Magazine Evaluation

For the past couple of weeks we have been creating music magazine covers. Our group created a music magazine cover called Soul Beats which is aimed at the Soul and Hip-Hop fans between the ages of 16 to early and late 20's. In my opinion i think our music magazine cover successfully replicats a convention of a real magazine cover. I say this because firstly we have our masthead in big bold writing as "SOUL BEATS" with the issue number above the masthead and the date below. We have a main cover image which one the artists are looking straight at the camera to attract connection with the audience. Our main cover line reflects our main cover image. Secondly we have two famous celebrities from both background of soul and hip-hop Jay-Z and Angie Stone with cover lines below the images. Thirdly we decided to have a banner attracting our audience to want to read and buy our magazine and also connotations connecting to our magazine e.g. It;s fresh,hot etc. Lastly we included the usual essentional e.g. barcode, issue number, price and cover lines. Our magazine cover represents