1) The document describes a music magazine focused on the R&B genre and female empowerment. 2) It summarizes design choices made to emulate the layout of the existing magazine "Vibe," including using varied fonts, colors, and sizing on the cover and a linking symbol between the cover and contents page. 3) The intended audience is described as R&B music fans, particularly female listeners who want to learn about artists and feel inspired by role models portrayed in the magazine. Bold colors, fonts, and images of empowered female artists are used to attract this target audience.

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2. My music magazine is based upon a music magazine which already follows
the genre of RnB, „Vibe‟, because it is clearly laid out to capture the
audiences eye, using a range of font, font colour and font sizes, working
within a „z‟ shape form around the image.
Within RnB there is an idea of girl power as such, the idea that a woman
does not need a man to be successful, so within my front cover I used this to
represent my genre, which is what the magazine is suppose to do. The main
cover line falls within the optical point, which will attract readers by the
shocking line of „I thought I was dead‟ it has the audience wanting to know
why. Along the left third are the majority of the cover lines and the articles
which would be more likely to catch the readers eye, this is done so when
placed on a shelf in a shop can be seen by the purchasers easily. This will
advertise and make the magazine stand out from the other magazines
available, because of the cover lines and the range of colours and font.

3. The main image on the front cover overlaps the masthead of Rage. I did this
because the image/artist on the front cover of the magazine is the selling
point, only usual subscribers would look for the name, which they would
recognize from the font used. Vibe also does similar here because they use
the artist on the front to sell there magazine, so are able to cover their
masthead.
The contents page is also similar to „vibe‟ because of the linking to the front
page, within „vibe‟ the „V‟ is used to show a link, so within my magazine the
„R‟ is used to show the link. My contents page has a variety of images
relating to the articles featuring, but the images relating to the main article
is dominant, which is also seen within contents pages of „Vibe‟. Similar
usage of color is used for the front cover and contents page, which is also
shown in „vibe‟ conforming to conventions of other magazines.
The double page spread is conventional to how most question and answer
double page spreads look; questions are within different colors, quotes are
in bigger fonts and stand out more from the rest of the text and the
language used is conversational, which sticks to conventions of established
magazines.

4. The genre I have chosen to represent in my magazine is RnB, but the
feminine aspect of the genre, this is of how women are viewed differently in
today‟s society, they are stronger, more powerful and more successful. Cover
lines across my front cover are mainly based on female artists “the queen of
RnB” and “free tickets to Mya‟s sold out gig.” This gives the idea of female
success which is highly represented within the RnB genre.
The image on the front cover, the artist, has bright, seductive like
lips, which shows strength, as if she is in complete control, as well as having
modesty, which continues throughout the magazine, on the contents page
and double page spread, this fits into the social group because it is similar
to the images of females within the RnB genre.

5. Media institutions which may distribute my music magazine may be shops
like HMV, because they stock a wide range of RnB albums. Also shops which
specialise within the RnB genre may stock my magazine because it is a
magazine which follows the conventions of their shop. It could also be
stocked in places that support the idea of up and coming women, and the
idea of girl power, because my magazine represents this throughout. My
magazine could also be distributed through the internet because it is
available to everyone and covers a wide range of genres, so mine would fit
along side other magazines available.

6. The audience for my magazine is RnB listeners and those who like to find
out the gossip and details about artists within the genre they
like, RnB, as well as being able to enter to win cool prizes. My magazine
is mainly aimed at females, featuring iconic role models and people to
aspire to be like, continuing the idea of feminine strength throughout
generations, as well as finding out latest gossip and receiving advice.

7. To attract/address my audience, I used bold, sharp colours and
fonts, which are seen in existing magazines of this genre. This in
itself creates an idea of strength, which is what I wish to get across.
Also I used images of a female artist, which enables the audience to
relate to the artist, that this star could be any one of the women
reading the magazine, that they hold strength and power; so it gives
the idea of „this could be me‟ which automatically builds up a
relationship and attracts the audience to purchase and find out more.
Majority of featuring cover lines and articles within the featuring list
within the contents page contain women or words associating to
women, because it is a magazine representing women, which entices
the audience to purchase/read the magazine because they are also
able to relate through these.

8. Through the process of constructing my music magazine I learnt how to
use a green screen to create images which I could later crop out within
photo shop, which made using things like the magnet line and
background eraser much easier. Although background eraser sometimes
cut of bits of artist I was able to use photo shop to colour match and
draw back in the little bits that had cropped out.
The magnetic tool enabled me to trace around the edge of the artist to
then cut and paste into my pages of my magazine to then resize and
refine erasing any background that was not suppose to be there.
Within photo shop I was able to manipulate/change font, using a range
of font sizes and types and experiment with layout. I was also able to
add effects to words I wished to stand out like the masthead „rage‟ and
the artists name „Chanel‟ dimming and adding borders around the
individual letters to make the words stand out from the others.
I also discovered how to use internet sites to create my own individual
barcode to then place onto my front cover of my music magazine.

9. From the preliminary task to the full production I have learnt to use a
variety of font and font sizes. Within the college magazine I used a
small range of font and sizes and stuck to a similar font, this made the
front cover and contents page difficult to follow and read and look very
dull. However, now within my full product I have used a wide variety of
text sizes and font, as well as colour to draw in and attract the
audience of my music magazine.
Within my music magazine I considered thirds more than I did in the
college magazine. The masthead within the preliminary task seemed off
balance to the rest of the magazine, it could of done with being bigger.
So when I did the masthead of my music magazine I made sure that the
masthead was proportionate to the rest of the front cover.

10. The images used when creating my preliminary task were taken off of
a mobile phone, with the background of rooms present, which wasn‟t
the greatest of quality. So considering the quality of these images I
took the images for my music magazine in front of a green screen
considering the mise-en-scene, which gave my images a much better
standard of quality.