Final Front cover, Contents and Double page spread

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Who would be the audience for your media product?

With my R’N’B magazine it has quite a big age range for my target audience, it is targeted for males and females and of all colours and tends to be for teenagers to young adults however people in their late adulthood may also listen to this. Older adults may want to buy this as R’N’B originated from soul which has been out for many years.

Some males may buy the magazine to read about their favourite celebrity to inspire to be like them and get an insight of what the article is on. Which could be music or their personal life were they can relate, or a celebrity crush were they want to read about in see into their love life. In the magazine so that it appealed strongly to male audiences, my research showed that in magazines and also music videos that women are very provocative and this is what attract males more, so I decided to put an good-looking female for men to be enticed by also by adding the jewels adds a sign of wealth which most R’N’B artist show off. I also tried to show of the glamour by the colour scheme I used which is like a diamond colour again showing a sign of wealth.

This can also attract females they can relate to females by making the article reality they talk about love or being heartbroken which will appeal to the females more as they are stereotypically more sensitive. Also most R’N’B artist are known for their fashion senses and by having a female on the front and also a double page spread it will engage them in buying and reading about them as celebrities start of trends so their audience can copy and be like them. 

Question 5: Front cover Contents page Double page spread

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How does your media product

represent particular social groups?

My magazine is an R’N’B magazine with upcoming new artists. It does not have a particular social group nor does it just appeal to males but also females, it is for both sexes. However it may relate to people who are struggling such as working or lower class, who want to succeed in life and determine to do their best.

Also in my features column it is more about past lives and were they are now. The reason being for this is that so my audience can relate to them with their past experiences and learning how they do as well as the artists can. Most of my artists have not come from a privileged background such as Eminem who grew up in the street life but is now a well-known artist.

R’N’B is about inspiring people to do the best they can, it’s about real life so that the audience can relate. They also attract females and groups the articles show that they were a part of the audience before but they have changed. I took the ideas for my features from VIBE magazine which I changed into my words this is where I got the idea from.

Though is about music, it is also about real life this means the drama that also happens such as their love life’s to spice up the magazine we talk about relationships so people do relate and have full insight in the celebrities life which makes it more personal. Also by having contest shows the celebrities are willing to play a part in their fans lives and the audience can relate to them more. 

In my magazine I tried linking the genre R’N’B to the images also, by having a girl group in their natural setting, makes it more real for the audience and brings it onto a personal level. Also with having features such as exclusives and behind the scenes this also allows the celebrity and audience to relate personally bringing them closer. And it shows that effort is put in for the audience making them feel more special. 

This is my double page spread were I completely changed from the flat plan. The reason being for this is that the image which I took of my model, I thought was really effective and could write more about which will draw the reader in more. I believe having the light to dark affect makes it look more professional look.

You can see throughout my magazine I used the same colour scheme also the same types of font so that it links to all the pages. This is so that my audience would recognise that they all are linked.

This is my contents page which I followed a convention of the Billboard magazine and flowed my own flat plan. The only things which I changed around was the heading because not everything fitted on one page, if I wanted to follow the convention of the features page were they will have a title and a couple of sentences no other sub heading will fit.

This is my final front cover, which I tried to copy as an R'n'B magazine, I used all the conventions that I saw and used some techniques which gave the magazine a professional look. I used Photoshop to complete this; I followed my flat plan which I did change some features around such as the pop button as it looked childish on the front cover. Also I did try my magazine in the colour red which was its original colour but personally it didn’t fit well and looked childish. So I changed it to more of neutral colour and so that it fits in well with the double page spread also.

Editing toool

Editing Skills

For my front cover of my magazine I have used different editing types to present my work. Some of the effects I used are shown in the screen shot and I also explained what the tool is and what it does. Most of the effects I used were really handy as they made my text and image look more professional.

For our media work one of the programmes which we will be using for our contents page and double page spread, is Indesign. The video below shows a demonstration on how to use the programme.

These are the types of font I might be using for my magazines; the fonts which I chose are clear bold and easy to read just like RNB magazine vibe. The two which I have put in boxes are the chosen ones which people have chosen that would make the best clear title.

These images are my front cover potentials which I have done. I have chosen the best four clear images. The image I pick I will start to edit and manipulate so it gives the image more of a professional look.

This is one of the images I will be using for my contents page, it was inspired by a front cover of vibe magazine

These are my test shots for my front cover, as you can see some of the images are quite blurry, I will need to adjust the settings. I have tried using a model with curly hair and a white t shirt; however I found out that I did not like how the pictures looked so I decided to change the ideas around in my final. The model has tights curls, which I will change to loose curls. Also the clothing because there is going to be a clear white background the whit t shirt did not work, so this will be changed to a black vest top. Also my model looks quite plain so more jewellery may be added.

For my double page spread I will need to create an interview based round this:

Genre

What genre is the magazine?

What type of artist might you be interviewing?

Audience

Who are your audience?

What will your audience what to know?

What information are you trying to get out of your artist?

Format

How can you phrase the questions to make the questions to make the artist give you the information you want?

How many questions might you include?

This is one of the images which I edited; I just played around with the colour effects and changed the Cross Orton effects and the Bloom which gives it more of a professional look. But as you can see the background of the image has been ruined as it is not clear.