Evaluation

My magazine main genre is hip-hop and a slight of hippie style. My group decided that as hip-hop was most common we thought it would be best to make the music magazine about it, as we know a lot about hip-hop and most people enjoys it. The colours I used in my magazine were mostly black and some other bright colours to make the writing stand out.

My Music Magazine front cover has some similarities of a real music magazine like the basic of every magazine i.e. bar code, price, and date are positioned down bottom. My masthead is in big font and positioned in the top left corner of the page, like most magazines. The main cover image is always in the middle and is cropped as a full page to attract the audience and bring the main “story” out. My main cover line is in big purple font so that it can stand out from the rest of the text, making the readers know what’s the main “story”. In my “main” cover line I have used basic mode of address like “slang” language and exclamation marks. My cover lines are placed on the left hand side of the page and are in simple smaller text like in most magazines moreover I have add “sell lines” on the right hand side of the page. The graphic I used are highlighted in a banner and has a special offer saying, “Free magazine for every reader”.

My Music Magazine represents certain social groups like “young teenagers” and our aim are to the make sure it falls into the hip-hop industry. My cover shows a contrast between old fashion and modern style as like “hip-hop and peace makers”. Hip-hop is one of the most watched genres and teenagers love seeing new things therefore having thought of what hip-hop involves I try to add interesting stories to my music magazine. The two girls are looking into the camera showing a lot of emotion and connecting with the audience however, “Elizz” is looking down and is mostly showing his hat, showing that this is a type of pose to make the audience wonder who it is and want to find out who the person is too.

The music magazine is aimed at the hip-hop industries and a twist of peace makers, which doesn’t often blends together in a music magazine but overall it is meant to stand out in the hip-hop category. I believe that the media institution suitable for my magazine should belong to a big company so that the magazine should become worldwide.

The target readers for my magazine should be urban teenagers and young adults who are interested in hip-hop music. To make the target readers interested I added strap line like “50cent Exclusive interview” to target and attract new readers.

I used different techniques to grab reader’s attention. The colours in the magazine make it stand out from other hip-hop magazine and I also used bold fonts to grab readers attention when there scanning through the magazine shelves. There are some Photoshop editing used in my magazine to improve the quality of the picture.

The technology from the process of the magazine help me learn that Photoshop is actually not that difficult to use and there are many functions that I can use on my own image or college work.

If I had a chance to make my magazine a better one I would have made the front cover image stand out even more and also make sure that the image actually connects with the audience (includes the people, clothes and the arrangement) and the genre. Moreover, I would have typed up more advertising stories to attract the readers to buy it. Through many effort I put in to this work I am pleased on my outcome and enjoyed every practical work.