Contents page analysis

College magazine front cover analysis

Addressing an audience

This is a interview of an analysis of my media magazine. I chose someone that fitted my target audience as this way I was understand what my target audience likes and dislikes as it is only my target audience I aim to please.

Colour moodboard

This is a colours scheme I designed in order to help me decide the colours that would be on my magazine. And that would work well with the font and the images.

Forms and conventions

Institutions

Representation

For my magazine production I designed a hip-hop magazine were I represented the culture of the stereotypical people that would view a hip-hop (gangster/rap) magazine. The main way I represented the genre of hip-hop throughout the front page, contents page and the double page spread, was the layout and how it was conventionally simple but modern. The reason I made my magazine like this is because of the youth that read this specific genre of magazine are not interested in loads of writing and reading articles so I had to entice them by design and colours of the magazine. Also another big part of attracting the target audience is the type of images used. For instance, if the image was very basic and simple and nothing special, when someone saw the front cover of the magazine they would not be amazed or even please therefore would not buy the magazine as they feel it won’t be very good. The pose of the model has a big impact on the way the magazine is represented to the target audience. The type of shot also distincts the representation the magazine is trying to show. For example, if the shot is looking up at the model this would represent the model signifies power and leadership. I have used certain language to attract my target audience, this is called audience positioning. For example, I have used a pull quote in my double page spread which says, ‘’It’s outta the fryin pan and into the fire’’.

The reason I have used slang such as ‘outta’ and ‘fryin’ is because of how youth stereotypically talks to one another now a day.