RAP MAGAZINE FEATURE PAGE ANNOTATION

SECOND FRONT COVER AND CONTENTS PAGE FLATPLAN

Flat Plans

In order to ensure that I follow the forms and conventions of rap magazines, I have done a research into products of this music genre such as the Vibe and XXL Magazines. On the front cover of each magazine I realise that the background of the main image is the real background the image was taken against. In addition to that, the cover lines are usually wrapped around the model in the main image and there is usually just one image on the front cover. Their contents page has about 4 to 5 images all scattered about the page but with the text kept on the right in an organised manner. Therefore I created these new flat plans which are different from the first ones I did, these flat plans were created with the use of forms and conventions of existing magazine products. However, I challenged a form in the contents page when I did not scatter the images about the page, instead I kept all on the left of the page.

SECOND DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD FLATPLAN

DOUBLE Page Flatplan

After researching into the double page spreads of other real media products, my layout has altered slightly. Taking a closer look at Vibe Magazine and XXL magazine feature pages, I realised that one thing they all have in common is the use of one image which is usually a full shot as the main image and it is also laid on the left side of the page taking about 35%of its space. Furthermore, I also noticed that they had few more images, like maybe one or two which is either placed at the bottom of the page or at the top close to the main cover line with the rest of the story beneath. However, adding my house style to these forms and conventions, I decided to use just two images but follow most of the layout.

MOODBOARD OF INSPIRING DOUBLE PAGE SPREADS

IMAGES FOR MY FINAL PRODUCTION

These are some images I took of my cousins and friends to use in creating my final product (music magazine). However, I may just select few which are of better quality, to use.

WEEK 18 PRODUCTION DIARY

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD MOODBOARD

CONTENTS PAGE MOODBOARD

FRONT COVER MOODBOARD

WEEK 17 PRODUCTION DIARY

This week I started creating the contents page of my final production. Above is the image of how far I have gone. So far I am satisfied with the background and the organisation of the pictures. However, I am not quite content with the font colour and style of the Masthead. The cover lines are the appropriate font style but I might change the colour as I am not satisfied with it.

WEEK 16 PRODUCTION DIARY

During the New Year festivity, I have updated on assignments I haven't completed and did my evaluation homework. However, I haven't completed the second draft of my front cover and contents page. This I will complete over the week. I have also done more research on my music genre and the media institutions in general, such as modelling, movie and music institutions which I have benefited a lot from.

UPDATE

YESSS THAT'S A CROWD RIGHT THERE.... IN CENTRAL LONDON ON NEW YEAR'S EVE.......!!! What were they there to see...?

        
These three images above was the scenery THAT crowd went to see in central London... Believe it or not it is London's most beautiful fireworks ever!!... Well it wasn't just the fireworks that agitated the crowd to show up in their thousands at that location..... but... the.... banana flavored confetti and orange flavored bubbles.. YESS!!! you heard me right...  This is the world's first multisensory fireworks display to be happening on the Thames. When I arrived on London's embankment, an estimated quarter of a million people were already there and some had been queuing for an inconceivable six hours. It was freezing. It was raining. The DJ was playing Craig David. Yet, the atmosphere was incredible. Dancing, singing - cheering when Boris Johnson appeared, hologram-style, on a huge screen across the river.

The main event, of course, was the fireworks - a show devised by Vodafone and food design geniuses Bompas & Parr. We were promised peach flavored snow, edible banana confetti and huge orange bubbles during the display - so far, so Willy Wonka. So fantastical you think to yourself, this couldn't work. I couldn't even picture it - it sounded like something out of a children's book.

But Big Ben banged in 12am and off the fireworks went - a relentless 20-minute show of whizzing fire and light that dared you not to blink. The smell of peach announced the snow and down it fell - like the real stuff except much nicer. We were doused in the scent of strawberries and huge orange bubbles floated out over the crowd - great big popping zesty spheres.I'd wager there wasn't a single person not saying "wow" every 30-45 seconds - you barely got to grips with one spectacle before another happened. It was magic - like something from Roald Dahl's imagination made real.

Then we all sang Auld Lang Syne and it was over for another year. Everyone dispersed at high speed - the tolerance for waiting replaced by the need to sort out numb feet - and that rare thing of London celebrating as a city was over again until the next big thing.

I never understood the appeal of standing in the cold for all that time just to see some fireworks. But if they do it like this again, I can say hand on heart, I can't think of a more fun and uplifting way to bring in the New Year.