Evaluation

Media Evaluation powerpoint by sam walsh

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Audience Feedback

I asked 10 people 7 questions about my final piece in my media project. Below is the results of my audience feedback, there is lots of different answers and all of which are interesting.

The majority of the answers were similar in that the title suggests a music magazine, its young, trendy, modern and interesting. I generally found with the results that the people I asked found it easy to understand that the magazine was focusing on a mixed genre of music, they all said it was well layed out on a whole but in some places for example the double page spread its maybe a bit plain and not enough there. The general comments on the front cover was that it was very genuine and in some cases the comments say it could be mistaken for a real music magazine. In terms of the contents page the most common answer is that it informs all the information that it needs to and makes some want to read on. The article and the double page spread got similar comments also they were along the lines of its set out great and makes you want to read it, it reads like an article but there are grammar mistakes. 

Finished project

 Front Page

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

1st Draft of Article

This is the first draft of my article for my double page spread. 

Equipment and Technology

In order to plan up and create my final piece I will be using many different pieces of apparatus including the lighting studio based at college and sony a200 digital camera to catch great shots. I am also going to use some new technology to me in the form of Photoshop and Indesign. I find both of these programmes relatively easy to use and understand them to a point at where I can get by and create a good piece of work. Below are some pictures of these prorammes and Equipment.

Mock Ups

Here are my mock ups of what I would like the layout of my magazine pages to look like. 

Front Page

This is a layout of my front cover I am going to have close up mid shot of my artist,but no other images. It will have the title in the top left corner, with the web address and price on the right hand side. under the title is the date and below that will have some kind of news, as will the other side of the page below the price there will be two type of news about what is featured inside the magazine. Along the bottom of the page will be a banner almost featuring the artists that are covered in the magazine that week.

Contents page

This is the mock up of my contents page, I have tried to keep it nice and simple and to the point. The title is at the top of the page with pictures of the artists who are featured down the right. On the left running all the way down will be the Features and list who is in the magazine, what pages and what the story is about.

Double Page spread 

This is my double page spread mock up, I have done the same here as what I have done with my contents page I have got straight to the point with the picture of my artist on the left hand side of the page taking up the majority of the page. Then with my article on the right hand side, it is simple but easy to read and understand. 

Layout Inspiration

The front cover of this VIBE magazine is what has inspired my front cover and the layout of it. The reason for this is that I like how T.I. is looking into the camera and he is the main object on the front cover. I also like the way the captions of big things that are within the magazine are situated around his head. The only thing I would change on this front cover is the tittle wouldn't fully cover the top of the image up I would have it more to one side. 

I like the layout of this contents page and this is what mostly inspired me when creating mine, as they have done here all the information is down one side and pictures of the bands/artists that are featured on the opposite side. I would take it from a different angle in that I would like the pictures to be smaller and I wouldn't have a review section but apart from that i would keep it along the same lines with a few things changes to my liking when I set them out.

This double page spread is in many ways what I would like mine to look like, this is because I like the layout of the picture on one side and the text on the opposite. This is how I would like mine to be layed out the only difference is that i would not have my title so out there like they have done in this one mine will still be eye catching but wont be as big and bold.

Colours

When deciding what colours to use in my magazine it is difficult because I am not focusing on one genre. If I was focusing on one genre then I could look at that genre, the colours associated with that genre and use them in my magazine. I am focusing on more than one genre and so there is lots of different colours thats could feature in my magazine. I decided it might be a good idea to do a survey on what colours would suit a mixed genre magazine the best. I asked 15 people the same question with five answers to choose from and below are the results of the test. 


What colours would suit a mixed music genre magazine the best ?

Black and white - 9 people said this would be the best

Red and black - 3 people voted for this

A mix of blues and pinks - 0 people voted for this

Yellow and orange - 2 people voted for this

Pinks and purples- 1 person voted for this

Looking at the results it is clear that the majority thought that black and white would be the best colours to use in my magazine. After I asked them nine people why they chose black and white and all there answers were the same. They said that they chose it because black and white is neutral and I wouldn't be favoring one genre over the rest, where as if I picked another set of colours it might come across that the magazine is more concentrated one one genre than the rest. I liked the idea of this and so I think it would be best to stick with it.