Mgazine Evaluation - Nicole

My magazine uses forms and convections of real music magazines through the way i have layed and presented it. In some ways it similar to other music magazines due to basic layout. If you look at most magazines, their layouts are mostly either the same or similar. The title of the magazine is always placed right at the top of the magazine in a large, bold front, standing out. This is where the similarity comes in between my magazine and other music magazines, as i placed my title right at the top of my front cover, in a big, bold front, so that it can stand out, considering thats what catches my attention when i see a magazine, i felt like it would be appropiate to use it in my magazine as thats the same effect it will have on my target audience. Although my magazine layout was similar to other magazines layout, we chose our magazine title wisely so that the name can stand out itself, giving the overall magazine that effect, making it not just any typical magazine, but a unique magazine.
I think my music magazine cover represents certain social groups such as teenagers and young adults who are interested in RnB music, simply because my magazine contains contents which are based on RnB artists, and stories which relate to RnB. Therefor those who are not intrested in RnB will not buy this magazine as it is not their type of music. Also our magazine covers have young RnB artists on the front cover. This is a positive thing as this will atract and inspire young people to buy the magazine as RnB is a very popular type of music which alot of young adults and teeneagers listen to. Also in addition, our front cover shows images of artists from both sex, therefore, pictures of female artists will attract the male audience, which will also inspire them to but the magazine, and pictures of male artist will attract the female audience which will make them want to buy the magazine.
I personally think that out magazine covers will be part of the RnB institution, simply because the articles are based on nothing but RnB artists.
I have noticed that mucic magazines mostly seem to attract either teenagers or young adults, therefore in relationton to this observation, we decieded that our magazine will be targeted at teenagers and young adults from ages14-21. Reason for this is simply because this music genre seems to be mostly enjoyed by this age group. Other possible reasons are because they can relate to this type of music, as issues which may be song about may be issues which these young adults/teenagers may be going threw and therefore through this music, they are recieving inspiration, and a positive image of life. Also, in this day and age, RnB is seen to be "cool" and so many teenagers/young adults want to come under this image, therefore they tend to listen to it just so that they can come under that catagory. Media also plays a huge role in this. As the media promotes this music genre alot. This then manipulates people into wanting to follow this type of music genre, which is how this type of music is so popular.
Ways in which we attracted our target audience was by suing fonts and strap lines which stand out and catch peoples eyes which stand out on the page and from the images on the page, which attracts the audience to be aware of what the article is about. Another way which we addressed our target audience was by using bright colours, and the right type of clothing.
Based on this project, i have learnt alot about technology. Making a magazine cover is not as easy as we think. it takes alot of hard work and organisation, Ar the start of this project, everything seemed fairly simple and straight foward, however as we got further down the line into the project, things got tough and stressful, which made me realise that making a magazine is not as easy as it looks. I am happy i took part in this project as i learnt a new skill which was knowing how to use Photoshop Adobe. Overall i found that you could use technology to do alot of clever, sly things you would never imagine. however it takes some time in learning how to use different types of sofware.
If i was to make another magazine front cover, i would change the background which i used, and mak it more plain so that it didnt seem asif alot was going on. Another thing i would change is what i wore. In future i would dress up more, and make more of an effort in what i was wearing, in order to get that "super star" look, so that the overall magazine can be more realistic. However i think the overall front cover came out very good considering it was out first time, due to the hard work and determination everyone put in.