Evaluation Question 4; Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

To answer Question 4; i chose to interview various age ranges to grasp their own opinion on the magazine and therefore produce an overall conclusuion of who liked the magazine the most accordring to their age.

My determined original target age range i wanted was to be 17-25 rather than targeting the older generation as most folk magazines seem to do.

The Questions i asked to gather information were;

1. Do you like my magazine?

2. Does the artist on the front cover appeal to you?

3. What would you critisize about my magazine?

4. Would you say £2 is a suitable price?

5. Would you buy this magazine and reccomend it to friends?

6. What age range would you say the magazine is targeted at?

7. What is Your Age?

Evaluation Question 3; What Kind Of Media Institution Might Distribute Your media Product And Why?

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Evaluation Question 2; How Does Your Media Product Represent Particlar Social Groups?

This is the glamour magazine front cover i took inspiration from to creat my folk magazine more younger and trrendy. i thought if i included relevant issues used it could seem appealing to a more advance audience on a shop shelf and the vibrant colours catch your eye. I took the price circle to add a splash of the colour green on my front cover. Also the look is interesting and challenging with the tilt of the head yet i wanted to keep my magazine slightly more simplistic like the music and 'froots'.

When researching into who the target audience was for the magazine 'froots' it showed that the older generation preffereed folk music. 40+. This i did not want to do for my magazine as my target audience would be  16-30years. Many many would be more into reading folk magazines therefore i wanted to appeal to the female sex too. i would do this by including aspects of young womens magazines by applying a certain layout to my front cover and the look of which the model is projecting to the reader. A challenging, competitive look supporting female dominance and power.

Instead of a gossip content within the magazine i wanted to make it more factual including '100 questions with mumford and sons' and 'Easter starter songs on guitar'.

Evaluation Question 1; In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop Or Challenge Forms And conventions Of Real Media Products?

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I decided for my title to use a spider diagram to create many words spiraling from each creating lots of words i could choose from. I asked many of my peer groups to state the first word that came into their head when i said a certain word such as 'folk' or 'acoustic'. I finally came to the desicion to you use the Title 'Adapt' as it seemed most suited to my magazine as it sounds young and modern, yet is unommon and could relate to my model in a way of her religious background and having to 'adapt' to the culture around her.

Double page spread Final

Feedback;

To Change;  Misspelling of words;

Prejudice

Discrimination

Commencing

Guitar

Hop farm

Look up; Anna Calri

Contents Page Final

Planning my contents page;

1. How many pages are on exisiting magazines; on the froots magazine i researched there were 68pages

2. What categories do magazines use to group their articles under;

3. How many columns do contents pages have? are they all the same width? - there is usually 2 or 3 collumns and are 9 times out of 10 the same size however this can change.

4. How often does an image or text spread across more than one collumn? regulary this is used by magazines to create a more informal feel to the magazine.

5. In what way are page numbers done? - in some magazine contents oages i researched a new convention i noticed becoming more popular is when the page numbers are beside an image of what is advertised on the page.

6. Where is the cover page repeated- when i looked in cosmopoliton fashion magazine it was far into the magazine. about just over half way. i think this was done to encourage the reader to read other articles not just the one on the cover. 

7. How many images are used? How many changes in size? - the most ive seen is about 5 differnt images and the 

8. How many changes in font size are there? 

9. What are the three main colours on the page and what are they used for? are any other colours used more than once?

10. how often are boaders used? are they at the edge of collumns or in between? thick or narrow? around text boxes or images? 

11. how much white space is there? are all the text items evenly spaced out?

12. how much layering has been done?

13. is the language used serious, jokey, does it say what readers will get or does it give hints?

14. can you see the same style of font as on the cover? now look at the sell lines on the cover and see where they are in contents page. 

What is usually on a magazine contents;

• Features
• Reviews
• News
• Realeases
• Regulars
• my own bit.               ->   Even though this all meant to be on your contents i chose to not use any and simply include them. this desicion was made as i wanted my magazine to have a bit of freedom and its own power seeing as its trying to portray a fresh new style and image.

This was my first idea for a contents page.

i chose not to use this way as it became to complicated and had no

house style or conventions of regular contents pages therefore i

scraped this idea. I thought it would be good at first as the main reason the magazine was prouced was that it is centred round music (guitar) therefore the image is representitve.

Front Cover Final