Final Product

Audience Feedback

I asked Ella Robertson, aged 17 who is also a media student, what she thought of my magazine. This is what she said:

"To start of with i think that the main image being on top of the masthead is really great. It makes the artist really stand out, but it doesn't block to much that you can't read what the masthead is. Then the small cover line underneath I think draws you in quite a lot because you feel as if the magazine is going to be really good, and if it is good then the reader is happy that it is a weekly magazine. The cover lines all look great and I like the consistent style used on all of them. One of my favourite parts of the cover though is the name and all the text right underneath it. It is very obvious it is about the girl in the picture and also the main article in the magazine. This is obvious because it is right on top of the girl.

I think the contents page is very cool. The main picture is really good and eye catching, although you can't see the girls face it is still obvious it is the same girl that is on the front cover. I also like the circular picture of the other girl under the 'reviews' section, really stands out. I think that the black boxes with the white text as headings go really well on the page and make it look very professional. I also really like the face that the whole 'Emiline Blue' part under 'Interviews' is in the same fonts and colour as on the front cover, its keeping the same style as the front cover and adds to the professionalism.

The double page spread I think is simple yet effective. The pictures all look great, especially with the black and white effect and white boarders, again makes them look like professional pictures. I think the fact that the title and 'Unplugged Exclusive' all being the same fonts as on the front cover and contents page is very professional as it sticks to the same style throughout and once again links all the pages together. One of my favourite parts on the page is the bigger and blue 'E' in the same font as the title. This is what all professional magazines do but it is linking it to the title and therefore the contents page and front cover. Finally all the quotes being in blue, bold and italics font looks amazing on the black background. It stands out so much and makes it obvious where the quotes are. Looks very professional. Well Done!"

Final Product Evaluation

Initially I made my evaluation as a powerpoint presentation but I couldn't upload this file onto blogger so I saved each slide as a picture. This is them in order:

Audience Research

This is the audience research I did before starting making my final magazine:
 I asked James Bartlett, 16 years old what he would want from an acoustic magazine, these are the points he said:

- nice clean layout, neat and tidy throughtout
- easy to read
- contemporary photographs
- consistant style throughout the magazine
- clear target audience
- good price
- competition
- interesting articles

I then asked Ella Robertson, 17 years old what she would want:

- celebrity interviews
- top charts
- gossip
- cheap
- weekly
- lots of images
- competition

Draft & Evaluation

This is the draft I have made for my final Product. I like the title of the draft because although it is just a white font the purple glow underneath it adds some colour and variation to it, it also makes it look much more interesting and eye catching. I have then carried on using purple on the cover and I have used the same colour in some or parts of the cover lines. This is so I can carry on with the same theme in other place on the cover so again it looks more interesting than just the grey background and the white title and black texts. I think the main picture is a good picture because there is direct mode of address, she takes up a lot of the space and people would catch peoples attention. The smaller pictures are also good because they show other aspects to the musician and how she can play other instruments, this then links to the cover line about new tallent and how lots of people are very tallented. 

Some of the features I may change when I make my final product would be I would try to have a much more interesting background as it makes the cover look a bit boring. I may also try to make a cover with just one big picture on the front that takes up even more space and then try to place text around that and see what it looked like. This may look more professional than having one picture in the middle and then two around it. I will also add some banners at the top or bottom of the final product so I can carry this on throughout the magazine and keep it as a house style, this also makes it look more professional. I will also be adding small features such as a barcode, Facebook and Twitter logos, price and other small little things that again make it look more professional. Finally I think I would try and use more interesting colours than a grey-ish background and perhaps try and edit a picture to have a better background or to have one feature that really stands out with a bright colour for example.

feedback:

"I think that possibly the title could be a little bigger and streched down to make more of a statment headline. Another thing you could look at is maybe a line at the top, bottom or under the title which you could carry through to the other pages which would make the magazine seem like it all links together well. I really like the pink drop shadow on the title as it cathes your eye well, and I also love the photographs that you have taken as they are really good unusual and interesting angles".



Mock Up 1

This is the first mock I have made. It just shows a very basic layout idea of where different elements of the page will go. This is the first of 3.

Feedback:
"The good parts of this mock up are the positioning of the main image, the title and the barcode. However, the straplines and the small images should be on seperate sides of the page and maybe you could include a banner."

Mock Up 2

This is the second mock up I have made for my final product.