My Magazine will be released every 2 weeks, the same as my group members. MIX IT UP! Is the name of my magazine cover, it is named “MIX IT UP!” because it is a mix genre of Hip Hop and Funky House. There is also a strap-line underneath the title of the magazine for first time readers who don’t know what the magazine is about. I and my group members made our magazine covers to look similar to the music magazines on the high street but at the same time different to capture the reader’s eyes. My magazine cover does this by having the main music artist in large taking up most of the page and with large bright front across the body of the pictures to state to the reader who the main article is about within the magazine. This is a good way to draw in the reader because the first thing they would notice would be the pictures the right underneath they will see the names of the artist to further entice and inform the reader. The colours used in my magazine front cover are very limited but there is a reason for this. Throughout my cover there is only 3 colours used, which are white, black and red The reason being is that I did not want my magazine to be too colourful to detract the reader from the main point of my issues of my “MIX IT UP!” which is the two artist. This form of using pictures and use of colour and positioning of words is a similar convention of magazines on the high street right now.
My magazine cover represents a certain social group that are interested in Hip Hop and Funky House, that like to know about the upcoming artist and new album releases and so forth. The income of these people would be rather lower or no income at all because they would most probably be studying. There interest would be similar such as like to go clubbing and drinking.
The target audience will be age from 16 – 20 of both genders but more so towards male side that live in urban cities such as London, the reason I state that it should be city young adults is that this is where most Hip Hop and Funky House audience are situated, where there is many clubs that play this sort of music, some clubs that even do both types of music in the club at one time. This magazine wouldn’t be targeted at the young that live in the rural area because isn’t a large audience to sell to due to the fact that there isn’t any clubs for them to go to listen to and they generally listen to more slow relaxing music. There is the odd group of people in the rural areas that may listen to Hip Hop and Funky House but as we are trying to selling as much magazines as possible we would rather go for the majority of the market rather than the small minority of people that may listen to it. The way that our target audience will know that this magazine is targeted at them is by the choice of my pictures, I deliberately choose 2 young males for my front cover to convey to the target audience that this is aimed towards the young and for both Hip Hop and Funky House music lovers, my choice of picture does this by having a young male on the left to covey the Hip Hop side of the magazine because he is wearing a baseball cap and has a large shinny watch with a baggy t shirt. This is the standard clothing of a Hip Hop artist. On the other hand on the right hand side we have another young male but this time to convey the Funky House side of the magazine, this is also brought across by what he wears the main point of it would have to be his headphones which signifies to the target audience that he must be some sort of DJ. My background that I have chosen has further emphasised that music genre, because it is an image of the inside of a club, which associates with the music genre.
To further entice and attract in my audience I used such advertising strategies such as “freebies” such as the one on my magazine cover which is a free mix tape when they buy the magazine. I placed this in the top left hand corner so when they read the title of the magazine cover they notice the free mix tape icon in the corner which is in red font and has a black background to make the writing standout to further persuade the reader to buy the magazine. To further draw in the reader there is an additional insight to what is to come with the magazine, towards the bottom left that stats what else there is inside the magazine by the + sign to signify more articles inside.
From designing and making my magazine cover on an Imac and used software called Photoshop. This was the first time I have ever used an Imac and also Photoshop so I found it difficult to use but gradually got the hang off how to use Photoshop after a short lesson with the technician. I was taught how to cut images out, but it was only easy to cut images out if the background was contrasting to person and his or her clothing. I was also taught how to design backgrounds and how to use different font styles and colours. I also found it difficult to use the Imac mouse because it only had one click and no right click, as I am use to using Windows which uses both right and left click. I have learnt from technology that it takes a very long time and effort to make a good magazine cover.
If I was to make another front cover I think I would change the front style and also make the title of the magazine more noticeable by using a larger font size. I would probably add more pictures of people to make the cover less plain but not too much so it looks cluttered.
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