Product Analysis&Target Audience Profile

Here I have produce two tables the top one is my magazine analysis. this gives an idea of what is going to be including into my magazine, the advertisement,the cost of my magazine, features and more. the table below contains the demographic and psychographics of my target audience. this is to help me find out ways that I can appeal my magazine to them. For example: my target audience use social media like; Facebook and snapchat then I will ensure that my magazine will be advertised on these social sites.

Target Audience Profile Research

For my target audience research I interviewed people who fit my target audience. I asked them what they like and dislike about R&B and hip-hop genre.

Experimenting with different fonts for my masthead

i have chosen to call my magazine grills as this was the popular choice to call my magazine. Here i have used experimented with different fonts to see what one is the best. i would like my masthead to be bold and catchy, to help my magazine stand out and reach to my audience easily.

Masthead ideas for my music magazine cover

I have some ideas for what I would like my masthead for my music magazine to be called.

Explode- this is a term used to describe something that has burst rapidly. So this title name will connote that my magazine will burst of a lot of information about R&B music and well-known artists.

Bars – this term is mostly used by urban individuals. It is associated with music, it is a line or more of a specific song that they know or they take the bass of a song and make up their own lyrics “bars”.

Grills- A grill is a type of jewellery that is worn over teeth; this is very popular within the R&B and hip-hop culture. If the model of my main image was wearing grills this will give my audience a clear idea that the magazine is going to be about the R&B genre.

Explicit- this word is use to describe something that is fully and clearly expressed. This will tell my audience that the magazine issue is going to include a lot of information about music. This word is also used to describe some music lyrics and videos. R&B and hip-hop do tend to have explicit lyrics that contain strong language and image that reference to inappropriate behavior. So my target audience will find the word familiar.

B*tches – this word is used a lot in R&B and hip-hop songs.  If my audience saw this word on magazine covers they would find it appealing as the word is maybe what they use and they hear it a lot in R&B and hip-hop songs.

Conventions of R&B magazine covers

Analysis of R&B magazine cover

Analysis of R&B magazine cover

Analysis of R&B magazine cover

I have analysed a magazine cover called "vibe". This magazine specializes in the genre R&B.

Research of R&B magazine covers

For my music magazine research i have created a mood board with lots of R&B magazine covers. I have choose R&B genre as I like how the magazine covers look and the layout of the magazine covers.

My School Magazine Cover

Here is my magazine cover. I decided to get a medium close up of Zebie and i wanted her to on the right side of the magazine cover. i did this because i wanted the camera to focus on Zebie and the background to be blurry. i added a image of my school, so this will give my audience the idea that my magazine relates to them as it is about them and school life. below my masthead i decided to put the slogan in different vibrant colours to make it stand out more to my audience. i wanted my magazine cover to be vibrant and colourful as my audience is to young people.

My School Content Page

This is my content page for my school magazine. I did i simple layout, so it would be easy for my audience to read and understand. I added photo's that relate to the contents. i am happy with my layout of my content page as it is neat, looks professional in a way. Elements on the page are not every where. However i am not happy with the colours that I used on my content page. as my audience is at young people the colours I think that the colours I should of used should of been vibrant and colourful, but I used dull colours. As using dull colours will help the images and the text on my content page stand out more to my audience.

Ideas for my title of my magazine cover

Here are some of my ideas for how I would like my magazine title to look.  I have decided to pick the first idea as it will help my magazine to appeal to my audience easily. The title is very bold and clear and it will stand out to my audience. The contrast between the colours black and white used for the title also helps my title to catch my audience’s attention. The font I have used is accent SF and the size is 72.

SUCCESS.

 SUCCESS

Sketch of my school magazine cover

Here is a sketch of my school magazine cover to be called “success”. I choose this word because I think that it will help relate to my audience easier. The audience for my magazine cover is teenagers who are still in education and who are going through their exams. When my audience first see my magazine cover I would want them to see the title “success”. This will make them want to buy my magazine as they will know that straight away my magazine will give them advice of how to be successful with their exams. The secondary images will be of children in their uniform, to signify to readers that the magazine is based about school. The other secondary image will be of the school building, again to help readers know that my magazine is to them. My slogan “believe, achieve, succeed”. I chose this slogan as it is abrupt and catchy. This will help my audience to remember the slogan.

Below this is a sketch of how I would like my content page to look. the layout page of my content page is very simple and neat. I feel that this will make it more clear for my audience to understand and read. on this page there will include four images that will relate to the topics. the topics will be all events that relate to school e.g. revision tips, school curriculum and more.

School magazine cover research

On the magazine cover above, the contrast between the colours blue and white help the title to stand out. It is bold and helps the title to be more recognizable. The title of the magazine cover ‘Academy’ is spelt with a lower case A; this can be informal having the first letter of the word with no capital letter. This tells us that the magazine is trying to appeal to a younger audience; it also does not look very professional. The main colour of this magazine cover is blue; this includes the top and the bottom border line of the colour as well as the student’s uniform. This colour symbolises wisdom, confidence and intelligence. This suggests that the school as being full of students who are wise, confident and intelligent. Overall this will show the school as a good school.

It is obvious that both of the magazine covers are school magazines. On the magazine cover below, the main image is of a girl wearing school uniform: blouse, tie and blazer. The audience will notice straight away that the girl is wearing uniform and feel that the magazine somehow has got something to do with their age range. The cover lines in this magazine also relate to school life such as: ‘GCSE results’, in school young people from everywhere around the age of 16 will be doing their GCSE’s. in this magazine cover the headline ‘teenage stress’ will get young people’s attention straight away as they will be stressed with their exams and other situations that teenagers go through, so this will make the readers feel as if they can relate to this headline which will result them into reading the magazine more. The colour yellow symbolises joy and happiness but it does not go with the word ‘stress’. However the writer could have used yellow because this colour is very vibrant, so it will help to point out the main topic that the magazine is going to be based about. This bright colour will also attract the audience to the magazine.

 The target audience for both of these magazine covers are young people aged between 15-18 years, who are still in full time education, both genders and who are going through exams and find school stressful.

welcome to my media blog

This year in media i will be developing my skills in how to make a magazine cover and content page.