This is the contents page i was trying to recreate when making my contents page. The reason why i got so attracted to this contens page of vibe magazine its because its so simple but at the same attracting due to the celebrities ansd uniqueness
Friday, 11 May 2012
front page analysis
The following magazine above is called Vibe magazine which is a music and entertainment magazine which feautures R&B and hip-hop music artists, actors and other entertainers. You can see that the producers of Vibe magazine, as many other music magazine's or even general magazine's used celebrity endorsement to persuade their audience to buy this product as it acts as a way of promoting the music magazine.For this Vibe magazine edition they used american singer, songwriter, dancer and fashion model; Ciara Princes Harris who is just simply known as Ciara. The possible reason why they might have chosen her to be the front cover of one of their magazine's editions is because of her status which is pretty high in the music industry, especially when it comes to the R&B and Hip-hop industry. Her occupatios also creates a huge fanbase for her whereby a lot of people would like to be her, look up to her or are inspired by her. hereby, Vibe magazine decided to choose Ciara as one of their front over artist's for one of their magazine editions. This is a wise idea as this could increae sales and profit for the company as when the public sees Ciara on the front cover they will be willing to buy it and would be curious what is said about her or what she says in the magazine.
As i have already mentioned above the magazine is a R&B and hip-hop magazine which features their artists, actors and other entertainers. Hereby the readers of Vibe magazine and their target audience will be R&B and Hip-hop fans. This fact is also confirmed by the choice of their front cover artist which is an R&B artist. The target audience's age group varies from the age 16-30. This is quite an mature age group as some of the topic featured and images are not suitable for pupils under 16. Their target audience's interests will vary from R&B and Hip-Hop music including their artists, latest fashion trends which artists in this industry are wearing to inspirational strories about artists in this industry and the latest gossip the industry has to give and these are exactly the main features Vibe magazine focuses on and which could also be reflected by the issues and articles on the above vibe magazine front cover.
What is the central image addressing to the target audience? In my opinion, her whole body language, position, dress and the look on her face gives a mode of seduction. It gives a type of effectiveness of mystery. They probably used this so that their target audience will firstly get attracted and secondly think " i wonder what is written about her in the magazine" or " i wonder what she is up to know". Therefore the magazine wants a close relationship with their target audience as they want their target audience be get " attracted" to them and want their target audience to read their issues and articles.
The anchorage text says " new body, new music, no Bow Wow, Ciara; don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me". Now what does this anchorage text imply of the artist? The anchorage text is introducing Ciara as a whole new person with, a hot new body, different style of music and no boyfriend and therefore single. Therefore, the text follows with " don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me\" as their trying to back up the fact of her being hot and new as she's turned a new leave.
The overall message Ciara is giving to the target audience is basically about her life. Vibe magazine is trying to imply that Ciara's probably back as the target audience havent heard from her in quite a while. Therefore she's giving an insight of her life to the target audience, what she's gone through and done during the time she was gone. That's why on the front cover it gives away some of the topics she will be talking about inside the magazine which are about her "new body", her " new music" and her "single life" as bow wow is out of her life now which is her ex boyfriend. No groups are being represented by the magazine.
The "buzz" words on this magazine front cover are "Ciara" and " Hot like me". As the writing is much bigger than the other fonts on the magazine and the colour is different and much brighter, the words stand out. This gives an attracting effect to the reader as the font type and colour is really eye catching.
MUSIC MAGAZINE PITCH
Name Of Magazine
I have come to the decision to call my music magazine " Urbanity". In my opinion this name that i have given my music magazine gives emphasis on the type of music magazine my music magazine is which is a mixture of a urban and classic lifestyle
Target Audience
My target audience will be black young adults, both males and females from the ages of sixteen to twenty-five. The reason why i have made this decision for my music magazine is because firstly because this age group should be working and therefore should afford to purchase my music magazine. Secondly, because there will be articles or images which will be unsuitable for ages under sixteen and therefore urbanity music magazine will be inappropiate for them.
Weekly/ Month And Cost
My music magazine will be a monthly magazine and buyers will be charged £2.50 every month. The reason why i have priced my magazine at this price is because its very affordable. In the music magazine market, magazine's are normally very expensive and usually even above the price i have priced my music magazine. pricing it around the price they have is just asking for more competition. I want to be different and therefore distribute my music magazine to readers in the simplest and most affordable way possible. This will leave readers no option than to even try purchase my music magazine as its so cheap compared to the others. As it's a new music magazine, i'm trying to get as much readers and attract people as much as possible. Therefore pricing my music magazine is an advantage as more people will be willing to buy it. Maybe when i have a stable readership and my music magazine is more succesful then i will raise the price of my music magazine to keep with costs as then my readership will not have a problem with it as they know what they expect and as they like my music magazine they will pay anything for it to read the articles and look at the pictures inside.
Association With Magazine
My music magazine will be associated with the genre i chose for the music magazine which R&B and Hip-Hop. This is because my target audience would want to have monthly updates of stars and new music within this music industry. Weekly magazines might be too much pressure for me , as i would have to find out new news, new songs, new people to interview etc. Whilst monthly updates will give me more time to write appropiate articles which my target audience will get attracted to.
