Sophie's music magazine cover evaluation

EVALUATION

Our task was to design and create a music magazine cover, with a clear, strong target audience. Our group decided to create a music magazine for young females aged between 15-18, we wanted our magazine to appeal to females with lively social lives and who particulally enjoy partying and also have an interest in fashion and make-up. We decided to name our magazine 'pout' as we beleive the word 'pout' connotes things such as fun, girly, sexy, glamour and is a strong symbol all females can relate to.

Here is the image we used for our magazine logo, as you can see it strongly relates to the name of our magazine.

Our magazine cover has developed forms and conventions of real music magazines, as it has all the same features of a real music magazine cover. For example we have used eye-catching, bold colours on our cover to attract costumers to buy our magazine. We have also advertised exclusive interviews, quiz's and articles on our front cover that are inside our magazine, we have done this so people can know what is inside our magazine just by looking at the front cover, also by our costumers being able to see whats inside our magazine, this will atrract them to buy the magazine in order to read whats inside. I beleive our music magazine also challenges other music magazines as there is not alot of music magazines on the market aimed at only females, whereas ours is. Although our magazine is based on music we have also cleverly encorperated strong elements of fashion and make-up into our magazine, allowing it to be more appealing to our target audience.

Our music magazine cover represents the 'rave', 'party' scene, which is an extremily popular trend many young people are interested in today. We have represented this fun and lively social group by using fun and 'cool' looking girls to appear on our front cover, dressed in brightly coloured 'party' clothes. Not only is this eye-catching on our cover but also our target audience can also relate to the main image on the cover, and get a sence of awarness and environment. the background of the photo on our magazine is a 'typical' rave/party scene, with pink and purple lighting, which adds to the 'girly' effect of our magazine cover, once again helping to attract our target audience.

If i was to make another front cover, i would edit the photograph we used to make it look more proffessional, which would of affected to whole cover, making it look more appealing and a higher standard.