catch up and priliminary task

as i have had some trouble accessing this website i am going to be writing about what i have done in the last week and a half.

so far i have bveen researching other rock magazines to find out who their target audience is and what they do to attract this audience, also their house style, what is continued throughout the magazine and what colour schemes they use.

with my magazine i have designed a masthead, subtitle, image, caption and barcode, i realise i have a far bit to do, i also want to come up with a logo for my magazine tso that people recognise my magazine better.

with my content, i want to make it bright and colourful as in my priliminary task i just did a table and i dont think it did my work any justice.

here is my preliminary task, front cover;

Monday 2nd March 2009

in lesson we had to look at different aspects of a magazine called 'Hip Hop' straight away i could tell it was a hip hop magazine as there was a lot of black, gold and silver which is what i expected because glamour is associated with this genre of music. the typical look of the people in the magazine were either big muscly men, mean looking with lots of bling and tattoos, most of them wearing hoods or hats (new era), and the women either tarty looking with short dresses and low cut tops, or lots of jewelery ' looking gangster'.
i think the magazine is aimed at teenagers from about 16+ as there was a story about Barack Obama the American president and i don't think anyone of a younger age would want to read about that.
the magazine makes a point of trying to aim there magazine at both males and females, i can tell this because 2 pages back to back on the first page there is an image with a man with no top on, for the girls, and on the page next to it a women with little clothing on for the men.
also there is another 2 page spread with one half presents to buy for the boyfriend and the 2Nd page presents to buy for the girlfriend.
what i didn't expect from the magazine was that the title didn't go with the glamour inside as it was just white plain and boring and also the lead story is a serious one and then you open the magazine and there isn't anything serious in there, its all about the glamorous life of these famous people.
one thing that was expected is that this magazine was very American, the slang was very "American gangster" like.


Then i went on the website VIBE http://www.vibe.com/
this is alto more what i expected, although hip hop and r&b is glamorous i did expect there to be a classy sense about it and this is what i got when looking at the website. i think this is more what people would want to see rather than the HIP HOP magazine.
the website has colours of purple white blue and black, giving the website a fresh look about it.
the magazine is categorised better than the magazine, there is a proper layout which makes it easier to navigate your way around.
i think the website is aimed at teenagers from 13-14+ and i think that it would appeal to young adults.