The type of magazine that this is, is a hip–hop/ r’n’b. from the front cover the kinds of issues/articles that are going to be inside are the latest gossip and information involving black artists. Also articles on the male and female singers based on the music industry issues and basic facts.
The target audience for the magazine is all teenagers from the ages between 13 – 19 of that particular age group; their interests are mainly music and the good looking artists as a nice image of Usher is on the front cover a the main central image.
This tells you that the type of relationship it wants with the reader is close as it provides stuff that interests and fulfils their needs.
Usher is on the front cover as he is the main image of the main story also it relates to the title ‘Black Beat’ as he is a black artist who is very popular to the genre of the magazine which is hip-hop and r and b.
The anchorage text says that Usher shifts into Confessions mode. And there is more information about this underneath. It simply implies that the artist is popular and everyone wants to know about his break ups and new singles. He is the latest’s gossip that their target audience will find interesting.
The overall message that the artist is giving is that he is becoming serious about what he does which is singing and wants to become more popular as he confesses about he’s new CD inside that magazine.
The groups represented are B2K but without one singer, they are represented as a strong, still standing group as they move on from there fall-out.
There are ‘buzz’ words included. The effect that this has on the reader is that it makes the text that the reader’s are reading sound and seem better.
The design of the title block tells you that the magazine is popular and excellent as the title is more then able to see and understand as it is not covered by the image.
The title of the magazine tells us about the readership is that it is well understood, clear and interesting. It tells us that the image is attractive and poplar and also that the style is very exclusive and elegant.
The puffs suggest that exclusive stuff will be inside that magazine; this tells us that the type of audience the magazine expects to get is teenagers that will like this stuff.
The colours are pink, yellow, purple, black and red, these deep colours and attractive. The fonts that are used are large so that you can see them clearly and the words are easy to focus on.
The strategies that the magazine uses to attract the audience are the different colours and the layout as it not messy and very clear to see all the images and text.
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