Music Magazine Questionnaire Responses

These are the responses to my music magazine questionnaire that I gave out to 20 people, the responses were not unpredicted as for example most people shoes the cheaper pricing for a music magazine. As well most chose a familiar design rather than an original and new design. This shows that the music magazine must not alienate the audience.

Music magazine questionnaire from bdr628

Music Magazine Questionnaire

The following is my questionnaire for the music magazine which was made to gain a perspective of what I should include in the final music magazine product. It will identify the key aspects of my future music magazine as the responses will provide me with the opinion of my target audience and what steps I should take to create my final music magazine.

Music Magazine Double Page Spread Analysis

This is my double page analysis where I analysed three double page spreads to see the effect that different techniques have on the reader, techniques such as the colour scheme, direct mode of address and how the magazine targets their desired market segment. I have also given an overall conclusion of the particular spreads and given my thoughts about whether I should use said techniques. Below is the analysis.

Double Page Spread Analysis from bdr628

Music Magazine Contents Page Analysis

This is my analysis of three contents pages that I took from various music magazines, it analysises the factors of the page such as the main image, target audience, colour scheme, headlines and my overall evaluation of the page.

Contents page analysis from bdr628

Music Magazine Front Cover Analysis

This is my front cover analysis of my three music magazine covers that I collected to analysis to see what designs and features are good on them. The analysis also contains details on techniques the magazines use to entice their readers and catch their attention so that the reader purchases the magazine.

Music MagazineFront Cover Analysis from bdr628

Music Magazine Schedule

The music magazine schedule is below and it details in the dates that the tasks are planned to be begun and throughout the production of the magazine I will be posting the same schedule but with further information such as the completion dates of these tasks. This way you can see the progression I will be making through the project. The updated schedules will be posted every two weeks if there has been any progression in the production.

Final schedule from bdr628

Evaluation of School Magazine

I believe that my school magazine does not challenge other media products as it follows the same structure as other magazine media products because it follows the Left Third rule and uses big bold texts  on the cover page etc. As the school magazine follows the same rules I can only come to the conclusion that my school magazine does not challenge other media products.

My media product does mainly represents the academic social group or the "nerds" of the school as that is who my target audience is aimed at as the media product mainly informs the reader of academic events happening at Idsall. However, it does target the adventurous social group of Idsall as it informs the reader of the Peru expedition which is sporty not academic.

This media product mainly addresses the older academic students in the school by only reporting about academic events and stories mostly because other events such as sport competitions might not appeal to the stereotypical academic student. By writing about academic topics and events, it attracted the target audience that I desired so by writing academic stories, it attracted the academic students.

From this media product, I have learnt many technological techniques such as lighting effects, background editing and gradients. Lighting effect techniques helped me greatly as the images I took sometimes are quite dark and I would have to retake the image myself which only creates hassle for me. The lighting effects helped me greatly as I was able to lighten my media product instead of retaking it. The background editing helped a lot as well as instead of editing certain objects out of the background, I could simply edit out the background entirely which clearly helped me remove undesired objects from my main image.  The gradient tool helped me design my media product as it created the sliver banner and faded quality of the media quality which showed me that faded textures could be used in future media products.

The main thing I would do differently would be to add more natural images and colours on the pages as the black background created a very plain school magazine that doesn't really entertain the reader which is against one of my initial aims. As well, looking back I would definitely change the colour scheme I followed for the media product as it limited my creative options and thus limited the quality of the entire media product.

Finished School Maagzine Double Page Spread

Below is my finished double page spread which is by far my best production out of all the three pages that I've had to create. This is because the use of the images and the text blend well together I believe this entertains the target audience more than any other page. The images and text were placed and created by using Adobe Photoshop again which is very simple techniques but in the end the final product is impressive to my eyes. To improve for next time I again would use more colour on the double page spread as for all my three pages it lacks colour which does not entertain the target audience.

Finished School Magazine Contents Page

The final contents page was created exactly the same way as the front cover, by Adobe Photoshop, and I used very simple tools this time as I just placed an image of Idsall on the top of the page and used a simple border selection to create the orange border. The text was clearly used by the text tool as always. To improve I would again add more colour or images to make the contents page far more interesting to my target audience.

Finished School Magazine Front Cover



This is my final front cover that I produced by using Adobe Photoshop CC because it required certain tools only Photoshop possesses to create this front cover. I created the top silver banner with the title "Idsall Scholar" and by using the layers feature, I sent the main image a head of the title so it overlaps. The text was simply created with the text tool. From this experience I learnt that a more natural photo or a full photo with no edited background is the best type of photo to go for as it creates a more natural front cover in the end and doesn't alienate the target audience.

School Magazine Schedule

This is my schedule that I will follow over the duration of the production of my school magazine that has a set deadline for each task and a column next to it that gives details when the task was completed.

http://www.slideshare.net/bdr628/schedule-44552745