Music Magazine Evaluation

Our development of a music magazine relates to real music magazines as we have included different aspects, which is involved in covers of real music magazines. We called our magazine ‘the MIX’, as our magazine applies a variety of music genres, such as Urban, Rock, Nu Rave, Pop and Dance, which expands our audience. Our main cover photo relates to this as it shows my group dressed in different styles relating to the type of music genre we are trying to portray. This image of different types of styles influenced by a type of music in one-group shows many teen social groups from different ethnic backgrounds. Our cover shows that different social groups can join as one by music. Our logo of the magazine title ‘the MIX’ is very bold and playful as it stands out. We tilted the word ‘the’ to make it appear sideward’s and aligned it next to the word ‘MIX’, so that it looked unique rather than just keeping the title on one line. Our cover contains other aspects to make it appear like a real music magazine like cover lines (Exclusive…); box text (WIN TICKETS TO THE 2008), and bar code, price and issue date. Also, to make it appear more like a music magazine, we included a picture of an artist called Estelle and her logo and the logo of the official ‘Mobo Award’, so that people could be able to win tickets to an actual music event. We obtained these images from the internet and edited these images to fit in an area in our front cover, so that it does not overlap or distract the main cover picture.
Media institutions like local newsagents and music outlet stores such as HMV could distribute our music magazine because these are places where music magazines are most likely to be sold and bought. These Media institutes sell products that are related to music where people will go to find these specific music products.

We address our audience from our front cover. Our front cover shows my group dressed in different styles all together as one. The photo looks as if we are a band and shows relation to a music magazine. The title itself helps to show who the audience is, as ‘the MIX’ means a mix of different styles of music, showing a variety of audiences that like a variety of music styles.

Constructing this music magazine cover has made me understand how much is contributed into creating it. I have learned that most or entirely all of the editing is done on Photoshop, as the program enables you to use many functions that allow photography and typography editing. I found it easy to use Photoshop as use it a lot to edit photos. I found constructing the cover quiet enjoyable as I knew some basic knowledge of some tool and learned new techniques by playing around with the tools and effects.

If I were going to create another magazine cover I would add more aspects that a real music magazine cover has to mine, like a banner, more cover lines, box text and perhaps a strap line or a graphic. Also I would edit the Masthead and make it more graphical so that it looks more original and unique rather than it appearing as a normal font. I would do the same thing to the cover line ‘The Unkowns’ because that is the name of our band of our front cover picture and by editing that cover line, it will show it is our unique band logo. Jus like the ‘Estelle’ logo we obtained from the internet.