2. ‘Independent reflects the
genre and the type of
audience the magazine is Emboldened text catches the
aimed at, making it audiences attention.
relatable.
After conducting a
questionnaire to gather
audiences preferable colour
schemes, I decided to go Direct address ensures that eye
with the majority of dark contact is made between the
colours, keeping it simple artists featured on my front
yet added blue in the clothes cover and the audience.
to attract the audience
further.
Consistent typography
is used to get the
audience familiar with
the magazine.
Questions involve the
audience engaging
them in the storylines
intriguing them to
read further.
The bottom strip attempts to
inform the audience they are
receiving more than they
bargained for
3. Title reinforced to make sure that the magazine is
known to a wider audience
The regular content is what
the audience are familiar
with, breaking it up from the Direct eye contact forms a
features helps to make the connection with the
content digestible. audience, making them feel
addressed.
Having a wide range of
features ensures the Pictures of bands performing
audience that they have fits in with the genre as Indie
paid a reasonable price for fans like to watch bands play
a lot of content, this
attracts further purchases.
4. Emboldened text attracts the audience
and assures that the new band will be
I used a bleeding image to add colour to the double page spread and to more known enabling them to gain a
make it more attractive to its audience wider fan base.
Direct eye contact Personal pronouns
involves the within the article
audience make the audience
feel involved.
By asking
questions that
the Indie
audience would
mostly want to
know, the
audience are
sure to be
interested,
guaranteeing the
fact that they
would again
Drop quotes enable those who aren’t especially fond of reading to break
purchase the
up the information and to feel more interested. This addresses different
magazine
types of readers
5. Drop quotes separate interesting or funny quotes out of the
interview, attracting the audience to read the whole thing and
find out what exactly the quote is referring to.
Consistent white writing on
black background colour scheme
insists that a cluttered or
unattractive image is not what
the magazine gives off to the
audience.
Images offer more of a realistic insight into
the gig that was reported on. This gives the
audience the feel of being there and again
breaks up the large amount of text for
those not fond of reading.
The website featured on the double
page spread offers the audience
even more magazine material of
their acquired taste. It also forms a
consistent relationship between the
particular reader and the magazine,
Promoting albums and bands ensures the reader
again attracting the audience.
that they are being kept up to date on the latest
trends in music. Also, another website offered
introduces them closely to a new band.
6. Question 6.
What have you learnt about new technologies from the process of constructing this product?
During the process of creating my music magazine and using complicated programmes on the computer to do
so, I realised that further planning was required beforehand and more practice on things like Photoshop but
especially Quark which I had rarely touched upon before, besides having a single preparation lesson. If I was
to produce a magazine again, I would plan further and have more practice on programmes to ensure that I
could make my magazine a lot more impressive by being further experienced.
Despite learning of camera shots and how to use the cameras previous to actually taking our pictures, mine
appeared to be blurry and of bad quality, this was again learning I should have expanded on earlier. This
consumed more time than I imagined and so I would have increased the quality and variety of camera shots I
took to avoid wasting time. This problem occurred I found due to the type of camera I used and so I realised a
different camera was much better and produced better pictures. I used this camera for the gig featured on my
double page spread and found the pictures came out well.
I found that when comparing my music magazine to my preliminary exercise of a school magazine, there is a
huge improvement. When looking at my preliminary exercise it is notable that is consists of clashing colours
and pictures of not very good quality. I also found however, that my preliminary exercise was a good
introduction into ‘Quark’ on which I produced my contents page and double page spread.
I gained a range of skills on Photoshop, surrounding editing and arranging and found that ‘Quark’ had such
useful tools for article writing and arranging also.
