The document summarizes the author's magazine project. It discusses various design elements of the magazine including the masthead, fonts, images, and layout. It also discusses the intended audience as music fans aged 16-19, and potential publishers such as Bauer Media Group. The author learned how to use the design software Serif to construct the magazine, and felt they improved significantly on layout and design from their preliminary task.

1. Magazine Evaluation Elliott Odell-Rourke

3. My Masthead is displayed clearly at the top right hand side of the page.

4. The masthead is easy to remember, and is also the same name as a music player.

5. I have been consistent in keeping the same fonts, and a consistent font colour.

6. I have included a bar code but not an appropriate price for the magazine, this would be something I would add if I were to make the magazine again.

7. The image covers the full page and has the band name in a clear large text, which sort of stands out with the image. If I where to change the font, it would be the colour as I feel it clashes to much with the main image.

8. The main picture appears alongside the masthead, This suggests that my magazine will feature heavily on the person in the picture, and may entice the customer to buy my magazine.

9. The image covers the full page and has the band name in a clear large text, which sort of stands out with the image.

11. I have used images that represent the main focus of this magazine.

12. I have used phrases like ‘As Always ‘and ‘This Month’ to show the regular topics that the magazine has.

14. I have used pagination

15. Pool quotes have been used, this is what you would see more often than not on a professional music magazine.

17. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Bauer Media Group may want to publish my magazine, as they publish Kerrang and Q these two magazines are the two I tried to design my magazine from. My magazine could also be given as a free download to generate interest, this could go out on the publishers website or a social networking site such as Facebook or MySpace. Another small independent publisher could also take on my magazine If my magazine where to be published and sold in shops, super market chain, high street retailers and music stores may stock and sell my magazine.

18. Who would be the audience for your media project? The target audience for my magazine is people similar to my age, this is because the results from my questionnaire showed me half where aged between 16-18 and the other half are aged 19+. I decided to stick to the results of my questionnaire and try and base my magazine on Q who have very similar and have a much older target audience, due to the wide range of music they cover in the magazine. Some of the other magazines I looked at where NME and Kerrang both of who have a very similar target audience to mine, 16-19 year olds. Both these magazine are full of, Indie/Rock and Screamo, I want my magazine to consist of the Indie/rock but not much of the Screamo

19. How did you attract/address your audience? The target audience for my magazine is people similar to my age, this is because the results from my questionnaire showed me half where aged between 16-18 and the other half are aged 19+. I decided to stick to the results of my questionnaire and try and base my magazine on Q who have very similar and have a much older target audience, due to the wide range of music they cover in the magazine. Some of the other magazines I looked at where NME and Kerrang both of who have a very similar target audience to mine, 16-19 year olds. Both these magazine are full of, Indie/Rock and Screamo, I want my magazine to consist of the Indie/rock but not much of the Screamo, to attract my target audience I used colours and artists similar to what you may find in the magazines I have tried to base mine on.

20. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? From using Serif I have taught myself how to use and create what I hope a high standard and satisfactory product; however i am rather pleased with how it turned out as I had never used serif before. But comparing it to Publisher they seem very similar. Infact I find Serif much easier to use with a wider range of functions available to use.

21. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? I feel I have learnt a great deal from doing my final product compared to my prelim task, something I feel I have greatly learnt on is the layout and design for my magazine. From comparing the final product to my prelim task I think they look totally different and the final product looks 10xs better.