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From my preliminary task to my main task I think I think my progress in Photoshop has improved and developed. I now understand Photoshop better and can do more things than I could do before, for example I know now how to edit pictures and how to change the colour of just the texts background and many more techniques.

The Photoshop device I used to most was the magic wand tool I learnt that this deleted the background of a picture and can mark out what you want deleted. I used this mainly to delete the backgrounds of my pictures so the pictures would mainly be the model with a white background to make her stand out more, so the readers don’t get distracted by the background image. Another Photoshop device I used was the clone stamp tool this removes any unwanted things on my image to make the things I want stand out. Another good Photoshop device is the text box this allows me to add text to my magazine to make it looked packed with information and interesting. I also learnt that another good device is the heeling brush this can get rid of any spots or moles I don’t want on my model in the pictures to make her skin seem smoother and better quality picture.

For my main task I researched more real magazines than I did with my preliminary task to find out what normal magazines layouts are like to give me some ideas and to make it more realistic than the first time I used Photoshop. The sort of magazine I researched for my music magazine was NME and Q because they both are interesting and stand out and that’s the effect I wanted for my magazine. I also asked for advice and ideas to my target audience which I didn’t do for my preliminary task, this improved my work because I found out what they actually wanted to read about and how they would buy it. My written skills have also improved since my preliminary task because I have researched more and have more of an understanding and an interest of music so it was easier to write information about it and also I am part of the aim of my target audience which helped me understand what I would like inside and what to read.

The target audience appeal made me choose my layout of a sort of edgy, different style of fonts on the front cover to make it look different and stand out from the rest I chose the ‘REBOARD’ font from Photoshop. For my featured article I wanted to have one side of pictures and one side of text to even it out and use as much room on the page to make it looked packed, the audience would attract to lots of information.

The programs I have used whilst making my music magazine was mainly adobe Photoshop and I used Flickr and Blogger for my evaluation of the magazine.

The advantages of using adobe Photoshop is that it was good for changing the effects of the pictures by making them brighter or changing the contrast etc., I also learnt by using this that you can add background colour to any text you want which is good by making it stand out. However the disadvantage by using this programme is that it can get complicated and confusing when trying to do a simple thing for example just a straight line sometimes wouldn’t show and if you want to move one thing on the page you need to find the right layer then move it, which takes up more time than just clicking the thing on the page. When using Photoshop I had to think about my pictures I was going to take for my magazine for example I had to think about the camera angle to what would fit with the page and went with the magazine pages, I used mostly mid shots and long shots. I learnt to consider the background to see what would be easiest to edit and what would go with the text, the shot distance so I know where to crop on the programme. I was pleased with the pictures on my featured article because I edited them to make them sharper and stand out more and went well with the range of pictures I put together on the page.

The advantages of using Flickr is that it looks neat and tidy by still seeing the whole picture and only seeing the boxes when hovering over a part to make it clear what part I was talking about, I learnt how to post my Flickr image onto my blog which is an easy and quick step. However the disadvantages of using Flickr is that if you want to look at the information in the boxes you have to keep hovering over the part which can be annoying and is hard to read all the information because they only stay up for so long, also another disadvantage is that you have to rely on an internet website which can crash or run slowly especially when there are lots of students of the same website at college. http://www.flickr.com/.

The advantages of using Blogger is that you can separate your posts into sections to make it more organised and so you know where to find some information, I learnt while using this programme that you can add images onto your posts to make it look more interesting for the readers so they have a better understanding of the information. However the disadvantages of using this is that it is again a free internet website and the website can crash and you could lose all of your text you was going to post because it might not load back up which means you have to start your work again. http://www.blogger.com/.

My music magazine speaks in the language of my target audience by using word such as ‘fresh’ and ‘massive’ which is slang words which the younger age would use rather than high class with an older age group. It also speaks in the language of my target audience by adding a ‘dear editors’ column, this is so the target audience have more to do with the magazine and can be a part of it, and also they get to hear what else people there age range think about the magazine as well.

