Magazine plan

Magazine plan

Title-Base

Genre-Rock, Hip Hop, RnB.

Frequency of publication-Monthly

Cost of magazine- £3.50

Contents of magazine-Top 40, awards (MOBO, MTV, VMA)

Target audience- teens- 30's

The photoshoot- The concepts of the photos was to take it infront of a brick wall. The reason why we thought of this was to connect the audience by having the images taken outside on the streets. On the day of the photoshoot we didn't just take images infront of a wall we also took pictures of the wall by itself and other varius colourful backgrounds so that we can edit ourselves infront of it.

The evaluation

Base magazine the conventions of a music magazine cover by having the bar code and the price of the issue so that its buyable to the audience, it has a main image in the centre with eye contact being made to the camera to draw and to attract the audience. Cover lines with right hand justification, a masthead in big font and to the left hand side so that the first letters can be read if the magazine is overlapped by other magazines on a shelf. And a strapline of the magazines website, so that the audience can visit the magazines wewebsite for more information. The title of the magazine cover BASE, appeals to everyone who listens to music. The reason why the title is called BASE is because when music is turned up very loud it has base.

My music magazine cover represents certain social groups by having quite a range of different styles of music information from, rock to hip hop, or a comparison from old skool the 80's to new skool the millenium. It also covers certain social groups by having a tennage female on the front cover of the magazine, which is also to make the magazine appeal to gairls and not just boys.

The audience of my music magazine cover would be from teens plus. This is because it covers quite a range of artists that apppeal to a different audience artists such as...  

Kings of Leon,who appeal to mainly teen boys and up.

Maroon 5, whose ,main target audience is teen girls and women over 20.

Danity Kane who mainly appeal to teen girls, women and some boys.

 

The script who appeals to older teens to mid 20's male and female.

It's also aimed at a big audience becuase it gets more people buying the magazine which will make it one the best selling magazines. It appeals to teenagers by having a young person on the magazine cover and it appeals to the 20's and over by comparing old songs and collaberations with new ones which shows how music has evolved over the time.

I have learnt about constructing this magazine front cover by using technology to edit a normal photo and turning it into a magazine front cover. Using Photoshop helps a lot to change a photo taken from a digital camera then saved onto the computer to make it look like a music magazine front cover. I got told first how to use Photoshop and how to change varius parts of the image cloning a certain part of the image and making it appear twice. This also can be used, for example, to cover writing on a shirt as it may say something that is not relevant to the magazine cover. Eventhough i did get help a few times and shown how to use it before after a while i did get the hang of it, and i started to add on all the cover lines and the bar code and adding more colour to cover lines and changing the font of it.

If i had the chance to make another front cover i would wear darker clothes and do a more of a rock issue instead. The reason why i would have darker clothes is so that it can represent a more of a rock image than to have a bage dress on which represents more of a pop magazine to the audience. To improve the Base magazine even more as an overall is to have the group agree more and to decide what we want our magazine covers to look very similar than having varius things that dont match when you are comparing all four magazines.