Thuse of graphics in our media was very effective as it stands out in the magazine and grabs attention of the audience because it is in red and yellow with bold text. The main word is in Caps 'WIN' this is done to highlight the special offer of a competition.
Our front cover consisted of a variety of modes of address, such as, "Intevrivew with Classikidz!" the use of exclamation mark exaggerates the fact that the interview is exclusive and out of this world. Also slang words such as Kool appeal to the younger generation that we are trying to target.
As you can see from the description of our magazine we kept it quite conventional, as we felt thi swould be the best way to gain readers. Not to forget we gave the magazine an issue date, bar code and price.
Our music cover represents young teens in a number of ways, firstly, the banner is quite an effective way to draw in young readers as it changes there conotations of classical music, we tell them its 'kool' so they wont feel out of place if they picked it up and read it. Also we used a coverline story which is regarding GCSE's this would prove we are targetting a certain audience and age group. As a competition, we told them to text as we know young people tend to text more than call in contrast to the older generation. Finally, our boxed text shows an interview with 'classikidz' a young classical group and by the image shown you can see two members dressed smart and two ver casual which shows anyone can do classical no matter how u look. The group name 'classikidz' is spelt with a z to make it more appealing to the youth.
The media institution that would distribute these magazines are local shops as they tend to have magazines for all ages and social groups so therefore our magazine has an equal chance of being bought. Also school and college music departments may want to buy sime and distribute to their students.
Similar to many magazines, we used photo shop to design our magazine cover. At first i found it quite difficult and confusing as it was my first time but the more i used it the more i got comfortable. I learnt how to use many tools such as the magic wand to help cut people out and paste them into a different background. I learnt how to use the different layers, bringin things forward and sending things back. I was taught how to use different styles writings and many more.
If i was to make a cover next time i would make sure i had a back up plan incase my first one flopped, i would take much more pictures so i had a variety of images to choose for my main cover image, i would focus more on making my magazine cover look more professional and maybe learn about photshop alot more before using it.
Other than that i feel i succeeded in making a good magazine cover which is fit for purpose as it appeals to the right audience considering it was my first time using photoshop and we fell into minor setbacks.
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