Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Evaluation - Target audience.

My target auidence are teenagers to young-adults (13-18) and aimed towards females, although men can read it also. It attracts both sexes as the colour scheme isn't stereotypicallly aimed towards males or females.
I collected all this information by doing a questionaire to make sure my magazine if it were on the market as popular as possible and also giving what my selected target audience want.

Here are my questionaire results, and these lead me to what my magazine looks like now;

 Looking back at my results, you can tell that females were more inclinded to read my magazine as when asking what colours were preffered i got the result of "PINK AND PURPLE", but looking at this as males took my quiz too, knew that males would too. So i went along with the preferred gender but also thinking out of the box i changed the colour scheme and made it less feminine and more attractive towards men also.

Monday, 28 March 2011

Evaluation - Conventions.

For my magazine i created an Indie/Pop magazine that is aimed at 13-18 year olds. The magazine is aimed more towards girls as that was the most popular in my questionaire, but men can also read it.

I modelled my magazine on magazines such as NME and Kerrang, these magazines have the same Genre as my magazine.

The main conventions of my magazine are;
- Cluttered layout e.g. Coverlines
- A main image in the center of the magzine
- Coverlines around the Image
- My hotspot is my Image
- Bold Masthead
- Darker colour scheme to link with genre, also it was requested in questionaire.



Contents page;
- Message from the Editor
- Plain background
- Contains lots of information
- Picture to illustrate the name of the magzine





Double page spread;
- One main image of the model
- Interview
- Pull quotes and standfirst
- Page numbers
- Seperate image but linked with main one
- Same colour scheme throughout
- Main Title

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

IMPROVED COURSEWORK - Front page, Contents page & Double page spread. COMPLETE.



I have taken advice and slightly changed my magazine. For example I have moved some of the coverlines on my front page and used a different shaping for the background for some writing. I did this so it gave it varitation and it wasnt all boxed.

I didnt change anything on my contents page, as i am really happy with the way it looks. Also I wasnt given pointers on how to make that better.

Finally on my contents page I added another pull quote and also a caption to the photo in the bottom right corner. I also added  page number which matched the contents page.