24/02/14 - Production diary

It is getting closer to the deadline on the 4th of March, my evaluation needs to be completed along with all my blog work and magazine! Todays lesson I will ensure I have created my evaluation to a professional look along with my magazine being fully completed, this will ensure changing the images on my contents page and over looking on my evaluation by changing the images around to suit the text better. For example, question number 5) about the audience showing images of my stereotypical audience reader.

17/07/14 - Production diary

Carrying on with our work from last lesson of trying to improve our work to get a higher grade, I have began to work on improving my evaluation. Orginally I just wrote my evaluation out onto my blog, however to raise my grade I have decided to make my evaluation into a magazine format as I feel it will look more professional and be much more interesting to read. I feel the layout for my 7 evaluations is much more effective and looks as if I have tried to ensure the 'radar' feel throughout my magazine and answers.

Drafting #4

 

 

More changes have been made to my magazine as I am currently on drafting number 4, now I have made the decision of changing the last page around - in doing this I have removed the image on the right and added a close up and rather than fitting it in a certain place I have enlarged it putting it in the right corner - putting 'the verdict' over the side of the image, I feel this is a more professional approach on the last page and stands out more as the main image tells more of a story in comparison to the other image.

10/02/14

Today we got back our grades from our draft magazines, we got feedback back and we had a chance to improve our magazine to the best we can. This meant we could establish where our falls where and where we was strongest at, it was eveident to me I needed to imporve my magazine.

 

This was my original last page when I handed it in as draft in comparison to the final product which I have now created, it is clear I have made some big changes in order to push my points up. Changing the image and moving around the boxes has created a more professional magazine.

Drafting #3

Today we got our feedback on the changes we need to make for our magazine to be of a better standard, I decided to change the pages by putting the double page image as the 4th page rather than the 3rd this meant that the page before I have now turned into an introduction rather than just an essay I feel this is a more professional approach. I have also changed the writing and layout of the double page by using a shorter quote and enlarging, in my opinion this suits the layout of my magazine much more.

Survey results

 

 

It is important to understand your target audience and their wants and needs from a magazine, creating a survey and asking people to answer was a good method of gaining that information. It was evident for answer one the majority of my audience use twitter as a preferred type of social media minus a few who choose instagram. Question 2, how often do you listen to music? Understandably nearly everyone answered always. Question 3 based about if you keep up to date with your favourite artists showed more people choosing always however some saying sometimes. How often do you want your magazine to be distributed was my next question and this was going to help me decide when it should be distributed - conclusion is monthly from the feedback? Question 5 about how you get your music showed all people get their music online normally by downloading it off the computer. Do you go to festivals answer was evident my audience enjoy going to concerts and festivals giving me heads up to including free tickets on my magazine. Question 7 about print and online showed people like them both the same amount and if not print more than online which was shocking for me. Question 8 about pricing demonstrated I had made the right decision when choosing to price my magazine from £2.00-2.99 as that was the most chosen answer. Everyone answered yes to the magazine being interactive as they want a relationship with the magazine, similar to question 10 about articles where answers where varied to answers about gossip, backstage stuff, new music and personal lives of artists.

Drafting - Final

Audience feedback

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/52RR53Q

Here is my survey in which I have asked people to fill out giving me audience feedback, I hope that this gives me effective feedback as the people answering will be anonymous and therefore wont feel bias to answering in a certain way which will ensure correct results, from the results I will gain I will be able to understand different peoples opinions on the music magazine industry helping to suggest how well my magazine would of been in comparison to other magazines.

Production diary - 03/02/14

Today is the day before our deadline for our magazines, its not the final thing but everything needs to be done so today is all about ensuring all blog posts are completed and my magazine is final and everything which should be completed on it is done.

Starting the day with doing my 'cover lines' suggesting reasoning for why I have produced the cover lines which i have - doing this as a powerpoint presentation hoping to keep it intesting and engaging for my audience. Next carrying on with my magazine making sure every detail is done and finishing off my front cover which I was not 100% happy with before.