My music magazine was not stating the obvious, music and charts. The editors decide to take the magazine to another level and felt that we should approach are target audience ‘heart-to-heart’. Therefore, I decided to make the magazine a bit of a personal approach, I decided to take it to the ‘hood’, and have that balanced understanding. It should use similar features like activities around different areas but at the same time, I had considered that it should be linked to music in some way, as after all it is a music magazine. I believe this would encourage readers to understand music can be thought of and considered in many ways. I have also included a promotional offer on the banner of the page. This offers readers free CD demo- this is constructive way of reaching to first time reader on how well the magazine is sold. This is a great strategy used to get readers hook into buying magazines in routine.My magazine cover is a hip-hop/ R ‘n’ b based music magazine. My magazine has used the typical convention of a hip-hop magazine. This is evident because my magazine has features of different aspect of r ‘n’ b and hip-hop magazine. This was done by different uses of colour coordination, the layout and font. On my front cover ‘Gus’ is featured wearing a stripy jumper with matching grey jeans and a ‘new era’ hat which is symbolic of a the genre. The picture was taken behind a while background so it was easy to cut out. Social groups are represented in so many different ways and my magazine would be suitable magazine for people who take a respectable interest for Hip Hop & RnB.
I think that will community workers or those who work with young people distribute my music magazine cover as it is different to your the typical Hip Hop and RnB style magazines. They would probably try to encourage or show the young audience that these genres are not about image or a specific social group. This maybe a scheme they would use to keep young people off the streets and have somthing they enjoy doing to do. This would probably keep them off the streets.
TWANG! that was the name of the magazine title the group decided to choose. We just form a group of four to producer four magazine covers. TWANG! magazine is a music and entertainment magazine and will mainly consist of is RnB and Hip-hop. The audience for my music magazine cover are young boys/men aged 13-25. Although the age gap is quiet wide us editors decides to take this project on board. Thirteen year olds and twenty-five year olds may not share the same thoughts and opinions as each other. But the editors of TWANG! Believe and take into account that RnB and Hip Hop fans are only into the same music, This was looked as a my group had asked people in between the two age group about what artists they are into.The name that had repeated quiet frequently were artists such as JayZ, Beyonce ,lil-wayne and Ciara, which are the older type of artists from this genre. The magazine is to help the younger audience encourage them to understand the conventions of the genre. Lil Wayne was one of our great attractions as he is now probably the world’s biggest RnB artist now!With an exclusive interview, we hope to have many music fans very pleased. Exclusive was a more that was used a lot in the magazine. This was mainly to do with image. As RnB listens were images with having an edge and to have the latest things which I feel has something to do with their social status.The structure of this front cover was created using Photoshop. My media class let me use facilities that had enabled me to do various things with the new equipment used and latest technologically was introduced to me. However, I think that not putting a real image and replacing it with a computer changes the image can seem rather deceiving. This was done with the picture of ‘Gus’. With Gus’s picture I used Photoshop to clear blemishes and give him a celebrity look.If I were to make another music magazine front cover for the same company “TWANG!”.
I would try to show more of its feminine side as it seem as the if it’s a male dominated music magazine. when I mentioned it being male dominated I meant that way it was mainly pictures of male artist such as lil wayne and 'Gus'. this would probably not attract the attention of the female readers as much.I also want to see what age group are actually buying the magazine whether older teenagers (16+) would still by the Hip Hop/ RnB magazine if younger age category would still by it as well. It would be helpful to see if there were any differences but also take note of comparisons, if there were to be any to make changes and evaluate the situation.
