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In my music magazine it uses and challenges the conventions of a real magazine because it has more or less the same layout. The layout of my magazine is similar to the layout of a real music magazine that is being sold today, because I have developed my magazine in a similar way to a real magazine by adding strap lines, to make it more aesthetically pleasing for its reader, overheads to draw in the readers attention, conventions such as the main picture right on the front middle of the page.
My music magazine cover represents certain social groups because of the main picture. It shows a group of young people all together advertising fun times. There for making it claer this is a young peoples magazine. Also the headings and sub headings attract a certain type of social group that has a preference for 'Funky House music' rather than a reader that you could say is into 'Jazz' or 'pop' music.
The main audience for my music magazine cover would be probely for the ages from fifthteen to eighteen, and any 'Funky House' lovers. In my magazine the main genre is 'funky house' so i would highly doubt that an adult would be included in the audience attracted to my magazine. 'Funky House' music is a type of music designed especially for teens because its fun, immature and spontaneouse. The different beats get you in a certain mood where you can't help but move in an awkward way. So i think it more relates to young people.
I attracted my audience with my main picture of a group of teens expressing their style and minds, with funky colourful clothes and actions. My straplines also attracted my audience with prize give aways, competitions ect. printed in big bold letters,in colours like black and white which i thought were plain but still stood out. Also i decided to go with a bold bright colour and a simple boarder which i thought would capture my readers eye.
I have learnt certain things about technologie that i could never have thought of myself. Photoshop is one of the things i think technologie has got right. It has so many exciting affects that helped me in a great way when constructing my magazine front cover. It helped me expand and develop my own ideas, e.g when i was cutting out my pictures and pasting them all together, i would have taken one big picture of everyone which probely wouldn't have looked so effective, or in changinging the colours and effects of my background or even the clothes the people on my front cover where wearing.
If i was to make another front cover, even doe i am highly proud of the one i have made, i think i would add more effects to it like colour fading, mix up the sizes of the letters, make it more graphical and abstract with the pictures than how it is now. But apart from that i don't think i would make anything to different next time.