Evaluation

I have successfully created a music magazine, that follows/fits the conventions of actual music magazines on the market. These conventions include ; layout, imagery, content, colours and text. I have done this by taking research and analysis I've done on magazines of a similar genre, and applying those ideas to my own work.
Like the magazines that I analysed, I have stuck to only using 2 colours. As most of the magazines used a minimum of 2-4 colours only. Again like the magazine research, analysis and based on questionnaire feedback. I used only a few font types and only used sans serif fonts, as this is what other magazines have used and what my target audience consider appropriate. The majority of music magazines that i analysed, used only a few images . One main large image and a couple of smaller ones. As a result, I have done the same as this is obviously what my target audience find appealing. Again form looking at my research and analysis on successful magazines of the same genre. I realised that the content of the magazine front cover. Is often relative to the images, shot and snappy and doesn’t give too much away, but just enough for the target audience to want to buy and read the articles. The layout for this type of magazine is pretty much the same for all magazines. This is; title at the top, main large image in the centre filling whole page and text and images down either side. I have again applied the same principle to my magazine front cover.
My magazine represent young people (so teenagers) who are into /listen to music of an indie/rock style of music. I've tried to represent this social group, through; Imagery, colours, content and fonts used. The images used relate to this social group, as they are of either bands that are associated with that genre or like my main image, of people of the same age as the target audience.;
The colours I have used are based on the sorts of colours I found were appropriate, according to my research and questionnaire feedback. The text is bold, modern and simple rather than being italic flick/curly fonts. This is as this style of font is easy to read and enlarge, an a fancy style is usually associated with being posh and style magazines so wouldn't be appropriate for this genre.
The content is also relevant to the style/genre/social group, as it refers to bands of an indie/rock genre.

Music company or music radio stations that are linked to the same genre may be the ones to distribute this magazine. So a company such as Kerrang radio of another similar music station. Also a music store such as HMV may also distribute this sort of magazine, as my magazine links to the products they sell, so would be appropriate to sell in that type of shop and for that sort of company.
The audience for my music magazine. Would be, teenagers who are likely to listen to rock/ indie style of music. Both males and females would be the target audience for my magazine.

I have tried to make my magazine, so that it addresses the audience in an informal, friendly way. I have done this by using words/ language that teenagers who are into indie/rock, may use. For example “cool” ECT I have also used images that relate to the target audience, for example; I have deliberately used a teenager who is into that genre of music, as the main image on the front cover. This makes the target audience feel like they can relate to my magazine on a personal level.
I have learnt, how to create and use a blog during this process. This is a type of technology that was new to me. So I have learnt the skills required in creating a blog. Furthermore, at one point I lost some of my work. So this has taught me, that when using something like blogger. You need to be regularly saving your work. Lastly I have further developed my skills in using Photoshop to create my products.

I have learnt throughout this whole proccess, that it's important to regualy save your work in more than one place as i lost some of my work during this proccess, by not doing this. I have also learnt a number of new tecniques on photoshop and have therefor become mor confident in useing photoshop. I have also learnt a lot in terms of what makes a good magazine front cover, all of which i've learnt through my reasearch.
I have learnt to use a wider range of skills on Photoshop, such as layering techniques I learnt in the preliminary task. I applied those techniques to my final work. And during my preliminary task, I didn't fully understand how to set up and use my blog. So I have developed my skills in using blogger and have become more confident in using it. The main thing I’ve learnt is to back up/ save work twice as I didn’t do this in my preliminary task, and managed to delete it all off my blog