Target Audience Research - SEVENTEEN Magazine

    The next magazine that I feel is similar to my product would be Seventeen magazine. It's an American teen magazine. The magazine's reader base is 13-to-19-year-old females. It began as a publication geared toward inspiring teen girls to love fashion, become model workers and citizens. Soon after its debut, Seventeen took a more fashion- and romance-oriented approach in presenting its material while promoting self-confidence in young women. To market their product, they use social media via Twitter and Instagram as their biggest platform to attract their audience. They still continue to use their print magazine as their source of publication with over 2 million circulation. Persuasive techniques that they use is a catchy name for the magazine. This is essential, because now if people type into their computer "seventeen", the magazine will pop up as an option, thus further attracting and broadening their audience. I would market my product almost like this, except for me, I would include radio since my product has music attached to it.

Target Audience Research - Teen VOGUE

    One of the magazines that I feel that is similar to my product would be Teen VOGUE. According to WordPress, Teen VOGUE is a monthly magazine targeted at female teenagers between ages of twelve to seventeen. The magazine features fashion, hair, and makeup trends. Also included are interviews, social issues, and music and film reviews. The magazine is organized into sections: Fashion, Teen Vogue View, People are Talking About, Features, Beauty & Health, and Last Look. To market their product, they use social media via Twitter and Instagram as their biggest platform to attract their audience. Persuasive techniques that they use is the subscription ticket they include in the magazine and that also pops up on their online source. Recently, on November 2nd, 2017 it was announced that Teen VOGUE would cease its print edition and continue as an online-only publication as part of a new round of cost cuts. Personally, I would've still try to pursue the magazine and maybe even include TV. 

Feedback / Revisions

     Last week, I had the pleasure of sharing my magazine to my teacher and my classmates. It went very well, just as I thought it would, because I believe in the product that I have created. I got good comments, but not a lot of constructive criticism. So I guess I could infer that the class liked my my magazine. Personally, I do believe that my magazine isn't perfect and there are some things that have to be fixed. The biggest issue that I've noticed is my lack of photos. I only included photos from one photo-shoot. I was under the wrong impression that we pick the ones that we really liked. But it would make sense to include a variety of photos, considering the fact that it is a fashion and style article. So as one revision, I will be planning another photo-shoot and include those in my final draft submission. Another revision that will be made is my choice of fonts. Originally, I planned on using creative types of fonts, but as time went on, I started to get preoccupied with actually finishing the product, so as a result, I never got around to it. But in the near future, that will be altered. One last thing that I noticed was technical issues that I had with the letters and numbers in the article. In the actual text of the article, I had some grammar & spelling issues that I accidentally included. In addition to that, for some odd reason , the page numbers at the bottom of the article wouldn't change. So, both of the pages reads as "23" and they are obviously two separate pages. In total, all of these problems will be resolved & revised accordingly. 

Use of Conventions

     In my previous post, I submitted my mid-term draft of my "Onyxx" magazine, embedding a nostalgic type of period, resulting in my feature being hip-hop artist, Missy Elliot. Since I wasn't able to use online pictures of the artist, I had a model pose as her in this magazine. I feel that my product challenges the conventions of my genre, because from the beginning, I wanted to create a magazine that was based on music and fashion. In this particular article, I was able to include both. First about the musical artist and then I highlighted her style. From there, I would shed a light on how her clothing style influences teenagers. I definitely think that this element represents social groups, simply because of teens and the domino effects that take place. One person wears a specific outfit that was influenced by a certain celebrity and then somebody else sees it and does the same and the cycle continues. I also think that by the model being an actual teen adds a paralleling element to the context of the theme of social groups in itself. Now, different groups get a chance to establish the same style. Issues that can be brought from this is culture appropriation. A lot of times, people from different cultures like African-Americans and Latin-Americans, feel as though their signature style is being utilized from other races and they don't appreciate it. When thinking of style, this issue comes to mind.