evaluation 5

 this is the final product of my media magazine for music and is my final front cover. I chose to use these colours as these were colours that done tend to be used on the front cover of any magazine let alone a general music one. I decided to follow the style of a professional one and the reasons for this were that if i followed it then i was guaranteed to include every feature in it and it would look as professional as possible. The general style of my magazine took influence from a professional one as this was advised. To get the appeal of my audience i decided that i would get some audience feedback and my reasons for this were that i was going to get feedback for the products that i had designed in order to find out what their opinions on my product were as at the end of the day they are going to be my target audience. i chose to use a pose on my front cover that is relatively similar to the front cover of Q as this issue sold very well according to the statistics. however i have not used the same pose although this was my initial idea, but i then decided that my magazine might not sell as well with an image of a model doing a similar pose to a professional one as this could cause conflict as well. i decided that i would be different in accordance to costume on the front cover of Q with reasons being that i wanted my model to be in budget as the audience would want to copy of this style and would want it to be affordable. I also decided that i would use the same style of fonts on my front cover however i had to make sure that they were different but of the same style, i made mine look like it was for a more younger audience as both the target audiences are different as mine is for the more younger teenagers whereas theirs looks more mature. My primary research showed me that the audience wanted to see a product that was relateable to them and that was eye catching, i took this into account when designing my product as initially i was going to use a red and black colour scheme but then remembered about my primary research and decided that i would use a bright and colourful colour scheme as i knew that more people would be attracted to it then. 

this was the professional magazine cover that i took influence from. I took influence from many of the features that have been used on the front cover such as the alignment of the sell lines and the set up of them and my reasons for this are that by having them at one side it gives me room on the other side to include each other feature. I also took influence from the masthead as i already had one in mind initially but then when i found a magazine to copy from this one seemed the best idea as it gave me plenty of room for the othe features and it looked plain and simple as this is what my audience feedback showed. I also took influence of the layout/style with my main reasons for this being that this was a style that caught the attention of my audience as being a good layout which meant that this would be something which would grab their attention and would be something that they would purchase so this was my main reason for designing my magazine with this format/style/layout.

MY ROUGH CUTS : 

 to my front cover i made numerous changes based on the feedback that i was given from my teachers and peers. on the front cover the changes that i made were that i changed the colour scheme from red and black to green and yellow as these colours were different and eye catching which was something that i knew that i needed to aim towards. I also changed the amount of stylistic features that were used on my cover as there was somethings that i missed out such as a skyline and a puff. Some of the features came to my attention as they were either to small or too big so this way i had to change these sizes to what would be reasonable. other changed that i made to the front cover were that i changed some of the fonts and especially the ones that were used on my sell lines as they don't look understandable and look too immature for the genre that i am based on and my target audience. i was told that i needed to include the name of my model on my cover as well as fill up some space as it looked too plain so i did both of these just by adding the models name in the top right hand corner.

my contents page needed a lot of changed done to it to make it look professional. the first thing that i did to the contents page
was that i got rid of the box that introduced the band and my reasons for this were that i realised that there was other things that i could of included that would of been more professional and eye catching, this information would of been used on a page later on in my magazine. i also changed the colour scheme and got rid of the red as it was no longer  colour that i was going to use. to make it look as if the contents page linked in with the front cover i decided to put a black border along the top and bottom of the page so that people could link the two pages together with each other. the fonts were another thing that i changed in my product as the fonts used were something that i was pulled up on as some of them looked plain and wouldn't be used in a music magazine as they weren't quirky. I also changed the size of the image as it looks too stretched and makes the photography look unprofessional. the thing that i kept the same was the layout as i was told that it was professional and looked realistic and my reasons for this was that i had a professional contents page up when i was designing the layout of mine, the main influence that i took from this was to have a three column set up as it makes it look professional.

my DPS didn't have too many changes needed as this was the page that i spent the longest on. i was told that i needed to have more creative fonts for the quotations so i went away and found ones that were more interesting. I also changed the colour scheme but didn't use too much green as i kept the questions that i asked in red and this was just to break it up. i realised that i had some white space left on the right page at the bottom so went away and took more images of the model. i also added a black border to the top and bottom of the page to make it look distinctive and noticeable that it was all the same magazine.

my rough cuts were something that i worked on for a long time however dont look very good compared to my final products. The rough cuts gave me an idea of how i needed to change my products to allow them to be up to the standard that i expected them to be. After designing my rough cuts and getting feedback from my peers and teachers i was allowed to make changes depending on what features that i liked the look of in the professional magazine. I changed some of the features in my magazine because i felt like they werent what the target audience would want and i knew that this would be the case as i continually got feedback from my peers around me during production. I knew what was expected of my products by conducting my primary and secondary research which showed me that they wanted something that was eye catching but relatively relatable. I knew that it would be tough to try and impress each one of my target audience so i thought that i would make the changes as something that i would like to see in a music magazine seems as though i am in the age band of which i am aiming at. 

 The changes that i made were that i changed the colour scheme as i thought that red and black were boring and were tended to be used in the majority of magazines so for this reason i changed it to colours that wouldnt of been thought to use as this would catch the attention of the audience as they would think more of it as i have taken a risk which would mean that the inside was different too. I also changed the features that i had included for instance i reorded my sell lines and made them stand out more with a different font and worded them better. I also added new features such as a puff and a skyline which made it look more professional and this would increase my marks as it is something that is needed to be included as it is a feature that is needed.

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