1. Vibe magazine is aimed at NME magazine is aimed at
people who prefer the people who want to know Kerrang! caters for more of a rock
music R&B, they would be about the latest news in age and advertises a lot of
likely to buy this magazine music, not just about the freebies to its audience, knowing
for interviews about the singer/songwriters life, that this is what will attract
artist or maybe a life story NME is more gritty than people to buying the magazine.
about them, it would be other magazines, and
less about the actual music. would be bought by young
adults who wanted to find
out about the music.

2. The main R&B magazine available on
the market is Vibe and as there aren't
many R&B magazines available it means
The Anchorage for
this magazine is there is a gap in the market for a new
specific to the target one.
audience of this
genre as if they were
not interested in The dominant image of this
R&B they wouldn’t magazine is a very strong
understand what rapping image, showing that
‘new juice’ means. people who were interested
in pop magazines would not
be interested in this very
strong, serious image.
The main colour
scheme for this
magazine, are red,
white and black which
shows serious rapping
magazine instead of
being based in girly The main artists of the magazine
colours like pinks and being in bold means, if the target
purples. audience were into that artist at
the time they would see their
name and be more interested in
buying the magazine.

3. Putting this header
at the top of the
The colour scheme of page with ‘exclusive
this magazine is Drake interview’
mainly red, blue, white means people that
and black. This shows might normally read
that the magazine is another
more rough and ready magazine, will now
than a magazine that buy this one.
would have brighter,
lighter colours.
The dominant image of
this magazine, is a man
holding a CD making it
clear to buyers that
The list of bands down didn’t already know
the side of the front cover that this was a music
means that the fans of magazine what genre
this band will of magazine it is, this
automatically want to means that they will
know what's written be appealing outside
about their favourite their target audience
band and will be more as well as appealing to
likely to purchase NME them.
than anything else.

4. The broken title shows
that the magazine, is
loud and rocky as the
title has been blown
The dominant image up there is that much
of this magazine is a volume.
man screaming
which means people
who are into rock
music will identify
with the image and
think that they will
want to buy the
magazine.
Putting Linkin Park in bold
letters in front of the
dominant image means that
fans of the band will want to
buy this magazine in order
to find out more about what
the band is working on, and
by having Linkin Park in front
of the dominant image
people will identify with
what genre of music the
magazine is about.

5. I have decided the genre of
magazine I would like to create is
going to be R&B, this is because
the only real magazine I have
found in the R&B genre is the
magazine Vibe, so there isn't
much competition on the market.

6. The conventions of R&B magazines are mostly the same, for example all of these magazines
have colour co-ordinated their titles with the dominant image of the text so my magazine
will have to conform with this. Also the image is always the main part of the magazine,
meaning that my main image will have to be a strong picture that sounds out among the rest
of the front cover. The Anchorage around the outside is all relative to the magazine and all
relative to the R&B genre meaning I will have to do research around the time to find out
what the R&B audience want to know about.

7. • A black, white and red themed front
cover, as this way people will realise
that my magazine stands out from the
rest and is also quite bright and the
red colour will signify danger
• A wet look dominant image to show
my magazine is new on the market and
not like anything anyone has seen
before.
• Proper R&B news stories anchorage
around the outside so fans of the
genre will choose to buy my magazine
over the other magazines on the
market

8. I am going to take these names
to my target audience along with
some other questions about my
magazine, in order to make the
decision in what to call my
magazine and also what to put in
it.

9. On all the contents
pages for Vibe
magazine the image
The fact that the is more dominant
heading of the than the contents of
contents page is the magazine
only small and in
the corner shows The dominant
that this is image is also taken
probably not the in quite grungy
most important colours which also
page in the R&B signifies the R&B
magazine genre
The body stance
of these two is
very strong
showing that the
The Contents page
dominant image
is sectioned into
in an R&B
little bits so it is
magazine should
easier to find the
also be of two
actual section you
dominant
are looking for
characters

10. The name of the artist
however is made bold,
showing that if the
The image in readers like the artist
this article they are going to read
spreads out this article.
over one full
page which
shows images
are a big part of
R&B magazines
and images
should be very
dominant in my
magazine.
The fact that the picture blends with Also the text is quite small and
the colours that are in the other side they don’t need to catch the
of the page shows there is a clear readers eye, showing this must
bond and both of the pages are be an important story that the
connected together. readers will read anyway.