Evaluation Questions 6 and 7

Before:






















After:

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 4

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

I was already familiar with photoshop before constructing this product, however, I only knew how to use the software to edit the images. Whilst I got used to using indesign, I found that I could only use it comfortably to plan the composition of the magazine pages. I used photoshop to both edit the images, and to actually create the product. I have definitely learnt as lot more about photoshop and my skills are now not only limited to using one or two tools. 

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Questions 1 and 2

 

Music Magazine Double Page Interview Final Product

This is the final completed version of my double page spread interview for my music magazine.

Music Magazine Front Cover Final Product

This is the final product of the front cover of my music magazine.

Music Magazine Contents Page Final Product

This is the final version of the contents page for my music magazine.

Music Magazine Edited Images

I edited many different images for my music magazine, but here are a few of my favorites.

Music magazine: Photo Plans

For the double page interview I have decided to "Interview" a band, as they are more common than solo artists in the world of pop punk. I have asked three of my friends (Mia, Chloé and Nia) to act as this band. they would also feature as the main image on the front cover of the magazine, and also be on the contents page.

We have arranged to take the pictures on thursday afternoon, in the woods. I will bring a guitar to be a prop, and they will all wear skinny jeans, leather jackets and a t-shirt of their shirt, to show variety within the band. To make an interesting topic for the actual interview they will be wearing fake transfer spiderman tattoos to act as real ones. the make up will also be varied within the band. i want to take pictures of them just playing around, having "humorous" conversations. 

I will also take pictures of my friend Steph on friday evening in the scout hall and outside, on the common. She will be wearing mostly black and heavy make up. This will add some contrast to the band in the woods. She will act as a solo act, and be inside and out. One thing I can do in the scout hall is stand on the stage and take some pictures from a high vantage point.

I will also be taking pictures of my brother against the brick wall of an alleyway. He will be holding his electric guitar. This will create a more dark and moody effect. He will be wearing a dark t-shirt and jeans. This will take place after-school on Monday. 

Scamps and Flatplans

Today in the lesson I created scamps for my music magazine. I created one for each the cover, contents page, and double page interview. we were reminded how to create the scamps and how to work in design. I sketched simple ideas of how I would take the pictures for the magazine and worked out where they would feature. I did the same with the text and cover lines etc.



Front Cover

Contents page

Double Page Interview

I then went onto InDesign and created flat-plan blocks for each of the pages. because some of the frame boxes overlapped, it was hard to differentiate which frame box was which, so I filled them all with different colours.




Front cover






















Contents Page























Double Page Interview


 

Music magazine: Double Page Interview Annotations

Music magazine: Front Cover Annotations

Audience Research: Mood Board

Music Magazine Survey Analyisis

I gave the survey from my last post to several people, who I knew listened to pop punk and other genres which are connected to it, like Rock and Metal, however, not many people I know do. to get over this obstacle, I decided to use the snowballing method, to distribute my survey. I contacted fan pages of pop punk bands and artists on Instagram, with quite large followings. Two of the pages I contacted got back to me and agreed to post my survey on their page. Overall I received 66 responses to my survey. From there I recorded all of the data onto an excel spreadsheet, making it easier organise the results. I then put the data into pie charts, separating the data into different genders, as I noticed that there were differences between different gender's answers.

Most of the people who answered my survey were female, which gives me a good starting point as to who to aim my magazine at, however, males and bi-gendered people also paid some interest, I chose this question so that I can see how much of the number is what gender, so when it comes to making the decisions I can take into account which gender's views I should pay more attention too, however, I wouldn't abandon the minorities completely. 

Most people who answered the survey were aged 13-18, Mostly over 16 years old, this gives me an idea of how mature the content should be.  I decided to include this question, for the same reason I asked about gender, and also because I don't want to make the magazine too mature for the target group. 

When looking at the age of the females, it hardly differs from the overall age, which makes sense because the females make up the majority of the number. 

The age of males answering the survey is slightly different. there are hardly any males answering the survey who are under the age of 16. there are double the amount of over 19-year-olds than 13-15-year-olds.

