Contents Page Analysis

Contents page analysis from davidcampbell1997

Survey

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO TAKE PART IN MY SURVEY:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QZYJXX9


This is the link to my survey that I have created for my target audience to gain results about what they would like to feature in my music magazine. I have included questions such as what genre the participants think is most successful, what they think the main feature of a front page should be and what type of magazine name to use. I used a variety of multiple choice answers as well as standard questions where the participant selects one answer; this way I gained more information about what my magazine should include. I have 22 participants and aim to come to a conclusion with these results which will impact and improve my magazine. By sending out a survey to my target audience, I'm hoping to gain useful data that will give me the information I need to produce a successful magazine.

Evaluation of Preliminary Task

Front Cover:
For my front cover I wanted to use an olympic theme while also sticking to the school colour scheme. I used gold text to symbolise Gemma winning her Gold Medal at the Olympic games. As you will see on the front cover, everything about Gemma's success is put in gold to make the reader know that whenever they see gold text, the story will be about Gemma's triumph. This gives the audience a sense of repition and cosistency. The back image of Gemma with the football raised in one hand links in with the sport/compition theme of this weeks edition of the school magazine. Also, Tara in the bottom corner appears to be celebrating something which also links in with the compition theme. I use a vast amount of repition in the front cover to keep it simple but effective.

Sell Lines:
I use various senatances, especially in the front cover, which attracts the audiences attention. For example "See why Tara is so excited". The reader than sees this and then is enticed to open the magazine and see why Tara is celebratng. Also, I used Gemma to give a breif person profile, without giving away the majority of the story. I used "more on Page 8" so then the audience will have already read Gemma's profile and a bit of the story and then will want to carry on reading.

Contents Page:
For my Contents Page i used the same colour scheme as the front cover. Again this reminds the audience of what they are expecting to get from my magazine. I wrote the page numbers next to the description and title of each feature to allow the reader to skip to whichever feature interests them most. I included one main image on the contents page as I didn’t want to fill it up to much, I thought keeping it simple would look more professional as it’s only the contents page.

What would I do better?

Next time making a magazine I would ensure I don’t use an iPhone to take the images as they came out quite fuzzy and didn’t look as professional as they would if I used a professional camera. I’d use a wider variety of images on the contents page and include more of the page numbers so that they didn’t have to flick through the magazine finding what they wanted. The contents page in my opinion is the page which needs the most work and imoprovement.

Target Audience

Preliminay Task Final

Weekly Update 29/09/2013

Magazine Proposal

For my Music Magazine I want to focus on Rap/Hip-Hop. I feel this is an appropriate genre of music as it is really coming popular again. The hip-hop world has always been a controversial and interesting one and with new albums from Drake, Lil Wayne and Eminem all being released this year, there has never been a better time for a magazine like mine. With many upcoming Rap artists busting their way through the ranks of the music world, this magazine is an exciting and worthwhile investment. The audience that my magazine will be aimed towards will be 16+ as most of the albums/artists we will be reviewing will have some explicit content during their songs or interviews. My magazine is looking to be released on the 25^th of Every Month. This gives the journalists and editors enough time to produce and create the best magazine they possibly can. I feel a monthly magazine works better than weekly/fortnightly as it gives a bigger time period for more artists to release new tracks so we are always on top of the latest trends. The magazine will have four times more content and depth than a weekly mag will which will give the audience more intellectual and advance view on the world of Hip-Hop. Due to the more detail in artists and music the magazine will be charged at £5 each month which I believe to be more than reasonable for the quality of the magazine. The mag will be advertised on all of the major Hip-Hop stations in England which is appropriate for our magazine. We will also be promoting the magazine on Social Media sites such as Twitter and Facebook as they are used by more than 1/6 of the Globes Population.

My magazine will include articles such as:

·        Drakes Album Review

·        Eminem Album release information

·        New upcoming Artist

 

 

 

 

Weekly Update 22/09/2013

This week, I finished creating the material for my school magazine. My plan helped me tremendously and it looked like how I imagined it would.I like how my front page and contents page look, however i have found many things that I can improve on for next time. This was my first use of InDesign and i found it quite tricky at first to be completely honest. Although, the more i did on it, the easier it became and the less time things took to complete. This preliminary material will help me in the future with creating an improved magazine so in the end I am glad that I completed this task.
After I had created my preliminary material, I then moved on to the next task of producing a survey. I plan to gather information about what people would like to see on my magazine. I created 10 questions asking people what content/look of magazine they look for. I have also developed ideas on what I want my magazine to look like. I have now found my model and will need to set a date for a photo-shoot. Hopefully, the survey i have created will give me a better look at what my target audience, and the people in general, want.

Magazine Front Cover Analysis

Weekly Update 15/09/2013

While completing analysing 3 magazine covers homework it gave me inspiration for a couple of photo shoot ideas, I liked the plain white background with vibrant colours clothing on, it really made the model POP and stand out tremendously. However "Time" did an excellent cover shot of a close up of Steve Jobs which had very minimal text out it however the image made it very intriguing. Also, I need to find out how to upload a video from a mobile to Blogger, want these weekly updates to be more media based rather then just text.

Haydon Newsletter Design Cover

 

 

Haydon Newsletter front page design. Blue and White theme to link in with school colours, will be inspired more during making the magazine.