To complete my magazine, I will need to adverts that will appeal to my target audience and fit in to my magazine successfully.

Here is a selection of adverts I think could fit in my magazine:

Here are my two favourites:

I have chosen this advert because it advertizes an artist that my target audience would be interested in: Ben Platt. His target audience is similar to mine and my audience are at an age where his songs are relatable: they have experienced what he is singing about. I decided to use this advert as my back cover because it has a different colour scheme to mine which reinforces it as an advert. I have also chosen this advert because it links back to my dating profile for someone who like pop music – Ben Platt is one of their chosen artists and they look for someone who is kind and considerate – a bit like Platt’s music. 

I have chosen this advert because Beyonce has a similar target audience to mine and she is recognisable to my target audience. I am sure my target audience will enjoy seeing the poster as it features a current pop artist. The advert is also simplistic, which refrains it from over powering and taking the readers attention away from my magazine. The advert doesn’t overload the audience with information which is useful because it will be next to my contents page.  A simple page also links into my dating profile for someone who likes pop music because they like to relax and take things easy, so a busy advert would be overpowering.

Overall, I am happy with the two adverts I have chosen for my magazine because they:

• fit the pop genre
• feature an artist my target audience would be interested in
• they’re not too overpowering

Here is my second draft of my magazine:

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Above is my full draft of my final magazine. I think that the improvements that I have made have been successful in conveying the pop genre. Improvements I have made include:

• Front page:
  • moved the headline ‘Gabe’ and the pug with ‘Mia’ in down
  • moved ‘Mia’ to the left and flip image changing places with ’20 perfect pop hits’
  • added colour to the pugs that fit with the colour schemes

• Contents page:
  • centred the text under ‘The Bucketlist’
  • made polaroid insets bigger
  • added colour to the main image

• Double-page spread:
  • made one headline bigger than the other to clarify which one is the main headline
  • made headline more catchy
  • moved ‘Hannah Oaks’ to the bottom of the left page
  • put drop capital at the start of the article not the standfirst
  • changed the background colour – too much blue
    • added pink box behind article
    • added blue corners on pink box
  • put my main image in a polaroid picture allowing the article headline to go at the top and ‘Hannah Oaks xox’ to go at the bottom as if she was signing off
  • added ‘sssshhh!’ around the edge of the page to link in with the idea of secrets
  • put song titles in blue instead of white in article
  • added another pull quote bottom left and moved original pull quote up to the right
  • added three insets of polaroid pictures

Below are all three pages of my magazine; front page, contents page and double-page spread.

My teacher has looked at my first draft and here are her comments:

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Here is my summarised feedback and targets from my teacher:

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What has changed:

• removed any imperfections on my main image
• added an editorial and contact details to complete the page
• added larger line specing in between the articles on the blue section
• changed ‘Last chance: Beyonce’
• made the blue words letters further apart to increase readability

What remains:

• add colour to the main image to fit with the genre and stand out on the page
• decide on a final colour scheme and change on here and the rest of the mag so it all links in

I asked for some feedback from my friends on my new contents page, and asked them these questions:

• How does the contents page work in tandem with the front cover?
  • Is the font/typeface consistent with the front cover?
  • What genre of music is the contents page featuring?
• Describe the images of the stars using adjectives.
• Which cover-lines tempt the audience to read on and which ones stand out and why?
• How do the cover-lines reflect a music magazine? If they don’t,  which ones need to be adapted?
• Which areas, aspects have distracting areas of integration of copy and images?
• What aspects do you consider conventional or unconventional? (page numbers, inserts, captions, catchy cover lines, editors comment)

Feedback and targets:

• the same fonts are used – can tell the two pages are linked together
• change the colours on the front page to link it to contents page
• the colours used on contents page are very bright and reflect the pop genre
• my star looks: confident, intelligent, knows what she’s doing, a very up-lifting person
• ‘Charity campaign’ – very wholesome, reflects the modern day audience, young people want to make a change – appealing to a teenage audience
• like the highlighted words – brings attention to the articles
• ‘gossip’ – trendy vocab, modern, reflects target audience
• the blue box with the black writing – could make the writing a bit bigger or change the font or change the colour to white – then highlight section headers to make them stand out again
• make the images inside the numbers more obvious – can’t really tell who is inside them
• the shapes and layout is conventional to the pop genre
• confused where to look first – lots of information