The magazine will attract my target audience because I have used 2 main colours throughout the magazine (red and black) to make it look stylish and cool for them, I have also made the page sizes smaller than a real/regular magazine I done this to make it handier and useful for the readers, I have made the pages a ‘handbag’ size this is to have room to put it in their bag nicely. My target audience would like a smaller magazine because it is aimed for younger girls which are stereotypically ‘girly girls’ who are into their looks, so there would be more room for their makeup or other items in their bag as well as keeping the magazine in their bag. They would want to buy my magazine because it is reliable with the information by adding quotes from celebrities to show it is a big and good magazine and it is useful with fashion and workout tips which most people are looking for. They would also buy it because it is a trendy magazine for the target audience because I added in the magazine everything that would attract them and what sort of music and styles they are into.

On the front cover of my music magazine I have made it attract my target audience by adding 2 images of a trendy girl who is the same target audience as my magazine so people will be interested and want to look inside to find out more. I have also given them a chance to win tickets to the top big gig events, which my target audience and age group would be interested in because mainly the younger group attend to music festivals then the older group, I gave them the chance to win tickets so they will buy and look inside the magazine to find out how to win them. I have also added in a quote on the front cover saying ‘This should be massive!’ to attract them by making it seem really good for them to read it. The colours I have used are good for my target audience because the colours go well together and the red brightens up the magazine, I have used roses in one of the pictures to follow the colour scheme and showing red as a ‘sexy and attractive’ side for the girls. Also on my contents page I have made it attract my target audience by using a quote from a celebrity they would look and saying how good the magazine is to attract them into buying it because the celebrity said it’s good. I have also mentioned celebrities that my target audience would like and enjoy. On my featured article I have made the article about a new young artist who wants to be big and giving a profile information about her so people her age can relate and can get to know stars before they are famous and before they are big by having the first look, this will attract them because they would want to know first before anyone else.
I added all of these things into my magazine because I kept getting feedback and asking people who are my target audience and what they would like in the magazine to help me, to make it a good magazine for them and what sort of music and styles they are into, to make it the best magazine for their target audience.

My target audience for my music magazine is mainly for teenage girls to younger adults around the age 15-25 with a middle class background. The target audience is mainly ‘girly girls’ who are into their fashion and looks because my magazine contains a lot of fashion advice as well as music topics.

The demographic profile for my target audience is the age of 15-25 single females who live in a normal local area, who love fashion and shop as a hobby with a social status of B (middle class). The taste of music my target audience would be mostly interested in would be country, pop, hip-hop music; I believe this because girly girls are mostly into calm music rather than heavy rock music this is why I advertised all the pop artists in the charts in my magazine to attract them. The sort of films my target audience would be interested in would be mainly a romance or comedy type of film such as love actually and Americas next top model programme because it is to do with fashion.

Using demographics I think my music magazine matches to my target audience because there are many topics such as fashion and music which is more for females because there isn’t any clothes or fashion tips for the males and I have used all female models in my magazine so they can relate to the topics better.

A psychographic profile for my target audience it would be mainly aspirers because they want a luxury life style yet still haven’t got one as they are not as rich.

My target audience would buy my music magazine because I kept in mind what they would like and what sort of the artists they would like to see and there type of music by adding relevant artists to the magazine to keep them interested. Also I have kept in the mind the target audiences hobbies such as shopping and I have added topics to do with shopping to keep them interested. I have also thought about the price of the magazine, because it is aimed at a middle class audience I made the cost of the magazine in between cheap and expensive so it will be affordable for them yet not a waste of money so they would buy it.

