In this blog is the feedback that i have received about my magazine from the audience that i have aimed to appeal too. I have done this by writing up a questionnaire and handed it outne.
My questionnaire consisted of two open questions asking:
-What my dance magazine has that others do not?
-Was the double-page spread providing the information that you was wanting to read about?
The most common response to the question "What my dance magazine has that others do not?" was that my magazine had allot more variety of sub-genres than other magazines and this covers every ones personal favourite style of music.
The response to my second question "Was the double-page spread providing the information that you was wanting to read about?", had a more of a variety of responses but mainly resulted in a positive response. Which was that the information provide was the write amount and had key facts about the new DJ that the audience wanted to know about.
Friday, 12 February 2010
Evaluation of the finished magazine
This blog contains my finished four pages, i have uploaded the using google docs. I created my final designs by following my flat plans and looking at magazines that are in the same genre. For my dance magazine i used a title font that is sharp and bold as it suggests loud and upbeat music.
My magazine uses similar conventions and design of real media products in the way that the master head is at the top of the page and there is a main image o my most important article takes up most of the page and is of a person making eye contact. My magazine sticks out from others in newsagents because of the bright red colour i have used for my title. No other magazines have a title this bright and therefore my magazine will stand out. The language i have used in my magazine appeals to my audience because i have used clear and moderate grammar. I know this is what my readers what because of researching the social group in my target audience by looking at already published magazine media packs. also i can easily relate to these people because this is the group that i fit in. the images and language that i have used in my magazine shows allot about the young adults who read and live this lifestyle. It shows that youths of today love to read about events that they may have attended or would have liked to have visited. Also showing the emotions and main objectives of this type of social network, which is that there main priority is to have fun and not worry to much about later life and what the consequences to their actions are. My magazine would be stocked in all main magazine distributors as it relates to allot of the public, and can stand a chance against leading magazines in this genre because there is not a huge amount of dance magazines on the market compared to other music genres.
During the course of making my magazine i have developed allot of technological techniques from using Adobe inDesign and Photoshop. These two applications helped me greatly when it came too creating my design and putting it together. InDesign allowed me too cut out backgrounds and blend my photo's in to each other and in to my background. Photoshop allowed me to sharpen up my photos and make them look clearer.
Looking back to my preliminary task i have noticed that i have learnt allot of skills from carrying out this task. I have learnt how to relate to my target audience by using language and grammar that they can easily and want to relate too. I have also learnt how to use the software i have to make my magazine look more professional, by learning how to use InDesign and photoshop. For My preliminary task i used my basic applications such as paint and word, which do not look professional and do not look attractive.
front cover
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7hZWTkEhQ07OTVkYjdkNGUtZWM3MC00Y2ZjLWJmNjAtMjA1NTA3MTZiMmIw&hl=en
contents page
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7hZWTkEhQ07YWQxY2I3N2EtNDNjYS00NzZmLTgzODItYWY4Mzg5MGI3YTNh&hl=en
double-page spread
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7hZWTkEhQ07NTAyODhmNjgtNmEzOC00YzZlLWIwNWMtNWMxYWQ5OTY0MjY3&hl=en
My magazine uses similar conventions and design of real media products in the way that the master head is at the top of the page and there is a main image o my most important article takes up most of the page and is of a person making eye contact. My magazine sticks out from others in newsagents because of the bright red colour i have used for my title. No other magazines have a title this bright and therefore my magazine will stand out. The language i have used in my magazine appeals to my audience because i have used clear and moderate grammar. I know this is what my readers what because of researching the social group in my target audience by looking at already published magazine media packs. also i can easily relate to these people because this is the group that i fit in. the images and language that i have used in my magazine shows allot about the young adults who read and live this lifestyle. It shows that youths of today love to read about events that they may have attended or would have liked to have visited. Also showing the emotions and main objectives of this type of social network, which is that there main priority is to have fun and not worry to much about later life and what the consequences to their actions are. My magazine would be stocked in all main magazine distributors as it relates to allot of the public, and can stand a chance against leading magazines in this genre because there is not a huge amount of dance magazines on the market compared to other music genres.
During the course of making my magazine i have developed allot of technological techniques from using Adobe inDesign and Photoshop. These two applications helped me greatly when it came too creating my design and putting it together. InDesign allowed me too cut out backgrounds and blend my photo's in to each other and in to my background. Photoshop allowed me to sharpen up my photos and make them look clearer.
