MY ORIGINAL DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

my original contents page

MY ORIGINAL FRONT COVER

My first magazine( not to be marked for )

This is my old magazine, the reason why I did another front cover is because even though my target audience is males and females, its mainly hugely on females. The model of my magazine looks nice as in terms of model but to my opinion its just didn't suit my target audience , it didn't match with the front cover with what the model wore. I want to make my magazine unique and realistic. Plus since the image dominated the whole background it took all the spaces for the other headings. And whenever you look in a magazine especially from a young audience view I wouldn't spend my money on buying it. So thus since I'm an young age audience it looks nice as in the model but to me it looked dull and boring to buy and this will make my audience not to buy it. With my extra research on reading magazines I found out that in front cover the artist image almost matches with the whole cover and therefore I made new front cover.

My new masthead

WHY I HAVE CHANGED MY MASTHEAD(TITLE) from LBL TO BOLLY R

When creating my magazine ideas I thought it would be better and unique to have something unusual rather than just implying that it's a music magazine. My magazine music genre is quite different as its bollywood music magazine. When I typed the font LBL it took the whole space of the cover as if it blocked the beauty of a cover. It didn't suit or rhyme with the Bollywood genre. when deciding on what my font should be or what colour , how it should be laid out. I thought it would suit it but then when I had audience feedback from my peers it didn't give a good combination with the magazine.

Since I've used a female for my cover , I wanted a font that bonded the model with the whole cover. It should look like a professional and unique  font, that blinks you straight to look at it. Before starting this whole unit or the preliminary task I did some research on what are the successful ingredients of magazine especially its front cover. And when it came to the type of fonts, its been highlighted that used bold fonts or different fonts that will compliment each others. use the right combination. Most importantly the masthead is the portion of the magazine that bears the title.Using this advice I created another font "Bolly R" It's short,catchy,easy to understand what the magazine is about, unique than others magazines. The font stands out for BOLLY RHYTHM. It's called rhythm because it combines everything with music , it starts with the topics of music and ends with bollywood music. It has so much more to offer to the audience rather than just about musicians, within bollywood music there are so many different genres and therefore BOLLY R covers all these genres , rhythmic it all together. I wanted to design my cover and my masthead in a designable manner where it can be easily seen and recognised. BOLLY R can have a several meaning rather than rhythm, R could stand for relaxation, refreshment, respect. Even though my magazine is a music magazine it has all possible sorts of features that can attract my target audience. And most importantly as my background cover in my magazine is simple and plain, plus since i've used a strong light + dark pink dress for the model costume.I wanted the masthead to pop up, I wanted the cover to manipulate to surprise and wow readers with combination of black,grey backdrop and pink. So that it alone the cover with all the combination will tell the story. 

When you see the magazine cover, the masthead colour is half pink and black, i've used black as its formal and attentive. Even though pink is associated  with femininity but however nowadays pink is a fashion colour , as much as young females wear it, same as males also wear it. Pink is nowadays more with bright, highlights pride and strong sense of strength and respect. Bollywood is used as another expression for rainbows; Bollywood title can have a range of colours, Bollywood doesn't consider which colour is associated with what. And that is what unique about BOLLYWOOD MUSIC, it changes its tunes as the time goes. After applying the BOLLY R masthead I had really good comments from my audience( peer groups) , getting all the results my masthead is commented as "It catches your eye especially with the way the model posed with her smile, it captures the BOLLY RHYTHM moment, It certainly looks like a real magazine". with these feedbacks I decided to continue with this masthead. BOLLY R masthead creates a curiosity of what the magazine is really about as none of the BOLLYWOOD magazine use the word BOLLYWOOD.