Assignment 2 - Album cover and magazine page

Target Audience- the target audience for this album cover are inspiring musicians who are struggling to make it into the industry due to the high amount of competition and more importantly, the struggle for recognition due to the detrimental backgrounds they lived in.

Interview- I made the interview appeal to the target audience as in the interview i talked about "Points" endeavour to seek for success and this relates to the target audience as the whole point of the magazine is that without success nothing can be accomplished. Moreover, the music interview (NME magazine) is related to the album cover as "growing pains" talk about how progressive pain subsides as success prevails and all pain leaves is distance memories of success.

Album Cover- I made the album cover appeal to the target audience as even though the shot used is a low shot to make the model look higher than everyone else and more socially important, i made him look into the distance to signify that even though he is at the top he still looks into the distance to see how he can improve more. So this reaches out to the target audience as a) it shows "Point" as a role model and b) it shows him as someone who is still aspiring and open to learn more. Teaching target audience to always seek for more. Moreover, the font at the bottom which I used shows the place Point has come from, a place where there was a lot of graffiti, uneasiness, death and a lot of black money. This shows the type of situation Point has come out from.

Conventions of album covers and magazine covers- i followed the conventions of the magazine cover and album cover as in the magazine cover i followed a set of fixed columns, with the picture being place in the back and a simple question and answer structure. Furthermore, i also followed the conventions of a music album cover by making my model have an indirect address so the audience could see how he is thinking about the future and how he seeks for more eminence. Additionally, the model is also wearing a Rolex to signify his stereotypical rappers wealth. 

Synergy- is created between the album cover and the magazine as in the magazine I talk about how Point has gone through many things to be very successful and how he a struggled a lot to achieve the status he stands on now. This is then carried on in the album cover as you see how the struggle he has faced has lead to a prime life