Conventions of existing mastheads for R&B

From searching R&B magazines into google search I discovered the large variety of mastheads that appeared. From the results, I gathered that the typical conventions of the mastheads relate to the music of the magazine and the words are often associated/link to the genre it focusses on. Looking closer at the names of the masthead, such as 'Vibe' and 'XXL', they all have their own deeper meaning that would have been thought about carefully, which are created to capture readers more. The masthead/name appears to be a big factor on magazines as they are one of the first conventions seen by the audience, so with it relating to the music and genre, this would create more of an effect than a random name would have.

Masthead Final Choice

This is the final choice for our masthead. 'Unveil' was thought of by wanting to aim the name at the target audience/reader, therefore we thought about the meaning of 'discovering' new music, artists and information from the magazine, so the word 'Unveil' has the meaning of showing new things and presenting unique information, which persuades the audience that they may uncover more in this magazine. This name wasn't our initial idea, as it took a while to come up with something like this with a number previous ideas, such as 'Deeper', which was supposed to connote that there was more to the stories and music than what there seemed to be, however, receiving feedback showed us that other meaning may have opened up that were not suitable for a music magazine.

Online Tutorials and Response

My Tutorial


This is the tutorial I used to develop my skills in photoshop, although I understand how use some of the features already, I still learned a few more skills in this tutorial, by it showing how to do each skill in detail, step by step.

Kyra's Tutorial


This tutorial does not go into much detail with many techniques on photoshop, as these are simple skills that I already know, therefore I do not learn anything from this youtube tutorial.

Oliver's Tutorial


This tutorial is quite detailed with the advanced lighting effects/techniques it shows and explains how to use and can help me in my production if I used these certain effects in some way, however, this tutorial shows more specific techniques and it would therefore be difficult to implement this into my production.

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