EVALUATION

Our task was to create a music magazine, before we started this, we had to decide on what the genre was going to be for the magazine. I went through many different music magazines to see how their front covers showed their genre. What colours did they use? How was their font different from other magazines? I went through many questions like these, before deciding in a group that we were going to do a Pop music magazine. I think that my magazine has suited ideas from other pop magazines as the features on my front cover are the typical conventions seen on others. My magazine also offers a free lipgloss, this item would be branded by a well known company such as Rimmel.

I thought about what kind of social groups would relate to pop, I thought of the colours pink, red, orange and yellow. These colours were then used on my cover. I made sure that the text on my magazine cover was in these bright colours. The only dark colour I used on the cover was the colour black which was for the banner at the bottom of the page, I knew this would grab attention as it is the only dark colour on the magazine. Social groups are also represented to what kind of stars they would idolise. I have include e.g. Hilary Duff on my front cover because I think she is a dominant figure in the pop world.

My magazine would be sold in newsagents across London, I would advertise the magazine on music channels which only produces pop music. I would think about being in relation with other pop magazines so that my magazine will become recognised and sold efficiently.

The audience which I intend to aim my magazine at are teenage girls. My magazine represents this by using bright colours and everything on the front cover is something only young teenagers would be interested in, e.g. Jonas Brothers, Hilary Duff and Britney Spears.

We wanted the front image to attract girls. The picture had to look fun and something which all teenage girls could relate to. We took pictures with sun glasses, putting lip gloss on and holding a cat! I wanted the front cover image to be what attracted our audience the most. The image I chose was of Nazneen sitting down, I felt it would attract teenagers because she herself is a teenager. Teenagers would automatically pick it up because they'll want to know who she is. The colours in the photo were dull but Nazneen's vest was a bright red colour, which made her stand out. I also decided to attract my audience by making all the text on my magazine in capital letters. Our Masthead was also something which needed to stand out. My group and I thought of the word 'Pout' as the title of our magazine, we felt that the word 'pout' would relate to many female teenagers as it is a cool, hip kind of vocabulary used the teenagers today.

I used Photoshop to manipulate the photos we had taken for our front covers. I could brighten, blur and darken the photos. I found that Photoshop helped a lot, for example in one photograph there was a mistake, and this was easily blurred. I used the internet to access Google where I then got pictures of celebrities. The Apple Mac computer was easy to use and I learnt that it was a good idea to save all your work, otherwise you'd loose everything and this delayed the process of constructing the front cover.

If I was to make a magazine cover again I would make the price of the magazine cheaper. I think that £1.40 is far too expensive for young teenagers. It should be 80p, this would be perfect for a teenager, Considering each persons pocket-money. I would also change my mastheads font to something which is much more eye catching. My front cover image is of one person, this to me makes the cover look empty. More faces would attract more teenagers and fill up the front cover.