Evaluation

My magazine was designed with a target audience of young males between the ages of 17 and 26, that enjoyed listening to 'drum and bass', ' acid house and dub step in mind. I think overall I have achieved this well and have created a product that suits this audience and genre. I think my magazine is representative of this social group and I think I have used common traits of their stereotype to produce interesting and bold magazine. I think the imagery also reflects my audience as my model had an appropriate aura and clothing style to suit, I chose the brick wall as a background as i also thought this was symbolic of the roots of drum, bass and grime, as it is traditionally a illegal homemade genre of music which feasted many raves and riots among the record industry. I think my magazine would be distributed among many specialist stores that sell DJ'ing equipment or in some record store that feature specialist sections including, HMV and Zavvi. The predominant audience for my product would be people that are interested in Drum and Bass, however as my magazine features many other 'raver' style dance and music artists it would be targeted at a range of different people. As I have previously commented, my audience is more attracted to a visual design so I would always use this as a feature of my magazine to attract them. From doing this project I have established an understanding of many new computer features including how to use photo shop and In design and I have also learnt some basic design skill which I can transfer into many other designs. I have developed an understanding of key skills and the production of 'putting together' a magazine, looking back on preliminary task I have developed many skills and progressed with much of my design work. I tried to collaborate ideas from both magazines I researched and tried to infuse this with my own design.