Joey's Music Magazine

My magazine production skills have come a long way from the start of the course. When I made my preliminary student magazine with very little understanding of Photoshop. It was a good experiment to make the student magazine. I didn’t know much about the convention of a magazine at the start. My magazine didn’t have a bar code, strap line and I hadn’t considered target audience properly. All I knew about them is that they were students. If I were to do it now I would have considered what part of London they live in, how much money they have, what race they are, what their interested in and what gender they are. Because now I know that the lifestyle of you target audience is very important. My technology skills have improved over the course too. The most important thing I learnt about technology is that you can’t depend on it. Sometimes things don’t work and you should always have everything backed up. I also had no idea about the layout of a magazine. Now I have looked over magazines Bliss and NME to learn about the conventions like how to layout a typical with a close up of a young girl in the center and short feminine taglines around. Analyzing the Bliss helped me to look at the conventions surrounding the target audience for my music magazine. For example how I should address young girls using slang and girly abbreviations like ‘BFF’ and ‘LOL’. My music magazine looks generally more professional. I learnt more about what colours can symbolize. For example the colours I picked to appeal to my target audience are pink and black witch represents girly fun with edginess. But they can also mean many other things.