The sort of products that could be advertised into my magazine would be mostly beauty products such as perfume, makeup, and clothing lines. And perhaps designer labels such as Chanel would be relevant because it is a high class so they could afford it and would attract them. This is because my target audience are aimed for people who take care of themselves and are into their looks and a girly girl, so advertising for a hoover or cleaning products would be completely unnecessary because that would be more for the working class.

contents page

front cover

My music magazine is most likely to be published by a large/medium publisher such as Bauer (the largest privately owner publisher in Europe) or Dennis (medium size publisher) because my magazine has a smaller target audience, whereas other magazine have a wider range of target audiences for their magazine which attracts more people. However it will be known as a fashionable magazine which will attract a lot of my target audience but my magazine is not aimed at both genders whereas NME has a target audience of both genders (which is a large publisher) so it will be more common and more popular than my magazine. It wouldn’t be a small publisher like Clash because I do think my magazine could become successful and quite well known through Europe.

The advantages of going with a big company such as IPC would be that it would become well known around the world and become a very popular magazine than it would be publishing with Clash because it wouldn’t go far and would only publish around locally so it wouldn’t be as popular. Another advantage of publishing with IPC is that you could earn more money because it would be a popular magazine which the target audience would be buying monthly and starting a trend to buy it, if publishing with Clash it wouldn’t sell as much which wouldn’t make as much money for people to buy it because it wouldn’t be a well-known magazine.

However the disadvantages of going with a big company like IPC is that it could affect your editorial independence because it would cost a lot more money to publish it out to make it world-wide and if no one buys the magazine they will be become bankrupt and lose their magazine because they are not getting any profits, perhaps by not publishing enough. Some magazines will probably have an online version of their magazine or a radio station to help to promote the magazine if you want the magazine to be well-known.

On the bottom left picture there is the photo I took for my magazine and the top right picture is a photo I found from a real magazine feature article.

The similarities between these photos are that I made my model have the same posture and gesture as the real magazine I done this by getting her to sit in the same way as the real magazine by sitting on the floor with her knees up with arms wrapped round the legs, I done this to make it look more spread out and different to the rest of the pictures I took of them standing up and makes it look more relaxed and effortless. The expressions on both of the models faces have a small smile to make it look cheeky and a hint of flirting to appeal to the male audience as well. They both look straight at the camera again for that flirtatious mood again to attract the readers. I chose the same angle and shot type as a long shot by seeing her whole body and also at eye level to make the photo more realistic and not so fake. Both of the lighting in the photos uses bright colours to make it set a happier mood and a relaxed style to the magazine. Another similarity between both the pictures is that I tried to use the same sort of outfit which is a simple short white dress with heels and her hair down to make it look dressed up but relaxed as well by sitting down. I have reinforced a stereotype of women in short dresses and being flirtatious all the time, I done this to attract both of the target audiences so they can both be interested in it. I have represented the females as a ‘sex symbol’ by being flirty and trying to impress people by their costumes and heels. Both of these pictures shows the same class in them which is middle class because they both are relaxed and are more laid back with their body language than most models would pose like so the middle class could relate to them.

The differences between both of the pictures is that the posture is slightly different because in the real magazine the model has both of her arms wrapped round her legs which shows a shy and insecure mood but for my magazine I wanted the photo to be more show a more confident side and to make her body language more open, I done this by resting one of her arms on her knee to be more relaxed.

My music magazine has a pro-consumerist stance by it attracting the younger partying teenagers, in the press teenagers going out partying a lot are represented negatively however in my magazine they are represented positively because the subcultures are the target audience and the magazine is for them. My target audience are for the younger girls who go out drinking and partying on nights out, this is because a higher percentage of younger girls go out partying.

My music magazine has the majority of conventions that a music magazine should have, for example on my front cover I have used all the techniques to make it look like a front cover. I made the main title the biggest font of the whole page to show that it is the name of the magazine and to make it stand out from the rest. I added onto the front cover a barcode, the dateline, web address, price, text what to find inside the magazine and a main picture that would normally be on a magazine. On my front cover I have used only 3 different fonts to not make it look messy and to make it look professional. I also only used 3 colours for my font so it doesn’t look messy and to make it look consistent and have a theme throughout my magazine. The title I chose for my magazine was ‘Rouge’ I chose this because it is the French world for red and then I could use the red colour throughout the magazine to show I have related to the title. I have chosen 2 pictures for the front page, the main picture is in the middle of the page at a longshot angle, I chose this picture it is a casual picture in normally clothes to show anyone can buy the magazine and is a middle class magazine for younger people. The other picture I chose was a girl lying in roses at a close up to be more personal, this effect shows the colour scheme of red again and also a ‘sexier’ side to the magazine to show it has a variety of styles.

