EVALUATION OF MY FINAL PRODUCTS FOR MY MUSIC MAGAZINE

FRONT COVER – FINAL PRODUCT

I chose this image as I thought the shotwas effective for the audience to seeeverything from how she’s dressed to herpose. She’s looking right at you drawingyou in saying ‘buy me’ the way she’sdressed is normal to relate to the readerthat you can dress like this too

Title ‘MELODY’ ties in with music and isbold to stand out and contrast with thewhite background. Also, I have hiddenpart of the letters which is a typicalconvention of real products

‘free’ poster special, clearly offers a benefitto the reader. They are getting more fortheir money. I highlighted the word ‘free’as it’s a buzzword to draw the audience in.Also, good promotion for the artist bygiving out free posters

Main story I placed over the image so you canfamiliarise the image with the main heading. Thename of the star ‘Kamilia’ is parallel to the title asboth are in the same colour size and font thisshows equal importance. And suggests this popstar is what makes the magazine sell. I used‘world exclusive’ to excite readers and let readsomething never seen before. Also I used ‘moveover Rhianna’ as she is a huge pop star at themoment therefore readers will be curious to readabout the next big thing.

Barcode conventionallyplaced out of the waywith the price clearlystated

‘UK’s best and biggest selling magazine’ placedabove the title to show it’s importance. It’s astatement to be proud of and will make readersexcited to read

I used an email address so readers have access toinformation once they have finished reading. Thisis a typical convention for a music magazine

I used a round symbol with the British flag as thearticle reads ‘50 best British albums’ this iseffective and stands out ‘voted by you’ makes itpersonal to the reader

I think my overall layout is very eye-catching bold and colourful and willmake readers want to read through theexciting headings and catchypresentation

‘plus’ followed with big artists willentice readers as they are reading amagazine with so many big artistthat will interest them to read about

My use of colours fit together well. I chose a plainbackground to make my image appear more of a statement.Black bold fonts are used to attract attention with the colourred to add some colour. The contrast is effective

‘100’ and ‘shocking’ will entice readers andoffer them more for their money

My use of overlapping is a convention oftypical magazine covers I chose toincorporate

CONTENTS PAGE – FINAL PRODUCT

The colour scheme follows thehouse colour from the frontcover to show the flow of themagazine

Bold title parallel to the headings on thefront cover. Clearly informing readersthey’re on the contents page

Contents page is there to informwhich I feel I did greatly

I have broken the text up in to four sections soaudience’s aren’t confused and can go straight tothe heading that they are interested in

I have added a brief description under eacharticle to inform readers what’s to come. Ihave also labelled them clearly with theirpage numbers

The simplicity is effective and asit’s only a contents page this isall audiences want

Although it’s very text orientated, it’s laidout in an effective non-boring way. Also,the image stand out more

The image on the top left relatesto the cover image so you canfamiliarise with what yourlooking at. I have overlapped thecover stories on to this image asthe reader can go straight to thatpage that they purposely broughtthe magazine for. Also this is atypical convention for somemusic magazines. The imagegives readers a taster of what’s tocome in the interview by using adifferent image of the pop star.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD –FINAL PRODUCT

The house colours again flow through to the doublepage spread

The two images previouslyseen on the front cover andcontents page are there tofamiliarise readers but alsoan unseen image to excitethe reader

The title is a quote saidby Kamilia which issignificant so the readerwill want to read furtheron and find out why sheis saying this . Theboldness and fontcontrast with thebackground

The white background is agreat way to make the textstand out its simple buteffective

The second quote mirrors thefirst quote and is there toentice readers

I have used the large ‘I’to start the article whichis a typical conventionused in music magazinesand makes it lookprofessional

I have used an interviewquestion and answer toattract my target audienceas this is the kind of articlethey would most beattracted to read

The layout is very professionallooking and as it’s mostly textorientated it suggest the reader ismostly interested in what she has tosay about being the next big thing.They want to know the details ratherthan seeing her for her appearance.