EVALUATION OF MAG COVER

Media Evaluation

My magazine cover has all the typical conventions of the front cover of a magazine.
The main image is the cover with added information to make it look more like the typical cover of a magazine. My main image uses natural light because it was taken outside so there was no need to add or take anything away from the image. The layout works well for my magazine because it is a very glamorous looking background, all the flowers and tree’s all seem to fit into the right place. When taking the picture I did not really concentrate on the colours I was using but they came out to be matching pinks, which gave me the colour theme for my front cover. What I am wearing is not typical of a front cover. I am not wearing glamorous clothing, but instead what real people would wear because my magazine is also representative of the typical working class people as well as the glamorous lifestyle of music artists. The body language in my main image represents calm, cool and relaxed, but where my shoulders are raised slightly and my legs are crossed shows that, I am open but I am not saying everything there is to say.
The language used is formal English, so that it not just appeals to my target audience but it could appeal to people a little older if they are interested in hip-hop and r’n’b music. The font used is Comic Sans to show the relaxation of the magazine on the main story, whereas the more important aspects of the magazine such as the ‘REAL LIFE STORIES’ and ‘JAZZIE B AND STYLEZ SORT OU YOUR PROBLEMS’ use the sturdier font of wide Latin to show that it is more important because it relates to real life. To promote the magazine and for people to but it , the promotional offer is £20 worth of free music from itunes , so it will attract a lot of readers, I put the offer in bright red so it stands out from the rest of the text and people would notice it. The genre for my magazine is hip-hop and r’n’b music.
My magazine cover represents working class because of the main story, I am not famous but I am still on the front cover for going out with 50 cent, which shows that you do not necessarily need to be famous to get on the front cover of the magazine. My magazine is representative of famous artists and also of artists who are as big as other music artists. My magazine also represents artists from both America and England.
The Media institution that might distribute my magazine would be an independent publisher because my magazine is not typical of all magazines because as well as covering famous people I also represent people who are not famous. So my magazine could not rely on sources already out because there is more than one type of social group to cover.
The audience for my magazine would be teenagers and young adults aged 13-25, because at 13 teenagers start getting into celebrities but by the age of 25 people start growing out of keeping up to date with celebrities. I attracted my target audience by the use of the colour pink to attract the female readers and blue and red to attract the male audience because they are colours representative of the male audience.
From using Photoshop I have learnt that you can manipulate an image to make it look completely different to how it was originally taken. I used digital cameras to take pictures of the people on my front cover, however I used google to obtain the image of Ray-J. I saved the images on the desktop and then added them to the front cover.
If I were to make another front cover I would put more planning into the layout of the cover, I spent no time planning it; so planning would male it better. I would also change the main image and make it a bit more representative of a person who went out with someone as famous as 50 cent. I would also change the image of the upcoming artists to something more representative of music artists, and take away the college passes. I would also add a crest to show the authenticity of the magazine so people know that this magazine is a magazine they can trust and the information is true and real. The bright colours on the cover represent light and positive ness. The large writing about the main artist shows the importance of the main image, because at the moment she is the most talked about person.

The price of my magazine is typical of the amount it would usually cost to buy a typical music magazine. The price is not too expensive and it is not too cheap. The price is 2.75 because in most issue’s something is being given away for free, so the price is also to cover the expense of the items that we are giving away for free.