evaluation question 5 draft

•       I feel that my target market would buy my magazine because it addresses everything a reader would want from an indie music magazine and the style is similar to other indie magazines but is unique in its own way

•       Magazine cover

•       I have tried to address my target audience with a pretty basic and modern front cover, I felt like this was important for it to be simplistic as I didn’t want it to look hectic as I felt it might look unprofessional. I have been studying other indie music magazines such as fader music magazine and I found that their magazine front cover was pretty simplistic with not much writing on the front cover as a whole. I have taken inspiration from fader’s front covers as they do not have much writing on them and it’s usually just a simple picture of the artist. Also because my artist is an indie rapper I thought that fader would be good to look at even though it s more hip hop and rappers I thought it would be better than other magazines.

•       Contents page

•       For my contents page I've again tried to keep it quite modern with a dark grey background and a white boarder on the very outside. I have also put a white boarder on my photos to make them stand out more, I have found that putting a boarder on the photos was an efficient way of making the picture stand out more. I have made the titles of each section in white as well I thought this was a good colour to bring out the titles. Overall I tired to get the important things to be shown in one colour and I found that with printing I would have to have a white boarder and then I did it with the picture and thought that id like there to be basic black white and grey colour as it made it look quite modern and simplistic. I have take some inspiration from DIY music magazine for the border idea with my picture and then the rest I kind of came up with my self from taking inspiration from different magazines, such as fader NME and others. I have tried to attract my audience because from my questionnaire they said that they would like a more simplistic magazine and less busy, so I have tried to create that in an aesthetically pleasing contents page. Because they wanted it simple I thought that id keep it on a basic colour scheme of black white and grey.

•       Double page spread

•       My double page spread is quite simplistic style compared to some others around but I thought id keep it the same style as it means the magazine would go better together. I have used 3 different fonts on this page for my main text I have used the basic ‘Calibri (body)’ purely because it makes it easier for the reader to read, plus also I feel that it looks modern and good. Then for the title of the page ‘debut days’ I have used ‘play bill’ which is quite a nice creative it also looks like its been kind of rushed and it does’nt look like they care what it looks like to a normal person but a person of the indie genre will enjoy it because it isn't the ‘average’ font and it stands it from the crowd. Then the final one is ‘fin D-B’ personal font that he uses for everything so when people see it they will be reminded of him, but the font is call ‘stylewars’. I have also included his social media name on all platforms he has, apple music because his music is available on their and his hash tag for his new tour. I feel like this would have attracted more readers, as they will now know where to find him on social media and where his music is.

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