Looking back to my preliminary task i have noticed that i have learnt allot of skills from carrying out this task. I have learnt how to relate to my target audience by using language and grammar that they can easily and want to relate too. I have also learnt how to use the software i have to make my magazine look more professional, by learning how to use InDesign and photoshop. For My preliminary task i used my basic applications such as paint and word, which do not look professional and do not look attractive.
front cover
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7hZWTkEhQ07OTVkYjdkNGUtZWM3MC00Y2ZjLWJmNjAtMjA1NTA3MTZiMmIw&hl=en
contents page
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7hZWTkEhQ07YWQxY2I3N2EtNDNjYS00NzZmLTgzODItYWY4Mzg5MGI3YTNh&hl=en
double-page spread
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7hZWTkEhQ07NTAyODhmNjgtNmEzOC00YzZlLWIwNWMtNWMxYWQ5OTY0MjY3&hl=en
Flat plans
This blog contains my flat plans for my magazine which consists of a front cover, contents page and a double-page spread. I have drawn them all by hand roughly sketching out the format of the four pages. The sketches below are just a rough outline to what my final piece is going to look like, if i decide to change one of the designs slightly in between the time of processing my final piece i will do so, confirming my decision by asking audience from my target market which design they prefer.
This sketch is the flat plan for my front cover, i have also used colours that i am going to use in my final piece. The main image on my front cover is going to be an image of an artist's face, which is going to be brought behind all of the other information that my cover is going to consist of. The title of my magazine is going to be at the top of the page written in bold/striking letter, (to attract the reader also making it clear what the name of the magazine is.) I have also chosen to put my title up hear because it will be easily recognised on a stand full of other magazines because the top will show above the magazine that has been placed in front of it. Below my magazine title is going to be a slogan that only appeals to my magazine and can be easily related to by the customers who purchase my magazine .Another feature of my front cover is the picture of the poster that is included free in this month's issue, this is a good strategy for drawing in my audience, purely because of the fact that young people are highly drawn to free products. The name of my artist is going to be placed over is going to be placed of the top of the image. I have named the artist 'DJ' because i have not yet thought of an appropriate name for my main article (which is going to be about the artist on the cover). Another incentive i am going to include on my cover is the chance to win tickets to exclusive gigs and concerts that can only be won in Flash magazine . i am also going to have a short snappy sentence to explain to the reader the main article in my magazine, this is going to be written just under the artists name. Just above the artists name is going to be a list of the top tracks of the week, this will be a helpful way to attract my audience because they will be interested in the new songs and how they're doing, also without having to flick through a magazine to find such little information. My bar code and price of my magazine is going to be printed in the bottom right hand corner, because it will be out of the way of my images and magazine features.
This is my contents page. I have put the name of the page in the same place as i have for my title on my front cover. This is to minimise confusion for my audience who are picking up my magazine in the shops and are looking to see what is inside this issue. The page number are placed underneath my page title and finish down towards the left side of the page. An image of an article is going to be printed behind my page numbers, with a sub-heading about the image below. The main colour is going to match with my front cover (red).
This sketch is the flat plan for my front cover, i have also used colours that i am going to use in my final piece. The main image on my front cover is going to be an image of an artist's face, which is going to be brought behind all of the other information that my cover is going to consist of. The title of my magazine is going to be at the top of the page written in bold/striking letter, (to attract the reader also making it clear what the name of the magazine is.) I have also chosen to put my title up hear because it will be easily recognised on a stand full of other magazines because the top will show above the magazine that has been placed in front of it. Below my magazine title is going to be a slogan that only appeals to my magazine and can be easily related to by the customers who purchase my magazine .Another feature of my front cover is the picture of the poster that is included free in this month's issue, this is a good strategy for drawing in my audience, purely because of the fact that young people are highly drawn to free products. The name of my artist is going to be placed over is going to be placed of the top of the image. I have named the artist 'DJ' because i have not yet thought of an appropriate name for my main article (which is going to be about the artist on the cover). Another incentive i am going to include on my cover is the chance to win tickets to exclusive gigs and concerts that can only be won in Flash magazine . i am also going to have a short snappy sentence to explain to the reader the main article in my magazine, this is going to be written just under the artists name. Just above the artists name is going to be a list of the top tracks of the week, this will be a helpful way to attract my audience because they will be interested in the new songs and how they're doing, also without having to flick through a magazine to find such little information. My bar code and price of my magazine is going to be printed in the bottom right hand corner, because it will be out of the way of my images and magazine features.
This is my contents page. I have put the name of the page in the same place as i have for my title on my front cover. This is to minimise confusion for my audience who are picking up my magazine in the shops and are looking to see what is inside this issue. The page number are placed underneath my page title and finish down towards the left side of the page. An image of an article is going to be printed behind my page numbers, with a sub-heading about the image below. The main colour is going to match with my front cover (red).
This is a rough sketch of my main double-page spread inside my magazine. The design of the two pages is very simple but is used by many successful dance magazines, one these is mixmag, and that is were i got the design from. The title of the article is going to be placed on the left page, on the top left hand side. I am going to have one image on this page which is going to cover the whole of the two pages. i have done this to create affect of as though the reader is looking straight the eye's of the artist. The literature of the article is going to also be on the left page, at the very bottom. I am not going to write a great deal of information in this article because having researched my audience i have found out that if they have to read a great deal of text they'll become bored, eventually loosing interest in what they're reading about. i have put the page numbers at the bottom of the two pages.
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