LO4: Evaluation

My magazine  informed and promoted events and artists in Sheffield, it was centered around music and pop culture. The magazine is comprised of 3 pages. The first page is my front cover, The main cover image is a photo taken in a local venue of a riot band and the colour scheme for the front cover will be colour that has been sampled from within the photo, this gives it a cohesive look. The cover lines will talked about where to find a vent and the bands name on the front cover. I  used a serif to contrast the Moden style of the photo.   

The second page will be the contents page using the same photo as the front cover but washed out so the information is easier to read, I used a serif sans font to make sure that the information I easy to read and the letters are clear but for the heading I used a Newspaper clipping style of font to refiled to messy and raw style of music the band created . The colour scheme followed on from the front cover, The models were  wearing plaid trouser larger shirt and platform boot  

The Double page spread used the same colour scheme and front as the rest of the magazine to ensure that the magazine has an easy flow. The double page included close ups of the band on the front cover and an article about how they got into music and their opinions on the Sheffield music scene The headlines reads 「Harlot give us the low down on Sheffield music」 I used less formal language as it is aimed at a younger audience and an informal topic.  

My reader profile: 

Alex is a 19 year old student who is living in Sheffield, they are studying media at Hallem uni. They have a passion for film and music, they are extremely sociable person who enjoy spending all their wages on gigs and concert tickets. Alex is always up to date with the latest trends but also likes to stand out from the crowd.  

I will be responsible for the editing, photography, and graphic design for the whole magazine. I will use photoshop to edit photos and to put my magazines together.  

I will use a MacBook air and a DSLR camera to create my magazine, This will allows me to create a professional magazine to an industry standard.  

I will be using a band as my models, the photo will be my cover image and and they will be individual photos on the double page spread. 

I have chosen to use a band for this as they are a local band to Sheffield and are not widely known.  

I would use social media posts to promote my magazine and create synergy, I would choose to use social media because my magazine is aimed at a younger audience so are more likely to see the post whereas a radio advert would be less affective because a fewer number of younger people listen to the radio.  

The circulation of my magazine is 600 and this is to keep costs down as the magazine is independent and because as it is a first issue it is got to have people that follow the magazine or know about it. The readership is 1200 and I hope the people that get the magazine will pass it onto at least one other like-minded person.  

The measurements of my magazine are 252mm x 305mm for single page, 498mm x 305mm for a double page spread 208mmx 127mm for ½ page. This is the same for advertising. I have chose these measurements because they are like Rolling stone magazines which is like the magazine I wanted to create.  

To market and distradute my magazine,  there is posters in appropriate venues, e.g. bars, cafes, music venues and music shops. These outlets are also be where you can pick up a copy of the magazine.

Over the course of making my magazine eliminates of what I preposed changed one example of this would be that back ground of my contents page. I originally planned for it to be the same as the front cover. Once I have created the page to look like is it was to dark and the information was difficult to read. to completed this I change my bad ground image to an image of the outside of the venues that the band played at. Once I had make this change I was much happier with out come of the out come of  the page the change also allow my to change the colour scheme of the page that I believe suits it more. 

When I wrote the plan I planned on the colour theme to be much different to how ti turned out. I wanted the house colour of my magazine but once I started to make the magazine I release that they didn't fit in with the images that I had chosen. So I changed the colours to more plain and related colours that fit in with that magazines genre and the music that is discussed in  the articles. Know the page look much more cohesive. 

I am over all very have the final product that I have created. I think that my contents page does the best job of connoting the genre and style through then colours, style and theme.