Evaluation: Question 5

For my front page, I ensured that current affairs in media was included in my cover lines. I made sure I included things such as song names which were big at the time and I also included big music artists names on my front cover who are from America. With the cover lines, I included a white outline around them which I believe would be eye-catching to the audience if they was to see the magazine on the shelf in a shop. I also ensured that my main cover line was big and bold and had an outer glow around it which made it stand out from the rest of the text on my front cover. The colour scheme that I had throughout my magazine was also consistent so that the main cover line that was included in my magazine would still be shown in the other pages of the magazine that I designed.

Within my magazine I used a mixture of standard English and street slang, I chose to do this as my I based my target audience within London, where street slang is a very common thing, and without limiting myself and cutting out the importance of standard English, as I have already stated that my target audience are aspirers and with including standard English within my magazine also implies a tone of education, which is not too overpowering. Which whilst making my magazine I thought would be an important factor when my target audience is involved.

I used a long shot for my front cover and also for my double page spread, and I used a mid shot for my contents page photographs. I thought that using a long shot for the front page and double page spread of music magazine it would make my magazine more noticeable as other magazines usually use mid shots. I also though using a long shot would make my front page look like its giving off a bold statement and would then attract my urban target audience as it would be different.

I kept the model in my photographs the same throughout my magazine she is within my target age group which will also help my magazine identify itself quicker with my target audience age, and my male audience also said that they find her attractive.
She is wearing trendy clothing which compliments the colour scheme, and also the female side of my target audience would find her to be quite a style icon. My model isn’t wearing much jewellery as I wanted her not to be too over the top, as it may have been settings to higher standards of my magazine and giving my magazine a complex involving classes and wealth, which my magazine is not based upon.