Contents page evaluation

 

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My contents page is similar in the way it reperesnts the social group to my front cover. I have used the same model to feature on my contents page, so it still creates the same effect. I took the photo in a more natural positon, this makes it look like she is singing into the paint, which represents both music and art students.

 

How did you attract/address your audience?

From the research I carried out i found out that most readers like to see lots of images in a magazine. I decided to add an extra two images to my contents page to attract readers.One of the images will hopefully attract music students inparticular. I kept the layout quite simple as sometimes people are drawn away by lots of writing.

 

 

Front cover evaluation

 

 

 

 

 

The model on my front cover is currently a college student. This represents the particular social group I’m focusing on, which is art and music students. The model which has featured in my magazine fits in my social group because she is studying A level art and plays a lot of music. My mast head also represents the social group because ‘EXPLODE’ means exploding with colour and creativity, such as within art and music.

 

 

How did you attract/address your audience?

When I collected my questionnaire results I found out that colour is the main element that attracts people to a magazine. In the process of producing my magazine I tried to add as much colour to the front cover as possible, but this was hard because my image wasn’t that colourful. So instead I made my masthead bold, in a large block font.

 

 

In design!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front cover

 

 

 

Finished Front Cover!

 

 

 

Finished Contents Page!

 

 

 

 

 

 I have many ideas for my college magazine, all in which are based around creative arts, such as music and art.

I researched paint photo shoots, as one of my ideas is to cover my model in paint. All the images I found are of head shots, but I'm planning on getting a medium close up, with the model posing in a certain way. I really like the expressions on each of the models faces because they are dramatic and are just like what you would find on the front of a magazine.

I couldn't find any creative arts magazines that inspired me, as most of them didn't have models on the front cover. So I'm hoping to create something that's different to most creative magazines.

 

I'm starting off with composing different  positions for my model. After I'm happy with a position I will then spray paint over my model.

 

 

 

Audience Profile

 

Questionnaire and results

 

Defintion of a Magazine

What is a Magazine?

A magazine containes articles and illustrations that  cover a particular subject. Publishers, writers and other people in the industry work together to create magazines that will appeal to all readers in a certain genre. Magazines are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content.  The magazine that you read usually defines who you are and what your passionate about, such as your hobbies.

 

 

Rolling Stones is a music magazine

 

 



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