The document summarizes a student's music magazine project. It discusses conventions used like camera shots, colors, and clothing. It describes the target audience as teenage girls ages 12 and up. Content includes research on pop magazines. Technology used includes PowerPoint, Publisher, and Paint. Feedback indicated the magazine met its target audience.

1. By Alix Hutchinson

2. Front cover
Conventions and Codes- The camera shots and angles of the
pictures throughout my magazine are ok as they are taken in a
way that is the same in most magazines in the genre pop. The
clothing that was worn in the pictures are alright as I told my
models to wear them type of clothes as that is what I wanted.
The colours throughout my magazine have worked perfect as
Contents Page
they have met my target audience which is teenage girls,12 and
above.
Target Audience- My magazine has met my target audience
(teenage girls,12 and above). It has information in it which would
mostly attract a younger target audience. My model that I used
for the main image on the front cover is actually 12 and I showed
her the magazine and she said its perfect for that target
audience.
Content- I researched pop magazines and that helped me
decide what I would put in to mine. The content its self is based
Double Page Spread
on my target audience.
Use of technology- While making my magazine I have used
PowerPoint for doing the evaluation, I used Publisher for making
my front cover, contents and double page spread, I print
screened most of my work and then I put it on Paint so that I
could save it into an image.

3. On my magazine cover I used a barcode; masthead; price;
image; sell lines; anchorage text and use of colour.
I put the masthead there so
that people know its my I put the barcode on
magazine and so that they the front because if I
know the name of my put it on the back then
magazine. it would be in the way
of the advert in the
back page. So
therefore I put it on the
front page so that it
wouldn’t take up space
on the back where the
advert would be going.
The image is used to grab the
target audience so that when
The reason that the price of the
it is on the shelf it will grab
magazine is £1.75 is because
their attention straight away.
the target audience is 12 and
above. Therefore it is at a low
price.
I have used the colours white,
pink and purple as the theme The anchorage text is used
on the front cover, also I have so that the reader knows
used these colours exactly what the main
throughout the whole of my article is about.
magazine as I chose these 3
colours as my colour theme.

4. The reason that there is a contents page is so that people know exactly what they
are looking for.
I have used the colour
pink as it is part of my
colour theme
throughout the whole of
the magazine
The reason that it is not
in order so it doesn’t
look to much like a list.
Also I have put things
into different categories
so they are easier to
find.
I have added pictures I have put the subscribe
so that it looks more picture there so that
interesting and so that people can see the front
people know what to cover again and know
expect on the pages that you can subscribe
when the turn them. to the magazine if they
want to.

5. Double page spread
I have added in a
picture of Lauren I have used
when she was graphic features to
younger even make certain
though I didn’t take things that she
the picture myself. says stand out, to
But I wanted to make people want
have it in because to read more.
it shows how she
has changed.
I have added the
number of the
pages so that
people find the
pages easier to
I have added the banner for find.
advertisement so that it appeals
to people.

6. I have represented my magazine to young
women. I want the people who are reading it to
look up to her. That’s why I have dressed her
in that way and not put too much makeup on
her. I wanted my magazine to represent a
sweet and caring girl. Even though she isn’t
that old I want people to look at her and get the
impression that this is how young girls act.
The assumptions that I have made on the way
that I have made my model look has reflected
on the way that my final outcome has turned
out. If I had dressed her in all black and had
really dark makeup then the magazine would
be in a different social group and my magazine
wouldn’t have fit into my intended category.
My magazine represents age it shows that you
can be of any age and still have a career in a
job that you wouldn’t expect people as young
as 12 to be.

7. I would want ‘IPC MEDIA’ to distribute my
magazine. I feel that they are a good and well
know media institution who publish many
magazines from a wide number of target
audiences. They produce a lot of different
magazines but they don’t really produce
many music magazines and the ones they do
are not aimed at my target audience. So I
feel that if ‘IPC MEDIA’ publish my magazine
there is a chance that this could make ‘IPC
MEDIA’ more well known and this would also
bring publicity to my magazine and at the
same time to ‘IPC MEDIA’.

8. Target Audience Profile:
Interests- Well its obvious that you have to really like pop and chart
music. You have to love fashion and shopping all the girly kind of stuff.
Also you would have to love celebrity gossip.
Age- The age that my magazine is aiming at is 12 and above. The reason
that it is not 13 is because I wanted to get people who aren’t yet teenagers
to feel as if they’ve not been left out. I want them to feel that they are part
of the magazine and not children.
Gender- The gender of my magazine is for girls only. Boys can read it if
the want to but it is mostly aimed at girls.
Income- My magazine is £1.75. It is not aimed at any class. It is aimed at
young people who are from an household income.
Location- The location for my magazine is United Kingdom. The reason
for this is because everyone in the magazine is a British star.

9. My magazine will appeal to my target audience because the colours I
have used are the colours that mostly young girls are attracted to. There
bright and eye catching which attracts most girls.
The fonts that I have used will appeal to my target audience because
there pink and girly. If I hadn’t used them colours then my magazine
wouldn’t have appealed to my target audience.
The fact that I have added quizzes into my magazine could attract people
from a different target audience into buying my magazine. Because some
people might just like winning stuff and doing quizzes.
The images that I have used throughout the magazine will help to meet
the target audience as they are sweet and innocent and are perfect for the
target audience.
The feedback shows that the magazine is for the right target audience. It
also shows that the magazine is in the correct genre etc.

10. While making my magazine I have used Paint, Microsoft PowerPoint,
Publisher, Movie Plus and Blogger.
Before I had used everything apart from Blogger, so using that was new
for me. At first I thought it was going to be really hard to control and in the
end it was a lot easier than I had imagined. Before I didn’t even know what
a blog was, let alone what a blog was for.
I have learnt how to make something into an image, I didn’t know how to
do that, I didn’t think you could.
I decided to do my evaluation on Movie Plus but in the end I chose to do it
on PowerPoint as PowerPoint is something that I am a lot more clearer
and confident in.

11. A lot has improved for me since I did the school magazine because at first
I wasn’t really sure on how to make magazines so it was kind of like a
practice for me. Which helped me a lot as I got used to using certain
publications again.
My music magazine has got a lot more information on the front cover and
its just a lot better as we did have a lot more time to do it in. In my opinion
I think there both good but the music magazine does look professional
whereas the school magazine does look like someone from school has put
a magazine together.