Evaluation

Audience feedback

I asked a selection of people that would be my target audience for my magazine, their feedback showed me that my magazine is conventional and the majority of my answers suggested I have picked the right House style.

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Final Magazine, Contents Page, Front Cover, Double Page Spread.

Double Page Spread

For my double page spread i used this double page spread for inspiration, i liked the layout of it and it followed looked cnoventional for a music magazine double page spread.

I used Quark Express and Photoshop to create this media product. I found both the programmes had their own features that helped create it, such as Quark Express for the wording and Photoshop for the layout and design.

This was the early stages of production, i had the mainout and i felt it followed conventional features of Magazine DPS from the early stages.

 I feel like this has made a lot of improvements since the other picrture, it is loking more conventional and it is my first mock up.

The picture change has made a mass improvemnet of the overall look of my magazine DPS.

Production plan

Name of magazine: Top Chart

Masthead:

Frequency of publication: Monthly

Price:£1.99

Distribution: My magazine will be sold at Newsagents, Supermarkets, Venues/events, Music Shops and can be pre-ordered on a subscription basis.

Target market: Will listen to and have a interest in mainstream music, follow the top 40, targeting mainly women aged 18-25, working class B.

Style of magazine: Neat layout, simple yet eye catching, has a sophisticated look yet is still exciting to look and it looks bold and visible.  The magazine will offer reviews that will target to my audience, for example i have an article that  features Olivia Bell the terminology that i will use will be easily understandable yet will have a element of sophistication.




Regular Content
-Editors letter
-Personal interviews by well known artists
-Upcoming events/gigs/festivals
-New Albums
-New singles
-This months Top 40
-Information on artists, new singles
-Hottest bands at the moment
-Music video of the month,  view count/likes

Feature Content of this months
-Olivia Bell Exclusive interview
-Katy Perry Interview
-Ellie Goulding new erlease date
-Shannon Tuft interview
-What albumt o buy for Xmas
-Adele's live performace review
-Top 40 review
-Win Lady GaGa tickets
-Live glastonberry tickets
-Evolution Fest review

House Style
Colour- Dark colours on a  contrasting background
Layout- Simple and easy to read.
Font-Bold and simple.




Contents page production

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This is what is the basic layout and already my house style of red and black is already showing on the contents page and already showing synergy with my front cover.

This is one of my final stages of production of my Contents page, all writing is finished, just a few small changes must be made, such lining up the numbers so they are inline with eachover.Billboard contents page - Inspiration.I used this layout to help me design my own contents page, i took inspiration from the layout such as the left No1 charts bar, i used similar colours yet i kept my house style.

I chose Billboard because we feature the same genre, therefore i wanted to show a conventional contents page that suggested my specific genre, i thought this would be the most effective way if i took inspiration from Billboard, i also love their house style and layout, it suggests that the magazine is sophisticated and created and designed by professionals.

Style Model -Inspiration

 A Style Model is where you get inspiration from a magazine, you can take ideas of anouther magazine and use them in your own, such as the colour scheme, or the way it is layed out.





These magazines are targeted at the same age as i am targeting at, Billboard features the Pop genre, they will feature artists that are well known, such as Lilly Allen.

I will take insperation from this magazines. i like the pale backgrounds and the expressions on the models.

I prefer the layout on the Q magazine, it features a left hand third and it is simplistic and i feel that it stands out.