evaluation

1. Eve Hardman

2. The genre of my music magazine ‘Indie’. I have
asked several people in the age range of my
target audience showing them all three parts
of the magazine in which I have created,
they then came to the conclusion of whether
they felt the magazine suited the genre. I
also needed to know whether my magazine
fitted the codes and conventions of other
music magazines.

3. I have challenged my initial ideas especially for
the front cover, I originally planned to take the
shoot outside in a wood, with my cover star
with wet hair throwing it backwards and I
wanted to take the picture whilst they would
whip the hair. I decided this idea was too
gloomy for the indie style of music it probably
suited a more heavy metal kind of genre. So I
decided to change the front cover idea and go
for something more simple yet effective I chose
my cover star holding a guitar upright it was a
acoustic as I feel that portrays a more indie
vibe, this also indicates to the audience it is a
music magazine

4.  I have chosen to present people in my magazine
in a certain way to appease a certain social
group: people who enjoy listening to indie
music. I have used different things to help me
gain this outcome such as:
 Gender – I used gender in such a way that made
it equal and fair to suit all audiences members. I
chose to take a picture of a male for my front
cover holding an acoustic guitar because I feel
although more girls do play this instrument the
stereotype is stronger when connect boys to
instruments especially guitar, this is my personal
opinion which is why I chose a male to be the
cover star.

5. I used a mixture of both boys and girls on the
contents page and on my double paged spread I
based the interview on the girl lead singer
Georgia Kilshaw from indie band. She discusses
how much she loves music and wants to carry on
it throughout her career. I have taken several
pictures of her with her microphone to signify
she is the lead singer I made this picture cover
the two pages with the main body text on one
side and the image on the other, this layout
worked brilliantly.
 Age – I used the age range to suit my target
audience. The people I have taken the pictures
of all range from the same ages as my target
audience therefore I could ask for their personal
opinions on what I feel would look best
considering they are the age range I am trying to
connect with through my magazine.

6.  Genre of music- I had to keep to the style
and the whole vibe of this genre of music, so
my magazine suited the people who listen to
this form of music.
 Challenging Stereotypes – I haven't really
challenged stereotypes I feel the way I have
portrayed the people in my magazine is how
they would be perceived in normal day to
day life. This is good as it means I have been
realistic within my magazine something in
which the public and my target audience will
be grateful for.

7. A media institution is an (often profit based) establishment that is in
charge of distributing, marketing and producing different media
products.
For example Development Hell, Distributes Mixmag and Bauer
distributes Kerrang and Mojo.
I would use the distributers like Bauer for my magazine because like I
said above they have distributed magazines such as Kerrang and Mojo
which both are very successful and have been for many years they are
two of the most well known music magazines which is why I would like
them to distribute my magazine.

8. Age? – The age range I will be aiming my magazine to is for 18-22 this
is because I did a questionnaire and the answers that came back
certified that my target audience must be within this age range.
Therefore I adapted many things to suit their needs such as featuring
certain bands which they selected in my questionnaire which they
liked and would want to see in my magazine.
Gender? – I believe my magazine is aimed at both genders, I did not
want to make my magazine gender specific as I believe this would
leave me with less profit.
Genre of the music (they like)? – (video) how have I represented the
genre?
Musicians represented ?- and how they connect to the genre of the
music (video)

9.  (how have I tried to engage with the
audience over all three pages)

10.  (Demonstrating what I have learnt with
different technology)
 Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a professional image editing software package
that can be used by experts and novices alike. Some of things
which I learnt myself were things such as a magic wand tool, this
tool allowed me to select parts of the image and crop them out. I
was also able to edit my images, changing clarity of an image or
simply allowing me to make colours brighter or darker. I have
used many drop shadows which I feel work extremely well on my
front cover. I used a drop shadow on my cover star, it made him
stand out more drawing the focus to the main image.
(asking someone who knows Photoshop very well what they can see I
have done)

11. Quark
I made my contents page and double page spread in quark which I
did find was quite difficult to use however it helped me a lot with
things such as adding text because quark allows you to put grid
lines on and anything outside the lines will not be printed. I feel
that the majority of things you can do in quark you can also do in
Photoshop however it is just another form of media.
SLR Cameras
I have learnt that the light from the object reflects from a mirror
and is taken through the eyepiece to the eye of the photographer,
in contrast to a viewfinder camera where the photographer is
looking through a separate lens at the subject. The advantage of
the SLR is that the eye sees approximately what the picture will
look like, so that you can freely interchange lenses, use close-up
lenses, etc and still see what you will take a picture of.

12. College Magazine Music Magazine

13. Looking at the prelim and my final music
magazine there is a clear difference. I feel my
music magazine is considerably better, I used
more types of media on my music magazine
such as downloading fonts and barcodes.
Where I have placed these things on the page
also catches the eye of the reader whereas on
my music magazine it looks like I have placed
the text and pictures anywhere. I am happy
with how my music front cover looks now. It
did take a long time to get the cover picture
correct and a lot of editing but I am now
happy with the way it looks, I do think my
magazine would sell well.