Evaluation of final product

Evaluation 

Mood-board to go with question 1 about audiences 

Podcast of evaluation 

Double page spreads

Final Contents page of my magazine

Final Front cover of my magzine

Drafts for my front cover, contents page and two double page spreads

Questionnaire Evaluation

Questionaire Evaluation Results

An example of one of my questionnaires

Questionnaire

Summery of analysis of articles and contents pages findings

Summary of findings from magzines

Representations I have found while analysing magazines

Report on represetations found in music magazines

Article Analysis

Kerrang! Magzine
Top of The Pops
NME
Rocksound

Contents Page Analysis

Kerrang!
Rocksound
Top of The Pops
Gramaphone

Front cover analysis

Kerrang!
NME
Rocksound
Top Of the Pops

Presentation about preliminary task

Presentation

Evaluation for preliminary task

Evaluation

The target audience for my magazine is student mainly female due to the use of the colour pink relating more to females than males. All of the cover lines and headlines relate to college life helping to guide the audience in wanting to get advice in these kinds of areas. Direct mode address helps the audience connect with the magazine making them want to buy it, also as the main image is a male this could also influence the reader ship  and make it more likely to be females.

The strengths I have found that I have within this project are that I have made a magazine with a brand identity that is appealing to the eye and it hits the target audience criteria. I am very proud of my magazine creation. Strength would be I was able to pick up the basics of Photoshop fairly quickly. I was scared at first to use the program as it looked so complicated and I was scared of loosing my work, but I overcame the fear and got on with it I could always ask teacher for help.

I was very pleased with the pictures I took for this project so I think of this strength. As they where really good quality and they really fitted with the theme and colour scheme of the front cover and contents page, and slotted in nicely with the themes of college. The use of simple typefaces and of the same type between cover and contents make it look consistent between pages. As I used san-serif font which I think makes it more appealing to the target market of students as with serif fonts are usually used to attract an older audience.

          The challenges I have faced during this project are some technical problems with Photoshop. For example the bottom bar on my magazine cover is linked on the same layer as a piece of text so I couldn’t change the colour of the text! Which I wanted to because it didn’t look good, in the end I asked for help. Found out a way to change the shadows on the text and add textures without it being a text layer doing this made the magazine look so much better. As all the colours that I was using didn’t go together very well there were too many colours so I ended up picking four main colours for the cover. Another technical problem I faced was that Photoshop froze and it deleted my contents page but it didn’t take me so long to redo it, so it was ok.

          Photoshop seemed really hard at first and I was wondering how I was going to cope with it. I know the basics now and am able to try something first before I ask for help. Just go to remember to be careful where I put things and check the layer it’s on before I create something or it could get stuck there.
I also learnt that you should hold shift if you are going to move a picture saves it from going the wrong shape and being stretched. Next time I will remember to feather my images to make them look better when I add them to my real project.

          For my planning and construction I think I need to plan more effectively and not throw myself right into doing the main construction element without even planning and backing up my ideas with written work. For the next project is focus on time management it is very important  to be doing the write things at the right time in order to achieve te best grade in this I need to time and plan effectively.

How I achieved my front cover and contents page for my Zine magazine

Ideas for Zine Magazinem(Planning)

Nearing completion of front cover of 'Zine'

I spent yesterdays lesson changing my cover it look so much better that it did before by adding a black block bar along the bottom that helps to frame the cover and it links to my logo for my magzine. Also as I made my main image much bigger it makes the magazine look much better and some what more appealing to the eye.

Brief

This is my blog where I will be presenting my AS Media coursework and magazine portfolio. This blog will be an online record  for my research, analysis and the final outcome of my coursework. All of the images will be my own original images and ideas in order to create my magzine for both preliminary (Zine) and my main portfolio project. I am thinking of creating a rock magazine as this is my favorite genre of music I will confim this in a later post. I am going to conduct lots of research into magazine of the same genre to create a magazine that appeals to my target market.