question

1. For my music magazine, I had to come up with an
idea that would stand out from already existing
R&B/Hip-Hop magazines, and that would also
attract my chosen target audience.

2. With my magazine, I will give out a free track of the chosen new and
upcoming artist of that issue (a free track would be given out in
every issue from a different artist). I believe that this was a good idea
as it separates my magazine from other magazine with the same
genre, as it promotes artists that have just stepped onto the music
scene, giving the publicity, and this idea also attracts my audience
as they would want something for free, especially music where they
would not violate any piracy laws. The good thing with this idea, is
that my audience has already seen these artist debut single on TV,
so they would have a feel who this artist is, plus BEAT Magazine only
shows the best new artists, so my audience would know that they
track would be amazing. Also with this idea my magazine would
take full advantage of my publisher. In this day and age, people no
longer listen to CD’s, we now download music, and so with my
publisher’s use of technology, my audience would able to use QR
codes, which would lead them to iTunes to get their free track. The
track would only be free when using this single-use code. People
who don’t buy the magazine would have to pay full price for that
track. QR codes will defiantly attract my audience as it is quick and
easy to use and access the track.

3. With my magazine, I have allowed my audience to get involved as
much as possible. One way in which my magazine does this is
through competitions. The main competition in my magazine is
where my audience could submit original song lyrics, poems or
anything creative to BEAT Magazine, in the hope of winning sold out
concert tickets and also having their own page in the magazine,
where they can write reviews, talk about their opinion latest music
celebrity gossip, etc- But it has to be totally related to my musical
genre. This both addresses and attracts my audience as, the
competitions would be revolved around the interests of the
audience and it also gives them a chance to showcase their
creativity.

4. My colour scheme for my magazine is very welcoming for my audience.
Red, white and black are very bold colours on their own, but
together they complement each other very well. I believe that
these colours represent this musical genre very well as it is quite
hard, but welcoming as said before.
Fonts and Language
When looking at fonts, I totally had my audience in mind, as they way they
perceive my magazine and accept it would be based on the font. If the font
was crazy and wild, they would not take my magazine seriously as that font does
not represent R&B/Hip hop in any way. So I decided to make my writing quite
big and bold so it would be easy to read and understand. Also, I wanted my font
to make an overall statement that my magazine is something new and fresh like
its name.
Throughout my magazine I have tried to keep language consistent, whether on
my front cover, contents page or DPS. I have written in a way that is youthful and
fresh (using slight colloquialism) but I still kept it formal to ensure that everything
was understandable, and could translate well to other people who may buy my
magazine and not be apart of the chosen target audience age.

5. For my magazine, I have decided to make my models relate a lot to my
audience, unlike other magazines where there was/is a big gap
between the celebrity and the audience. And that gap made it
seem that the audience could never be like celebrity, bringing on
low self-esteem. But with my magazine, I wanted to give the
audience a sense of hope, in which they could feel like they could
become success full in what they do. I done this by making my
models in magazine (especially on my contents page) dress like
trending young individuals. They are wearing very affordable clothes
that regular people (people of the social class I’m trying to reach)
can buy.

6. The feedback I got from task 10 was very constructive in the
sense that I was able to see my strengths and my weakness
where in my projects and I was able to see what worked and
what didn’t and what I need to change. Most of the
feedback I got was quite positive, many people commented
on my blogger and said “The colour scheme works well and
the masthead is clear and bold. You photography is good”
and “The positioning works well”. However so people said
that “The main cover line should maybe be a different colour
to the other cover lines” and “I think your writing for the
teasers are too small. And the font is too simple”. The way I
adapted my work to become better was to make my teaser
bigger to stand out and also to fill that space. However, I was
told that the font was too simple but I didn’t think it was, so I
didn’t change the font but I added an effect to the writing
on my front cover to make the writing stand out so it does not
look boring.