Final post

Throughout this task, I have learnt lots more about the technology and learnt more learning and creative skills that have helped me to produce my final outcomes for my music magazine. I have worked to the best of my ability to develop my ideas to accomplish this task. I am pleased with the outcome and happy with the results that I received through my audience feedback questionairre. From this task, I can now use the skills I have used recently to portray them in future tasks.

Audience feedback

Audience Feedback Notes

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My audience feedback questionairre

Audience feedback questionnaire



1. Male Female



2. Would you be interested in buying my magazine if you saw it in a shop?
Yes No Maybe



Why?



3. What do you think of the hybrid genre I chose to promote, Japop-a combination of jazz and pop?



4. Is the article interesting?
Yes No It’s ok



5. Is the content of my magazine realistic?
Yes No kind of



Why?


6. Which page do you like best?
Front cover Contents Double page article


Why?



7. What do you think of my colour scheme?



8. Is my layout creative and clear?
Yes No Ok




9. Do you like my use of imagery?
Yes No Ok



Why?



10. Does my magazine look as effective as a music magazine?
Yes No Kind of




11. Do you think I have attracted my target audience-young females to their early thirties and aspirers and followers?
Yes No Maybe




Any improvements

My completed front cover

My completed contents page

My completed double page article

Music magazine evaluation

Evaluation For My Music Magazine

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Update

As I have completed my front cover, contents page and double page article, I have moveed on to analysing the product and evaluating it. I have finished explaining the construction process and has been uploaded recently. I am now in the process of my music magazine evaluation and also, I need to get audience feedback, which I will do so in a questionairre form. Then I will have to post the results when I have them.

Construction process

Update

Recently, I have been completing my construction process of my front cover, contents and double page article. I have added all of my screenshots to show clearly how I created each step to finally get the finished product. At the same time, I have been working on my evaluation, which I know has to be of a high standard to get a good grade. Therefore, I am considering the layout and the content, in detail, before I actually begin on the evaluation.

My images

My images

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School Magazine Evaluation

This is my completed school magazine evalutaion from my preliminary task, which has been put onto Slideshare. It features all the information about why I used certain elements and why I have changed features on my school magazines to improve it.

School Magazine Evaluation

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Failure Photography

Failure Photography

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Update

Recently, I have completed my front cover, contents page and double page article and I am now in the process of evaluating my task and also, explaining my construction process.

Update

I am in the process of constructing my magazine. So far, I have put together the front cover but may change a few little things to make it look more effective. I have almost completed my double page article- I just need to try some effects on the image so the page looks more interesting. I have started the contents page , which has been the hardest page to produce as it now looks too spacious and quite plain. Fortuneately I have a few more things to add to the page and I will rearrange the items so it will look more realistic.I have been taking lots of screenshots to show the changes and process of the creating development.

Different issues of magazines.

As I am part of a group for this rak, we have to create different issues of the same magazine so I decided to research how professional music magazine create issues by using the codes and conventions to make it recognisable that it is still the same magazine.

Pop and jazz information

Today

Today, I have been trying to place my main image onto the front cover which has been quite difficult as the size of the image is quite hard to postition, for many reasons such as there are two people in the image. I have cropped the image several times and tried placing it back on indesign and it is getting easier to position in a clear and appropriate place.

Update

Recently, my group and I have made our magazine started on Indesign. We have decided on the background which is black as it is part of our colour scheme and it looks classy. Also, we have created our masthead which is white in bold, Elegance writing with a purple shadow in the same font behind it as it looks effective and interesting. On our front cover, we have decided to have a bottom strip in a bright blue colour so it stands out from the rest of the page. On our double page contents, we will have the lyrics to the artist's song going down the side of the page which we have seen in a few other music magazines, this section is in bright blue linking to the colour of the bottom strip on the front cover.

As we are working in a group, we are creating different editions of the magazine so I have been looking at many music magazines and the different editions of them. I will post some information about them in another post.

As I have taken all of my images that I need, I have been deciding on which images to use and why, as I need to think about the position of it, facial expressions, gestures and the right pose the image has. I have selected a few at the moment, including the front cover image and have been editing these images on Photoshop to take away the green background.

This is our magazine starter and it is what we will use to create our own issue of our magazine. As this is the basic layout of our magazine, there will probably be many changes to our original flatplan as some elements might work whereas some items might not look right.