Magazine Template Ideas

For my magazines cover and use of pictures, i gope to use just a single action-shot photo for my front cover, maybe with only one person on the front either playin the guitar, posing in an action shot maybe from a concert setting or a shot of them singing. I got this idea of a single person picture playing the guitar from the magazine shown below.


I Think this magazine cover is very good in that it is spaced out, easy to read and the picture tells the whole magazine before you have read any captions. I hope to take this idea into my Hip-Hop based magazine by changin fonts, colour schemes, cover charecter and maybe add slightly more captions on the cover to draw people in to show it has alot to offer.

In the charecter change i was hoping to make my own photo of a person of my choice posing in a way similar to the photo below of Lil Wayne in a action shot playing the guitar.

Magazine Fonts

These are all potential fonts i could use for my magazine cover, but my favourite font is 'Weak Nails' because of its urban represented style and its cracked or erased marking in some letters, the font is very bold and outstanding and catchy the eye with its simplicity yet its urban related style. I hope to use a similar font for my Magazine because it will show Hip-Hop in the urban background and the fonts simplicity is readable and easy to fit in with most background colours and background settings.

Lil Wayne - Paradise

This is my favourite song at the moment because lil wayne is my favourite artist and the song is off his newest album 'Rebirth' which is unreleased at the moment but is expected to get very good reviews because of its odd mix of Rock and Hip-Hop.

25 Word Pitch

1. News, Gossip, Artists And Great Hip-Hop Music. What More could you ask for in a magazine, Your Greatest Music in a Magazine!

2. Ever Wanted to discover Young and New Talent in the Hip-Hop World? Our magazine provides Thousands of unrecognised and truely Fantastic Talent!

3. Base, Beats, Booms and Blasts.. Is Your Life lacking this? Get the Hip-Hop Magazine that can change that.. Base-ics.

4. The Latest Hip-Hop magazine out which provides great stories and news from the remarkable Hip-Hop world, Dont miss out..

Magazine Title

For my magazine i need a title. The title has to be easy to remember, related to my audience and genre, catchy and eye catching and something that makes the reader think rather than just glance and move on. My magazine is based on Hip-Hop music and is aimed at an audience ranging from the ages of 13-25, this is because of the present Hip-Hop craze and how artist relate to certain age groups. Because Hip-Hop is not as popular as it has been since its very beginning i want to produce a magazine to get people back into Hip-Hop and to do that i need to relate my magazine name to it. A few ideas for my magazines name are as shown below:



Hip-Hop Rebirth

Beat-Hop-Base

Auto-tuned

Money, Cars, Hip-Hop

Beats 'n' Boost

Base-ics

Media Hip Hop Mood Board

XXL Magazine Analysis

This magazine cover is the one i have decided to analyse. I like this magazine cover because the magazine name,'XXL', is a very popular Hip-Hop magazine. The magazine features a single Hip-Hop artist posing on the front cover, with writing about Hip-Hop news and recent occurances in the music industry. Often occurances are such things like chart toppers, album and single releases, Artist live apperances, artists being revealed and artist retiring and general urban/street news. The magazine shows its label name in the top left hand corner to prevent blocking the photography and writing, but is made clear either by use of bright colours or bold fonts. This magazine is using colours which represent urban stereotypical colours, such as greys and blacks. The font is also very urban. It is bold and simpily typed and is scratched and looks damaged to show its uncared for and urbanly based, much like the artists representing the magazine. Red is the colour used for the magazine label to brighten the magazine and establish the brand over he whole magazine for viewers, first time they view the magazine.