Magazine Evaluation

For the first task was to make a front cover for a magazine and the topic was music. Then we had to decide as a group what type of genre our magazine should be. We needed to pick something that we were all familiar with and we decided to use R&B as out genre. We brainstormed our ideas about what we could do for the magazine and then we decided what we would do. The slogan of our magazine is Real Music, Real Artists, Real Vibez the slogan is very catchy and it make you fill like its the thing for you.One of the hardiest thing was what should our magazine should be called. The suggestion that we had was “Nick up, London Life and UK Vibez” and we decided to go with UK Vibez. We also had to decide what colours we need to use and how these colours would attract our audience young audience because our magazine is aimed for teenager’s ages 15 to 20+ years old. The language of the magazine is simple and easy to read so everyone can read.
Our magazine is aimed for both genders male and female and we had to think what type of pictures, text and colour that we could use to attract the audience. We went for bright colours and we decided not to wear dark clothes. also the title UK VIBEZ is written in big yellow text and it stood out well with the other colours. The only dark thing in the picture was the free CD we also used black text on top of it was the opposite of all the other colours so it stood out weal. We looks at what type of star we should use in the front cover that our target audience really want to hear about and the star they idolise so went for Leona Lewis .
In the cover we used cover our own pictures for example we used Leon Lewis because she is a famous British R&B star we tried to focus only on the British celebrities. Also we used Shabaze in our front cover the picture looked like a real R&B star he was our focus we had another picture of him with me and used this picture to show the theme of the tune it is called walking away and we are walking away in the picture so it all fits in wall. Also in the front cover picture looks like he is sad and that is also an advertisement for the song. On the CD we have nick standing next to the car because most celebrities want show of what they have so we took a picture next to a Porsche I also took a picture next to the car.
We didn’t take a lot of pictures and we didn’t have a wide range of choices so we where stack with the pictures that we got. The reason was that the battery of the cammer was empty so couldn’t take more pictures. We tried to show our understanding and skills by editing some of the pictures photo shop it was quite easy to use after the teacher went throw it with us.
The places that will sale our magazine is any newsagents or supermarkets such as Sainsbury, Morison’s, Tesco and so on will they all will have our magazine. Also we try and advertise this magazine in all music channels and advertise it in the internet with music web sites. Also they other thing that could attract the audience is that we will offer them all the gossip about that celebrities.
We have learnt a lot about using the camera and the type of shots and we gained confidents. The group was really good we worked good together.