Audience feedback

This is the feedback I got on my Audience research:

Question 1:

• The target audience was young black people aged 16- 25
• Genre  of music was hip and R&B
• For those that live in London
Question 2:

• Models are mostly black or Asian
• Hip Hop is portrayed influential to people
• I’ve only used a male genre
Question 3:

• Like editors picture
• Dps
• Masthead
• Colour scheme
Question 4:

• More cover lines
• Get rid of the quote of the day
• Add a different background to the contents page to make it more vibrant
Question 5:

• Use the eye-dropper tool on Photo shop

Audience Feedback: Question 5

5. Which technical skills can be improved? ( Photoshop and InDesign)

Audience Feedback: Question 4

4. What could be improved?

Audience Feedback: Question 3

 3. What particular part if the magazine do you like?

Audience Feedback: Question 2

2. How are particular groups presented?

- Is there any stereotypes in this magazine or is it different to the stereotypes?

- Have I used a particular Ethnic group in my magazine?

- Have I used a particular Gender in my magazine? (Male/Female)

- How are young people portrayed in my magazine?

- Is Hip Hop portrayed in a particular way?

Audience feedback : Question 1

1. Who are the audience?

Please specify:

- AGE

- GENDER

- SOCIAL CLASS (Working class, Middle class, High class)

-LIFESTYLE

- HOBBIES

- MUSICAL GENRE

Completed Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I did today

Here I have changed my whole layout so I can add more pictures to my contents page

What I did today

I made some progress today as I added some pictures to my contents page

Photos from the photoshoot

Here are some photo's I took for my photoshoot.

Call Sheet

Monique James

Photographer

Photo Shoot assignment / Call sheet

 

 

Date: Thursday 15^th November 2012                            Timeline:

 

Time: 13:50pm – 14:25pm                                                              13:40pm: Meet in media block and

                                                                                                      Check everyone is in the

Assignment: Photo Shoot assignment                                                          right attire

 

Location: College Studio                                                              13:50pm: Shoot Time

 

Photographer:                                                              14:25pm: Shoot finished

Monique James

 

MUA:

 

 

Hair Stylist:                                                                   Concept: need to have a cool sense of

                                                                                      style it needs to be simple such as jeans

                                                                                      and a t-shirt but with some edge.

Wardrobe Stylist:                                                        needs to be calm and collected not much

                                                                                                                   going on in the back ground.

Model 1: Abubakar

Model 2: Funke

Model 3: Connor

 

 

Special Instructions:

 

Bring a statement piece of clothing.

What I did today...

What I did today was start planing my contents page in InDesign , I started to do my contents page first so I know exactly what coverlines I want to put on my front cover and to avoid confusion when I start to do my front cover.

Music Magazine :Magazine Draft and finializing house styles

House Style magazine on Prezi

Magazine Newsstand Task

What I did...

Today I experimented with Dafont to find suitable mastheads that were suitable magazine's. I also made a start on my powerpoint on Prezi.

School Magazine : Audience feedback and evaluation

Audience feedback and evaluation

My magazine was a college magazine aimed for students in Leyton Sixth form .It was called ‘LSC Weekly’ and it had features such as what events will be happening in school, the jobs of the month and how to study efficiently. I did these features as I was thinking of my target audience and what will attract them especially as they are college students.

What went well?

What I feel went well for the school magazine was taking the images for the front cover and the contents page, I feel this went well as I had to think of positioning and lighting and what would attract the reader’s attention. Another thing that I thought went well was the software’s (Photoshop and InDesign) I feel as I used InDesign for my previous article work I developed the skills that I have learnt from those past experiences and for Photoshop I thought it went well even though it was my first time I learned new skills. From the audience feedback that I gathered it shows that most people thought I did well with the image as it was eye catching and colourful. They also commented on the positioning of my image as it was a medium close up shot, the image was of a student who is holding books and has on her student I.D card I used this image as it show a picture of a “star” student. The feedback I also got was that I used vibrant colours (Red, Blue) in my cover lines and my masthead which was “How to study efficiently”, “Jobs of the month”, “Crosswords” and my masthead was called “LSC WEEKLY”, making it more interesting to read.  

 

What do I need to improve on?

