Oyins Final Media Front Cover!!!

Me and my media group consisted of four members (including myself), Michaela, Catherine and Kirsty. We are four teenage girls so we decided to enter the minds of teenage girls and think about what they would be interested in. We came to the conclusion that the most common genre of music for girls in the U.K was RnB, so we decided to base our magazine’s music genre on RnB particularly, the slow jams and the love songs. We also decided to target our magazine to a specific target audience which was, teenage girls between the ages of 16-21. In order to attract the girls, we decided to base the magazine on teenage girls' favourite subject...Boys...and other things, such as music and fashion. We all agreed that the name of our magazine should be something that portrays us as individuals and as a group. So we called it ''D2E'', which simply stands for ''Down To Earth'', because that's what we need to be in order to reach out to our targeted audience. We based our magazine on any ethnic backgrounds. Our magazine attracts urban, streetful, lively and zesty girls, so slang is expected in our magazine because that's how urban/ghetto teenage girls communicate with each other. We use American as well as British artists in our magazine to convey diversity. Our magazine quality is of a good standard but we decided to sell it cheap in order to make it affordable to most girls. We expect shops like, corner shops, magazine shops, grocery stores (Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s etc...) to sell our magazine because these are shops that you would most likely find teenage girls walking into. We also feel that, the cheaper your magazine, the more people are likely to buy it. We made sure that we stuck to our original plan, which was to advertise boy’s a lot in our magazine because that's what we know teenage girls in today’s society are interested in. I made sure that the colours on my magazine were kept plain and simple (black, white and red with a bit of orange), I did this because, teenage girls haven’t got a very long concentration span, and they appear to get distracted easily. So in order for them to be able to get the message on the magazine, I felt that I needed to keep it simple to not confuse them. Also because it just looks more presentable to have a limited amount of colours, rather than having colours flying everywhere. The main focus on the front cover of my magazine is David Le (a student from my media class)...I made him the main focus because, he's a young hip-hop/RnB/ghetto boy, and the day of the photo shoot he was wearing a RnB/Hip hop t-shirt that I know many people would have noticed. So I thought it would be a good look to have him on the front cover. On the front cover, David Le is looking towards our left (he's right) and towards he's right were little headlines of stories inside the magazine e.g. ''Catherine Goes Solo''...I did this because I felt that if the buyers saw David Le looking at something, they too would turn to see what he is looking at, which were headline stories inside, which would attract the readers to buy it in order to read it. I also used names of people within my media class, because I felt the need to keep it real. I think my magazine falls similar to other magazines because it has some similar properties to other magazines, such as...main picture, a famous background (sometimes), big headlines, ''famous'' artist on the cover and headlines for stories inside the magazine. However, I feel that my magazine challenges other magazines because it uses unique and new information which will come in handy because soon people will get fed up of hearing the same ‘’gossip’’ over and over again, then they will turn to a new source of information...MY MAGAZINE. My magazine represents me and my social group. I’m a teenage girl, who loves to be ghetto and ‘’hip’’ and I too went through a faze of only being interested in teenage boys, so why not assisted some girls while there going through there faze and give them what they desire...EYE CANDY.

By Oyin Balogun.