My magazine shows the hip –hop and R&B convention of a magazine by a number of things; cover lines are written in a font of a bold size. The image follows the convention as the front cover image is a medium close up, which most hip –hop and R&B magazines use in order to show face expression of the artist and furthermore to show the artist themselves. The contents page follows a layout of a traditional content page and therefore follows the conventions such as little pictures of other artist who will appear in the magazine. The double page spread follows the conventions in the layout of the page. There is a picture of the artist on one side and the text this also follows onto the other page where is an image then text next to the image.

I decided to represent the target audience which is 16 to 25 year old for both genders. People who are in employment or college and have attended college before are the most likely people to be interested in my magazine. The person on the front cover is a male who goes to the college and is male, this will attract the male and female audience more particularly those who attend college as they lie in the same age group. The wardrobe management and direction was done by the photographer I asked him to wear clothes that he would wear out but not to a party just if he was to meet him friends this represent a particular social group because unlike some of the images used on the magazines not all the artist wear big gold rings and big gold chains out. By doing this I wanted the audiences to feel that the artist is just like them.ted pose.

Media institution that may distribute my magazine is publications such as Harris Publication Inc. The company publishes other magazines such as XXL. They are a Hip Hop based publication and therefore they may be interested in my magazine as it also aims to this genre. Harris Publication further may wish to invest in my magazine as although it is aimed at people interested in Hip-hop my magazine also includes the genre of R&B and therefore I feel my magazine would stand out more and appeal to Harris Publications Inc.

The type of audience that would be attracted to my magazine is people who are interested in R&B music and Hip hop. The age group for my magazine would vary because lots of people of all ages like to listen to that genre of music however if I was to give it a specific age group then it would have to be 16-25.

I attracted my audience by using a famous name of an R&B artist in order to attract them to pick up my magazine. I also used colours that would attract my audience such as black and blue. Also a limited use of colours only 2-3 would not make the front page of my magazine look like there is too much going on this could make my audience not feel attracted to it. Another way I attracted my audience was by introducing one main big image with text around the sides, this would attract my audience as they will be able to see the image of the famous artist properly furthermore it was important to use a artist that is acosiacted with my genre of music instead on someone who is not, this could lead to the audience becoming confused about what genre the magazine actually is.

I have learnt various techniques from the process of constructing my magazine about technologies. Before the task I was familiar with Photoshop however after making my magazine I have become better equipped and now am able to use Photoshop without much help from anyone. For the magazine industry Photoshop has a lot to offer as you can easily by the touch of a button edit a photo and make someone’s eye colour change. Another technology that I become familiar with was the blog software. The blog was new to me however after facing some difficulties at first after I become used to it was easier to use.

Since doing my preliminary task I have progressed a lot, I have learnt more about Photoshop. I have learnt ways to manipulate images and tried to blend them into a new background and also adding text and color into a background. From the preliminary task I have learnt to uses images that are more appropriate to my magazine and to also have larger text, I have done this in my main task. However looking back I wish I had done more research on my magazine genre as this would of allowed me to have given my magazine a more authentic look.