On my contents page I have still followed the conventions of what a real music magazine should be like for example I still have a main title which is bigger than the rest of the text to show what page it is, I have also added a few pictures to make it more interesting for the readers by having more of a visual idea about the magazine and the style of it for my target audiences. I also added a ‘dear editors’ column on my contents page so the readers can relate to the magazine and can write up, so they could be involved into the magazine and to hear the readers point of view and comments to see what they really think of it. I have added a quote on the page which most magazines would have to make it more realistic. I have also added page numbers on where to find the page inside the magazine that they are looking for, this is what you would normally see on a contents page. The images I chose for my contents page is a model posing at a photo shoot at a mid-shot angle to show it is to do with fashion as well as music and I have also added an image of a normal girl listening to her iPod also at a mid-shot angle to show it is to do with music as well.

I have followed the conventions of what a real music magazine featured article would be like to mine and they also match up. I have used a lot of text and more information than my other pages to find out about the new singer, I have added more than one picture to make it more realistic for the readers, I have also used the same colours that I have throughout the magazine to show the theme of the magazine to make it look professional and more conventional to a real magazine.

The genre of my magazine that I have produced is mainly pop I have shown this in my magazine by adding bright and fun pictures throughout the pages it is aimed for the younger target audience. The magazines that influenced my music magazine were magazines like ‘Q’ by using the same colour schemes as theme by going with a red and white style and have a white title with a red background. I also was influenced by ‘rolling stones’ magazine by using one main picture and not a lot of text and to make the text around the picture quite big so there isn’t too much information for the readers to read and look to packed.

Magazine title font ideas

'Ecstasy' was a name idea for my magazine however i didn't think it went well with my target audience so in the end i named my magazine 'ROUGE' which is better because it sounds more to do with fashion and suits my target audience. I have made my font ideas look different and make it stand out from the rest off the magazine. The font i am going to use is the bottom of the left side font 'REBOARD' because it gives it a edgy and exciting look.

Breakdown of cast, props, setting, location report for magazine

My pictures I will take for my magazine will relate to my target audience, they will be bright, flowery to attract the younger audience.

For my front cover picture I will take for my music magazine will be the picture of my friend in quite revelling clothing and make it look like she is famous by looking confident. Her makeup will be bright colours to make her face stand out and look fashionable. I will take different types of photos so I can have a selection of what to pick from. Some of the props I will use will be an iPod to show it is a music magazine, a big flower to show it is for the younger age to make it look pretty, vintage sunglasses to make it look a fashionable magazine. The setting and the location will be with a plain white background to show the image can blend onto the page nicely and to make it look professional and look like she is a proper model and in a proper studio is also makes it look simple and not too much and to make the person stand out more with no background.

For my contents page I will add more pictures of different people to show a variety and show both the topics of fashion and music. The location and setting could still be with a plain background to make the pictures stand out however there could be some with a different background with young girls laughing such as a snowy background to show fun and happiness. The props they will use won’t matter as much as the front cover but I doubt I will use any props and just show people having fun with their friends or serious modelling pictures to show the fashion side again.

For my 2 page spread feature article I will take some pictures of a group of girls looking like a girl band, they will dress formal and going out clothes to show they are serious, I will get them to wear near the same colour clothing to make it look serious and not messy. I will take some serious modelling picture of them posing like a girl group and like the girl band ‘the Saturdays’ and I will take some of them laughing together to show they are close friends. This will be for the interview about them. The setting and location will be in a normal room with them being normal to show they aren’t big and are normal people trying to get a music career.

