The conventions, the producer and target audience of my text

The conventions I plan to follow and keep regarding are the short and memorable title, which Is a large and dominant icon, and it will make clear the title of the magazine. The price will be shown on the front of the magazine on top of the bar code. The image will be clear and the subjects face will stand out, and they will also be making eye contact with the camera to draw readers in. The magazine cover will not have any thumb nails showing what is in the magazine, instead it will have sell lines and content teases, showing what is inside the magazine and drawing the reader in. The image will be dominant, full page image of the main article of the magazine, this will draw the readers in as they want to read about the big artist, the masthead will also go behind the artists head and some text will cover it at this is a common convention of a magazine cover.  I plan to not have any thumb nails because it will make the front cover clearer and make people read the sell lines instead of just looking at the pictures, this will attract people as it will look fresh and clean, and stand out from all the cluttered front covers on the shelf.

I would have ICP Media (Time Inc.) to produce the magazine as they produce many major titles including New Musical Express, popularly known as NME, they will produce the magazine as they already distribute to my target market of teen agers from ages 17-18. I have researched the company and they seem large enough to get the magazine out to major distributors such as supermarkets, corner shops and shops such as W.H smiths, it will also be able to be sent to homes as subscriptions.  I will also be assured of the quality, it will be a high standard and I will also know they will be distributed on time as it is a reputable company.

The target audience of my magazine is teenager’s ages aged 17-18 who are into hip hop and R&B music, the magazine will be about all types of music, but will mostly feature popular artists of the hip hop culture. There will be no specific gender as music is open to everyone and your taste in music isn’t specific to your gender.