Our task was to create a music magazine cover. We decided to create a magazine called 'Melody' which would be aimed at an audience of 11 to 15 year old teenage girls.
We were told to pick a genre of our choice, and my group and I chose to do Pop. We were also told that every other image had to be original, taken by ourselves and we were allowed only two found images. In our groups of four - Amrita, Lipi, Nasima and Lisa, we had to create two Pop magazines. Me (Amrita) and Lipi chose to create a Summer edition of our Pop magazine 'Melody' and Nasima and Lisa chose to create a Winter edition of our Pop magazine.
Our cover consists of a central image which is me, i am meant to be a model who turns to a music artist. The central image is of a young upcoming model who works herself from the fashion ramp to music as a Pop music artist. The central image of Amrita (me) catches eyes of teenage girls as Amrita looks glamorous, sleek and stunning, this appearance is what all teenage girls look for in teen magazines.
After researching many similar teen magazines, we found that a plain background and a large central image catches teens and many other target audiences. Our magazine has a tangy orange background to suit the Summer edition theme of our magazine and the central image is Amrita, who is wearing a white and black flowered dress with black oval earrings with a ball inside it and a beaded and pearl, white and silver necklace with bits of her hair out in front of her face and on the side of her shoulders.
In order to attract/address the audience, we have designed the title 'Melody' with the font 'Bauhaus'. This font is a bubble type of font and has a dark blue outline. The same font is used for the price '£2.80', the date 'May 1st - 30th 09', (the date issued and price has been located at the bottom left corner, where the bar code has been placed), and also the strapline 'Bring Out The Music In You'. We used this strapline as we thought that this strapline not only means to bring out the music in the star, for example Amrita, but also in the audience, to bring out the music in the 11 to 15 year olds.
To make Amrita, the star of this magazine stand out, we have put across her, on the bottom of the page, in a pink box 'Amrita's Exclusive Interview From Model to Music'. The text of this main coverline is in yellow as it stands out and is a good contrast with pink. Beneath the coverline is a black box with pink text 'Win a £50 HMV Voucher!' this promotes a competition and also gets the teenagers to apply to win. There are also another three coverlines. On the top left hand side there is a found picture of the band 'Take That' which was found on google images. Beside the image on the right is the coverline 'Win 2 tickets to take that concert!' Under 'Take That' image is another coverline 'Girls Aloud vs Sugababes', the girl bands font is in purple and we have added a purple plastic shine style to it from photoshop. The reason for puttin these two bands is the fact that teenage girls love Girls Aloud and Sugababes, plus it would be a real blast to see both girl bands verse each other. Beneath Girls Aloud and Sugababes coverline is the last coverline which is an image of Britney Spears. The image of Britney is a sideways faced (left) photo of her, and her hair is wavy and left out. The coverline for Britney Spears is 'Britney: "The Ups And Downs Of My Life". The font is a shiny, red style in capital letters. The coverline also overlaps onto Amrita's right shoulder, this could also represent the ups and downs in Amrita's life.
On the very top of the page is a banner stating activities and things inside the magazine. 'Musiz quiz* free CD case* High School Musical poster'. Our magazine has the conventions of a real music magazine as we have used all the required cover terminology in any magazine. ITV and Disney Channel may distiribute our music magazine as our 'Melody' magazine is ideally aimed for 11 to 15 year old teenage girls. Also ITV publicize a lot of music shows, for example X Factor and Pop Idol. And Disney channels show all the latest music albums, shows and magazines.
The technologies myself and my group have learnt from the process of constructing our magazine front cover is the software Photoshop on the Apple Mac computers. Photoshop allowed us to use and discover all the features used when creating a magazine. Also if we were to use a regular software programme on a standard computer, then it would have been a very difficult task.
If I were to make another front cover, I would change the background to something a bit more lively and also plan from top to bottom before starting a magazine. I would also add more information on the front cover. Overall, I am relatively happy with what we have done as it looks interesting and realistic.
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