The feedback I got from my blog was that I need to improve on my main cover line which was “How to study efficiently” as it’s not clear as to what is the main feature and what that magazine will be about. Also I got feedback saying that the cover lines were too simple and that they were not enticing the audience to read that particular magazine.

 

 

Three key points for development when producing the main task

·         Learn more skills with the software (Photoshop, InDesign) so I can do something different to other magazines

·         Research music magazines of that particular genre so I can see what is a gap in the market and see I could feel that gap

·         Make my magazine interesting and to focus on my target audience by adding more cover lines and also by making the cover lines bigger.

School Magazine : Front Cover and Contents Page

 This is the school magazine that I made. I used Photoshop for my front cover and for my contents page I used InDesign . This was My preliminary task .

Pictures for school magazine

 

 

 

 

These are the pictures im going to use for my school magazine

 

 

 

This picture is for My front cover as I want to show a hardworking student who is into their books .

I took this picture outside by a tree because it give the picture a sort of freeness and can intice readers.

 

This picture is for my contents page, I used this picture because it shows a layout of the school and how open it is.

This picture is for my contents page also, I chose this picture because it also gives a guideline for new students and visitors what the reception looks like.

           This picture is also for my contents page, It is to show the layout and the signs of LSC.

Case Study

Case Study 1

This magazine cover shows the main feature of the magazine by the image and the cover line. The image that is on the front cover is of a rap artist called ‘Chipmunk’. The skyline sells the magazine and makes the target audience clear as it say “…for the young and ambitious”. The image shot is medium shot capturing his face and his upper body. They used really bright lighting the connotation for this is that it makes the magazine seem brighter as it brings out the colour in chipmunks face and what he is wearing. It also focuses on the artist bringing readers in and wanting them to find out more about the artist. There are no props in this image although the make-up that is used for the artists has made his facial feature more poignant than if no make-up was used. The pose the artist has done show him as innocent, it also shows that he can be stressed as he has one hand to his head. One of the captions reflects this ‘from London to Atlanta… Next top world domination’ it could link with the stress that he is going through moving from one city to another it also makes links to the issue called “make it happen issue” it shows that chipmunk is a determined to make his dreams happen. The masthead is in bold and in blue which contrasts with the white background bringing out the mast head the connotations of that is so that it entices readers and makes them want to read more. The use of teasers and cover line are good such as the size which are big enough to see it clearly. The language is to the specific target audience which I think would be young people as the words that are used are short and are not complex. The font that was used is clear so that the consumers can understand what has been written. The teasers are in bold again trying to engage the audience and the cover line in smaller font making the reader stop to read the cover lines so they then read the entire magazine. The image is framed with white to give an effect that the main image is meant to be seen as important as it’s been framed and not across the whole page.

 

The denotation is that there are 3 images shown on the contents page and then an advert on the left hand side also different colours such as pink, white, blue, red and black and finally there are some captions and textboxes. The 3 images seem to go in order of importance for example the main feature being chipmunk is at the top the connotation for this is so that he is important and also the readers can clearly see what page the main feature is on and also it doesn’t become frustrating looking through every page. The use of textboxes with captions have been used the connotation for this is so that the reader will have a brief summary of what that particular article is about. The headers are bold ad colourful the connotation behind that is that it stands out for the readers and makes them too read on. The page layout of the contents page is that the images are big and are on the left hand side whereas the writing is on the right hand side and is in smaller font. The connotation behind that is because of audience they are trying to target which is teenagers and with the images being bigger and the text being smaller is makes the magazine seem appropriate for that age group and not come across as too boring. The language that is used for this magazine are simple and to the point, it also there is not much use of intellectual words the reason behind that is so the target audience don’t get uninterested, the use of simple words also makes is quicker to read and keeps the readers wanting to read more and it also reminds us that the target audience is for young people.

