POST EVALUATION MEDIA PRODUCTS

This is my post evaluation front cover. There is a few changes I have made since my previous front cover. Instead of my pug saying win 4 tickets, I have changes it to ''Win Leeds tickets" The reason for this change is because 'win 4 tickets' wasn't very clear and could have mislead the readers. The fact that it now states that they can win Leeds tickets, which is an indie-rock festival, they would be more inclined to buy the magazine since my target audience largely attend festivals. Also, I changes to the font of the text within the plug to the same font that is used in the banner at the bottom of the page. This allows my magazine to have more of a house style, and not only that, the style looks much better and easily read compared the other font which was thinner and looked crammed together, especially the word 'tickets'.
Before, the pull quote along with the anchorage text was on a slant. Originally, I thought this would look different and good. However, with asking some of my target audience, they stated they would prefer it if the quote was straight, as it did not look very professional. Therefore, the quote is now straight. I used the ruler tool on fireworks to ensure it was exactly straight. This now aligns with the conventions of a typical magazine, and has a better design.
The banner at the top of my page font has changed. I originally used a serif font, to show it was classical as the line states it is the leading indie rock magazine in the UK. However, I decided to change the font to a sans serif font. This now matches the conventions of and indie rock magazine, and it also will appeal to my target audience more as it looks more fun and relaxed, to fit with the laid back teenage stereotype.

This is the updated contents page. There is only one more change that I made from my previous. This was I edited the mini summaries. Before they were all very spaced out, however now they do not look as spaced out, allowing the magazine to look more established and professional.




This is the final double page spread for my media products. I have enlarged the amount of space I have used for the article. The blue boxes are wider and longer. I have done this to fully utilize the amount of space I had to work with. This was good as it made it look more professional. The first letter of the article that is enlarged 'C' has been changed from black to blue. This is something I saw a lot through my research, such as the Q magazine making their first letter big and red. I have done this too add more colour to my magazine and for it to meet more of the typical conventions. The font for the article looks more classic and fine, this makes it an easier read and more professional.
The final word of the article is the writer twitter username. I have made this a bit larger than the rest of the article to enhance the fact that NOISE is an up to date magazine that is in trend with the social media. This is something my readers would want from a magazine, and this is what the larger font is setting into the audiences mind.
The text next to the barcode is in colour instead of black which is was previously, this again draws the attention to it, since it is an interesting, exclusive video, and also, adds bursts of colour again to the double page spread.
I have changed the pull quote on the right of the magazine. Previously, it was the same quote which appeared on the front cover, but now it is a new quote, which is another factor which will make the audience want to read the magazine.

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Front Cover

I realised that my front cover was a bit dull and neutral with the colours. So I decided to inject some new colour into it. Since my research shown that red was a popular colours, but it didn't work well as my main colour, I decided to just have the word 'ALL' in red. It puts emphasis onto the word which is good and also makes my magazine already look more colourful.

Also, my anchorage text wasn't very conventional before, so I looked at other rock front covers and realised that the pull quote was often on the top of the artists name, in a handwritten looking font. The artists name was the biggest text and stretched from one side of the magazine to the other, and a little summary of the article was placed below in a small font.

What else I changed was I moved my bar code higher up the page and this fits nicely there. This was done to allow me to stretch my banner across the whole page at the bottom, which the bar code previously disallowed me do.

Question 7

Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt from the progression of it to the full product?

View the slide show on the Scribd website by clicking here.
I have used Scribd to present question 7. This is because I found the most suitable way to present this answer was through a series of slides in a presentation. I made this initally on Microsoft Powerpoint and I then uploaded to Scribd, which enabled the powerpoint to be viewed online through a proffessional site and display.

Question 7

I have used a presentation technology to show my progression from my prelimlimary task.


http://slides.com/chelseaaston/question-7/live

Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

For question 6 I have used the website Prezi. This is a creative and fun style of presentation. It allows me to add pictures and text and move around the page in an attractive way. Prezi is an example of technologies that I have learnt about from the progress of constructing the media product.
Other examples are fireworks, emaze, flickr and fotor.

Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?


FRONT COVER CONTENTS PAGE DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Example profile of the audience for my media product:


Name: Thomas White
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Interests: Listening to vinyls, shopping in record shops, going to festivals and skateboarding
Socio-economic group: D
Would you buy Noise magazine?: Yeah, it looks interesting and I like a lot of the bands on their, since they are of the Indie-rock genre, which is my favourite genre.

Name: James Lyons
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Interests: Playing football, going to festivals, listening to music and going to little concerts with my friends
Socio-economic group:D
Would you buy Noise magazine?: Yes I would because it is the genre I like, and it appeals to my age well, through the age or the artists and the use of social media.

Name:Katrina Mcintosh
Age:18
Gender: Female
Interests: Going to festivals, listening to music and watching films.
Socio-economic group: E
Would you buy Noise magazine?: Yes I would, it has the bands that I like on their and the image on the front cover draws me in to buy it. I would also like to win the festival competition so I would be sure to buy the magazine. As well, it is prices at £2.99, which is affordable for me as it isn't too expensive.

Name: Manpreet Mehat
Age:18
Gender: Male
Interests: Going to indie-rock clubs with my friends, reading, staying up to date with social media.
Socio-economic group: E
Would you buy Noise magazine?: I would because it is similar to other types of magazine I read. It includes the bands that I love such as the Arctic Monkeys and I can see twitter accounts posted which makes me feel it is a new, up to date magazine.

Name:James Parkes
Age:19
Gender: Male
Interests: Listening to music, going to concerts and hanging out with friends
Socio-economic group: E
Would you buy Noise magazine?: Noise magazine looks interesting and features a lot of bands that I have an interest in. I would be glad to buy this magazine, because it is the best for the genre of music I am interested in.

Name: Jay Frith
Age:20
Gender:Male
Interests: Going to bars, going to gigs with girlfriend, playing sport and listening to music.
Socio-economic group: E
Would you buy Noise magazine?: Yes, it looks interesting and includes a lot of information I would like to read about such as Bon Iver's biggest secret! It is priced a reasonable price as well, which I can afford despite not having much disposable income.

Question 3

What kind of media institute would distribute your media product and why?

I have made a recording of me answering this question. I have used Soundcloud to present this answer because I think this is a clear way of giving information in a quick and easy format. I have attached below the script, which I wrote on my iPhone with the notes application. It is of what I have said to go with the sound clip, if it is needed to look back on for references.

Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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Front cover and contents page draft

Feedback of my double page spread

To get feedback for my double page spread, I came up with three questions which I asked my members of my target audience. Those questions were What do you think about my double page spread? What is your favourite part of the page? How could I improve my double page spread? I video recorded the responces and posted them to YouTube. Below I have embedded the videos.

Updated

Here is the final design of my media product. My front cover, contents Page and double page spread.

Further Updated Front Cover

The edits that I have made to this front cover from my previous is I have added a drop shadow to my cover lines. This has helped sharpen the text, making it more prominent and professional.

Another addition I have made is adding a tagline to the top of my magazine. "THE UK'S LEADING INDIE ROCK MUSIC MAGAZINE". This will attract my audience as they are interested in indie rock music, and this will now be known as the best option out of the indie rock magazines due to the positive language so they will be more inclined to buy this magazine over any other.

I have added a pug. For this I had to watch a YouTube video on how to get circle to follow a circular path. It states that with the magazine, the consumer can download a free iTunes song. This will certainly intrigue the audience to buy the magazine as they will want to have this song on their iTunes list.

