Audience feedback.

My questionnaires were very successful in terms of giving me a clear idea of how my magazine would do in the market. I summed up five candidates answers to make a conclusion on how successful my magazine would be.
Candidate NO. 1
For question number one about consistency they gave me a 7.
For question number two- YES.
For question number three- 8.
For question number four- YES.
For question number five- YES.
For question number six- YES.

Candidate NO. 2
For question number one about consistency they gave me a 8.
For question number two- YES.
For question number three- 7.
For question number four- YES.
For question number five- YES. 
For question number six- YES. 

Candidate NO. 3
For question number one about consistency they gave me a 8.
For question number two- YES.
For question number three- 8.
For question number four- YES.
For question number five- YES. 
For question number six- YES.  

Candidate NO. 4
For question number one about consistency they gave me a 7.
For question number two- YES.
For question number three- 7.
For question number four- YES.
For question number five- YES. 
For question number six- YES. 

Candidate NO. 5
For question number one about consistency they gave me a 8.
For question number two- YES.
For question number three- 9.
For question number four- YES.
For question number five- YES. 
For question number six- YES. 

This qualatative data has give me a clear idea and overall I'm impressed with the average scored I recieved for my photography skills as I thought they was potentionally very good for myself- as I do not have any photography or camera skills. 

For question seven, the overal comments were postive. I know from the positive critcism I gained, that if I was to be improving my magazine further more I would have more photos of other people and not just of one model and one gender. Also to add I'd try and add more colours to match with my colour scheme for that paticular issue, as I just tended to stick with three colours: pink, black and white.
However overall I am happy with my finished product and if I was to change anything in the process of making my magazine I would of managed my time more carefully.

Final completion of all magazone pages.

Final evaluation.

 My media product is a magazine. It does not really challenge the forms and conventions however it does develop on the idea of how magazines conventionally and traditionally look. Original features that appear on magazines are displayed on mine, for example the masthead, strap lines, barcode, images, website address and quotations.  These features can be challenged by having more quotations or reducing the amount to keep it simple and sophisticated. I have done this because I think my target audience may want to read the contents, but the images and the colours are what’s powerful and will strike my audience when they first see my product.  Also a magazine industry could challenge the norms by avoiding continuity in their magazine. They could ignore having a particular house style with colours and font but it would not be practical. However, in contrast to this I have kept similar fonts throughout and the same colour scheme. This makes my medium look more professional and this may attract more of an audience that I’m targeting. From the feedback I received I found that I did a good job with handling consistency in my magazine. The average score I got back from my feedback for continuity for colours and fonts I used was seven, with ten been the highest score. 

  My magazine has offers that will attract my target audience because of the genre choice I have decided to work with. It has a range of big artists that are in the top ten at the moment such as Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Kayne West. With my offer for winning tickets to go and see Rihanna in concert where Kayne West and Nicki Minaj will be starring, hopefully this would urge my audience to buy my magazine to try and win this amazing opportunity. My social group on the demographic scale that I’m targeting is C1 and E . My magazine is also for both genders. My magazine in this issue suggests a woman dominated product but it will vary and will supply for both genders no matter what sex the model is. My magazine is affordable and by choosing this diverse demographic group I can then decide what I should do to also target maybe a higher class audience to gain more profit as my magazine sells at two pounds and fifty pence. My magazine represents my target audience because of the number of choices I have made, such as the gender of my model, females may aspire to look like her and males may well be sexually attracted to her. My images could be the crucial part of someone buying my magazine or putting it back on the shelf, so I think that the age of the model must show youth because I’m targeting fifteen year old to twenty four year olds.  Also the images attract my audience because of my front cover image been very powerful, central and a medium close up. It draws the reader into her world that she is in, and the interview inside the magazine helps intrigue the audience more. The image on my double page is very similar she stands to the side of the graffiti for the text and it is like as if she is looking at something, something the reader cannot see giving them the impression she is looking forward at something that’s coming next into her career and future that the reader should be excited about.

I feel that ‘NME’ would be a potential institution that may distribute my magazine because our magazines are the complete opposite to one another. We both target a young age and have a block three letter masthead which could show continuity throughout their institution. To do this I would use a similar font to NME . It would not be the same because I think showing the difference between the two magazines is crucial. I think because of the massive contrast between the music genre choices, selling both under the same institution shows that they can target a much wider audience. 

I decided to target this audience because a lot of magazines target this niche audience and because there is competition between different mediums it makes me want to see what more I can add to make my magazine more successful than others, which then would obviously make my target audience want to purchase my magazine instead of others. From my audience feedback I found that ‘more offers and enticements would gain more audience attention’. The difference between fifteen year olds and twenty four year olds is significant so the context has to satisfy all the ages in this gap. I feel like I have done this by making my magazine look sophisticated but still with lots of features to read about. The mise-en-scene I chose showed a hard stereotyped background and because my model was female it connotes that she was confident and brave been in such a ‘rough’ area. Also the graffiti connotes a wild, rebellious life and R&B artists can be attactched to this stereotype especially men so with a female model I felt I broke the norm.  The camera shots are varied, a medium close up for the front cover, for the contents page a close up and for the double page spread a medium long shot. The difference in shots shows the variation in my magazine and how different the features are.

