Wednesday 14 December 2011

This is my contents page, i've changed it around alot from the colour schemes to the layouts, I now have all the pages in lists underneath each other and easy to follow and read. You can understand them all as the colours of them match and you can read them perfectly even though the background is a difficult to read agasint, that is why there is a background on them and the the opacity is turned down to made it transparrent.
I think the image used works well with the type of my magazine im going for, and links in well with the front cover.

Evaluation Q7.

After doing my preliminary task and then moving onto this one, i've really progressed on how to use photoshop and making my pictures better to use for my magazine pages. I think this is a great skill to have as it made my pictures better helping me make them better and to suit my style of my magazine more. I used tools such as colour schemes and the healing tool to cover up any parts i didn't like or shoouldnt be there. I also used the clone tool to help copy other parts of the picture over and complete the picture, i needed to use this tool on my double page as i really needed the image background to all be one colour and it wasn't i needed it to be all one colour so that my text could be seen through it. I had to add a background and dim it down on the 'opacity' so that the background could of still been seen through as i really liked it. I also think that my images were in better condition on my magazine than what they were in my preliminary task.

Evaluation Q6

I've learnt how to take a variety of pictures and pick a best one out of them for certain pages of my magazine. I had to decide which of my pictures would suit what page, i had to make sure the levels on the picture were the right colour and would be able to match the page perfectly. I also learnt how to change all the levels on pictures using photoshop which after doing this excersice i've become more familiar with. I also think im learnt during the constructing of my magazine, how to write articles and make it suitable for my magazine and link it in with the music side which was the given task.

Evaluation Q5.

I think i most attracted this target audience down to the picture and colour schemes in which were used, i think they really work well in the indie side of music, the images really relate to the indie music having the smoking and the clothes in which are been worn for this main image, the colour schemes i would also say work well as they don't really use bright bold colours which stand out and that is why my magazine isnt in bright colours, they just all stand out from the black and white backgrounds.

Evaluation Q4.

I think the audience for my media product (magazine) would be around 15-19 year olds, within the indie style too, i think this is the best age group and who listen to the indie type of music which would actually fit the type of magazine i've produced. I think, this age group is a good one to base my magazine around as there is alot of people within this aged group that relate to this stereotype, and the music in which is produced the type 'indie' sells there music to that age group aswell, i know this as i've researched it.

Evaluation Q3.

I think the NME magazine relates to mine by having it as a music magazine, which is what mine is although my magazine is a indie baised i think this magazine still links in but would need to be pushed fiurther to have it fully linked with my music type, the publisher of NME is Robert Tame, he started a website alongside Steve Sutherland, I think Robert Tame would help with my magazine seem so hes had such a big hit with his own magazine, he would also give me the help into how to sell my magazine, using the right tecniques such as starting a website and online things to help it be sold, i think we've both worked in the same way as to research what the public want and how good we think it would sell once it's been published.

Evaluation Q2.

I think my media product represents particular social groups as the style from the 80's is coming backout, and i think my magazine links in with this, I think this is because the indie style is shown threw out my magazine and this would help my chosen target audience relise it's linked in with them and they would pick it up to buy it. Where as i don't think you would get a glamorous type person wanting to buy this magazine and i wouldn't think it would suit them and they wouldnt want to buy it because there will not be anything in the magazine that would intrest them in any way making them want to buy it. On the other hand, the audience in which this appeals to i think would be able to relise straight away, with the dark coloured backgrounds and the images in which are very stereotype would suit them more than this magazine would do to anyone else.