Evaluation

My music magazine has many different styles and conventions of a music magazine. It develops by the way every conventions is layed out but in a different way. My music has a Masthead, Banner, Graphic, Main Cover Image, Cover lines, Bar code, Main Cover Line and a Strapline.
The Masthead is title of the magazine, which is NY, which is in bold and white at the top left corner. The Banner is the strap across the top of the page, which is ultimate magazine for teenagers. This shows who the target audience is. The graphic is price, which says only £2.50, which is in a black hexagon written in blue. The main cover image is me and there are some cover lines on the right hand side. The bare code is at the bottom, the main cover line is Ellzz is back which the main story is and the strapline is the sub heading called hip hops greatest. The sub heading also attracts audiences for people who like hip-hop. These are all conventions of a magazine, which I think I have done well by having them all on my music magazine cover.

My music magazine covers a social group for mainly teenagers because the banner says whom it is for. In addition, teenagers are mostly like to listen to hip-hop, the main picture of the magazine is of me, and I am a teenager. In addition, there is a picture of 50cent who is well known to teenagers. It is also for other people that listen to hip-hop because not only teenagers listen to hip-hop. Hip-hop is for a variety of people and can really be listened to by anyone who likes it.

The type of media institution, which might distribute my magazine, is the hip-hop magazines itself and the radio. The reason for hip-hop magazines is because the genre of my magazine is hip-hop and it being in a hip-hop magazine will be able to help the target audience to know what the latest and new coming artists. Also the radio because when your listening to your hip hop music you will be able to hear the latest hip hop magazines out. In addition, why listening to a tune they will be hearing the artist and will be able to refer to magazines knowing the artist.

The audience for this magazine is for teenagers and young adults. The reason for this is that the main image is of a teenager. That shows the most of the music magazine is going to be about young teenager hip-hops. It will attract young adults because if the genre and maybe the dress code, what I am wearing. It may also attract other audiences. E.G people that like 50cent. 50cent is a well know hip-hop artist and people are used of seeing him and no what he looks like. The reason for this is that theirs a picture of him in the bottom left corner.

It attracted the teenage audience in many different ways. One of the reasons is that it has a main picture of me. I am a teenager and audiences will be able to see that. Also the picture of 50cent. Teenagers and young adults no him and having seen him they will want to buy the magazine.
I also used big bold font this will grab people’s attention because it is easy for them to see. I also had a sub heading of hip hops greatest which will mean the best of hip-hop in which many people will want to buy because it has the best.

From the process of constructing my magazine cover, I have learnt many different techniques. I have learnt how to use Microsoft Photoshop, which we used to make our front covers. It made the front covers realistic like it was actual magazine from the shop. I also learnt many different attributes u can use in Photoshop e.g. cutting a picture from a background. I also learnt all the main conventions of magazines, which will help me for later projects. I liked my music magazine cover because I used most of the conventions. I liked the colours I used blue, black, white they all went in well together. I also used my own picture, which was unusual because no one from my group did that. I also used different fonts. That also made it realistic.

If I was to make another front cover this time, it will be different colour and will have a different layout. I would probably take a picture sum were else e.g. music studio this will make it much more realistic for a hip-hop genre. I would also put more pictures but fade them into the background to make it more realistic. I may also would like to do a group photo because they stand out quite a lot.