I have learnt from this process that Photoshop is a difficult technology program to use however once practising I realised that I was capable of doing a lot of things to edit my photos and make my magazine look really professional and up to a marketing standard.  I took my photos with a LUMIX professional photography camera. I took photos at different angles and ranged my distances. By taking close- ups,  medium close- ups and long shots I have shown a range of images which can create different meanings. For example a close- up can create intensity. Furthermore a long shot can connote power as their full image and body has taken up the full page. The outfit that my model is wearing connotes power. She is wearing black which creates a controlling look and makes her look dominant in her picture and the environment she is in. The pink font I have chosen contrasts well with the black and white and stands out and shows the models feminine side. As she is wearing all black it shows her masculine side as a R&B artist but the pink brightens up the tenor on the page and makes it more eye catching.

 I think publisher is an easy program to use, however it does not give the overall affect of professionalism as Photoshop does. There is a significant difference between the quality of work that i would produce if I was to use publisher to design my magazine. By using Photoshop I have achieved both a quality and professional piece of work.

Due to my better understanding of Photoshop from my last assignment and better understanding of the conventions I feel I have improved a lot since I designed my college magazine. I think that the difference of my planning really made things more challenging. The music magazine had to be in more detail than the college one and I can see in my work the difference between the both, and why the music magazine needed a lot more planning and consideration because it does need to look that more believable because if it was to go into the market it would need to sell.

 

Questionnaire

First draft of evaluation.

 My media product is a magazine. It does not really challenge the forms and conventions however it does develop on the idea of how magazines conventionally and traditionally look. Original features that appear on magazines are displayed on mine, for example the masthead, strap lines, barcode, images, website address, quotations and many more.  These features can be challenged by having more quotations or reducing the amount to keep it simple and sophisticated. I have done this because I think my target audience may want to read the contents, but the images and the colours is what’s powerful and will strike my audience when they first see my product.  Also a magazine industry could challenge the norms by neglecting continuity in their magazine. They could ignore having a particular house style with colours and font; however, in contrast to this I have kept similar fonts throughout and the same colour scheme. This makes my medium look more professional and this may attract more of an audience that I’m targeting. From the feedback I received I found that I did a good job with handling consistency in my magazine. The average score I got back from my feedback for continuity for colours and fonts I used was seven, with ten been the highest score. 

  My magazine has offers that will attract my target audience because of the genre choice I have decided to work with. It has a range of big artists that are in the top ten at the moment such as Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Kayne West. With my offer for winning tickets to go and see Rihanna in concert where Kayne West and Nicki Minaj will be staring, hopefully this would urge my audience to buy my magazine to try and win this amazing opportunity. My social group on the demographic scale that I’m targeting is C1 and E. My magazine is affordable and by choosing this category I can then decide what I should do to also target maybe a higher class audience to gain more profit as my magazine sells at two pounds and fifty pence. My magazine represents my target audience because of the number of choices I have made, such as the gender of my model, females may aspire to look like her and males may well be sexually attracted to her. My images could be the crucial part of someone buying my magazine or putting it back on the shelf, so I think that the age of the model must show youth because I’m targeting fifteen year old to twenty four year olds.  Also the images attract my audience because of my front cover image been very powerful, central and a medium close up. It draws the reader into her world that she is in, and the interview inside the magazine helps intrigue the audience more. The image on my double page is very similar she stands to the side of the graffiti for the text and it is like as if she is looking at something, something the reader cannot see giving them the impression she is looking forward at something that’s coming next into her career and future that the reader should be excited about.

I feel that ‘NME’ would be a potential institution that may distribute my magazine because our magazines are the complete opposite to one another. We both target a young age and have a block three letter masthead which could show continuity throughout their institution.  However because of the massive contrast between the music genre choices, selling both under the same institution shows that they can target a much wider audience. 

I decided to target this audience because a lot of magazines target this niche audience and because there is competition between different mediums it makes me want to see what more I can add to make my magazine more successful than others, which then would obviously make my target audience want to purchase my magazine instead of others. From my audience feedback I found that ‘more offers and enticements would gain more audience attention’. The difference between fifteen year olds and twenty four year olds is significant so the context has to satisfy all the ages in this gap. I feel like I have done this by making my magazine look sophisticated but still with lots of features to read about. The mise-en-scene I chose showed a hard stereotyped background and because my model was female it connotes that she was confident and brave been in such a ‘rough’ area. Also the graffiti connotes a wild, rebellious life and R&B artists can be attactched to this stereotype especially men so with a female model I felt I broke the norm.  The camera shots are varied, a medium close up for the front cover, for the contents page a close up and for the double page spread a medium long shot. The difference in shots shows the variation in my magazine and how different the features are.

I have learnt from this process that Photoshop is a difficult technology program to use however once practising I realised that I was capable of doing a lot of things to edit my photos and make my magazine look really professional and up to a marketing standard.  If you were to compare Photoshop with Publisher the quality difference is significant it would not be as believable if it was done on publisher. Therefore this is why I used publisher to design and create my magazine.

Due to my better understanding of Photoshop from my last assignment and better understanding of the conventions I feel I have improved a lot since I designed my college magazine. I think that the difference of planning really made things more challenging, the music magazine had to be in more detail than the college one and I can see in my work the difference between the both, and why the music magazine needed a lot more planning and consideration because it does need to look that more believable because if it was to go into the market it would need to sell. 

 

final product.

final contents page.