Evaluation

I had done a lot of research into creating my magazine cover, contents page and double page spread. The front page is a very stereotypical music magazine front cover, from what i had researched, most urban music magazines cover try and make it very relaxed by using few colours in a colour scheme, or they try and make it very energetic by using a lot of colours in a colour scheme and having a lot of cover lines, My magazine has followed this trend, it has a very relaxed urban atmosphere with just 2 main colours running through which are orange and grey. Front covers of magazines also try to use use teasers in their cover lines in order to attract readers and make them stand out amongst others on the shelf, my magazine is doing exactly this, the cover lines which have been used are teasers as to what the reader can expect inside, also used in my cover in order to reach different parts of my potential target market, which is almost compulsory in real music magazines, are cover lines that will aim at different parts of the potential target audience, for example i have talked about Kanye west tour dates, so this will generally target a much younger audience, but also a cover line which has been included which is about old hip hop legends coming back, so this targets mainly the older generation of urban music fans. My contents page uses the typical conventions or a real music magazine, usually there is 1 main image with a piece of contents relating to it, i have managed to achieve exactly this, i have represented Eminem in my contents page and linked a page number to the image, so it helps relate the image to the magazine. The double page spread develops on the idea of real music magazine double page spread because most commonly there will be a large picture taking over most of the page and a little writing, or a even mix of both writing and images, but I'm mine i have used 3 images, almost creating a timeline where they get bigger and into a more postured pose every time, and the article is on both sides of these images, a small introduction is shown at the start between the first to pictures, then there is a whole paragraph of question and answer on the second page.

My magazine represents the young urban social group, it is obviously targeted at a young audience who are fans of music. the main story of my magazine is about Lil Wayne, a very popular rapper who is famous for being known as 'the best rapper in the world' and i have used him as a link to tie my target audience with the magazine, it is very important to appeal to your audience through use of what your magazine is about and who it is about, is is very obvious that 'Flip Side' magazine is targeting a younger audience, also this is shown in the use of cover lines on my front cover. as the front cover is the first thing the reader will look at, it is important to make sure that it appeals to them, so the use of cover lines i have used target very well to an audience who are also going to be interested in the double page spread, the cover lines are mainly about hip hop artists and celebrities that would appeal to the audience i am targeting, also the image is of probably the most famous artist int the music industry right now, Lil Wayne, so before readers are even indulged into reading the cover lines, the image first of all will appeal to them massively, so it all ties together to make a collage of persuasive techniques to attract a reader as if they were to see the magazine on a shelf in a store, it helps it to stand out compared to others, which is what real music magazines really intend to achieve with their front covers.