Planning: My influences

Here I've presented front cover images, contents pages and feature pages of popular artists that influence me with my style of music and fashion.

In this Vibe magazine that features RNB singer Miguel, I like how the strap-lines are either side of the artist and the different font sizes and the different coloursused are emphasised in different ways to create liveliness for the front cover. By doing this it captures the audiences eyes. In my magazine, I would include using different fonts to emphasise what the straplines are saying.

 The simplicity of using a white background makes the image stand out and also it provides a symbolic relation with the artist and the background as they're both fresh, clean and pure, as Miguel is a new and upcoming artist. In this magazine, the possible use of subliminal messages is appealing to me and what I mean by this is the title alomst fades into a 'halo effect' as its almost hovering above the artists' head. This contrasts to the mid-shot of the artist as his posing with this 'rock poss' and this cheeky grin. This provides to the audience that he's got two sides; innocent and cheeky. And this makes us want to find out more about his mysterious character. Miguel's combination of fashion incinuates his universal style of music. His retro glasses presents a sense of qwerkiness and mystery again, as it makes the audience question 'what is he hidding?' and so we as the audience feel obliged to find out more. The necklaces, bracelets and ring demolish stereotypes placed on men not being able to wear this, and having a famous artist like Miguel to break the barrier is very powerful beause he is listened to by many, even though he is a newly, established artist. Futhermore, the colour of the jewellery; black and gold, displays elegance and darkness, and the combination of both creates the idea the Miguel himself is very humble because he's not wearing vibrant jewellery that immediately shows 'money'.

     

This vibe magazine featuring Nicki Minaj in a long-shot angle allows the audience to be invited to the magazine because we're seeing her head to toe instead of an average close-up of her face. The uniqueness of the animated, vibrant background captures the moment, and it brings enthusiasm to the image which would capture the eye of her target audience; young female girls. This is appealing as I feel it brings life to the front cover, It wouldn't exactly be something I would try to produce in my magazine with the animated pictures as it would be very tactical and time-consuming but the youthfulness of the straplines being bold would be something to consider to bring to my magzine. However, I am fabricating a rap magazine so it may not blend well. However, the fact that famous and noticeable names have been placed above the artist is very appealing to the audience because it will intice them to know why they have been placed above the artist. I would definately do this with my magazine cover as it's a simplistic way of adding artists that are featuring in the magazine. Nicki Minaj as a female rapper influences me as she breaks the line of stereotypes placed on females as being 'delicate' and 'sweet' and cannot participate in this style of music and she overcomes this with her fiesty attittude and flamboyant fashion sense that intrigues you to want to know more.

In this vibe magazine that features legendary rapper Kanye West they chose to use an extreme close up shot of the artist. This shot is inticing as the audience feels like their on the same eye-level as him and the dull, blank expression draws the attention of the audience further. The use of this shot makes us want to know more about Kanye as a person. Also, the extreme close up shot is a very symbolic representation of kanye's extreme views that he holds already. Futhermore, I like the contionous use of subliminal messages you can dig from these front covers and I would definately include this type of message in my front cover. The cheerful color scheme illustrated in the front cover juxtaposes the initial facial expression of Kanye West.