Evaluating my final magazine

I feel that i have achieved my goals that i set out at the beginning, i have interpreted Q magazines monochrome colours, but instead of using Red which i intended on using, the colour turned out to eventually be a pink/red colour. The colour changed as i experimented with the colours of the lips of the girl on the front cover, this was a main feature so the colour had to be bright. The red lips looked too unrealistic so i slightly changed the colour and added a hint of pink to them, however i had to then use the colour of the lips for parts of the text on the front cover and this was used throughout my magazine to keep the iconic monochrome style apparent. I was concerned that the pink colour would not appeal to some of my male audience, as the colour pink is stereotypically only liked by girls. I decided to use this to my advantage and make my magazine diverse and break away from the stereotypes, so it would challenge what the 'norms' are for an edgy indie-rock magazine. By keeping the front cover image in a black and white tone it makes the writing stand out and add to the style i was aiming for, by having a strong image as the background and the pose hinting at rebellion not only determines the social group that may read the magazine but will appeal to males, so this may over shadow the fact the colour pink is used in the magazine. My colours used were a code for the genre of my magazine and it connotates the rebellious, edgy and 'dangerous' genre of the music as well.