George Silke created a magazine for his target audience of males aged 20-30 by researching existing magazines. He found that Empire magazine and sports magazines appealed to this demographic. In his PowerPoint, he included magazines for different audiences to gain perspective. As he continued production, he experimented with layouts and used the grid tool to help format pages like the contents page and double page spreads. He took inspiration from Empire magazine for the overall format and conventions of his magazine. For the cover, he applied knowledge of magazine design conventions by using different fonts and colors focused on Iron Man and Thor to appeal to his target audience interested in action and sci-fi Marvel movies.

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Magazine Evaluation
Fromdoing my research on various different
magazines, I learnt about how they were set
out. I created a PowerPointthat included
magazines that fitted my chosen target
audience. This included Xbox magazine,
Empire magazine and various different
sports magazines. This PowerPointalso
included magazines that are aimed at a
female audience and magazines that are
aimed at children. This was so I could get a
wider perspective on whatdifferent
magazines did to appeal to their target
audience. I took my inspiration frommany
different magazines that were aimed at a
male audience. The ages of the males in this
audience were twenty to thirty. I made my magazine for this audience because
when I did my research I discovered that most film magazines are aimed at this
age group. I took mostof my inspiration fromEmpire magazine.
As the production of my magazine continued, I started to makedifferent
creative decisions. I started to experiment with the different layers and how to
lay them out. I found it difficult to formatmy contents page. To make it more
presentable I used the grid tool to help me line up all of the different text
boxes. I also used the grid tool when I was
creating my double page spread. This was
very usefulfor this partof the assessment
because it helped me line up all of the
columns of text and the pictures in a
presentable way.
I took someof my inspiration fromEmpire
magazine so my magazinefollows the forms
and conventions of film magazines quite
closely. The way my magazine is set out and

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formatted is similar to various issues of empire magazine. I also took some
inspiration from empire magazine when I was creating my double page spread.
The way I organised the text and the pictures is similar to how it’s set out in
Empire magazine. The way I organised the different columns of text is similar
to how all genres of magazines do it.
I think that my finished magazine turned out well. Out of the three aspects of
the magazinethat I created, I think that the front cover turned out the best. I
used my knowledgeof magazine
cover conventions and applied it
well to the front cover of my
magazine. I used a wide variety
of different fonts and colours to
make the front cover of my
magazine stand out. The
magazine frontcover focuses on
Iron Man and Thor. These two
characters would appeal to
males aged 20-30 becausethey
are in the Marvel movies. The Marvel movies are mainly action/sci-fi movies.
These movie genres mainly appeal to male audiences. This is why I believe that
I have achieved my goal of making a magazinecover that fits my chosen target
audience.