Evaluation for music magazine:

My final music magazine design was for the genre hardcore dance. To create the right feel of a dance genre magazine I needed to start with some research towards it. To find out what to include, what djs were popular and what was that extra something different that I could offer my magazine to make it stand out to the rest of the dance magazines. To do this I created a focus group that liked dance music to help me decide what to include in my magazine. I also analysed existing dance magazines to focus on the good and bad qualities. The good points I incorperated into my magazine.
I used very bright colours because they suited the quirky dance look that I wanted to achieve. I was aiming my magazine at a younger audience of teenagers that were interested in the genre. The magazine also focus' on new clubs, djs and even down to earth stories. There is something for everybody for the ages 16-19 and even younger and older than these ages. The age range is vast which opens up the target audience. Most dance magazines include naked pictures of girls which can attract a vulgar male audience, however my magazine opens up the audience to both genders and a range or ages and personalties.
I feel that my magazine stuck to the brief of challenging music magazine conventions. However, it has originality with some qualities of a popular music magazine which would make it a good seller. My knowledge of textual analysis has increased from the prelmiary task and I am now able to use photoshop to a better ability so my photoshop work for my music magazine was to a better standard than in the prelimary task.