D'FUNK MAG EVALUATION

Magazine Evaluation

My magazine cover displays a different type of approach to magazine covers, because of its unique genre. D'FUNK is based on the funky house genre of music, an unusual choice for a magazine but my group wanted the uniqueness, to be different from the other magazines. The vibrant colours of our magazines already displays what our magazine is about, other than the usual magazines you would have to actually pick it up and read parts of it to understand what it’s about, but ours with our distinctive range of colours makes it easier for the consumer to know what it’s about.

The colours of our magazines represent the genre of the magazine; people would generalize the distinctive choice of colours for our magazines with the music genre. The person on the front of my magazine was chosen because it appeals more to the genre of the music, displaying a mixture of colours to represent the different types of the funky house genres. In addition, the magazine reflects the target audience, you can straight away pick up that this magazine is targeted for the mid teens to mid twenty’s because of the colours shown on the front of the magazine and also the person put at the front. The position of the person placed on the magazine; a medium shot, which shows the person with his headphones on his head and his hands on his headphones. Already indicates the social group because of the stance of the person; it kind of shows that he’s in a party and since people think that mostly teenagers or young adults party a lot, it shows who the social group is.

The audience of my of magazine doesn’t necessarily have to be within the expected social group, we tend to aim it at people who party a lot because of the genre, funky house music is normally played in parties and rarely anywhere else, so that’s our audience. The way we addressed our audience, is by using words that they understood, well informal language, take our magazine mass head for instance; D’FUNK this is slang and appeals more to our audience because they are young and are used to the slang term, D’FUNK standing for The FUNK. Also the content of the magazine addresses the audience a lot, supplying interviews with certain artists, answering questions that haven’t been answered before; to let the readers know why funky house genre is unique and at its best.

The technology available to us nower days, has made designing this magazine cover very effortless for me and my group. The programmes that was available to us like Photoshop CS3, made creating, editing and all other forms of designing quick, simple and enjoyable to do for us. Furthermore with the availability of the Apple Mac’s which Photoshop runs smoothly on and is easier to use on, made our work even easier and relaxing for me and my group. For me I find it very easy to use Photoshop on a Mac, because Photoshop was intended to be on Mac’s so that’s why its user friendly on Mac’s, and more complex on Mac’s.

If I were to create the magazine cover, again I would take more time planning and designing what the magazine is going to be about, and what it will contain. When I was doing my first magazine, I really didn’t get that much time to plan out what I was going to do with the magazine, but I still used my time effectively and produced a good magazine cover. The second thing I would do differently is research more into the genre of the magazine, because the genre of the magazine I done was actually new to me; so I really didn’t know what to expect on magazines that have that genre, next time I should research more on the genre it will be about. I’ve now realised that maybe choosing another genre, I might have been more effective on what was going to be on it. The third thing I would of done differently is taken pictures which actually relate more to the genre and audience, I realised that the picture of the person on the front of my magazine really doesn’t appeal to the audience, it would of been better if there was a famous funky house artist to appeal more to the audience.

Lastly, the thing I would have changed is the genre of the magazine; the genre picked was not necessary because not everyone in my group knew about the genre or not that much people are into that specific genre. We should of picked a genre we knew we could of tackled well, but we wanted to be different from the other genre’s, maybe next time we can pick a more common genre but the way we go about designing the magazine is where our uniqueness can come in.