 

The Bi-Genders are the ones who differ the most. They have nobody between the ages of 16 and 18 who answered the survey. 6 out of the 8 Bi-genders are 15 or under.

I found that the majority of people wanted the colour combination of yellow, Black and white, shortly followed by  Black blue and red. I included this question so that I can see what colour scheme the target group want. I don't want to make the magazine pink and purple, when the colours probably won't appeal to most readers. i also left the question open to suggestions, rather than getting them to choose between colours, so that they don't feel restricted and still pick a colour scheme that they don't like.

 

The females again, give a very similar result to the overall result.

The males also give a similar result but give no favour to the purple, black and grey combination at all, perhaps it is to do with that fact that purple is seen as a conventionally 'girly' colour. 

The Bi-Gendered people give a three way split between the three combinations, also, like the males, not including the purple, black and grey.

 

Overall, people favoured Interviews with bands and artists over all the other options. Fan art was also a popular option. only 8 out of the 66 people would want more interactive content such as word searches and quizzes and nobody voted for informative articles. I decided to choose this as a question, so I knew what people wanted in their magazine. this will help me when I come to make the contents page for the magazine. 

The females vote, like always was pretty much the same as the overall result.

The male vote was also pretty similar to the overall vote, however, there was a tie between the interviews and fan art.

The Bi-Gender vote was split, and they only voted for either fan art or interviews. 

This question had very close results. With three of the options for the price of the magazine having 16 votes each, but the one option having 18 votes. Despite it being so close, the most votes went to £3.00. I included this question so I knew how much people would be willing to pay for the magazine. 

In the female vote of the price, we find that all 18 votes for £3.00 came from females and that both other gender categories didn't vote for it at all. This could be a conflict and make my decision on how to price the magazine harder, however, the females are the majority of the target audience, so their opinion is the most valuable.

Looking at the males vote, we find out that they voted on both ends of the price spectrum. they only voted for the cheapest option or the most expensive however the most expensive option won the most votes.

The vote of the Bi-genders was a 50/50 split.  4 people voting on the £2.50 option and the other 4 voting on £3.50 here I could interpret that I can meet both Bi-gendered opinions and meet halfway and go with the £3.00 price which was the majority vote overall and in the females result. 

I asked a question asking how often they would like a new issue to come out and most people in the overall result decided upon a monthly issue, this will help me when creating the front cover and how to display the date of the issue, and could help with some wording in the contents page and double page interview. 

The female vote is slightly different. The monthly option is still the majority vote, however. contrary to the overall 'weekly' option to be in second place, the females preferred it to be out every two weeks than one.

The males vote does not stray far from the overall result. 

The Bi-Gendered people only wanted it to be renewed weekly and gave no different opinion.

I asked this question to find out how many people would be interested in receiving a free gift in the magazine. I found that nobody rejected the idea and all people either said 'yes' or 'maybe', the majority saying yes. 

There is little to no difference between the overall result and the female result.

Males only said yes.

The Bi-gendered people have another split vote between Yes and Maybe.

I asked a question in my survey asking what font people preferred out of the four options I gave. the majority voted on 'Verdana' with 'Tahoma' as a close second. I'll use one of the two for the main text of the content in the magazine.

The female Vote was similar to the overall result, with 'Verdana' in a first place, however, instead of 'Tahoma' in second, it was beaten by two votes by 'Courier New'. 

The males showed a dominant opinion for the font 'Tahoma', shortly followed by 'ST Kaiti' They showed little interest in 'Courier New' and no interest in 'Verdana'.

The Bi-genders voted half and half again, split between 'Tahoma' and 'Verdana'.
















Overall, people voted for the title idea 'Amplify' more than the others, they liked 'Revolution' second best, shortly followed by 'Catastrophic'. Nobody voted for 'Blast It'.

The females voted mainly for Amplify, the ratio of data not far different to the overall result.

The male vote is a bit different. Nobody voted for 'Revolution' at all. But the majority was still 'Amplify'.

All the Bi-genders voted for Amplify, showing no interest in the other three options.