 

 

 

The image shows the artist standing up holding on to his hat with two hands and looking directly at the camera the connotation behind that can come across as cocky but also cute as he is looking directly into the camera , capturing the reader. It also link to the quote when he says “This time I feel free to say anything I like , going for it, man!” it links as he is leaning forward looking like he is ready to grab something or run towards something and it also shows that he is confident by saying he feels free to say anything he wants. The t-shirt he is wearing labelled ‘London boy’ matches up to the personality of cocky as this is what the stereotype of ‘’London boys ‘are. The image also overlaps the text on the left hand side, the connotation behind this is because it makes a link that the image and the text are meant to be linked together. The magazine quotes the artist saying “This time I feel free to say anything I like. Going for it, man! ” this quote links to the image portraying confidence  The text is in columns this is so it gives the page structure this is so it’s not jumbled up on the page and is clear to read. The skyline links to the article as it says ‘feature’ and chipmunk is the feature of the magazine. The website is situated at the bottom right hand corner so it reminds readers where they can go to get more information about the magazine this is called branding. The language again is kept simple so the reader is kept interested, the text is spoken in 1^st person the connotation behind this is so you can feel like you’re in the interviewer’s shoes and that you interviewing chipmunk. This makes the readers want to read more to see more of the article. The colours used are red; black and white which are unisex colours as the target audience is just young people it shows that it is for all different types of young people.







 

Case Study

Case study

Plan for school magazine

Plan

Cover

Image – Someone that is standing next to a tree with books showing that they are a hardworking student

Features – Main feature: how to study efficiently, Competition, News, what’s on that month, Jobs to apply to, Crosswords

Masthead – LSC Monthly

Colour – blue,white and yellow

 

Contents Page

Image – 2 images of the editor and the main feature which would be a picture the street

Editor letter

1 to 15 pages and name what is on each page         

Production Schedule

Wk. 1	Mon 24th September	Tues 25th September	Weds 26th September	Thurs 27th September	Fri 28th September	Sat 29th September	Sun 30th September
			Finish production schedule deadline
Wk. 2	Mon 1st October	Tues 2nd October	Weds 3rd October	Thurs 4th October	Fri 5th October	Sat 6th October	Sun 7th October
	Research / Case studies deadline
Wk. 3	Mon 8th October	Tues 9th October	Weds 10th October	Thurs 11th October	Fri 12th October	Sat 13th October	Sun 14th October
	Preliminary Task: LSC Magazine
Wk. 4	Mon 15th October	Tues 16th October	Weds 17th October	Thurs 18th October	Fri 19th October	Sat 20th October	Sun 21st October
	Audience feedback and evaluation – preliminary task / college magazine				Magazine newsstand task
Wk. 5	Mon 22nd October	Tues 23rd October	Weds 24th October	Thurs 25th October	Fri 26th October	Sat 27th October	Sun 28th October
	Pitch my proposal ,house style , draft and layouts   Start taking photographs to use in my magazine	Start taking photographs to use in my magazine   Need to plan and book any shoots using a photography call sheet and booking forms	Start taking photographs to use in my magazine	Start taking photographs to use in my magazine	Proposals, house styles need to be uploaded on my blog
Wk. 6	Mon 29th October	Tues 30th October	Weds 31st October	Thurs 1st November	Fri 2nd November	Sat 3rd November	Sun 4th November
	Evaluation and the audience feedback from the pitch from focus group/survey monkey needs to be uploaded
Wk. 7	Mon 5th November	Tues 6th November	Weds 7th November	Thurs 8th November	Fri 9th November	Sat 10th November	Sun 11st November
				Show a rough draft of the 3 pages to the class and record their feedback on my work in progress on my blog	All photography needs to be complete
Wk. 8	Mon 12th November	Tues 13th November	Weds 14th November	Thurs 15th November	Fri 16th November	Sat 17th November	Sun 18th November
					Front Cover, Contents Page and DPS need to be completed and uploaded on my website
Wk. 9	Mon 19th November	Tues 20th November	Weds 21st November	Thurs 22nd November	Fri 23rd November	Sat 24th Nov	Sun 25th Nov
					Audience comments and feedback on my music magazine needs to be completed
Wk. 10	Mon 26th November	Tues 27th November	Weds 28th November	Thurs 29th November	Fri 30th November	Sat 1st December	Sun 2nd December
Wk.11	Mon 3th December	Tues 4th December	Weds 5th December	Thurs 6th December	Fri 7th December	Sat 8th December	Sun 9th December
Wk. 12	Mon 10th December	Tues 11th December	Weds 12th December	Thurs 13th December	Fri 14th December	Sat 15th December	Sun 16th December
					Evaluation questions need to be answered and uploaded
Wk. 13	Mon 17th December	Tues 18th December	Weds 19th December	Thurs 20th December	Fri 21st December	Sat 22nd December	Sun 23rd December