Brief:
To design a front cover, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, a minimum of four images must be used.
Ideology
Institution
"VIBE" Magazine was produced by the company named Spin Media, It was based in New York City. The editor and journalist of "VIBE" was Danyel Smith who printed the final issue in 2004. VIBE Magazine had various pop singers for their front covers, such as, Michael Jackson, Rhianna and Chris Brown. These popular faces increased sales for VIBE magazine as they were represented as the most important artist of that month and also had an interesting article to read about.
Audience & Language
By using famous celebrities, a wider audience was created as these artists have many fans. All the celebrities fans combined would have created a huge audience for VIBE Magazine. As their target audience was 18 to 34 years old, The magazine does not attract a specific gender as the colours used such as red and black are not stereotypical colours for males or females. VIBE's gender rating is 51% male, 49% female. Spin Media had to used informal language to attract their audience. Informal also relates to the music genre as short, snappy words (also curse words) are used for VIBE's front cover.
Representation
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