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Music Magazine Evaluation
Lucy Antwiss
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Demographics & Psychographics The intended audience for
my magazine was both males and females aged 15-25. The social group that I aimed my magazine at were Indie Scenesters, Alternative, Rebels and Trendies. I chose to price my magazine at £2.50 as I think that this is a reasonable price that teenagers and young adults would be able to afford. This means that my magazine would fall into the C1 and C2 categories.
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Research
In order to carry out the appropriate research for my music magazine I created an online survey. I used ‘Survey Monkey’ to create this as it was an simple and efficient way to gather the information.
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Using a Blog
To allow my work to be able to be easily accessed and edited I created a blog using blogger.com and posted my work onto it. This meant that if anyone wanted to view my work all that I had to do was sent them the link to my blog.
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Intentions
I intended that my magazine would be different, interesting and cool so that it would appeal to my target audience. I achieved this by using a local well known band as my main feature, this would give the audience something to relate to. I wanted the magazine to stay with the indie/alternative music genre so I used a band that was of this style. I wanted to make the appearance of my magazine different so I used purple and yellow as my main colours as these are not used very much.
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Preliminary Task
As a preliminary task I created a student magazine front cover and contents page plan. I done this as a practise so that I could learn and develop my skills for the final task. My target audience was teenagers aged 13 – 18 as this would be the age of high school students. It was aimed at both males and females. This helped me a lot as it gave me the chance to learn the basic skills that I would need for my final task.
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Preliminary TaskFeedback
I asked my classmates their opinions on my magazine and asked how I could improve elements so that I knew what to do for my final task. Creating the plan for the contents page allowed me to see how the planning in extremely necessary for the final task.
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Genre
The music genres for my magazine were indie, rock and alternative, I decided this as they were the most popular genres when I don’t the survey research. The reason that I chose this band to interview and photograph was because they fit the music genre perfectly as they are a indie, rock band with an individual and quirky sound to their music.
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Conventions
I researched the conventions of other music magazines so that I knew what would be appropriate and what would work well when I created my magazine.
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Photographs
When I met up with the band I took as many photos as I could as I wanted to have a wide range to choose from when creating my magazine. In total I took 194 photos of the band. I edited the best ones and then used them in my magazine. I used several different angles such as medium shots, long shots, worms eye view. Here are some of my photos.
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Original Image
Edited Image
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Original Image
Edited Image
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Original Image
Edited Image
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Original Image
Edited Image
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Planning the Layout
To ensure that I plan appropriately for this task I made a flat plan of the front cover, contents page and double page spread. This meant that I knew what the layout of my magazine would look like. However as I made my magazine the layouts changed a lot as I experimented with the layout.
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Font and Graphics
For my masthead at first I chose a curly font however I then decided that this was not bold enough and did not stand out from the page enough. So I changed it to a font that was more striking.
First Idea
Final Idea
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Mise en Sence I chose several locations for my photos
including, a ridged wall so that they could each slot in gap in the wall. I also used their rehearsal place to take photos as they were rehearsing so that I had some images of them performing. I also used a brick wall as this gave a grunge feel to the images.
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Initial Ideas
I had many ideas for the name of my magazine such as:
• Strum
• Beat
• Fret
However I decide to use ‘Fuel’ as I thought that this was different as it was not directly related to music.
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Publishing
If I was to publish my magazine then the company that I would most like it to be published by would be IPC as they publish many magazines such as NME which is very similar to my own.
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Final Evaluation
When creating my magazine I considered aspects such as demographics and psychographics, genre, the conventions, photographs, font and graphics, mise en sence, and what publisher could publish my magazine. I have considered my audience and used images of both males and females so that my magazine would appeal to both sexes. The colour that I chose were also suitable for both males and females. I used a popular local band so that my audience would be able to relate to the content of the magazine.
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What I have learnt
During this task I have learnt how to edit images, the conventions of magazines, about publishers and the industry, how to layout magazine front covers, contents pages and feature. I have gained many skills from this task and have learnt lots of things that I did not know prior to this course.