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My music magazine follows the conventions of a hiphop magazine. The front cover follows these conventions as there is a image of male with his eyes hidden by a hat. This evokes a sense of mystery with the artist and portrays him to be superior within the hip hop industry, following the normal conventions. The hat on the artist matches the colour of text on the front page this also creates an effect called 'swagger'. swagger is the way the person is in question and the better the swagger of an indivdual the higher portrayed the person/artist are, this is also conventional as it may increase sales.

My music magazine represents my social groups that im trying to target because the magazine helps youth identify when raves are ahppening and who are the up and coming artists within the industry and also how to hire entertainment. This proves that ive targetted them effectivley because the whole magazine has relevance to the social group. Discussions could also incoporate my magazine and the functions e.g. entertainment agency and job oppurtunities.

I would say that people that have no interests or relevance to my magazine would dispute the purpose of my magazine because they dont have no reason to like my media product. so other magazines that produce music magazine for people who are interested in another genre of music then they wouldnt appreciate my media product.

The audience for my media product is 15 - 21 year olds both male and female but mainly males that are within the black ethnicity group that are interested in raving, the undeground scene, funky music. they are my audience because the purpose of my magazine is to inform my audince on the latest raves and the best and upcoming dj's and artists that produce music for the black comunity. so its meant to obtain the audiences interest by having a relevance.

I attracted my audience by creating a interesting topic in the issue of the audience that can appeal for people that musically influenced and that have interests in hosting parties excetra.

I Feel that i have learthow to use photo shop and indesign to produce a media product that has relevance to my target audience and that would also follow the conventions of other music magazines. i also had to apply my ressearch to my final product.