Masthead final choice

Coventions of existing Mastheads for R&B

As I can see from typing in R&B magazines on the internet, there is a great range of mastheads. This goes from the genre itself "R&B" to "Vibe" and "XXL". From these, I can gather that the typical conventions are related to the music itself, the feeling it gives and how big the magazine is. Looking into it, I can see they are thought about carefully to capture readers and enable to sell with a word that readers will be interested in or made to make the readers get an instant good vibe from the magazine. With this, we will bare in mind mastheads that would attract us but makes people want to read the magazine and not just a random name. If we can we will relate it to R&B but I don't think it is essential.

Narrowing costume ideas down

For the front page and double page spread, I would like to use costume idea one as it is the same model so there won't need to be costume swaps or changes and because the two images will be using two different shot types it won't be repetitive. For the front page I would like a medium close up therefore only the red coat will be shown, then making it more recognisable in the double page spread when the red coat is the main focus that it is the same model and the main article which was hinted on the front page. I haven't quite decided on costumes for the contents page but as the genre is R&B it will follow similar guidelines to the all black outfits for both models which I have considered previously. Although as it is winter my models may not have black coats so splashes of colour may be added with those and props such as the guitar. These costumes will hopefully not be affected by weather or any other circumstances.

Costume ideas 4

Costume Idea 3

Costume Ideas 2

Costume idea 1