I feel my magazine uses and develop conventions of real media products on the front cover. I used a genre linking mast head with the sound waves on it. The genre of my magazine is drum and bass as this was the most popular response from my questionnaire which I happy about as it was the genre I would have most liked to do anyway.

The masthead and name of my magazine was euphoria which I thought would go well with the genre of music as it means as a sense of great (usually exaggerated) elation and wellbeing. This also linked in with the name of my main man dj e. as ecstasy means along the same lines as this. I placed my slogan just under this masthead which said “the freshest beats around” this also went well with the genre of music as dj e. likes to lay down beats. This also suggests to the audience that the magazine offers new music.

I would say my front cover, contents page and double page spread are quite simple and would be seen in shops along with other Drum and bass magazines. It uses things such as main image, a lure, a banner a masthead, main sells etc. which all is there to catch the attention of the audience.

My magazine would be published by an institution like IPC which would help make my magazine mainstream. IPC is the NME magazines publisher as well and the NME magazine has had some input of the decisions I have made on creating my magazine. I would strongly consider launching my fist issue online as I think my target audience would be enticed by getting a free magazine online also my target audience are computer literate and computers are used in their everyday lives.

The target audience for my magazine is 16-24 year olds I decided to aim for people in my own age group because I understand what this age group desire from a magazine. Also this age group are the biggest buyers of magazines which mean it will sell more magazines and get greater profits.I offered my friends a survey to help me with what kind of genre and magazine I should do; I used these results to help complete my magazine.

I think it represents a certain drum and bass social group in a very stereotypical way suggesting that they are pill poppers and cherry pickers.

I believe that the unique selling point of my magazine is the title and what the magazine offers. The magazine offers a variety of fun interesting items along with fresh beats for the music. After I completed my magazine I done another feedback survey to see what people thought and they had the same idea as me, they liked what it offered and they thought the best part of the magazine was the title.

Since being in media and creating my magazine I have learnt to use many different technologies along the way. The most basic being cameras but more advance being survey monkey which helped me with feedback and obviously the most important being Photoshop which helped create this absolutely stunning magazine, I learnt to use effects and all sorts.