Final Front Cover, Contents Page and Double Page Spread

This is my final front cover, contents page and double page spread. The blank page would be for advertisement as a lot of magazines would use adverts that relate to the type of magazine so the advert would be relating to music.

Evaluation On Coursework

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your media product represent particular social group?

3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?/ 5. How did you attract/address your audience?(include evidence of audience feedback)

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

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the process from it and the full product?

Focus Group

My Focus Group looking at my Music Magazine

I got a few people together to create a focus to get feedback by looking at my music magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread.

Feedback from Front Cover:

• The colours worked well together
• The photograph was nice and the outfit went really well with the background
• There was a lot of cover lines
• It looks fresh and new, very modern
• Like the layout of the cover
• The title masthead in well with the photograph and cover lines
• Its fairly readable but could be made a bit more clearer
• Could've added more text on the cover
• Brighter colours of the text
• looks relaxed and calm
• Could make the font bigger
• Not too bold which is good to which it all works well with everything 

Feedback from Contents Page:

• The background is really good as it relates a lot to music
• A lot of colour
• It's readable
• Easy to find out what's on what page
• Like the use of photos to represent some pages
• Not too cluttered up and full
• Could've used different fonts for different sections maybe
• Used more images and made one of the images bigger
• Like the use of the magazine title of the side of page
• Very eye catching
•  Could make the title of the contents page different to the rest of the text

Feedback from Double Page Spread:

• Very nice
• Suits the front cover
• Like the side bar (Flannel Pannel)
• Like both the photographs
• The title look good as its a white font with a black rectangle behind it
• The colours work well 
• The article is good
• very readable
• Think it looks professional 
• Could've change the font of the quote

Final Draft For Double Page Spread

My final draft for my double page spread.
The changes I have made with my double page spread is making the header stand out more and more readable so what I did was add a black rectangle behind the text so it would stand out from the photograph. I have also changes the text on the flannel so that the text from the title header and the answers that my artist gives. I have also added who took to photograph on the right bottom corner as it is a part of a convention that I forgot to add when I did the first draft.
I think my 2nd draft is a lot more successful than the first one because I mainly made improvements which worked really well as now the conventions of a double page spread are much more professional and they stand out more such as the header and the flannel.

Front Cover Final Draft

I have editited my front cover because of the feedback from my hot desk. Overall, I got positive feedback but a could of improvements so it would a) be suitable/attract my target audience and b) so it looks like a music magazine.
I decided to change the colour of the masthead so it would stand out from the photograph because people from the hot desk though that the masthead was hard to read and it didn't stand out so I made it a lighter colour so it would stand out so the audience will notice it more.
The second thing I changed was to add another cover line because people from the hot desk thought I could fill the page a bit more and also make the cover lines more readable so I made the colours lighter.
I then finally changed the quote from the main header because people from my hot desk said that I could use different fonts so I changed a few of the fonts including the quote.

Screenshots for Front Cover Draft 2

Dcreengrab for Version 2 for Front Cover

In this screen grab it shows that I have took on what people said I should improve on my front cover in hot desking. To improve my front cover, I added another cover line as people said I should add another 1 because they felt like there was not enough filling the page up. They said to use different fonts so I used a different font on the cover lines and the pull quote from the main cover line. I also changed the colour of the masthead and also a few cover lines because people said they were quite hard to read so I changed them to make them more noticeable and readable.

Responses for the Contents Page and Front Cover

Hot desking for contents page and front cover

To get these responses, my class decided to put our Front Cover and Contents Page on our screens. We also opened a Word document and had headings which are Strengths, Weaknesses and Improvements. We then moved around the class to look at other peoples work and make comments on them.
The responses I got were very good and I was happy with them. With the improvements I am going to take that and put it into my work by changing the colour of the masthead so it is more readable, experiment with the fonts and add another cover line as it was mentioned in the improvement area