House styles

In this task i decided to do some research into the house style that tends to be on the magazine cover that attracts my target audience. I chose to use the magazine billboard as they have the same target audience as me and therefore my magazine should look similar to theres, which can be done through using a similar house style. Mainly billboard use a house style that is quite simple, few cover lines and a bold main image. This task has helped me because i know what house style my magazine cover should have and in turn what magazine cover house style my target audience most like as bill board are a very well established, successful company and so if i use some of there aspects it should be successful.

audience feedback for colour scheme and fonts

In this task I asked my target audience what colour scheme they think my magazine should be and why but also the fonts that they they think should be on my magazine cover and why. I then filmed them saying what they thought and edited this in an app called 'iMovie'. this task will hep me because i have found out what colours stand out to them and what fonts they most like n magazines so i will be able to appeal to them to the best of my ability and generate sales within my target audience.

Fonts and colours scheme

In this task I was asked to come up with potential colour schemes that my magazine front cover could have, potential fonts that it could have and potential house styles that it could have. I came up with a few different ideas for each aspect and put them into a prezzi so I can then present them all to my target audience and get there feedback on what they like most, to then incorporate into my final product.This task has helped me because I have come up with potential fonts that can be used on my front cover as well as colour schemes and it is now also all in one place, ready for my target audience to look through and choose what part of each aspect they like most and would most attract and appeal to them, so I can use there comments in the real thing to appeal to my target audience as much as possible.     

Potential article feedback

In this task, i took the mind map that i had previously created about potential articles that could be used on my double page spread and went to people from my target audience and asked what ones they would like most to read in a magazine on a double page spread. I then filmed there responses and edited them together using the programme, 'iMovie'. This task has helped me because i know what interests my target audience the most and what they would most like to read on a double page spread so i can now incorporate this into my final product to appeal to my target audience to the best of my ability as i am getting what i am including directly from them.
In conclusion, i have found out that the most liked article ideas were interviews, music festivals and music industry, although many were mentioned whilst interviewing my target audience such as concert scenes, top music charts and album reviews. I will therefore take everything my target audience has said into consideration when choosing my articles to write on my double page spread, this will ensure my magazine will appeal to my target audience because they have chosen what the articles are on.

Potential article ideas

In this task I will be coming up with potential articles that I could use in my double page spread that i will later go on to create as my final product.

 I have produced a time-lapse of my different ideas in a mind map so i can now go and ask my target audience for there feedback on what they like, which i will then incorporate in my final product. This task has helped me to decide the articles which i could put in my double page spread and put all these ideas together, in one place, ready to interview my target audience on what they like best.nxnxn

Contents and Double page spread potential pictures

In this task i was asked to take pictures for both my double page spread and contents page. I then put all the pictures that i had taken into a web 2.0 tool to make a collage which i can now as my audience for feedback on to see what ones they think i should use to appeal to them as much as i can. This task has helped me because i now have pictures for my double page spread and contents page but they are also all placed together and so are now ready to be shown to my target audience to see what ones they like the best which will ensure i am appealing to them to the best of my ability.

Front cover images

Double page spread images 

Audience feedback for potential pictures for magazine parts

Potential photos for front cover

In this task I was asked to take pictures that could potentially be used on the front cover of my magazine. I took many pictures using a professional camera, to ensure my pictures were of a high quality and then uploaded them onto my computer and put them in to a web 2.0 tool that generated a collage out of the pictures I had previously taken. I now have to ask my target audience which photos they like best to go on my cover and why so i can use these on my cover to appeal to them to the best of my ability. This task has helped me because I now have the pictures I need for my front cover but they are also all in one place, ready to ask my target audience what ones they like best for the front cover.

audience feedback on ideas for cover lines

In this task, i created a video which I then edited using a programme called 'iMovie'. I had come up with many different cover lines in the previous task which i put into a mind map. I then approached people from my target audience with this mind map and asked them what ones they like best to go on my front cover and then filmed them saying this. This task has helped me a lot because i now know what cover lines my target audience like the most to now use on my front cover of my final product.
In conclusion, from this task i have found out what cover lines are liked most which include the story of so far and get your own virtual way in to the concert you missed, these two were the favourite but the other ones that were mentioned were also the pop sensations of 2016, get your own virtual way in to the concert you missed, the new hits that can't be found anywhere else, exclusive! access to the biggest stars of the year. I will therefore use these on my front cover as it is what my target audience like the most and i want my magazine to attract them and then appeal to them as much as it possibly can.

