School mag to music mag

 I believe that my school magazine images are strong in terms of the theme I wished to acheive and both of the pictures are consistant with that theme. However overall the colours are not consistant, and the photshop skills seen through this magazine look very unprofessional. The orange writing on my contents page is unclear in places, and the huge arrow on the front cover looks unprofessional and childish. Although I wasn't happy with the outcome of my school magazine, it did teach me some more skills with Adobe Photoshop and made me realise that research into the theme of my next magazine would be crucial.

The overall time I spent on my music magazine was much more than the time I spent on my school magazine, not only with creating a final product on Adobe Photoshop, but also on researching and taking a range of pictures that would give me alot to play with on Photoshop. The overall outcome of my music magazine in comparisson to my school one is that it looks much more consistant and professional.

Learning curve

At the beginning of this task, I was useless at Adobe Photoshop, and had never made a blog. Over the process, I have had lessons in Adobe Photoshop, helping with the progression of my skills in media. I am proud of the magazine I have made, as I didnt know how to make a magazine, let alone make it look professional. I have learnt how to create a magazine that is coherant, and have become confident enough to challenge many of the usual codes and conventions of a music magazine. I have tried to make my blog look less 'wordy' from how it looked to begin with, adding pictures and hyperlinks etc. I had trouble when attempting to upload a video that I had created in order to add to the different techniques, and was very dissapointed that I couldnt upload it after spending a while making it. Nevertheless I have tried my best to make my blog as appealing as possible, yet still with all the relevent information needed.

Audience

I believe that my magazine would appeal to a wide audience, possibly even across the world, yet particularly London and if it were to be published by a successful publisher, like that of 'RESPECT', America too.

My audience is described in my reader profile and the way of which I attempted to attract my audience is seen in my representation of a particular social group.

However in terms of a summary, I have tried to make my magazine appeal to as wider audience as possible without detering from my theme of London rap and up and coming audience. I believe that depending on how well my magazine were to do in the beginning would determin whether it is seen by a wide audience or the particular niche of teenagers living in the UK who are interested in rap. If the publisher produced a well known magazine already, there would be more of a chance to be aknowledged by a wider audience.

Distribution of my magazine

I believe that Musiart, LLC publisher of the magazine 'RESPECT' would be willing to publish my magazine. Although the magazine 'RESPECT' deals mostly with photography, my magazine would appeal to them as it is in the same genre that 'RESPECT' is based on- rap. I believe that if 'RESPECT' wanted to publish a magazine that is similar to theirs yet is based on London culture rather than that of New York, my magazine would be perfect. Check their istitutional info and compare to the reader profile of my magazine.
In terms of advertisement, my magazine would attract interest from designers that are oular in London, Ralph Lauren, Hollister, Lyle and Scott, Nike- to name a few. It would also attract interest from record labels that are based in London, particularly rap, record labels. I also believe shops like HMV that people would go to in order to by the music shown in my magazine would be interested in advertising in my magazine, similar to that of Itunes.
I think that my magazine will help the London rap scene to become more well known in America and vice versa through globalisation, especially if the publisher was known for publishing a well known rap magazine in America like 'RESPECT'. I think that English rap particularly from London, would be brought to the worlds awareness and therefore more money will be produced. I believe that if musiart were to publish my magazine they would gain profits quickly, as they would already have a magazine to help bring about awareness of my new magazine. The publisher would also gain profits from the above advertisements.