Front cover picture ideas:

Initial ideas for your own music magazine

For my music magazine the target audience is going to be for teenage girls to younger adults around the age 15-25 with a middle class background. My magazine is going to be a mix between music and fashion topics to attract the younger girls, the colours are going to be bright and stick with 2 or 3 colours so it doesn’t look messy. The pictures are going to be of young girls the same age as the target audiences so they can relate to the magazine. My magazine will be related to pop music to attract the younger girls because that’s the type of music they enjoy the most.

The front cover is going to be simple with one main picture of a girl with text around the picture I have taken myself to show it is like a normal magazine.

For the contents page I will have a few more pictures inside to make it stand out when you open the page, I will stick to the colours I chose for the front cover throughout the magazine to show there is a colour scheme and to make it look neat. I will add the page numbers bigger than the page information because through the other magazines I looked at they look good.

For my 2 page spread I will have a new pop girl band trying to get into the charts and start their music up which would attract the younger girls, there will be a big picture of them and an interview underneath telling everyone what they are like and there style etc. The colours will also be the same on this page however there could be a few more colours to show a change and more colourful and brighter to go with the target audience.

Full analysis of one music magazine

The magazine is made for females and is more for females than males. The class for this magazine is set at 75% ABC1 and 39% of AB it is more for the higher class because the cost of the magazine is £3.50 and is a high amount of money for a magazine. Also they worked out that the average age range for this magazine is 30. They have worked out what the readers enjoy and how they think they look and how long they spend on their appearance, they worked out that:
•79% look after their appearance & image
•78% think it’s important to look well dressed
•More than twice as likely to spend a lot on clothes, compared to other women
•73% more likely to wear a valuable watch
So this is what they will add into the magazine if this is what they found out about their target audience readers.

InStyle magazine is a well-known magazine, in this magazine there are many adverts and selling products to promote them that all related to the style of the magazine, they do this because InStyle magazine sells thousands of copies a month and will have more chance of the readers looking at them. This magazine is aimed for females so the products that will be advertised will be products a female would buy, and by the facts they found out about their target audience they will add products that will look after their appearance because 79%of people do. The products I found that has been advertised in this magazine was perfume, Gucci watches, Chanel, D&G, makeup, hair products, clothes, cars, jewellery, shoes, face cream. These are products that females would mostly buy, all of the products are expensive brands they added this into this magazine because this magazine is for higher class people. Half of the magazine was added my adverts this is for my promotion and over 60% of the adverts were to do with branded perfume.

On the front cover of the magazine is has 2 main colours black and white they done this to make it look sophisticated and follow the class range of higher class, it makes it look professional and neat. They have made the title stand out by the background of it, they have kept the title white but the background of the title is sparkly black sequence which you would find on clothing, this shows it is to do with fashion and still makes the title stand out because the rest of the background if plain white. The title is covered by the image of the girls head but you can still work out the title because it is so well known. There is one mid shot image on the right hand side and she is also following the theme colour by wearing a white elegant dress with her hair up and looks very business-like with diamonds again this is following the class gender.

On the contents of the magazine they have the same lady and the same layout as the front page by having the image on the right hand side of the however her hair is done to show she is more relaxed and having fun. The colours on this page are red, black and white with the background still white. They have added a red colour to make it more colourful but not making it messy by adding too many colours and still give it the elegant professional look. The page numbers are on the left had side and are bigger and the information next to it to make the pages stand out.

Inside on a 2 page spread page they have an interview on Christina Aguilera about her starting to make music again and coming back into the charts. They have covered the whole two pages with the image and has left some information right at the bottom of the page, this is to make her stand out more than the information, she is posing on a bed writing down lyrics, this shows she is into her music and gives it a sexy side to make it interesting. They have made the quotes bigger what they want to stand out what she says such as “I love music” this is to make the readers see what she loves about it and what she has planned.