Feedback

Here my teacher, Mrs Mitchell has given me feedback on how I could further improve my front  cover, contents page and my double page spread.
She has included my current level which is level 3+ and explained some suggest changes. I will put all of these suggest changes into action to ensure my production is at it's best possible standard. She has also said what has went well with my magazine such as completed to a good standard, meeting deadlines, good quality etc, and because of this has been seen as something that is well, I will continue to stick to these levels.
What my teacher thinks I could do to make my magazine even better is to make sure my genre is clear, the way I will do this is to look through my already researched documents and carry out some more research and use what I have found into my magazine creation. I will make a post on my findings and show how I included it into my magazine.
She also stated that I need to consider interactivity and awareness of audience. To make sure I do this, I will include some websites and social media links as that makes my magazine more interactive and also means I am recognizing my target audience since the age 15-24 uses social media the most.
The final 'even better if' is written communication is clear and accurate, to improve this I will ensure to proof read my work and make sure everything makes sense and is written correctly.

Updated Contents Page

Updated Front Cover Page

Double Page Spread

Here is my double page spread.

Article for Double Page Spread

CONOR JARVIS, BIG THIS YEAR.

Jarvis is living the musicians true dream, being to signed to one of the biggest labels of the decade. He is 2015's new up and coming artist and NOISE got the chance to ask him all the questions you are all dying to hear the answer to. 

NOISE: Hello Conor, firstly congratulations on signing to your new record label, Virgin records. How did you manage to win them over?
CONOR: Hello. Well, it was many thanks to Luke Pritchard, the lead singer of the Kooks. I was writing some songs with him and he introduced me, and it all just lifted from there. I played him some of my songs and he asked me to sing on the spot and he loved it. I can't thank him enough.
NOISE: Wow, well done. And Luke Pritchard? How did you manage to start writing with him?
CONOR: I have always been a massive fan of The Kooks and I have been interested in performing and writing music for as long as I can remember and I just put them together and messaged the manager and luckily he agreed to meet me and we have just got on great from there. I class him as a mate now.
NOISE: Do you see any collaborations with yourself and Luke or even the Kooks?
CONOR: Let's just say it has been brought up quite often and if you are interested in that type of collaboration, be sure to check out the new album due to come out next July.
NOISE: Oh yes, ‘happy days’. That's the name of your new album. What is the release date for your new album?
CONOR: It’s available to pre-order right now, but it is up for general sale the 30^th March. So be sure to get it.
NOISE: Oh how exciting, I am sure many will be buying it. Other than Luke, is there anybody else who has put work into this album?
CONOR: Well not to give away too much, but you will be see a few recognizable names featured in the album.
NOISE: Interesting. We have a few questions that have be sent in from NOISE readers, The first being, 'How did you find touring with Jake Bugg around the UK?’
CONOR: Jake Bugg is one of my biggest inspirations, and being his support act was truly one of the best moments of my entire life. He is to thank for a lot of my new fans, since this tour I have received so much recognition and Bugg is truly a great person.
NOISE: We have interviewed Bugg before on NOISE, he is such a genuine guy.  A question from @georgewale14 from Twitter is ‘How long did it take you to write all the songs for ‘Happy Days’?’
CONOR: Well, there is songs on their that I was writing in lessons at school, but I started to take it seriously about a year and half a go as thats when I was leaving school and had a lot more spare to and really had to take this seriously if I wanted to pursue a career in it, so take that answer how you would like to.
NOISE: Wow, that is real passion. Jennifer from Facebook asks “What made you think of the name ‘Happy Days'?
CONOR: Well, it just is down to the fact that my days are happy. I have always been happy when I am writing, listening or performing. Anything at all to do with music makes me happy. So that is where the name came from since I am now in a music career, my days are even happier. Also, the songs on this album are all joyful songs, so it links  with the type of music on the album.g 
NOISE: That sounds very pleasant.

Research into article writing

For my double page spread, I will have an article on this page. Because of this, I have done some research into article writting. The type of article I am writing will be a question and answer interview style with a new, up and coming artists.