cover line ideas

In this task i came up with some different cover lines that could potentially feature on the front cover of my music magazine, i put them all into a mind map so they would be easy to see and easily looked at. This will help me be able to see which one will work better later on as they are all stored in one place and so are ready to show my target audience so they can decide what ones they like best as i need my magazine to attract and appeal to them as they are the ones my front cover will have to appeal to and cover lines are a good way to get people wanting to read your magazine. 

Audience feedback for treatment

In this task I was asked to gather audience feedback for my treatment, i made a survey on a programme called survey monkey and shared the link with people that are part of my target audience and also asked people of my target audience to manually fill in my survey. i found out what appeals to my target audience most and therefore will attract them in to my magazine in all the different aspects of the treatment. The treatment included potential mastheads, slogans, tone/themes, price and sub genres. Therefore, in the previous task I came up with this and in this task i got feebback through my survey.

Create your own user feedback survey
 In conclusion, from doing this task I now know what i should use on my front cover, the different parts I will be using are:

• Masthead-Composition
• Sub-genre-Dance-pop
• Tone/theme-Informal but relevant to age/target audience and gossip about celebrities
• Slogan- 'we don't make pop, we make it better'
• Price- £2-£3

I have come to these conclusions as this was most popular in my survey throughout my target audience and so this is how i will attract and then appeal to my target audience to the best of my ability.

Treatment

In this task I was asked to create a treatment for my music magazine, I had to come up with lots of different ideas that my magazine could potentially include and store them somewhere for my target audience to then be able to go through and choose what they like best to include in my magazine so it attracts and appeals to my target audience as much as it can.

Treatment for music magazine from Olivia Lever

In this task, I used a web 2.0 tool that i managed to find myself called 'mindomo', where I created many different mind maps of all the different features of my treatment that had to be considered, this will help me because i have now come up with all the ideas for what will be on my front cover etc and it is all in one place, ready to ask my target audience what they like best ti then include in my magazine.

Preliminary evaluation

In this task, I am evaluating what I produced in my preliminary task. The web 2.0 tool that I used to edit my blog was called filmier and charges you if your video goes past a certain timing which is why it has a watermark over. In conclusion, on the whole I produced some good quality products but I have a lot to work on for my final production which is why I got to learn how to use photoshop now.

Preliminary Task

For this task I was asked to create a magazine cover and a contents page for an education magazine. I chose to aim my magazine at sixth formers and A-level students. I named my magazine School rocks so that it was clear whom my magazine is aimed at and that it had an obvious target audience. I made sure to include various elements on the cover such as: a Masthead, Coverlines, Puff, Skyine and Price as these are all typical conventions within magazines. 

On the contents page I also made sure to include typical conventions such as a title,Page numbers, Images and a Colour scheme etc. 

Overall I found this task helpful as I was able to practice making a magazine cover and contents page.  From this I was able to practice using the various elements of a magazine along with how to produce this on photoshop, it helped me become more confident and secure in my abilities. Hopefully this task will have a lasting effect and help me when I come to create my music magazine, in both how to produce a magazine and skills and abilities that can be used on photoshop both making it look as good as it can on the shortest space of time that it can. 

Summary of textual analysis and what i have learnt

I have completed a summary on the research that I did on the tasks i have done since my last summary. This means everything that i have learnt is summarised so it is all placed somewhere together and can be looked over quickly if desired. 

https://www.canva.com/design/DACD9IdJzjQ/lUqDx65tVW7jfsC6jYqxiA/view?utm_content=DACD9IdJzjQ&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

This task was very useful, because i went over everything that i have previously researched into and learnt about so it is now clear in my head and i got to revisit everything to remind me of everything and also relearn anything i didn't quite understand. For this task i used a web 2.0 tool that i found myself and wasn't said to me, i found it very good, easy to work with and gave a good presentation of the work i produced. However,  i could not find an embed code, so instead i have put a link to get easy access to my work and show evidence of my research.