Institutional data: music magazine

NME is a top publishing weekly music magazine; they look at all types of music but mainly rock. It includes mainly interviews of new music bands and music writing and photography. They are well known for discovering new music first and like fresh new bands, they also give some of their money they earn to charity. The NME is published every Wednesdays and is on sale for £2.50.

NME has been running since 1952 which is impressive for a music magazine because they normally end in 3-4 years after publishing. NMEs target audience is for mainly males with a percentage of 73% males and 27% females, with the average age range of around 25. The class for this magazine is 73% of ABC1, which is more round the higher class because it is an expensive, well known magazine. NME has worked out what their target audience likes and are into and have took that and added it into their magazine that’s why they are doing well because they are interested in the readers. They worked out that:
• 80% of NME readers feel that music is an important part of their lives
• 79% of NME readers like to listen to new bands
• 63% specially choose to listen to indie/guitar bands
• 49% specially choose to listen to live bands in studio
• 52% are interested in taking a musical course/qualification
• 36% are thinking of buying a musical instrument in the year

Institutional data: Overview of Industry

For an overview of the magazine industry IPC media is the biggest company to publish any type of magazines; it produces over 85 brands of magazines. IPC reaches almost two thirds of women and 44% of men in the UK and altogether it is round about 27 million adults in the UK, also the online brands reaches to 20 million users every month.
The IPC Company offers a magazine for everyone however they mainly focus on three audiences: men, mass market women and upmarket woman.

For the target audience of men IPC produces magazine brands which will appeal to them such as: country life, horse & hound, rugby world and decanter for lifestyle brand which they will enjoy for their hobbies interests however they also produce nuts, mouse breaker and NME which is mainly targeted for men.

For the mass market woman target audience they produce famous women’s weeklies and gossip magazine to attract them such as: Look, Now, Chat and Woman. These magazines attract the mass market woman because they are cheap, affordable, girl, gossip magazines which most women would want to read about. They also produce TV entertainment brand including: What’s on TV, TV Times and TV & satellite week. They chose these magazines for these women because a stereotypical woman would be at home watching TV and wants to know what is on the TV.

For the upmarket woman they have more luxury fashion brands of magazines these are different to the mass marker woman types of magazines because the upmarket women have more money to spend and are more expensive than the other magazines. Some of the magazines they include are: Marie Claire and InStyle, lifestyle brands such as: woman&home and essentials, and also home interest brands such as: ideal home, living etc and housetohome. These magazines are more expensive than any other magazines.

Analysis of two feature articles

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This 2 page spread article is for males and the target audience is for middle aged people to the age 25-35, I think this because older males enjoy motorbikes more than anyone else would. The social class for this is middle and working class because it is more of an interest and a hobby.

This article looks more professional than the other article because it is set out more and has more pictures and more information. Overall there are 4 pictures which are too much for an article, for my article I am going to use about 1 or 2 pictures to make it look set out well. The article is set out like a newspaper by adding lots of columns on the page and it is a magazine this gives the effect of more professional and more interesting for the target audience. However there are too many columns and too much information to read about motorbikes, I will keep my information short so it doesn’t put off any readers. It look boring with too much writing and not many bright colours, for example I would change the title to a bright colour to make it stand out but the title is white and blends into the background colour and doesn’t make it as noticeable.

music journalism practice, charlie and the chocolate factory

Heat magazine

This film has created a new version of the Charlie and the chocolate factory and I find it great! It’s interesting and great for the family. Johnny Depp makes the film by his humour and by getting very into his character, he plays the part well. All of the characters have been made more snobby than the original film. The setting and the effects have been used well when the 4 unordinary children walk around the factory. The stuff they find is much unexpected and has a different story twist to the first one by exploring ‘willy wonkas’ childhood.

