Evaluation question 5

Q5 how did you address/attract your audience?

I tried to attract my audience with the feautres I put on the cover of my magazine. I made sure all the feautres releated to pop music and would be interesting to a 11-17 year old interested in pop music. I also looked at special offers and plugs from existing magazines for ideas for my magazines.

I put a plug on my magazine as an advertisement to win V festival tickets, I thought free tickets to a festival would interest a teenager and perhaps persuade them to read the magazine over any other pop music mag. Also V festival is a festival with quite a wide range of music but mostly pop music, so i included a festival that had pop music so it would interest my target audience.




                                   



                                                                                                         

I put a 'free posters' advertisement at the bottom of the magazine as I noticed when doing my research that many existing pop magazines have free posters of popular pop music artists included. So i decided to included free posters in my magazine of my main artist and an artist she had collaborated so instead of just having posters of one artist there is two different artists.
 

One of the features I put on my front cover was top 5 festivals of 2014, I put this to link with my plug of free festival tickets also because the issue date of my magazine is 1st march 2014 so its coming up to summer and festival season so readers will be interested in knowing about the pop festivals coming up.

Evaluation question 6

Q6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 

I have learnt a lot about using photoshop during constructing this product, I have learnt a lot more than when I did GCSE media where it was more simple editing. By learning more about photoshop I was able to make my finished product more professional and more like an actual magazine cover. I learnt alot about taking photographs as well, I learnt about lighting and camera angles and how to use them appropriately for my magazine, instead of justb taking a picture of someone stood looking stright at the camera i learnt about postioning them and how different poses can connote different ideas and genres and that editing the photo on photoshop can make it look more like it was made for a magazine cover. By editing the picture so the model has lipstick or more eye makeup on it can make them look like a pop artist and make the picture look more professional.

 

This is my first draft of my front cover, although it is not too far from my finished product I can notice now why my finished product is better. I can see that the main image is poorly cut out and the edges are not completely smooth, this makes it look less professional. There is too much white space and I havent used the font of the text as well as I could have. Also I used photoshop to put lipstick on my model and it looks too bright and not real on this image. I have also learnt since this to edit the image of the model for things like brightness and exposure to make the image stand out a bit more and look less dull and plain. 

I learnt to use the cut out tool (quick selection tool) a lot better after my first draft and how to smooth the edges using the rubber and smudge tool so it doesn't look so obvious that it has been cut out from the background and put onto another.

  

Quick selection tool










Smudge tool







Rubber tool

 

 

 

 

 

 I got feedback for my second draft and my finished product to see if other people had noticed that i had improved during constructing my product.

                     final product                                                                    second draft

 

Evaluation question 7

Q7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

 

 

 

Video feedback of finished products

I showed these two both a similar age to me my front cover, contents page and double page spread, I then aksed them if they thought that my magazine represented my chosen genre of pop, and then some strengths and weaknesses of each page and an overall rating out of 10 to get their thoughts and opinions on my final product. I wanted to ask somone who was a similar age to me becuase they would then be in my age group and would fit in my target audience for my magazine and the feedback would represent the correct age group for my product.

All photos taken (used and unused)