Media Studies AS Production Evaluation

By Naomi Gayle

Year 12

The Brief

The campaign objective was to produce a

front cover, at least one double page spread

and a contents page for a new music

magazine. The preliminary project was to

produce the front cover for a student

magazine and the design the layout for the

contents page.

Target Audience and Research

My specific target audience for my music magazine is teenagers aged between 14-19. I have chosen this age gap because the magazine is slightly to difficult to understandany younger than 14 because of the language and the detail I have put into it. I have made the age limit in my magazine 19 because of the sorts of bands including within my Magazine. The bands are new every week, and I thought once above a certain age you would want to stick with bands you already have interest in instead of being introduced to new ones every week. My magazine is aimed at the teenage youth because of the style I have created it in. I would aim my magazine at both females and males as it has element for both genders.

How will your magazine attract an audience?

I intended to appeal to the audience by

including a interview with a “Brand New”

band every week. This is will make my

audience interested in my magazine

because they will look forward to seeing

what the next new band will be to enter

fame and fortune.

Another way that will allow me to attract

and audience would be to have a

bright front cover to my magazine, this

will allow people to notice my magazine

upon the shelf with the others in a

newsagents/store. I will achieve this by

having a colour scheme to my magazine for

example the colour scheme I have used for my

music magazine I have created is blue, black

and white.

I will also have a image on the front cover

which will allow my readers to see what the new

band in each months magazine looks like.

Seeing as indie and rock music is becoming

more popular over the years it seemed logical to

make sure my music magazine genre was

Indie/Rock this will give me a good selling

starting point, as I know that the magazine will

be brought by some customers as it’s a popular

genre of music.

When I was researching ideas for the genre of

my magazine I found out that 65% of music

magazine made around the world have the

Rock/Indie/Heavy mental genre and 10%

classical music and 25% Rap/R&B/Hip-Hop.

Planning the magazine The genre of music

magazine I planned was

Indie/Rock. I chose this

because it is a popular

genre within teenagers And

possible buyers for My

magazine. I planned my magazine by

making a lot of different mind

maps of Ideas that could go

inside it, or on the front

cover. And choose the best

ideas that I came up with.

I made some layout designs

for my front cover context

page and double page

spread to give me different

ideas of how I could lay out

my magazine so it look

interesting to customers here

Is and example of one for my

planning layout for a context

page.

One of the hardest parts to creating my own music magazine was getting the right name for my magazine one that people would remember. I made a mind map of different name I could use. I came up with the following names;

Rhythm

Sound

Musical

Red hot music

My music

Rock and read

Out of the six names that I came up with when doing my mind map I thought “Rhythm” was most catchy and it represented music as in each song you have a different “Rhythm”.

Pictures included in my magazine

For my magazine I had taken all the pictures that are included within it. This allowed me to edit the pictures as I wished and to show my progression on how I had edited them within my work. By taking picture of a really band that I knew outside of school. It meant that my magazine would look more professional as they new what they should be doing within there pictures. For my front cover I used a picture of all three of them. I edited the background so instead of having tree and bushes in the background I would have a plan white studio look. I chose this pictures as my front cover

because they look like a fun, chatty band which people might think is interesting and fun to read about inside. On my double page spread I made sure I had a variety of different pictures, I included some studio shot which I customised on Photoshop and used some where they were playing to show who plays what in the band and what they’d look like live. One the context page I used a series of different pictures, this included a picture of the band and a picture of a different band.

Props and costumes in pictures

• Drums • Guitars• Micro-phones• Speakers • Amps • Base guitar• Casually dressed• In teen fashion • Original style Sundown City playing live.

(picture included within my magazine).

The changes I’d makeThere isn't much that I would change about my magazinebut I would change the way I planned out mytime. Some part of my magazine have had more thoughtthan others. I thought that my fount cover could have changed. I thinkI should have place a different picture on the cover tobalance out the page. I didn’t think the page was balanced because it was hard to put all my puffs around the picture there wasn’t much space for the information to go. I also thought that my context page was a little blank when printed and I would change that so it was more full. The last thing that I would like to have another go it is taking my ownpictures again. I didn’t take the correct pictures for my magazine. Ihad to edit them to fit them into the placed marked out on my magazine layout.

Software used

Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPointPhotoshop

InternetCamera (Take images)

ConventionsDate, Price, Page number

barcode

Main cover picture

Mast head

Tag line

Puff

Inside features