However the things I think that can be improved are the oompa loompas, or whatever they look like. The first film made the oompa loompas cute, colourful and nice now the new oompa loompas are ugly and mean! This film is a great feel good film with a comedy twist it gives us all a lesson to not be spoilt and not take things for granted (which most of us need for a movie night in) by enjoying the wackiness and imaginative world of the chocolate factory! The rating for this fantastic film is a high 8 out of 10.

Guardian newspaper

This ‘so called’ new version of the Charlie and the chocolate factory is outrageous. The new version has taken out all the simple and creative ideas and has turned them horribly wrong by taking everything over the top. The Charlie and the chocolate factory are supposed to be a feel good, nice, friendly film which the whole family can enjoy. Now it is all about humour and has mocked the old version. They should have left the old version because nothing can top the original and classy version. There is no class and is just for children to enjoy when it should be for the whole family to relate to like the old version by the nice songs, now the songs are up tempo to satisfy the younger audience.

However besides the negative comments, I can say that some qualities of this film are positive. For example Johnny Depp is the best part of this film by making it interesting and how he plays a good role for his character by getting to know Willy Wonka and his background on how he made the factory and his childhood background was. The rating for this film is 3 out of 10.

contents practice analysis

This contents page is from the ‘Q’ magazine, the contents page is set out the same throughout the magazine and the main colour for this magazine is red, black and white. There is 1 main image which covers up half the page, the image is at a long shot to show there fashion and style and who they are.
The writing goes down the left hand side to make it look neat and professional.

They make the page packed with information about the magazine and pages that will be inside to attract the readers and to see what is inside the magazine. There are subtitles under the page numbers to see the sections they cover in the magazine.

There are page numbers next to each page option to show how to find the page. There is a review column in the bottom right corner which has another longshot image. The ‘Q’ logo is on the contents page twice to show that it is from the magazine and follows a theme throughout.

This contents page is going to the same style as my music magazine will be that I am going to make. I like this contents page because the target audience is clearly for young adults around the age 15-25 for girls because it had bright pink colours which attract girls more. However I don’t like how this contents page has used too many pictures on the page (7 in total), it makes the page look messy and scattered about. If I added pictures on a contents page I would add about 2 pictures for the page to make it have more information. This contents page has a pink section on the left to make the page more colourful and interesting.

front cover practice analysis

The main picture is in the center of the page and is in a mid-shot. The image overlaps the head title because it is a well-known magazine and makes the image stand out. The colour theme is black and red to make it look formal and simple. The person is wearing a bright yellow dress to make the picture stand out because it is a bright colour and is a different colour to the colour theme. The target audience for this magazine is for teenagers around the age of 14-20. I think this because it has a teenager on the front cover and it looks very cheesy and the layout isn’t as formal as a high class magazine would be. The class for this magazine would be round about middle class because it looks affordable and everyday topics such as fashion most people would be interested. The gender aimed for this magazine would be mostly females because it is more ‘girly’ by talking about fashion, bra sizes, hair styles, kissing ways and questions about boys, which most boys wouldn’t be attracted to.

They have added small pictures on the bottom right hand corner to show what sort of clothes and fashion you will see inside the magazine, to attract people who like clothes and fashion. The clothes have sale signs next to the pictures to attract the readers more by seeing what’s on sale and to find a bargain which falls back into the middle class. There is also a “2 mags for price of 1” on the magazine at the top left corner this is again to do with a bargain magazine and the target audience like to find cheap items so it attracts them to buy more magazines. The target audience (teenagers) don’t have a lot of money as most people would because they go to school or educate themselves and most of them don’t have a full time job like adults would so the magazine has to add bargains to the front cover to attract them and make them buy it.

My music magazine will be like this magazine, I will be aiming it to be cheesy, smiley, bright colours, fashion, and teenage celebrities such as the person on the front cover so the target audience can relate to the magazine. Also the target audience can relate to the celebrity because it has a quote on the side of the magazine saying that “boys haven’t always been nice to me” this makes the readers want to buy the magazine to see what the boys done to her, so they put this on the front to make it look like an interesting magazine.

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