My magazine is suitable for my target audience in many ways, one of those things being the image is of a young college student. Her fashion sense reflects the age group and the magazine. As well as the fact that the image on the front cover of the magazine includes a camera it could  indicate that the magazine is about photography or some sort of media. Following on from this the masthead 'exhibition' refers to the purpose of the magazine because the title and camera link to fashion photography.

I have placed the masthead in the left third because in a shop the magazines are displayed side by side therefore the title has to be in a relevant position for the readers to see. Consequently the magazine will have to be shelved in a certain way for the title to be shown. Also to make it easier to spot this magazine I have placed a indicator on the first letter of the masthead, (E). The indicator is a basic camera which also refers to the purpose of the magazine

I think that the plain background works well because it brings all the attention to the title and the model with her camera this allows the reader to focus on the main points being the text and image. However i don't think that the cover lines (cover stories) work well because they're too light so they're harder to read when they're on similar colours.

I have learnt how to design a magazine front cover and things that work well and things that don't work well through my research into magazines.

If i had all the time and money in the world i would have picked the clothes the model is wearing so that it fits my tg even more. I would have also took a lot longer on coming up with good/interesting cover lines to attract the readers. 

Lastly i would say that my magazine has a similar appearance to magazines such as vouge and elle etc because they're also fairly simple and are designed for a similar target market.

My magazine contents page.

My Magazine front cover.

My magazine masthead.

Magazine research.

Skills development: Colour splash, warping and brushes.

Cd analysis.

CD analysis.

I think my CD is quite suited to it's genre(Indie) because of the front cover, the front cover is in the style of Indie, I chose things that I think indie/hipster people would like, i.e I chose a record because Indies stereo-typically like the old things(vintage) also like the Polaroid picture effect, I also chose to use an electric guitar on my front cover because I wanted to show roughly what the music would be like and again what is associated with other indie bands and things Indies may listen to. The name of the band and the album name I also think fits, the name tells the listeners the genre straight away 'indie revolution' which I think works well because it narrows an indie's choice down.. and vintage (the album name) because again stereo-typically indies like old vintage things.

However I don't think that the name of my band is very good although it is straight to the point I think it could have been better although I did find it hard to come up with a name so I picked it on a band name generator. I'm also not too sure on the colour, because the Polaroid is white I think maybe the background colour could have been a bit darker so it stood out more, I could have also used more bright colours to get my CD cover to really stand out especially if it was going to be sold in shops it would need to have something that would make people attracted to it but then again it may not have fitted in with the genre of my CD.

I have learnt a fair few things in this project of making the CD, first I found out how to do colour splash which I used on this CD, it's not too obvious but I had changed everything to black and white and just had the shoes in colour I think this made it stand out a little bit more and gave it a bit more of an original effect to it, i have also learnt how to edit things effectively.  

If I had all the time and money in the world I would have took a lot more time so that it was even more suited to the target market, I would have maybe selected a better band name and took different images that suited the target market more than the ones now and the genre of my band. Also I would have done the pictures in a studio so that I could get a white background, I may have even took pictures of people in an indie type clothes. 

I don't think I could really compare my CD cover to many others, mine is quite different, most indie bands will have a photograph of themselves on the front cover although I have chose to use objects instead that symbolise my genre. My back cover was very much inspired by Rizzle kicks, I thought their back layout went well with my front cover because it was very simple yet looked quite busy. I also liked the simplicity of their back cover, i don't think it reflects their type of music because they're up beat but it works well as a contrast between their music and cover. 

Finished/final Cd back.

Cd back flat plan.

Finished/final Cd cover.

Cd front flat plan.

Indie CD cover mood board!