Our magazine uses forms and convection's or a real magazine by the way that it is set out. For example 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 so it doesn't seem awkward in comparison to other magazines that are on the market. We didn't want our magazine to seem to similar to other magazines though, so we tried to make it to stand out itself by the name we chose, and the font of the magazine.
Our magazine tries to represent young adults/ teenagers that are attracted to the RnB industry. Most of these teenagers are likely to be attracted to this magazine as many different things in society will make them want to know more about the music industry. Most of these teenagers are from the city and lively areas and the reason for this is because there is a very busy atmosphere and teenagers of this kind are influenced by what they see on television, what their friends do and also what they see and read in magazines. Teenagers that live in this sort of lifestyle want to be like the artists on the magazine covers they see these artists like role models.
My magazine cover has a picture of two bands and one solo artist. The picture of the solo artist may attract mostly girls as the picture is very "wow" but some boys may want to know what the article says about the solo artist and they might want to know what the artist has to offer that is new. The pictures will also mostly attract girls, as girls are more into gossip and knowing about what celebrity and artists are wearing these days, and also who will win the battles in the music charts.
I think that our magazine covers Will be part of the RnB institution because of the fact that most articles are based on RnB artists. Also our magazine covers have young RnB artists on the front covers, this is a good fact because this will attract young people to buy the magazine as RnB is mostly listened to buy young people.
As i have established before, our magazine covers try to attract teenagers from the age of 14-21. I think this is a good audience because when you are at that age you are very interested with celebs and the music industry because it is "cool" and also because you don't want to be left out because of the fact that all you friends and peers know about certain music and artists. Also being at this age you want to be able to know what the artists are wearing, and what the latest trend is and who has had an argument with who and which couples are still together,so this would attract young readers.
The ways we attracted our audience was by using the right clothing in the pictures, the colours this attracts young readers. We used fonts and strap lines that stand out from the pictures and attract the audience to know what the articles are about. Also we kept an affordable pricing on the magazines, not to expensive and not to cheap considering the fact that our magazine is a quarterly magazine. We also tried to make the front covers "bling" but at the same time we kept things simple and not over the top, this is a major point as it would help our magazines to stand out from the others.
By making our magazine covers i learnt that not everything is as easy as it seems. We used the iMac computers to create our magazine covers and it all seemed easy peasy at first but as we started getting on with actually making our magazine covers reality hit us and it wasn't as easy as it seemed. We had to work really hard to cut out some of our pictures from their backgrounds, and this sometimes was hard as some of us didn't choose the best background. Also learning how to organise the layers on the Photoshop Adobe, was hard as sometimes things wouldn't come out the way we were picturing it in our minds. But all in all I've learnt that you can do some clever things with technology but it takes some while to getting used to different programmes and the different methods of using them.
If i was to make another front cover, there would be a couple things that i would change. Firstly i would change the place where we took our pictures as it was quite hard to cut them out from where my group had take them. Also i would have dressed up the "artists"a bit more, make them seem more realistic to the eye.
But in general i think that our magazine covers did come out really good, after all the hard work and effort which was put in to them.
I would definitely make another magazine cover and try and make it look even better than the ones we made this time round.
Our magazine tries to represent young adults/ teenagers that are attracted to the RnB industry. Most of these teenagers are likely to be attracted to this magazine as many different things in society will make them want to know more about the music industry. Most of these teenagers are from the city and lively areas and the reason for this is because there is a very busy atmosphere and teenagers of this kind are influenced by what they see on television, what their friends do and also what they see and read in magazines. Teenagers that live in this sort of lifestyle want to be like the artists on the magazine covers they see these artists like role models.
My magazine cover has a picture of two bands and one solo artist. The picture of the solo artist may attract mostly girls as the picture is very "wow" but some boys may want to know what the article says about the solo artist and they might want to know what the artist has to offer that is new. The pictures will also mostly attract girls, as girls are more into gossip and knowing about what celebrity and artists are wearing these days, and also who will win the battles in the music charts.
I think that our magazine covers Will be part of the RnB institution because of the fact that most articles are based on RnB artists. Also our magazine covers have young RnB artists on the front covers, this is a good fact because this will attract young people to buy the magazine as RnB is mostly listened to buy young people.
As i have established before, our magazine covers try to attract teenagers from the age of 14-21. I think this is a good audience because when you are at that age you are very interested with celebs and the music industry because it is "cool" and also because you don't want to be left out because of the fact that all you friends and peers know about certain music and artists. Also being at this age you want to be able to know what the artists are wearing, and what the latest trend is and who has had an argument with who and which couples are still together,so this would attract young readers.
The ways we attracted our audience was by using the right clothing in the pictures, the colours this attracts young readers. We used fonts and strap lines that stand out from the pictures and attract the audience to know what the articles are about. Also we kept an affordable pricing on the magazines, not to expensive and not to cheap considering the fact that our magazine is a quarterly magazine. We also tried to make the front covers "bling" but at the same time we kept things simple and not over the top, this is a major point as it would help our magazines to stand out from the others.
By making our magazine covers i learnt that not everything is as easy as it seems. We used the iMac computers to create our magazine covers and it all seemed easy peasy at first but as we started getting on with actually making our magazine covers reality hit us and it wasn't as easy as it seemed. We had to work really hard to cut out some of our pictures from their backgrounds, and this sometimes was hard as some of us didn't choose the best background. Also learning how to organise the layers on the Photoshop Adobe, was hard as sometimes things wouldn't come out the way we were picturing it in our minds. But all in all I've learnt that you can do some clever things with technology but it takes some while to getting used to different programmes and the different methods of using them.
If i was to make another front cover, there would be a couple things that i would change. Firstly i would change the place where we took our pictures as it was quite hard to cut them out from where my group had take them. Also i would have dressed up the "artists"a bit more, make them seem more realistic to the eye.
But in general i think that our magazine covers did come out really good, after all the hard work and effort which was put in to them.
I would definitely make another magazine cover and try and make it look even better than the ones we made this time round.
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