Evaluation

Media Evaluation

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Final Product

Here is my final product... 

Mood Board

I created a mood board to help me develop my ideas and get an overall feel for my magazine design.

Questionnaire

To find out which type of magazine would be the most popular and the most successful, I asked a
random group of ten people to fill in a small questionnaire.

My results were...

Favourite genre for a magazine:

Pop = 1/10

Dance = 1/10

Rock/Indie = 1/10

RnB = 0/10

Hip/Hop = 7/10

Price for a monthly magazine:

£1-2 = 0/10

£2-3 = 6/10

£3-4 = 3/10

£4+ = 1/10

From the results shown, this is why I chose to do a Hip-Hop magazine. I decided the most suitable price would be £2.99.

Costume, Props and Location List

The person who I am going to photograph will wear the following clothing...
Black pants
White t-shirt
Grey hoody

No props are needed for any of the photos.

One photo is going to be taken next to a wall with graffiti on it, this will go in my feature article. Another will be taken with steps in the background, this will go on my contents. The front page photo will be cut out so the location doesn't matter for this one. The same applies for the second photo on my feature article - this will also be cut out.

Magazine Analysis

I decided to analysis a magazine front cover, contents page and feature article to help me see how magazines are laid out. I used a film magazine but this didn't matter as the codes and coventions are the same. I analysed 'Empire' magazine.

Layout

I sketched out a simple layout of my feature article and the contents page to help show where things go.


Contents

Feature Article

Sketch

I sketched out the front cover to work out how my magazine would be laid out. The final product has changed slightly but the sketch is still very similar.

Gee Magazine - Target Audience

The magazine which I am doing is aimed at students (from the age of 16 - early 20s.) The magazine is aimed mainly at males as the majority of hip-hop listeners are male - therefore the colour schemes and choices of images reflect this - the images have a more masculine feel to it. I think that the magazine would appeal to people who suit this critera as the magazine will have a 'laid back' feel to it and be an 'easy read', something which many students would like. The language used will be unsuitable for younger audiences aswell as some of the pictures in it.

Gee Magazine

I chose 'Gee' for the name of my magazine as the word links in with hip-hop and 'gansters'. For the photos for the magazine I have chose my friend to star in them. I have taken lots and have chose the most suitable ones for each page. For the front page, I cut out an image in photoshop so that there was no background. The background of the front cover goes from white to a grey colour. I thought that this suited the image very well as 'Dioxide', the rapper who stars in the magazine is wearing a white t-shirt, black pants and a grey hoody. The front cover is almost finished but just needs a little tweaking. The contents page is almost finished aswell but also need a bit of work doing to it. The design for the feature article hasn't yet been started, but half of the feature article itself has been written. The first half of the feature article contains information about Dioxide. The second half of the feature article is an interview with Dioxide about his new album and includes interesting things about him. The design for the feature article will be started very shortly.

My front cover:

Feedback 22/4/09

Oliver - look at my other posts!
More research needed on magazines and conventions, also now you need to scan and upload your mood board, rough sketches, props and costume lists, location lists and choices and planning of your magazine and the photographs you have taken and comment on how and why you chose them for your pages. Remember to keep blogging on your progress!
Miss McNulty

Preliminary Evaluation

For the preliminary task I designed a front cover and sketched a contents page for a college magazine. I used a student in my class to be on the front page. I cut out the image of the student using Photoshop and then edited and designed the magazine in InDesign. I have learnt to use more than one colour on my front cover because at first when I designed the cover I only used one colour and it looked quite boring. I have also realised that using lots of different fonts and sizes draws the attention to the audience and makes the magazine look more interesting and fun. I found it quite difficult to decide how to lay out the magazine but at the same time I found using Photoshop and InDesign very easy and simple.

Feedback 26/3/09

A good prelim task Oliver - but you need ot evaluate it now - strength and weaknesses - what have your learnt - to do and not to do in your actual magazine?
Also you havent done enough research - see my previous post!
Miss McNulty

Prelim Task

Feedback 12/3/09

Good research and analysis Oliver- Try to also include a detailed outline of your audience (age range , gender etc...) and how your product/magazine will appeal to them.

Also analyse a magazine cover, contents page and double page article - looking at whether it follows the conventions of magazines or deviates away from them (if you need to recap these the PDF is on the AS Media Moodle site.)
Miss McNulty

VIBE Magazine

VIBE magazine was launched in 1993 by founder Jaleel White. The magazine mainly features R&B and hip-hop artists, actors and other entertainers. The magazine is produced monthly and the target audience is young, urban followers of hip-hop culture. VIBE magazine contains a celebrity gossip column and a Boomshots column about reggae and Caribbean music by Rob Kenner. The magazine also devotes several pages to photo spreads displaying high-end designer clothing as well as sportswear by urban labels such as 'Rocawear' and 'Fubu'.

Research

To get a better idea of what the magazine is going to look like, I have had a look at various different magazines. Because I have to design a front cover, a back cover and contents as well as two pages in the magazine, I have decided to look at front and back covers from different ones. As most back covers on magazines are advertisments, I have decided to use the back cover to advertise the artist which I am going to use in the actual magazine. 

Contents Page from VIBE:

Front Cover from VIBE:

Oliver Duffy Music Magazine

The project which I have chosen to do is the Music Magazine. I have chosen this option as I believe I will work better on my own than with a group as I will only have to rely on myself and not on others. 

The genre of music for the magazine which I am going to do is Hip-Hop. The target audience for this magazine will be late teenagers and young adults - people interested in the Hip-Hop genre. I have researched on the internet for other similar products and have found a magazine called "VIBE" and an online magazine called "Rago". I will be looking closely at these magazines and also other magazines to help create and design my own. 

USP

Many rap magazines are available in America but in the UK there aren't many magazines available, so this is an opportunity to make a new edition to the shops that is something different as it will be completely dedicated to rap.  This will make more people want to buy this style of magazine because people who are interested in rap currently don't have a magazine which they can purchase in the UK.