Evaluation Task 3

The previous voice clip is about the key features of my magazine and why the magazine is publishable.

A publishing company makes information available for public view. The process of publishing includes acceptance and negotiation, editorial, design sales and marketing stages, editorial stage, design stage, sales and marketing stage and printing.

Magazine can be distributed through the mail; through sales by newsstands, bookstores or other vendors, or through free distribution at selected pick up locations. The worldwide magazine distribution company are well known and have distributed many magazines such as NME,Q and Rolling Stone magazine. I would use a distributor such as the WWMD because the magazines they distribute are from the same genre of music as my magazine and they deal with a variety of different magazines including specialist magazines.

The money for my magazine would have come from advertising in my magazine such as adverts for new albums and gigs. Business loans can be obtained from the local bank to fund the magazine as you need enough financing to fund the company though its first year of business. i would also use sponsors to get my magazine started.

Instutionally my magazine is similar to Q and NME because they are from the same genre of music and would appeal to a similar target audience of males and females and 16-24 year olds.

Evaluation Task 4

My target audience is 16-24 year old males and females who have an interest in Indie Rock/Pop music. In the picture above I have included a variety of things that my target audience would be interested in. These include Indie band such as "The Smiths," social networking sites such as "facebook" and go to fast food restaurants such as "Mcdonalds." They would mostly be students from both working class and middle class backgrounds. They would buy the magazine because it features the latest artists and music which attracts the younger audience. Also, because the colours are gender neutral so that the magazine attracts both males and females.

Evaluation Task 5

Using Slideshare, I have produced a powerpoint on how I attracted/addresed my audience in my final coursework pieces.

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Evaluation Task 6

This is a picture of my magazine on Photoshop. Before starting this AS Media course I had never used Photoshop before. Since I first started I have learnt loads about the programme. Using a magnetic lasoo I cut round my images. This was difficult at first but after using tools such as the rubber tool I was able to neaten the edges of my image. Using a website called http://www.dafont.com/ I was able to find a font I wanted to use as the title of my magazine. I copied and pasted it into photoshop and adapted the sizing. For my subheadings and font on my contents page and double page spread I used a Bevel effect to make the font stand out in an effective way. This made it stand out and look unique. I made a black strip line at the bottom of my front page using the rectangle tool and used a burgundy font to make it stand out amongst the black background. On my contents page I also used a strip line on the left hand side of the page and used an opaque effect on the pictures. It took me a long time to get the pictures exactly the same size but it was worth it in the end. On my double page spread I used the ruler tool to mease the columns and make sure they were all the same size.




This is me on photoshop making changes to my magazine. I spent a lot of time using these school computers as I had no access to photoshop from home and I was determined to spend as much time on it as possible. I also used programmes such as slideshare to share my pitch to everyone and blogger to blog all my ideas and progress along the way.




This is the camera I used to take all the pictures for my magazine. I was able to change the settings to adapt the photos. Using lamps I was able to adapt the lighting to make the pictures look better. I used a website called http://www.picnik.com/ to adapt my photos and change the contrast.

Evaluation Task 7

In the image above I have used a split screen to compare my Final Front Page and Contents page to my first preliminary pieces. Since doing my first preliminary pieces I have learnt loads more including about Photoshop and the generic conventions of a magazine. I have learnt how important photography, fonts and colour schemes amongst other conventions are vitally important to magazines. I have realised that to produce a quality magazine you must plan and research extensively. In my final piece I was able to use a variety of different techniques on Photoshop to make my magazine look professional. As I have a subscription to Q magazine I was able to get inspiration from a magazine that has a similar target audience to my magazine. By having a clear target audience I was able to produce my magazine to meet the needs of the said audience.

Final Pieces

For the last few week I have been working on improving my draft front cover, contents page and double page spread. By using the peer assessments and teacher feedback I have tried to improve my coursework as much as I possibly could. I added bar code, issue no, price to my front cover and changed the image so the head wasn't chopped up. I made the picture bigger and added more headings to fill the white space. I used more pictures in my contents page and even had a strip line on the left hand side full of small pictures of the artist included. I used pictures from my front cover and double page spread in my contents page. I changed the colour so that it was consistent and fitted in with the rest of my magazine. For my double page spread I improved my cutting, I made the fact box stand out more and enlarged the heading. I also did another montage of small pictures along the top to fit in with my contents page and to fill in the space.

Ident Image

This is the image I've taken that I'm using as my ident because it fits wth the title of the magazine "Amplified" because it's a picture of an amplifier and has the title of the magazine in white font so that it stands out.