Magazine Evaluation

The ways that my music magazine has challenged forms and conventions of real magazine covers, i.e other gospel magazines, is through the use of younger generations being on front of the cover. 

A typical gospel magazine will have a well- known gospel artist on the cover or someone that is well known amongst the gospel community. However, my magazine develops forms and conventions through the use of young people to get the point across that young people are also, as well into the word of God, just as any other person. 

As i have said, the younger generation have more emphasis on this magazine cover, so i think it represents the younger generation as the cover contains youth at the age of 16 and above. How i think this is done, is through the images of average teenage girls and certain slang orientated words, e.g, "skank". 

I think the audience for the music magazine cover will, mostly be aimed at the younger generation, however, it is available to all age groups. 

I tried to attract my audience by advertising a brand called Anointed Vessel, that sell t-shirts that mention the works of Jesus, for example, the t-shirt that i used for my cover the slogan was called, "Jesus dies for myspace in heaven". These t- shirts are aimed at all ages, however it is very popular amongst the youths. Hence, why i used these t-shirts. 

What i have learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this magazine cover is, every detail count. I used a lot of experimental colors for my background, and some clashed, and some also went together with the text. In other words you have to be precise. I have also learnt, the dynamics of placing text in front of photos and vice versa. The technology on Photoshop was different to any other program that i have used, therefore, making it more complicated. However, i have learnt a lot using this program...