Final Evaluation
Overall I am pleased with my finished product and think the images, colours and font types and styles bring reflect on the magazine genre and that it will relate to the target audience. I based my colour schemes on previous magazine's I studied, my contents page colour scheme and layout was influenced a lot by a cover a Mizz magazine. The process of selecting my final images for the front cover, contents page and the double page spread was rather tricky I had taken around 57 images in today, so to get a better feel I printed out a spread sheet with all 57 photographs and picked photographs that stood out more, I also wanted photographs that would reflect the mood and the vibe of the magazine so the majority of the images chosen were those of smiling. I also wanted to experiment with different locations and costumes to give a better variety. The fonts used became a slight problem when coming into the final stages, I experienced some problems with the downloading of fonts from www.dafont.com therefore I had to make some changes and use fonts already installed in the program. Also I had to do this, the original fonts are still included in my font blog and also my flat plans, I was going for a flamed themed font for the title as it reflected the title of my magazine "pop fever".
Similarities between my magazine and magazines I looked at were the contents page colours and layout, I also took the imagery inspiration from Top of the Pops magazine with the smiley happy images. However differences between my magazine and other magazines is more the content I wanted to have within my magazine. With my double page spread I wanted to make it unique and different to most spreads. So I decided to firstly Include a few varied images of my featured act. I also used an interview based question and answer article. I also included headings with personalised responses, my main unique point was my top 20 pop-tastic pop tunes section I wanted to the magazine/spread to have something special and different that would attract readers to it.
As my magazine is pop themed, it is mostly aimed at a target audience of 14 - 18 years, It was also gender biased more towards female readers than male, this is why the colour scheme is pinks, purples and brighter colours and shades more gender orientated colours. The imagery I selected was happy, positive and cheerful to reflect and show the happy mood. I also had to consider the use of language within the article, I wanted to keep the language simple and understandable for all age groups as the magazine varies.
Publishers that would stock and sell my magazine would be mostly major establishments such as Asda, Tesco's etc It would also be stocked my smaller branches such as sweet shops. I think they would stock the magazine as there are not a big variety of pop genre magazines in shops today apart from Top of the Pops, so I think it would be a perfect opportunity for them
The target audience for my magazine is individuals between the ages of 14 and 18 years, the magazine is also more biased towards female readers than males but can be readable for both genders. The audience would also be targeted to individuals from working class backgrounds as the magazine wouldn't be that expensive also the audience would have to have an interest in po music and genre. To get a better feel to who my target audience would be by researching into Smash Hits magazine and Top of the Pops magazines, there target audiences were similar to the kind of audience I wanted my magazine to be aimed towards. To attract my target audience I decided to use brighter colours and smiley and eye popping images. To attract the readers eye to the magazine on a shelf for example I used bright colours for the font on a less bright background colour. In addressing the reader I tried to use pull quotes and sub-headings to draw the reader into reading the magazine.
During the process of this project I learnt how to use Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop, I found the programs extremely tricky to use and grasp especially InDesign, I felt like this made me unable to do as much technical detailing towards my magazine although I felt like I done the best that I could have.
Looking back in preliminary task I feel like I have learnt a lot more in my Abode InDesign and Photo shop, My use of design skills has also improved I also have found out that my analysis skills have improved and my knowledge of magazines and the industry. My use of language has improved also as I had to write articles targeted to a target audience that is maybe out of my comfort zone.
Over all I am rather pleased and happy with my progress and the final pieces I have uploaded. If I could change anything during the process I would have done a better planning process and also keep up to date with the blog work. I found it so easy to get behind with the blogging or behind. I would also have just been better at time management.
Links for my final pieces are shown below.
Link For Front Cover: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_QUfHy0ObHTYjFkMTM0MWEtOTg5YS00NjQ4LWE5ODAtYTkwMzg0ZTM3ZjQw&hl=en
Link For Contents Page: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_QUfHy0ObHTZDgyNzljNGYtMzQ1Ny00ZjBkLWE5NWItZWYyNGMxZGYwNWIz&hl=en
Link For Double Page Spread: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_QUfHy0ObHTMjlmOTJkZmMtMTgyNy00ZDg1LWFiMWEtMzQ2YmVhZTI3Y2Zk&hl=en
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