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.