1. Music Magazine Evaluation By Abigail Peake

2. For my media I chose to do a print project, on a music magazine fit for 14-16 years.

6. How I challenged/ followed music convections Front Page: Big, bold titles to grab the readers attention Picture of the celebrity they are promoting. Featuring other pop groups and singers Tag line, telling the reader what else is featuring in the magazine Telling the reader what will be inside the magazine

7. Contents page: Telling the reader what page, grabs attention Picture of celebrity, the reader knows who they are talking about in the magazine Lots of colours, so grabs readers eye as soon as they open it

8. Double page spread: Name of the artist, bold which means its will stand out as soon as the reader opens the magazine Text grabs, to grabs the readers attention as they look at the page. Picture of the artist, so we know who they are talking about

9. Audience feedback I asked my target audience and people inside and outside of my class about my finished product and whether they think I challenged the convections and was I successful In my questionnaire I asked my audience, if my magazine was on a shelf would they buy it? My graph states that more population would buy it if it was on a shelf. Some other feedbacks which I got off people was: “ Pages look professional” “ Pricing is right” “ Front cover is eye-catching” “ Article layout plus colouring makes me want to read on”

15. Ipc media or emap? I decided to use ipc to publish my magazine as i have found that they realite to my magazine more. I did a pop music magazine fit for 14-16 years old but it also involved fashion as I found most teenagers would prefer a music that they can relate to in many different ways. They produced all the best magazine and the most popular for example: Marie Claire, look, nme which most people prefer to buy and are very popular. They use big bold titles just like I have done throughout my magazine. They have pictures on the front cover of celebrities that will grab the readers attention as soon as they look on the magazines shelf. If I was to work with ipc I think I would be able to encourage there other magazine companies to buy my magazines as it is different from the ones that they already support. I feel that they would publish my magazine as it has both music and fashion for young girls to relate to which most magazines aren’t. It focuses more on pop where as nme focuses on rock/indie and Marie Claire focuses on fashion, style and women issues so because my magazines focuses on both music and fashion I feel that there readers would buy it.

19. Q5: How did you attract/ address your audience? Featuring different artist makes us want to read and find out about them. Big, bright title to get readers eye. I decided the name solo after thinking long and hard about names but I came out with solo because Amanda is a solo artist so describe her. Picture of another celebrity to give us an idea what else will be starred in magazine. Word ‘win’ makes people want to buy it for the prize and articles Image has to bright and powerful to sell, lighting, mise en scene, poses all play a bit part in selling the image. Amanda is looking very girly and happy and giving direct address which grabs the readers attention Gives us a idea what the magazine will be starring Bright text to grab readers eye, appears exciting and sells to product

20. Big, bold title so as soon as the reader opens the magazine it will stand out. Warm, summery texts for each heading to indict something new and where abouts you will find them in the magazine, they also stand out more. Led down picture of the celebrity, looking directly at the readers to give direct address and to make you feel more comfortable reading the magazine. Different colours for different celebrities so they stand out but also to break the text up abit Telling the reader exactly what we have done to make the magazine easier for them, but we have also told them to enjoy which will make the reader more comfortable and to relax

21. Title in bold text to stand out, but also in the colour red to grab readers eye Text grabs so once the reader opens the page they will see it and it will make them want to read on Small picture of amanda posing this one isn't giving direct address which makes her more of a celebrity Amanda stood up looking at the camera, we get a idea of what fashion sense we have but we can also relate to her by her facial expressions and we feel more comfortable to read on, it is also big which means once you flip the page over you see the image and want to read what she has to say Different columns in the text so it breaks it up Background colour, starts off light and end up darks to separate this page from the rest and to make it eye catching for the reader

23. Positive ideologies Tells the reader what she did, and believed throughout Telling the reader what she feels, helps us to understand her. Telling her fans what she think of them which makes the reader comfortable because she isn't snobby and down to earth

25. Planning- creating my blog In order to create my blog, I had to go on http://blogger.com/ this enabled me to keep straight on what work I had done and what work I had to do. It also meant that I was able to keep my work neat and tidy, and it also gave the advance that I could look back at any time of what work I had done this meant I could store ideas of what I wanted my magazine to look like and it also meant that I was able to upload pictures on and text and not having to worry about losing them or crossing anything out which makes it look untidy. Research Nearly all my research came from the internet which played a very important part in my research. The information I found was a lot quicker than having to go and look it up in books and I was always able to find the information from looking on the web, and it was much quicker. The only disadvantage of using the internet is you have to make sure you find a reliable source because the internet isn’t always right. Evaluation I used technology such as printing, photocopying and scanning in able to get my audience feedback, this was much quicker as that way I didn’t have to do different copies one by one for people which saved me plenty of time and got the information out and in a lot quicker.

