Magazine DesignEvaluation

Initial ResearchFor research I first of all created a questionnaire that I then handed out to my target audience, I did this so that I would get a better idea of what they would like and want from a magazine to ensure that mine would be successful. This was my questionnaire:

I looked at some magazines that shared the same genre and target audience as the one I planned to create, this helped me gain more ideas as to what I wanted and what style I wanted to follow in. I looked at front covers, contents pages and double page spreads of music magazines as that is what I would be making I decided that my main magazine influences are Kerrang and NME so I mainly looked at these two and made 2 PowerPoint's one just for front covers and one for contents pages and double page spreads, where I analysed them and discussed what I liked about them and what I would use and wouldn’t.

Product Research

Main influences for each page.

Logo Design

I looked at a few font websites but couldn’t find any I liked, however I found a font that was just on word that I liked so I decided to use this. My magazines name is REBELLION so as I went for something quite simple I decided to add an image that would be used as a letter so I put a guitar in the place the “I” would be.I am quite happy with my logo and think it suits the genre of my magazine well.

Image EditingOriginal Image Edited Image

These are the images that I have edited for my magazine, the first one is the photo that I have used for my front cover and the other two are on my double page spread feature. I edited each picture the same.I started each image by cropping them down and then I changed the brightness and contrast and then I added the auto contrast effect and the hue/saturation and the curves. I wanted all my images to have to same kind of effect so they all look bright so the colours stand out more as my target audience is young adults-teenagers I thought this would help my magazine stand out to them more.

Original Image Edited Image These are the images that I have edited for my magazine, I carried on using the same editing effects that I had with the others for these two, starting each image by cropping them down and then changing the brightness and contrast and then adding the auto contrast effect and the hue/saturation and the curves. I was doing the same thing each time I edited an image because I want all my images to have the same style throughout my magazine.

Originally this image had a bit too much background in it that I didn’t want and this was the case with most of the images so I started off by cropping it. Then I went on the adjustments menu and changed the brightness and contrast with all the images I made the brightness levels higher than he contrast to make it brighter and after that I just added the auto contrast effect to it to equalise it all.

Then I changed the hue/saturation to add a little bit of colour to it and I changed the lightness as well and then the curves I used this as I wanted the background to be more whiter as there was a bit of grey bits and darker bits in it then I wanted the picture to be a bit more brighter.

Magazine Cover I created my front cover before I had any of the images as I left getting my images till quite late so I had some complications when putting the image I had chosen for my background on because of some of colours I had chosen for my text and I had to change things around from where I had put them before because they interfered with the image a bit because of where I had placed them originally.

My colour theme for my magazine was black and red so all my text was this colour except the title of the bands name as I wanted that to stand out more because it was the main feature. The image I used also matched my colour scheme with a white background then he black and red and blue of my models clothes.

Contents PageI wanted more text on my contents page rather than lots of pictures as when I did my questionnaire that’s what my target audience said they preferred. However I did want to use some images as I didn’t want it to be too plain so I decided to follow the style of one of Kerrang magazines contents pages and have a main image at the top then little ones, they had quite a lot of little ones which is something I didn’t like so I decided to just have 2.

Double Page Spread For my double page spread I wanted to have one large that would take up the whole of one page and then text on the other page with a couple of little images so I did this and added 3 images in the middle next to the text and the large image so they was in the middle.Then when I was looking at other music magazines for inspirations I looked at this:

And when I looked at this image I like the big red L in the background under the text so I thought I would do it in mine with a C for the name of the band that feature on my double page spread.

Peer Group FeedbackTo get my feedback I created a survey. I wrote the questions I wanted to ask and then I sent them to people via email and then I put the cover, contents page and double page spread on a blog as I thought it would be clearer for them if I did it this way. Then I got my results.

Peer Group Feedback

I have looked at my feedback and overall I would say it is quite good feedback however there are a few things that I would change if I was to do it again like I needed to make my target audience more clear and improve my images. I could have done with taking more images as I didn’t take that many.

Strengths and WeaknessesOverall I think that the things I did best in this project were the PowerPoint's I did where I was analysing magazine covers, contents pages and double page spreads, doing this research text helped me get ideas for my magazine as I found covers, contents pages and double page spreads that I liked and decided to use as my inspirations. I am quite happy with how my final product turned out and it all went as I had planned it to out of them all I like my double page spread the best. I think if I was to do this project again then I would have to manage my time better as time management was definitely a weakness of mine as I didn’t get my images ill the very last minute which caused me to be behind for a while as there was nothing I could do without the images but when I did finally get them I completed all of the editing and adding them to the pages in the same day. I also thought that the interview I wrote for my double page spread was good although a weakness I had at first was that I had no idea what to write and for a lot of the time I was staring at a blank page not knowing what to write but then I started looking online at double page spread articles in music magazines and looked in some magazines and read there double page spread interview then I came up with my own ideas and began writing it.