Here are the articles I have looked at for inspiration:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/raekwon-talks-scope-of-cuban-linx-doc-reveals-crowdfunding-perks-20150309

This article isn't set out in the way I like but has gave me an insight of what sort of question to ask and the type of language that is used. In this  article, their is a video inserted about the article. I have taken this as inspiration for a link in my magazine which will include a bar code, which can be scanned by smart phones, to an exclusive video about Conor Jarvis.


http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201502/sam-smith-new-rat-pack

This article I have found is in the style I would like. A question and answer style. It has given me inspiration of the layout and also has given me ideas of questions such as things to do with why they started to make music.

http://www.qthemusic.com/9649/qa-jane-weaver-q-at-the-great-escape-2015/

This is another article which is in the layout. Also at the end of the article, the interviewer has left their twitter username. I will do this for my magazine as it will be more adaptable to my young target audience.

Results for new masthead

Here is the survey results for the question I asked to help me decide which magazine masthead to use. I had designed 3 mastheads, all called NOISE. However, they all use different fonts found on the website dafont.
The winning vote was 'KG Second Chances'. This received 7 votes which was 70% the votes. That is a considerably high amount of votes. In comparison, Appleberry and Copy Paste did not receive many votes with 2 voting for Appleberry and only 1 single person voting for Copy Paste. This shows how the masthead using the font 'KG Second Chances' is the preferred by my target audience I will therefore use that now for my magazine.

New masthead

From designing my first magazine front cover draft, I have realsied that I need to create a new masthead. This is because currently, my masthead doesn't fit well on the page and looks forced and not neat. Also, from my feedback of comments on the blogpost, the target audience stated they didn;t like the style of the masthead, although they did like the name of it. I will continue to use the same name, 'NOISE', as this is something I know that my target audience like, but I will change the style.

To help me decided, I have created a survey on SurveyMonkey.Com and this will be sent to several candidates of my target audience. When I receive enough responses, I will analysis my results and finally choose a new masthead for magazine.
 To overcome the problem I previously had, I tested out all of the mastheads on my magazine draft already so that I know they all fit well and look good. I have aimed for my mastheads to look more fun and youthful and that is something I want to carry out throughout my magazine as it is aimed at quite a young demographic of ages 16-25.
 Here are the current mock ups of my possible mastheads:

1) KG Second Chances


2) Appleberry

3) Copy Paste

Here is the survey I created:

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Target Audience Feedback

Here are some comments that my target audience have left explaining their opinions on my first front cover draft. They have said what they think is good on the magazine and what I should do to improve it.
From this, I can use it to identify how to make my magazine more fit to my target audience.
Firstly, all the comments do not seem to like the masthead. This shows how there is a decision needed to change the masthead. I have read comments and I need a masthead that fills the top of the magazine and one which looks more professional. I will use a survey monkey to help decide which masthead to use.
Something that people like about my magazine is the style of the image, however they say it needs to be better quality photo so I will retake my images with a better camera, but in the same positions.
They like the anchorage text so I will keep it generally the same.

Analysis of a double page spread

This post shows how I have analysed two double page spreads of my genre. This allowed to me to research into typical convention of a rock magazine and will help me to create a double page spread which meets their wants. I have used the website thing link for the beady eye cover and used power point to analysis the bitten by the bugg cover.
This analysis has made me decided I want a headline that uses capital letters, an introduction to the article that is separated to the main article, a pull quote which has a different colour background. And a image that takes up majority of a page or a full page.

Front Cover Draft

FOR TARGET AUDIENCE PURPOSE, PLEASE COULD YOU COMMENT ON THIS PHOTO WHAT YOU THINK IS GOOD AN WHAT YOU THINK I SHOULD DO TO IMPROVE.

Layouts of a Double Page Spread

Double Page Spread Mood Board

Here is a moodboard I have created for research into double page spreads. It included images of differernt types of double page spreads from magazines of similar genre.
I particularly like the bottom two. I like the look of the image filling up an entire page and the article being on the other page. This seems a similar feature throughout the magazines I have seen. I like how on the Jake Bugg page (bottom right), the colour of the writing changes as it goes onto the image. On the bottom left image, I like how the pull quote is massive and uses a variety of font sizes.

Questionnaire

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