview, it introduces the artist and also gives the reader a brief description of the artist.

Drop capitals were also used to show the reader where the start of the interview begins. It is always bigger than majority of the font in the content.

Analysis on double page spread.