26. Planning and production I had never used in design before and actually never heard of it either. It gave me the chance to make my pages a lot better and more professional. I found the software quite easy to use once I had a idea how to use it. It was very effective and made my magazine look miles better than what Microsoft publisher would of done Photoshop gave me the chance to edit photos how I wanted them to be done. I had never used Photoshop before this, and I found extremely difficult at first to come to terms with the different elements of it, but once I edited a few pictures I was able to understand the basic of Photoshop. If I hadn't used Photoshop to make my pictures better than they wouldn’t have looked as effective as they do which would of made it look less professional. Photoshop enabled me to edit any picture I wanted to and to make it how I liked it so it came me freedom to express how I wanted things, after using Photoshop and looking at my result I am happy that I got the experience to use it Even though I have used different cameras before, using a camera to take pictures effectively and to produce professional looking photography was great. I throughly enjoyed the experience of using a camera for useful, which made me happy

27. Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt from it to the full products? Looking back at my preliminary task and my finished product, I can clearly see that I have made a massive improvement which shows that I have clearly learnt something along the way. I made my preliminary quite quickly and didn’t really think it as much as I did with my finished piece. It is very plain and doesn’t really stand out which means that it would do very well in the magazine company where as my final piece catches your eye and would do well in the magazine company.

28. Very plain and boring title. Very standard picture, doesn’t look like it has been cut out well though Main caption is very standard and doesn’t stand out from rest of text, doesn’t grab reader eye Very standard captions, doesn’t tell the reader much or make the reader want to read on My finished product is a lot better than my prelim product in many ways, it has got lots of colour, big title that will catch the readers eye, cut of picture, barcode, and lots of different style of fonts and my prelim didn’t have any of them features therefore I can tell I put a lot my effort in to thinking about my final piece rather than my prelim.

29. Conclusion I am very happy with my final piece, it turned out a lot better than I ever imagined it would do. When I finished started with this piece I couldn’t grasp how to use Photoshop or in design and I got really stressed out with it, but as I started using it more I finally came to terms with the basic things I need to know which helped me to create my final project. I managed to create some really nice, professional looking pages and to do this I took lots of professional photography and different shots that would be typical for my chosen audience. The images that I used was different on every page, on my front page the image was a medium close up of Amanda and this was effective because as soon as we look at the magazine we saw her standing out and this is the effect that I wanted it to have, it also made us want to read on about her because she was smiling which the made the readers feel more comfortable. The second image on my contents page was a lot different of Amanda as it was still a medium close up but she was led on the floor which created the ‘pop star’ look, it also worked very well because it was like she was holding up the contents and what was inside the magazine. The final image on my double page spread was completely different to both of the other images as it was a long shot of Amanda showing us exactly what she likes to wear which gave the people that look up her a idea. It worked really well because as soon as you flip over the page that was the first thing you saw and it made you want to read on about her and what she had achieved.

30. The front page was very colourful which grabbed the reader eye as soon as you saw it, and I hope if it was to get published that people would buy it. I liked the colour scheme that I used throughout my magazine, the first page had a white background but with lots of colourful text on it, as did the contents page which made them two similar. The double page spread however had a purple background which broke the colour scheme up and made the double spread stand out, throughout the article the text is standard black but I inverted two text captions they were very useful as soon as you look at the page they would stand out and make you want read on about the celebrity. Overall I am very pleased with my finished product, and I hope it would sell if it made the shelf but I am very impressed with my feature article story as if I was to buy this magazine I would want to read the article and find out how Amanda became famous. I have to admit I found doing my magazine very hard work at first and I actually thought if never do it as sometimes I had no motivation but when I came down to it, I completed it and really enjoyed doing it. I am very impressed with my finish product and I feel like I have achieved something.