The magazine which I have created using Adobe Photoshop, uses forms and conventions of real music magazines, a few examples of these include; a masthead, banner, cover lines, bar code and boxed text. I have chosen ‘Platinum’ for the name/ masthead of my magazine; this name is appropriate as it relates to the music industry; it gives a rich air to the magazine. Its name also gives off the vibe that this magazine is good quality and worth buying, I have used a plain font for the masthead and a colour which stands out and added a white shadow to catch the audience’s eye. I have placed the masthead at the top of the page so it can be seen and is familiar to other music magazines’ that are on the magazine market. However, we believe that our magazine stands out from all the other music magazines because all our ideas and the forms of how we used the conventions are our own original ideas. We have been careful when structuring and planning our magazine front cover to make sure it does not look so familiar to other magazines.
To attract an audience and convince them into buying the magazine I have included incentives like; posters and CD’s. I have used a banner, the strap across the top of the page which has a red box and text is in white. I have used the colour red because it is one of the colours that attract the most attention.
I have used a range of ‘eye-catching’ colours for my cover lines; have made sure that all my cover lines relate to music and events that will definitely attract the attention of my targeted audience which are 14-21 year olds from both genders. I have used boxed text for the most attracting news on the front page and I found that using a boxed text attracted more attention when it was boxed and spread across the bottom half of the page. I have placed a bar code at the bottom right corner to make it like a complete real music magazine.
By using two teenage girls as a main cover image gives us an idea on what age range our audience may be between and which gender may be reading or show interest in this magazine. Although the image is of two teenage girls, the cover lines and incentives I have used indicate on which certain social groups it is aimed at. As our magazine is targeted at 14-21 year olds we’ve made sure to include information on our front cover which our audience would be interested in.
I think that the RnB institution may be interested in distributing in our magazines as our magazine and cover lines all relate and refer to an audience who are interested in RnB as all our cover lines include RnB artists. Another institution that may be interested in distributing in our magazine could be EMAP.
When writing my cover lines, I have been careful when choosing what to write and which artist to include. This is very important as cover lines are one of the key conventions which are used to attract and address an audience. I believe I have chosen good cover lines because they’re ones which our targeted audience can relate to and are interested in. Using these conventions attracts teenagers’ attention; as these days teenagers are more interested in what is going in the music industry, what is going on where and upcoming events they can take part in. For a teenager, media plays a big role in their lives as it is media that is the connection between the young teens and their admired celebrities.
From the process of constructing this magazine front cover I have improved on my designing and structuring skills, I have also learnt more about Adobe Photoshop and its amazing features on editing images and how to do it. Before constructing my magazine front cover I hadn’t had much experience or practice with Photoshop which is why at first I was having slight difficulty on where and how to start. However, after being given a quick run through/tour of the program I felt reassured, started exploring it and finally got the hang of it.
If I were to be given the opportunity to create another magazine front cover, I think I would choose a different issue season and include pictures of males instead of just females. I think including more male pictures on the front cover would attract more male’ attention. Another thing I would change is where and how the front cover image is take, as our magazine is a music magazine it would be more appropriate to take an image where it gives the impression that it is for a music magazine that specialises and that the genre of the magazine is RnB music.
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