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FRONT COVER

1. What do you associate with the name (masthead) of the magazine?

A: I associate the name of the magazine to a music magazine

2. What does the main image on the front cover

make you think of?

A: Musical winter fun in a magazine

3. Which of the cover stories do you think is

most interesting?

A: New Christmas hit from forgotten dreams

4. Is the front cover appealing?

A: Yes

Give a reason for your answer:

It is appealing due to its bold titles and main image

5. Which of the following age groups do you think the

magazine appeals to?

· 12-15 year olds

· 16-18 year olds _/

· 19-24 year olds _/

· 25-35 year olds

· 36+

6. Which gender do you think the magazine is targeting?

· Male

· Female

· Male and female _/

7. Which genre of music do you associate with the cover

of the magazine?

· Pop

· Rock _/

· Dance

· Rap

· Indie

· Other ……………………………(please state)

CONTENTS PAGE

Is the layout of the contents page clear and easy to use?

A: Yes

9. Is the contents page attractive to look at?

A: Yes

10. Does the contents page resemble a page from a music magazine?

A: Yes

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

11. Is the content of the article of interest to you?

Please give a reason.

A: Yes, because I like to know the background story of how the came together

12. Does the headline want you want to read this article?

A: Yes

13. Does the main picture represent the content of the

article successfully?

A: Yes

14. How would you rate the layout of the article? Please

pick a number.

Bad<12345>good

A: 4

15. Would you buy the magazine for the cover price?

A: Yes

16. How would you rate the overall quality of the front cover, contents page and double page spread? Please pick a number:

Bad<12345>

A: 4

22. My magazine represents the targeted audience of young people in the punk scene by the use of various conventions and themes that are within my magazine. An example is the colours I have chosen and the images. The colours that I have used are mostly black and red. I have chosen these colours because I feel it represents the audience that I have targeted as both males and females who like punk music like to wear black clothing, but not to much of it as that is why I added the colour red as well because they are not all about wearing everything black they do have other colour choices. I think it was important that I used the colour red as if I had just used the colour black maybe being would have thought my target audience was gothic or maybe emo. After I added the colour red it now looks more like a punk/rock magazine which is what my aim was.

3. The media institutions that might distribute my product would be frontline. Frontline is a distributor whose job it is to get the magazines to the shops. They are the biggest magazine distributor in the

and get the magazines sent to 55,000 shops. If Bauer were going to be my publisher they would be distributed by frontline and in this case I would be having the biggest magazine distributor in the

putting my magazine on the market.

How frontline work

Publisher – Distributor – Wholesaler – Retailer - Consumer

4. Target Audience

· Age 17-25, at the stage of their life where music becomes a big part of their life, they can start relating to the lyrics

· 80% male, 20% female

· They enjoy going to gigs, concerts and most importantly festivals

· Use other media products, especially the internet

· Usually are able to play at lest one musical item e.g. bass, drums or guitar.

· Like to stand out from the crowd

· Usually are confident, friendly and funny

5. My main attraction to my audience was use of colours on my masthead and my main image on the front of the magazine. My masthead was made of the colours red and black which when used together attract the human eye. Another good thing is that the black and red stand out from each other so the audience is attracted by two different colours. The font I used for my masthead was also important as it was very bold and large and would have been one of the first things the reader would have seen. Another attraction was without doubt my main image. The reasons for this is due to how I achieved the look of the image and how I got it to stand out from the rest of the other information on the page and draw the reader in to one thing.

6. The technologies that I learned about and used are the following:

Adobe-in-design- This is the programme I used to create the layout and main bulk of my front cover, article and contents page. I used different tools to change the size and colour of my writing on my front cover. I also used layer which allowed me to put pictures over each other.
Blogger- This is the website I used to upload all of work onto, once I had finished it. It is a useful website as all my work is safe on there and whilst the work is on there I can still edit it if I feel it isn’t good enough.
Internet- I used the internet to do research about my chosen genre at looked at other magazine online. I looked at popular magazines such as Q to try and get some ideas from it.
Picnik- This is a website I used to edit some of my photos. It allowed me to crop, change the colour of image, and brighten your image and many more. This was a useful site because it helped me achieve the potential out of my main image.
School camera- I used the school camera which is 10 mega pixels for all of my pictures which appear in my magazine, where were taken mostly in the school grounds or at my house.

7. Looking back at my school magazine I feel I have learned a lot about being specific with the audience I am targeting. My music magazine targets male and females from the ages 17 to 25 who listen to punk and who enjoy going to music gigs and festivals, whereas my school magazine wasn’t really aimed at anyone in particular, aside the sixth formers but it still wasn’t very specific as it contained stories about sporting success, teachers secrets and reviews of new buildings. Overall I have learnt that different magazines are aimed at different audiences, whilst some require a specific target audience