Similar Products
There are quite a number of identical but still different magazines which can be compared to urbanity music magazine such as the music magazine "XXL". This is because their specific music genre is also focusing on R&B and Hip Hop and therefore they also have identical articles about the same stars in this industry. The magazine also share the same specific genre and not another genre such as Rock
What Makes My Magazine Different
My magazine is different. The reason for this is because my music magazine has got additional activities other than the magazine such as a Youtube channel to keep their target audiences entertained and attracted on also other mediums of new technologies. The same counts to facebook as urbanity music magazine has also got a facebook page. When it comes to the the magazine itself, the magazine carries a lot of adverts with interests of their target audiences and updates of celebrities and their new gadgets and gossips.
I have come to the decision to call my music magazine " Urbanity". In my opinion this name that i have given my music magazine gives emphasis on the type of music magazine my music magazine is which is a mixture of a urban and classic lifestyle
Target Audience
My target audience will be black young adults, both males and females from the ages of sixteen to twenty-five. The reason why i have made this decision for my music magazine is because firstly because this age group should be working and therefore should afford to purchase my music magazine. Secondly, because there will be articles or images which will be unsuitable for ages under sixteen and therefore urbanity music magazine will be inappropiate for them.
Weekly/ Month And Cost
My music magazine will be a monthly magazine and buyers will be charged £2.50 every month. The reason why i have priced my magazine at this price is because its very affordable. In the music magazine market, magazine's are normally very expensive and usually even above the price i have priced my music magazine. pricing it around the price they have is just asking for more competition. I want to be different and therefore distribute my music magazine to readers in the simplest and most affordable way possible. This will leave readers no option than to even try purchase my music magazine as its so cheap compared to the others. As it's a new music magazine, i'm trying to get as much readers and attract people as much as possible. Therefore pricing my music magazine is an advantage as more people will be willing to buy it. Maybe when i have a stable readership and my music magazine is more succesful then i will raise the price of my music magazine to keep with costs as then my readership will not have a problem with it as they know what they expect and as they like my music magazine they will pay anything for it to read the articles and look at the pictures inside.
Association With Magazine
My music magazine will be associated with the genre i chose for the music magazine which R&B and Hip-Hop. This is because my target audience would want to have monthly updates of stars and new music within this music industry. Weekly magazines might be too much pressure for me , as i would have to find out new news, new songs, new people to interview etc. Whilst monthly updates will give me more time to write appropiate articles which my target audience will get attracted to.
Similar Products
There are quite a number of identical but still different magazines which can be compared to urbanity music magazine such as the music magazine "XXL". This is because their specific music genre is also focusing on R&B and Hip Hop and therefore they also have identical articles about the same stars in this industry. The magazine also share the same specific genre and not another genre such as Rock
What Makes My Magazine Different
My magazine is different. The reason for this is because my music magazine has got additional activities other than the magazine such as a Youtube channel to keep their target audiences entertained and attracted on also other mediums of new technologies. The same counts to facebook as urbanity music magazine has also got a facebook page. When it comes to the the magazine itself, the magazine carries a lot of adverts with interests of their target audiences and updates of celebrities and their new gadgets and gossips.
Friday, 4 May 2012
How i edited my magazine front cover
This is how my magazine front cover firstly looked like:
I felt like the image looked kind of boring, dall and not attracting, so i decided to put some colour in it. Therefore i had a little go with the hue, saturation, auto colour and actual effects i could make with the image. Hereby the image was more attracting and definitly produced a more professional and happier atmosphere. This is how the image ended up like:
The picture itself was actually done now. The image had a lovely brick background so i didnt feel the need of cropping this out. What i did do is changed the colour of the brick wall to yellow, in order to make her stand out more and the brick wall itself to look a bit more exposing. Secondly, i brightened up her skin colour to give the image a more professional look and this did happen. Lastly, i just has to add my bar code, magazine title and secondary headings to make the image actually look like a magazine and thats what i did. The text i just made up myself. I used as a font "impact" as this really stands out for me and is very bold which is what i like. Some of the text, colours, were changed. This is what my target audience will really be interested in and therefore will be attracted by firstly when they see the magazine. This was the end product:
I felt like the image looked kind of boring, dall and not attracting, so i decided to put some colour in it. Therefore i had a little go with the hue, saturation, auto colour and actual effects i could make with the image. Hereby the image was more attracting and definitly produced a more professional and happier atmosphere. This is how the image ended up like:
The picture itself was actually done now. The image had a lovely brick background so i didnt feel the need of cropping this out. What i did do is changed the colour of the brick wall to yellow, in order to make her stand out more and the brick wall itself to look a bit more exposing. Secondly, i brightened up her skin colour to give the image a more professional look and this did happen. Lastly, i just has to add my bar code, magazine title and secondary headings to make the image actually look like a magazine and thats what i did. The text i just made up myself. I used as a font "impact" as this really stands out for me and is very bold which is what i like. Some of the text, colours, were changed. This is what my target audience will really be interested in and therefore will be attracted by firstly when they see the magazine. This was the end product:
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Selection of Pictures for assignment
These were all the pictures i took for my assignment. These pictures include possible pictures of my front cover, contents page and article:
I decided to pick this as the main image on the article. As its the article she doesnt have to look straight in the audience's eyes as at this stage now there is no need for the target audience to be attracted as there already inside the magazine reading. The picture also gives a professional look of her which i want her to have. Other pictures below might also be seen in the article but these images will just be inserted for creativity.
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