EVALUATING MAGAZINE COVER

As you can see this is our magazine cover. When making this magazine cover, we had already challenged a convention of girl band magazines. We decided to use a Rap Magazine. We did this because we wanted to stand out as a girl band and be controversial. Also, the conventions we were using with our video fitted more with the Rap genre of magazine, as there are females who dominate in the rap genre, and also are the focus point of the magazine, as apposed to being in the background of the men. This shows in my research into our magazine. We did however, conform to the conventions of the rap genre, using the bold colours, and keeping the text the same all the way through. Also, we wore string vests, converse and Adidas, very commonly seen in rap magazines, as apposed to our earlier look of shorts and little tops, which we did on purpose to show our different personalities.
As I have already mentioned, I think that this mixed with our other tasks is very realistic and professional, and the fact that we had a photo shoot for the images makes our magazine look very professional.

When receiving the audience feedback from our filming, we also asked for the same from our magazine cover, however this was more informal, as we asked for spoken feedback. The majority of the people that viewed it, age 16+, seemed to like the cover. They said it followed the conventions of real magazine covers, and they liked how the image was different from that of the music video, as although it was still sexy and seductive, we looked a little more comfortable in leggings and Adidas, and showed a different more relaxed side to us.

When researching into this magazine cover, again I used the internet, looking at RAP It UP magazine, and many different magazines like this, as you can see on my research post. I looked into Rap from the start as I knew this is the image we wanted to create. We also looked at real magazines in the shops to look for the images used and the text on the pages. When planning this magazine covers, I looked at paint to add the image and then put colour and text around it, as this is an easy way to add and remove colour. I did this simply to see what colours worked with the background and the image and finally decided upon pink and black, as it matched well with the image. When actually constructing the Magazine cover, we used word, as it was very easy, however, we used a professional 23 megapixel camera to take the images of us for the magazine. This was a very good quality camera and as you can see from the image it is very crisp and clear, making the cover look professional.
When evaluating this cover, I uploaded the image onto my blog, and am currently using Blogger to create this evaluation.