The document summarizes changes made to improve the design of a new R&B music magazine. The cover was changed from too colorful to primarily red to reflect the genre. The magazine name was changed from "Lemz" to "Flame" to better capture the R&B vibe. Fonts and layouts were standardized across pages for consistency. Photographs were adjusted for quality and to better represent the targeted audience and R&B style. Colors, fonts, and elements were limited for cleaner designs that remain appealing yet consistent throughout the magazine.
3. Reflecting upon my research I realized that
my old magazine cover was too colorful for
an Rnb Music magazine and it wasn’t
consistent like the “Vibe” Rnb magazine. I
played it around with the layout and decided
to put it across and top of the picture like the
existing magazine as I found out in my
research that it’s successful as it catches the
eye of the audience, a it is bold and explicit.
I changed the name of my cover to “Flame” as I thought
“Lemz” was too plain and had no vibe of Rnb, whereas
“Flame” does. In my audience research for the magazine
name, “Flame” was popular. I changed the color to red so
that it reflects the fire effect and is compatible with the
title, as it shows conventional dangerous, vibrant, sexy
and hot aspects of Rnb genre and its artists.
I kept the picture same
because it reflects the style of
Rnb as the picture is
represented as dangerous,
sexy and has an attitude which
will attract my male targeted
audience, as I found that in my
research male audience are
attracted to hot artists at the
front cover.Thus, they are
more likely to buy it.
I kept two simple colours and kept it consistent
on the cover so that it is appealing to look at. I
thought my other cover was too colorful and
wasn’t colour consistent like my updated one.
Also, in terms of the font style, I kept it
consistent using only three but different font
sizes at suitable position so that it looks
appealing to look at for my audience.
I changed 50+ to just 50 and this is
because I realized that 50+ was
more like how you would write for
age category and I didn’t want to
confuse my target audience since
my audiences are young. Also, to
make it stand on the background I
added drop shadows where it suited
for an effect as it was plain without
it.
5. Reflecting upon my
research I have found
that my contents page
was too colourful and
had no consistency to
the front page like my
updated one right here.
I changed the picture of my contents
page, because this picture represents
him like an RNB artist who seems to
be fed up with life and looks tired and
arrogant . Also, as it’s dark, it
reinforces the danger of RnB and in
my research I found that Rnb artists
tends to look directly at the camera
and therefore I took a new picture of
Michael looking directly looking at
the camera and photoshopped it.
I have photos hoped this
picture to make it look more
high quality by playing
around with saturation,
brightness, contrast and also
cropped him out from an
background. I also made his
cap bright so that it matches
the colour, thus making it
colour consistence.
Again, I added drop shadows
for an greater effect and to
make it look appealing, unlike
my other contents page in
which all the texts were plain.
Reflecting upon my old one, I
felt that my page was crowded
with many elements so in my
updated magazine I only kept
two simple and main ones.
Since my contents page is
simple, I made a curve that
fits along perfectly with the
picture to make it look
complex and appealing for my
audience to look at.
I took out the logo since I have
changed the name but I did
write the date and had the
website link as it is a convention
for all magazines to have as I
have found out in my research.
7. Reflecting upon the research I
found that the inside page
also has to be consistent to
the front cover and contents
cover which the other inside
page didn’t. in my updated
inside page, I it colours and
font style consistent.
I added drop shadows for an
special effect and to make it
stand out more on the page
rather than being an plain text.
I added just one
different font style on
to the page so that my
audience finds it
appealing and that
they don’t get fed up
seeing the same font.
I put the quotation
marks in yellow and this
is because her earing are
yellow and merges the
whole colours
consistency perfectly.
I changed the box
colour to red and
that is because her
clothes is red and it
maintains the colour
consistency.
