Monday, 10 December 2012
Audience research- main task Question 4
How are the fans of this particular type of music represented?
What age group/gender/ethnicity do you think this magazine is aimed at?
Are the images used in this magazine a positive/negative/mixed representation of this?
Friday, 7 December 2012
masthead
After receiving audience feedback i decided to change my masthead. I think this masthead works better than my previous ones because it is bold and stand out on the cover
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Audience Feedback For My Magazine
After uploading my
finished magazine, I got feedback on what could be improved.
Front Cover:
- improve on the masthead
font and colours so it stands out on the page.
- The bar code overlaps
one of the cover lines slightly
- The main cover line is at angles, which
doesn't really make sense and doesn't really appeal to your target audience.
After reading these
comments, I changed the colour of the masthead to make it a bit brighter so it
would stand out a bit more. I changed the position of the masthead and pull
quote so they didn't overlap. I also changed the angle of the cover line so it
wasn't at an angle which I think looked better.
Contents Page
- To improve, position the contents along the
one whole side of the page so it looks clearer and more effective.
-However, I don’t think that you need boxes
around Fatima and the Editor’s Letter. Also, the Editor’s Letter seems to
discredit the articles by suggesting that the competition is the only thing
that is really worth buying the magazine for.
-The picture of Insanity makes it seem as
though they don’t really care about being interviewed; I think it would be
better if they were looking at the camera, but the lighting is really good
. -Finally, the page
number is a little large; in conventional magazines, the page number is more
discreet.
I tried moving all the
images to one side of the page but didn't really like how that looked so I just
decided to move one image over to the other side which I think made the page
look better. I also removed the box around the editors’ letter and changed the
text a bit so the competition did not seem like the best thing in the magazine.
The picture of Insanity, I did not change because I do not agree with the
comment that they look like they don't care about being interviewed. They are
in the studio singing/dancing/having fun which goes with the title 'Meet
Insanity' because by reading the interview you get to know them as themselves
rather than what they come across as on stage etc. The page number did seem a
bit big so I made it a bit smaller.
DPS:
- Maybe move one of the cover lines like the
'insanity' cover line onto the right page so that the pages are more balanced
with the colour purple.
- I don't think the other photo is that good;
they look like they have been sucking on lemons.
- It is unclear who is Kadey and who is Siray
- The fan mail question seems to come out of
nowhere and is a little random. -You've spelled Twitter wrong
- How about reference to YouTube and/or
Facebook somewhere in your magazine
- The page number is too big
To improve my dps, I took
on board these comments and made any necessary changes: I tried moving the
Insanity cover line to the other side but I think it looked better how it was
so I didn't change that. The comment about the other photo I do not agree with,
next to the image it says 'go behind the scene of our shoot' and that picture
is Insanity pulling funny faces and it shows what went on behind the scenes for
anyone who is interested. I realized that for anyone who wasn't a fan, they wouldn't
know who Kadey and Siray were so I put their names on the contents page next to
their picture so that people would know who Kadey and Siray were. I moved the
fan mail question so it was after the question about what they have bought with
their earnings. I think that this will make it seem less random. I also changed
the spelling of twitter as I hadn't realized this mistake earlier. On my
contents page, I included a reference to my magazines Facebook and twitter
pages to interact more with my audience. The page number was too big on the
contents page as well and I changed the font size of it on the dps as well.
Monday, 3 December 2012
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