5. How did you attract/address your audience?
I tried to appeal to my audience by relating the cover of my magazine to famous popular magazines such as Rolling Stone magazine and "Billboard" magazine. Fonts i used for my magazine were not with such a rough outlook but a rather smooth look relating to how Rolling Stones has their logo set out. I attracted my audience with the use of color and how it complements other elements in the magazine such as the masthead colored red and the guitar also being red stands out at first glance for a sexy appeal.
Following on the path of the great Rolling Stone magazine i decided to keep the model in the center of the magazine for her to be the center of all attention when the audiences are intrigued by it because just as Rolling Stones i wanted to keep one image and a rather simplistic background and when you have one image you want to make sure that image stands out for the audience to see in amazement.
My colour scheme was mostly a range of colors but throughout mostly black, white and red stand out the most and i feel this as very appropriate given on how magazines already use these colors for their production which gave me enough comfort to go along with them.
I tried to appeal to my audience by relating the cover of my magazine to famous popular magazines such as Rolling Stone magazine and "Billboard" magazine. Fonts i used for my magazine were not with such a rough outlook but a rather smooth look relating to how Rolling Stones has their logo set out. I attracted my audience with the use of color and how it complements other elements in the magazine such as the masthead colored red and the guitar also being red stands out at first glance for a sexy appeal.
Following on the path of the great Rolling Stone magazine i decided to keep the model in the center of the magazine for her to be the center of all attention when the audiences are intrigued by it because just as Rolling Stones i wanted to keep one image and a rather simplistic background and when you have one image you want to make sure that image stands out for the audience to see in amazement.
My colour scheme was mostly a range of colors but throughout mostly black, white and red stand out the most and i feel this as very appropriate given on how magazines already use these colors for their production which gave me enough comfort to go along with them.
I tried attracting my audience through props and costumes because a cover of the magazine is what really reels a consumer inside which is why i added a little bit of glamour to the model with high mascara on her eyes, hair covering part of her face, holding a guitar on her back and having this bruno mars type hat on which is basically music in a nutshell with an element of sexy attached to it.
For the contents page i really kept a design of my own and did not
try to base it off any other magazine already out because i wanted at-least one element of the magazine to be completely original because that shows potential.
This is how i chose to display my double spread page, as seen above is the double spread page of a katy perry article in the Rolling Stone magazine to which i took some inspiration from but added a couple of my twists and turns as well. First off i added a picture to the article page because i believe only text makes it unappealing and uninteresting, secondly for the second page i added a quote of a fictional hit song my the model which would seem to attract the audience more if they have been part of her musical career.
FeedBack:
First off i thought why not get some feedback from the person i've been working with all along. Srraa has been a very close friend of mine for a long time now and i trust her opinion on what she to offer in terms of criticism or in terms of loving my project.
Secondly i got some good feedback from my fellow students and friends whom i shared this with.
Mehr had to say: Wow Sarim i did not know you had this in you, looks pretty professional, i love the guitar and how it is perfectly matched with the color on the title of the magazine, good job, i hope you do good.
Muneeb had to say: Woah dude insane, how did you get enough time to do all this, i thought this was professional stuff and it took months or so, but nice work man, i really like how you have actually managed to keep it simple but it seems so exquisite, tell me when the first issue comes out, ill be sure to get myself a copy.
Hamza had to say: This is pretty amazing work bro, haha and i thought i was good at photoshop, but wait a month ago you said you did not know anything about photoshop, how did you learn so fast. I like how you've kept the background plain and simple just and most bad magazines fail to do and the best ones do. If i'd had to guess i'd say the genre for this magazine looks pretty obvious being kind of pop because the acoustic guitar and the hat gives it away!
So there you have it, most of my friends think its a nice piece of work and they all mostly recognize the genre and what stands out in it. I feel this feedback i received from my peers has been very important and the positive points and praises i received for my products helped me learn about my own product from the audiences viewpoint.
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