Backgrounds

• I wanted to convey the different backgrounds that I could use within my music
magazine. These backgrounds could be seen as relevant for the genre of my
magazine

This would not be the actual picture that I used but

the surroundings would be similar. I think this would
represent R&B artist as shows their famous and rich
which is portrayed a lot throughout R&B magazines.

This is a close up of a brick wall which I think

would be effective for a R&B magazine if the
model I was using was a boy. It would portray
their image as ‘hard’ or a ‘gangster’ which many
music magazine such as vibe try to convey
This image of the water and sky is used in a
couple of the magazine covers for ‘vibe’. I
think it would be good when using a women
on the front as it would portray them as sexual
which is what many competitors try to do to
draw in their audience.

I think a graffiti wall

would be effective as it
stands out and would be
memorable to the
audience. I think that
this as well as the plain
wall would be seen on
some music magazines
to also portray the
models image.
I have researched on competitions backgrounds such as ‘blender’ to see the different types of
backgrounds that they use throughout their magazines. As many of them are plain it is hard to
find ones which actually use specific backgrounds.

I found this one background with fireworks in the back good

as it seemed attractive and fitted in well with the model that
they have used. I believe the ‘sparks’ that stand out around the
model to seem eye-catching.

Within many magazine there

would not be much in the
background but there are many
which have the models paces
on some sort of chair or bed. I
think many do this to portray
their sexuality through their
body language sitting down
rather then standing up. Others
portray men sitting on thrones
which could be used to show
their dominance.
• I have looked at my competitions backgrounds to see which ones they would
mainly use. The ones I have showed previously are ones which I thought would be
good as well as backgrounds magazines have already used.
• Throughout this research that many of these magazines do not even use a imaged
background but used a black, white or coloured one instead