Task 2 - Research and Planning - Extra case study

The genre I have chosen to do for my own music magazine is Afrobeats but there are not many afrobeat magazines out there so finding one to do my case studies on was hard but I used Q magazine and NME magazine instead because these magazine are where I got most of my inspiration and ideas from.
    Having said that here is a front cover of an Afrobeats magazine that I found online although I had never heard of it before. I was unable to find a contents or double page spread for it hence why it wasn't used as one of my case studies but here it is.

• This magazine front cover is quite basic as it doesn't have a lot on it, I think this has been done to insure that all the readers attention is kept on the image of the cover star. There is not much to the main cover line as it is just her name, "Lira" having said that it still does stand out a lot as it is the biggest bit of text on the front cover other than the masthead and also because it is in a totally different front than any other bit of text on the front cover. and lastly because it is white and it stands out really well against the colour that she is wearing. The masthead is quite simply just "African Muzik Magazine", although the title of the magazine is quiet basic and long they have put their own little twist on how they have spelt the word music which makes it more original and unique
• One thing that I did take as inspiration for my own music magazine was the look of the cover star, in this image of  Lira she look fierce and independent and I wanted to give this effect with my cover star.