Evaluation of Feedback

I have found out many things during the feedback focus group.
This is what I have concluded from what people told me was good and what I still should improve on.

1. I have made the primary target audience 16-25 year olds and the secondary target audience 25-28 year olds, so overall my target audiences are 18-28 year olds.
2. I am going to keep the font a sans-serif (Century Gothic in particular)
3. I will think about and look at the magazines that have inspired me and see how the front cover, double page spread and contents page are done and I am going to do similar things with my magazine features to make it look professional.
4. I am going to keep the magazine's genre electronic & rock music and I am also going to include upcoming stars that I have thought and made up.
5. I will think about different platforms and other ways of distributing my magazine but as it isn't part of the actual features (front cover, dps, contents page), I am not going to spend too much time on thinking about them.
6. I decided that my magazine will be available worldwide, but mostly based in the UK, however I will include artists who are from outside of the UK, making my magazine have a nice variety of artists which makes my magazine enjoyable and appealing.
7. I will use tigercolour.com and other websites to find the exact colours that I want to use for my magazine.

Feedback from focus group

Feedback that I have received:

• primary audience age should be higher as 14-18 year olds don't read (most of them)
• good choice of font - simple, sans-serifs
• think about magazines that inspired me more (Kerrang! Rocksound, Mixmag)
• good that genre is a mixture of electronic & rock music - makes it its unique selling point
• think about different platforms: print, electronic (downloadable), social media etc...
• is it only in the UK?
• use tigercolour.com to find colours I want to use for my colour scheme

My Pitch Presentation

Last week, I have done my pitch presentation to the class and here is the video of it.

Masthead & Front Cover plan - finished

Today, I have finished the front cover plan for my music magazine. Even though there are not a lot of cover lines on it, I still consider it finished as I didn't want to spend too much time on this plan. This is roughly how I want the front cover to look like, with one person on it, perhaps wearing some kind of props and posing in a way that catches people's attention. For the plan, I used a photo I found on Google of Zedd (well-known electronica artist). I have put the star cover line and 2 other cover lines on the cover, as well as a puff about a competition where the readers could win concert tickets to their favourite rock artist's concert. I have also put on the website URL and the slogan of the magazine around the masthead. I think the plan turned out really good as I decided what I want the masthead to look like and also the layout and colours of the front cover I want to use. However, the star cover line is now skewed towards the right side of the page as I also moved the cover star's image to that direction because I think it looks better that way.

Masthead & Front Cover plan - work in progress

In today's lesson, I have been experimenting with the style of the masthead and I also tried making a plan of the front cover for my magazine. From the mastheads, I chose the bottom one as I really liked how it looked and I have asked a few other people about their opinions and most said they liked the bottom one the best. I have started making the front cover plan which is just a rough mock-up of what I want my front cover to look like when I take the photos and put the front cover together. I experimented with the kind of colours I wanted to put on the front cover as I wanted them to go with the cover photo. In conclusion, I think I have made good progress and I like how my front cover mock-up looks so far. However, I still need to finish planning.

The House Style of My Magazine

I am going to use the font 'Century Gothic' and possibly use all styles of it (regular, bold, italic & bold italic). Also, I am going to use red, black and grey for the magazine but I might also consider using blue, white and black as the 3 colour colour scheme. I considered these three colours because I feel like red, black and grey would remind my audience more of the rock genre and I want it to symbolise both genres, not just one. But for now, I am considering using this font and these colours.

Magazine Proposal Presentation

This is my PowerPoint slideshow of my magazine proposal presentation.

Magazine Proposal Presentation from Karolina K