Evaluation

Evaluation

My magazine uses many features that are used in music magazines worldwide; I have chosen to include these usual features because when the audience first looks at the front cover of the magazine the reader can be familiar with these features and can instantly see that this is a music magazine and not an ordinary mainstream magazine.
These usual features which I have included in my magazine are:
*A slogan that says that they are the best music magazine around
*Free music artists posters
*Exclusive interviews from new artists
*Naming the magazine relating to music
*Bright, attracting colours

However not only have I included these usual features but have also included features that you will not see in regular music magazine. This is because I do not want my magazine to be the same as all the other music magazine that is available to purchase, as I want my magazine to stand out from the rest.
*I have tried to accomplish this by creating my own features in my magazine such as:
*I have included games in the magazine so that the reader can also complete some puzzles once they have finished reading all the articles on the magazine.
*I have also created a page which includes a story which continues throughout all the magazines issues. The stories that are in the magazine are related to the life that the readers of the magazine are familiar with and this makes the reader are most likely to purchase or read this magazine and say than relate to the story topics. Also it is effective that the story continues onto the next issue so that the reader will buy the next issue so that they can read the next chapter to the story and so on.
*I created a fashion page that includes clothes that music artists wear and then show the audience how they can create the exact same look however more cheaper and nicer.

As my magazine is aimed at wide age audience, from 11 – 19 year olds and also for both sexes, I have represented this age group in the magazine in various ways.
As I already know that this age group is very interested in R&B and Hip Hop and all races enjoy this style of music I decided that creating a type of magazine in this genre will sell the most. I have also included artist that are recognizable to the majority of young people. These artists that are featured in the magazine are also teenagers themselves so the reader can connect with what the artists are talking about. Furthermore the price that I have made the magazine is relatively low-priced, this is due to the fact the teenagers are not working, and mostly live on a small allowance so therefore cannot afford magazines priced more then three pounds.

For my magazine I have tried to attract as many different types of audiences as possible, this is because this can increase profit sales and also I will get a large amount of feedback back from the readers about the magazine and this will help me understand what I should improve in my next issue. I tried to make the magazine attract as many readers as possible in many ways.
As this magazine is a unisex magazine meaning that both females and males can read this I have included topics in the magazine that both genders would find interesting. Such as on the front cover I have not used colours that you would normally find on a single sex magazine, such as if the magazine was a magazine aimed at females then I would create the magazine using colours such as pink, lilac and a lot of white. If the magazine was aimed at males then there would not be that many colours and the colour scheme would be quite dull. So in my magazine I have included colours that can relate to both males and females and have also included a strict colour scheme in which I would only use 3 main colours (orange, white and yellow) so that the magazine does not look over crowded.
I have included interviews from male artist and also female artist. This is because creating interviews only based on one gender could make the magazine biased and also rather boring as not only do both male and female readers want to look at interviews about the opposite but also some people would want to read interviews about the people who are the same gender so that they can associate with what the artists are talking about.
On the fashion page I included male clothes and also female clothes so that
I tried to find out as much information from the aimed target audiences about what they would like to see in a music magazine. So I created a questionnaire which included many different types of questions relating to making a magazine and what they would like to see on a music magazine. From the results I was given I included this information into my magazine which would hopefully attract as much readers as possible. I included features that I found out that the readers want in a magazine and also included my own features such as free XL posters, exclusive interviews and also fashion and puzzle pages.

I have done some research about what media institutes there are available, and which one would be the best choice to distribute my magazine. I came across the company called I.P.C. I thought that this company would be the best for me as I have found out that they distribute a wide variety of magazines and also different genres of magazines from golf magazines to home and garden ones. They also have dealt with very popular magazines such as Marie Clair and NME so letting I.P.C distribute my magazine would not be such a scare as Marie Clair and NME are very successful and are sold world wide.

I have learned a lot about creating a magazine, from fully understanding how to work certain Adobe programmes to taking the perfect photos for the magazine. To create the magazine I mostly used Adobe Illustrator. where I was able to use different tools. This includes learning to use text of different fonts and effects, shapes, paint filling, image resizing, designing a layout with different colour schemes and rotation. I also made use of Adobe Photoshop, in which I used this to modify different images; this programme also has a variety of tools which make altering the images easier. For example, the programme had the eraser and background eraser tool, image resizing, airbrushing and different image textures. An example of an image that I altered on Photoshop was on my front cover where I took away the white background to my main image (Miss Valentine) and changed it so that it was now black, using the background eraser was much easier and effective then having to use paint or any other substitute programme as it would take up more time and may not also show the same results. I also resized the image so that it could fit onto the page properly. I also used my digital camera to take pictures for my magazine, this is was very changeling as I had to take a wide range of pictures and then had to choose what images were most suitable I have learnt how to takes pictures on the camera and how to put them onto the computer using a USB; from setting up my blog I learnt how to post my work/images and lay it all out to look organised. From using these varieties of tools frequently, I was able to become more familiar with the programmes/materials and understand how to use the tools to my advantage.

There is a huge difference from creating the preliminary task to creating my music magazine. Unlike the preliminary task