Music Mag Evaluation Rebecca Hurst

My Evaluation of My Music Magazine PLATINUM
Our the course of three to four lesson me, Nicole, Sevin and Stephanie constructed ideas to make our RnB magazine. Therefore, we started by choosing its genre which is RnB, the target audience with 16-24 year olds and the name of the magazine.
Our magazine conveys a real magazine by the way its layout. For example, the banner is along the top advertising upcoming tours and free CDs to attract the reader to the free goodies, pictures of girl bands, Rappers and rivalry between bands. the name of our magazine is "Platinum" so we placed the title of the magazine right at the top, just like any other magazine, this is because all magazines have their title aligned on the left hand side so we didn’t want it to be too different in comparison to other magazines that are available. We also did not want our magazine to camouflage with the rest so we used bright colours and bold fonts for the title so our magazine stood out.Our magazine targets to teenagers and young adults interested in RnB music. Many teens would be attracted to our magazine because they are interested in finding out the latest in this worldwide music genre. Most young adults enjoy this music genre as it shows them the real life through music and this gives them a positive image of live.
My magazine title was hard to decide. However, we decided platinum due its association with music e.g. multi-million records sold is platinum and because we wanted the aspect of bling in our magazine.
We had decided as a group that our magazine would be distributed quarterly every year, winter, spring, summer and autumn. My theme was winter so I went for a warm winter because if this magazine is selling worldwide them there are places that have warm winters. I used ivy to represent Christmas in my background. The colours in the title green and red are significant as those colours are mostly associated with the Christmas season.
We decided this because it is an easier way and we would have very established fans would be regular readers and not just the occasion buyer.
In photoshop, we had to decide on a font that the whole group would use. We also had to use the magic wand to cut ourselves out of the background, now that was hard because the day we took the photographs we were all in contrasting colours so we could not find a suitable background.
My magazine cover has a picture of two girls who are x factor winners, an mc to interest boys into this magazine as its targeted to them as well, latest girl group and interview with two other girls who are in the music industry. By the production of my magazine, I have realised that using iMac is very difficult and that photoshop is even more difficult. When we first actually started using photoshop all the icons looked very complex but as we used it more and more often we became use to it.
If I were to design and produce another magazine cover, I would plan the page and have many solid ideas and layout structures.