1. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
The target audience for my magazine are people that would prefer a front cover
that stands out and has colour as hip hop street dance is a vibrant form of
dance and this should be reflected on my magazine. I have made a video of
evaluations from my magazine to audiences that would and wouldn’t fit into
this genre to see how they like my magazine.
By adding this to the front cover of me magazine it straight away attracts
audiences as the target audience are of the younger generation they would want
to know what's the ‘hottest’ albums and whats new, they also want it in simplified
terms therefore I did a countdown from 50 so they know whats the best
according to others of their social group.
The above banner was ad d ed to the bottom of m y front cover as an easy way for the read ers to
know who will be talked about in the m agazine once they have glanced at it.

2. 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
I played around with the layout of
the contents and used different
shades of blue to make it more
appealing and give it a funky look.
The text is toppling around almost
dancing which is a good theme
for my magazine as it is aimed at
dancers. I can tell my target
audience liked this because they
By using a grabquote next to an image in my double page said this in the Focus Task video
article, this drew attention to my text so the reader will be on my blog.
intrigued about what the article is saying.
By adding this offer in the magazine the reader will want to
buy it because the target audience are fashion
conscience girls who would love to be involved in seeing a
fashion show for free.

3. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
I learnt about using Photoshop and how layers work which
helped me formatting my magazine cover and putting items in
front of each other.
I used Photoshop to blur the background and crop out the
people which is a useful technique. I also learnt how to wrap
text around the paragraphs and change the outer glows which
is different to Photoshop as Indesign is more complicated. I
also learnt how to use drop caps in the beginning of my text as
this is what is done in a lot of professional magazines.
I also learnt how to edit images so they have a ‘pin
light’ or higher contrast which gave my magazine a
professional look.

4. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product
Minimal
background
Easier to
read text
Footer is clear &
appealing
My first magazine for the college doesn’t look as professional compared to my music magazine. The
background is too busy in my ‘ViBe’ magazine and the quality isn’t clear. The text is also too small and
there is too much of, the colour is also hard to read and contrasts too much with the background. However
Beatz is clear simple and the image is clear in quality, the writing is also readable. In the progression I
have learned to use Photoshop and indesign much better and I have been able to add effects such as drop
shadows and outer glows to create an artistic modern outlook to my magazine and so that it can attract the
target audience.

5. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product
The background is more
appealing and not as
boring looking.
The text is easier to read and
has a better appeal because
of the outer glow, whereas my
contents before was just a
Comic Sans font with no real
effects and theme
The contents has a
more engaging
layout as it looks like
its tumbling and not
as symmetrical.
There is a big difference between my contents page for the college magazine and the contents for my
music magazine, for example the word contents is written out with no style to it in my ViBe magazine
however for the music magazine the contents it has a more professional touch to it because I have
added a drop shadow to it and used a vary of fonts.