Mock-up of cover page for R&B Music Magazine

CHOOSING A SUITABLE MODEL    

After deciding on the naem for our mast head, we started to think about the models we were going to have in our magzine to be on our front cover, contents page and on the double-paged spreads of our R&B music magazine. for our front cover page, we knew that the image of the model needed to be of a medium shot therefore we were inspired by how Chris Brown posed and was modelling on the front cover page of the magazine and we wanted our male model to pose similar to how the R&B artsist was modelling which is shown in the image of the "VIBE" music magazine below. The model that we decided to choose was a male model who is twenty and we wanted him to model i a similar way as the above artist on the frint cover page of the music magazine.

  

 As you can see, the model shown on the left hand side of the page, is an example of the actual image that will be used as the main image on the front cover of the music magazine. the fact that the image is a medium shot shows that this model will take up most of the space on the front cover page of the music magazine but the model will be wearing clothes which are not dark so that he stands out from ther background of the image which we are thinking about about taking the picture of the model in front of a brick wall so that they stand out and the focus is on them. The model will be modelling by looking directly at the camer and the audience and his hands will be in his pocket and he will be showing attitude through his casual wear whcih will have some "swag" and he will also be showing attitude through his facial expressions. In addition, his head will be slightly tilted and his cap will be loose on his head to ssymbolise how he is breaking rules the same way that R&B breaks the rules and the generic conventions of R&B music.  moreover, the head of the model will hide some of the mast head but the reader and audience will still know what type of magazine it is and the brand.

  

PLANNING MAST HEAD

We started by doing the font for the mast head which is 'Stencil', this really stands out to R&B music as the font matches the genre. We flipped the 'R' to make it back to back with the 'B' and we enlarged these two letters to show that the genre of the music magazine is clearly 'R&B'.

Then we thought that we would change the colour of the mast head to a bright colour which could suit the R&B genre because this reminds you of clubs when there are bright disco lights and the club is black. Therefore, we chose purple but we did not make the whole text of the mast head in purple as two colours symbolise how R&B mixes with other music genres such as hip hop and rap and it symbolises the different R&B artists who sing with other music genre artists and the new artists coming into the music industry. These two colours also represent the different range of beats in the R&B music which is created by the R&B artists.  

Planning:
We first decided to choose 'Ecstasy' to be our mast head for our R&B music magazine to show how the magazine is addicting but then we thoght fully of the other connotations of the drug 'Ecstasy'. We decided that we were going to change the name for our masthead which was originally going to be 'Ecstasy'. However, we relaised that the word 'Ecstasy' had negative connotations of drugs and crime and we thought that this would attrat people to take the drug therefore our final name that we have chosen to be our masthead is 'URBAN' and the reason as to why we chose this name to be our mast head for the reason that the connotations of 'Urban' were that this word reminds you of attitudes that people have and it gives the magazine the street edge. Im addition, the other connotations of 'Urban' are that it reminds us of city life, popular dance music and there are many R&B singers who come from urban backgrounds. moreover, we decided that the 'R' in the mast head would be flipped backwards to show how R&B breaks the rules and chnages conventions of what people think of R&B music and artists therefore the 'R' and the 'B' would be back to back and these two letters symolise and identify the genre of the music magazine which is R&B.