Here i have created my first Front cover ideas for my music magazine titled 'The Beat', using my previous research i have decided that i want to use R&B as my chosen genre for my magazine. Knowing this i used popular rap artist Tinie Tempah as my artist to represent my magazine. i also looked at other magazines such as Vibe and Q and used conventions from them that i have chosen to include in my first draft.
Looking at these two other magazines and the common conventions between the two, I started with the artist and how they appear in front of the title of the magazine, so using layers in Photoshop; first i imported a picture of Tinie Tempah from the web onto an A4 sized document, i then proceeded to crop out the background so that i could place my own design behind him. I then imported my maths head into the document and positioned it to behind the artist. Another convention that i used as the advertisement of the artists name on the cover of the magazine, for example on Vibe you can clearly see 'Kanye West' and the same goes for 'Tinie Tempah' with Q, so again using layers on Photoshop in bold text i typed 'It's Tinie Tempah' so that it's clear and easy to see that he's the artist on the front cover of my magazine, which in turn would satisfy my target audience and therefore sell more magazines. The last convention that i used was the colour scheme, as you can see in Vibe the colour scheme is Blue and Pink, suggesting that it's trying to appeal to both boys and girls, you can see a similar colour set used in Q, however i wanted to use orange and white for my colour scheme as they are more gender neutral, therefore appealing to a mass audience. 
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