Production diary

Survey Monkey Music magazine research feedback

After waiting for about a week, thanks to survey monkey its tallied up my results which you can see down be low

In the first question overall 73.68% of people who filled out this questionnaire were female, this gives me an idea that my target audience is will be more feminine then masculine, by knowing this it will  change a few aspects of my final magazine cover, for example on the front cover if I was to include a female model on the front cover I would want to dress them more appropriately, making them look more classy then sexual, furthermore I would avoid thick chunky text style as this is more associated on males magazines. However there will still be a male audience that will be interested in this, so I have to make sure I don’t lean to far into the stereotype of females, by this I mean I should avoid making things too pink, and too ‘cute’ instead I should go will more asexual colours like grey, black, white.

The majority of the people who have answered my survey were aged 16-20 which is 84.21% of my overall results I got back., Because of this I don’t have to restrict myself on age rating for example, if the majority of the people who filled out the survey were under 16 I would have to make sure nothing is too graphic e.g. no nudity violent or inappropriate images furthermore I would have to look into more recent jazz artists, but because the target audience is more mature they’re more likely to know older jazz artists. I could also make those references in the final make of my magazine

The trending answer seems to be people are in school/collage, it would make sense because most of the people that have filled this out were aged 16-20. Because of this I have to keep in mind that people normally in collage/school tent to be more applied to the latest trends, some thing more monden. Because of this I have to make sure what my model for my images are wearing clothes that are considered in fashion now.

This question determines the type of language i will be using through out the magazine, for example the majority of people who answered  this question barely read magazines, and from the last question they are still in school. This would suggest to me that the language i should use should be shorter, less complex words that the typical 16-25 would know. this is very important for my double page spread when i write out the feature.

In this question the majority of people voted for the cheapest option which i am not surprised at all, one.  the most of the people to answered this would be in school/collage making it hard for them to acquire money. This will help me price my magazine appropriately.

The majority of people answered that 

 I’m very pleased with the amount of responses I got, I thought for one of my questions everyone one would want a large photo spread across but in fact they would rather have several images spread around with text by it which was very interesting to see.In the first question it seems like more girls answered this survey then boys

Survey Monkey Music magazine research

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This is my survey for my Music magazine research, I used survey monkey to create it, I found it easy to use but it was frustrating only having 9 questions for free as I wanted to ask a lot more different questions, how every I thought that overall it was a lot more simpler to do then to write it all out on word then calculate the results by using Exel,

Production diary

This week I evaluated and compared two magazines, I have yet to upload it to my blog but I plan to do so very soon, I evaluated the pictures I have not used for the front cover and started to work on my contents page.

For this week I plan to complete my condense page and do more reassure on jazz magazines,  I found out a close friend of mine will be preforming at the o2 as a backup singer, I thought it would be a great idea to do my feature page on the night, I’ll be able to take photos of them whiles there practising for the night, I’ll have to look for a good quality camera.

Pictures that didn’t make it to final cover

Here are some of my pictures I took that did not make it on my front cover,  I’ll explain for each of them why they did not make it in the front cover.

I did not like the camera angle of this picture as it seemed too stretched out, it includes unassay things in the background that make it look messy and unprofessional, the teacher was closing her eyes and smiling making it look like she having a conversation whiles I wanted the teacher to look serious as I knew I wanted to send a good image to the parents reading.

Although this photo looks nice I felt like the people I was taking a picture of looked too stiff and I wanted them to look natural and give a nice smile instead of looking directly at the camera

This photo had too much mess in the background, this could be back for a picture on the front cover as it can give a negative image to the readers that the school is unorganized

I had the same problem with this picture, it had students in the background talking and not doing their work, i wanted to make sure that the three students were the main focus.

This picture was too far away and the model looked little awkward, i wanted to have a picture where she gave a natural smile and looks more relaxed

My school publication front cover

In this slide I have both my draft and my final version side by side; I thought it would be a good way to compare these two like this.

As you can see there are a few differences in the draft, there is no school slogan, the circled image got bigger and I removed one text box near the main image. The reasons for this is that when I making the final one I started to run out of space so I had to make things smaller or just cut things out completely.

I am very happy without it turned out, I have to make sure I keep up the same colour scheme for the contest page as well so they think in together well.

Production diary

This week I managed to finish my school publication front cover along with its evaluation, I’m sadly behind with work as I still need to do my contest  page  and the evaluation with it, I plan to work during my free periods and come back after school to catch up with the work. I did come across a few issues with importing my pictures to the computer system; the pictures I originally took where deleted the next day so I had to take new pictures during the lesson, apart from that inconvenience the work to actually make it went smoothly.

I have learnt that publisher can frame pictures in different styles, so instead of having that generic square box you can make it slightly rounded or completely round, I will keep this in mind for later on  

School publication evaluation

In this evaluation I talk about; font sequence, colour chart for my text and background.

This is my school publication evaluation for my front cover, in this slide I talk about my design choices. I have included all my alternate design choices and the choices I thought were horrible and explained why.