Evaluation

Evaluation

Evaluation of front cover

My magazine uses similar conventions to other magazines in ways such as a main image being the centre of attention. My image is a medium shot that attracts all the attention when my target audience pick up the magazine. The image is larger than it would be unlike other professional magazine. I had done this to keep my magazine simplistic without other things that would drag the attention away from the image. The image is of two students who are facing away from each other and looking in the distant. This image asserts my theme for the issue. The theme of the magazine is about problems that the students could be facing in there lives. I decided to place my master-head at the side of the magazine as you can see. I had done this to create a sense of uniqueness to my magazine, as you hardly see other magazine that place there title on the side. This could also be another aspect that would attract my audience as it is not stereotypically like other magazine. The font is big and bold, suggesting that the magazine will be able to help the student’s problems. The bar code is inserted at the top left hand side of the magazine, instead of placing it at the bottom, which again goes against the norms of a normal magazine.

As you can see I have darken one of the students in the image. I had done this as this is the student who is facing the problems. I don’t have a lot of writing on my magazine like a “gossip” magazine. The information gets straight to the point and shows the target audience what will be featuring inside of the magazine. I have also inserted boxes that have been ticked encouraging students who are having a difficult time that other people face it and to try to help them to open up. There are not a lot of magazine that dedicate a whole issue on teenage problems so this could attract my target audience.

Distribution of magazine

Distributing my magazine will be easy as it would be handed out to school/college all over the country. However, I might have difficulty in distributing the magazine as it is a niche magazine and only target certain audiences.

Front Cover of Magazine (Draft)

Front Page of Magazine Cover

Contents Page (Draft)

Draft of my magazine contents page. Both pictures taken by myself. (Medium shot x2)

5 Medium Shots For My Magazine (Draft)

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Picture4 (chosen picture for magazine cover)

Picture 5

Evidence of Preliminary Task





Media Prelininary Task









This is evidence that i have completed my draft preliminary task. This helped me to think about my magazine and how it would attract my target audience.

Magazine Analysis.

Title of the magazine:

The magazine is called ‘Closer’ as it indicates to the audience that they will become ‘closer’ to the celebrity gossip and find out more than other gossip magazine.

There are several significant words such as ‘New baby on the way’ which is in bold black writing outlined by the orange background. This stands out and indicates that this is the main story in the magazine. Beside this it shows the celebrity that there are talking about ‘Victoria Beckham’. There are other stories that are in smaller print on the front cover.

Target audience for the magazine:

The time of audience that it is attracting is working class women. This is shown by there interests in celebrity gossip and there need to know about the celebrities.

The reader interacts with the magazine by the strong colourful fonts enticing the target audience.

Title of magazine:

The magazine is called ‘Game’ a simple name to state what the magazine is about. The audience already know what this magazine is going to be about and what its context will be about. There are pictures from a game, which seems to be the main feature. This could be a new game that has come out or what the audience favour. The significant words used are the game that is being represented ‘Twelve sky 2’.

Target audience for the magazine:

This magazine is targeting people who are interested in technology and games. You can tell this by the way the magazine is being represented. You can see that there are no feminine colours on this magazine implying that it is aimed at males. As males are stereotyped to play and be interested in games.



Questionnaire Analysis

1)    What gender are you?

I asked this questions as the answers from the responders may affect the questionnaire. For example, a girl answering the question may pick pink as their favourite colour. To make my questionnaire unbiased I asked an even amount of boys and girls (10 girls and 10 boys) aged 16-18 year olds.

2)    What attracts you to a magazine firstly?

The girls:    

I asked this question, as I wanted to find out from my target audience what attracts them to a magazine. You can see by the pie chart, that there is an even amount. Bright colours, fonts and a variety of different pictures attract the girls. This then shows me what I area I will have to focus on if I was aiming my magazine to a female target audience.

The Boys:

The same question is asked for males so I don’t receive biased answers. The boys and girls are similar; you can see that they are also attracted to bright colours and pictures. However, one student had selected ‘other’, showing that they would of preferred something else. As the student picked ‘other’ I asked him to state what it was. He was attracted to texts on the magazine.

3)    What would you want the context of the magazine to be about? (Maximum 4 choices)

As I couldn’t put this question in a pie chart, as it was too difficult so I had to write it out in another way.  I allowed the respondents to pick more than one answer to their choice, as I wanted a detail answers to make my magazine as successful as it can be. 

Girls:

Sports and technology (either to do with the school/college)

None of the females picked this option showing that it is not a popular pick, and that it would not be included in a female magazine.

Music:

R & B = 8 students

Indie Rock = 3 students                     

Rock & Roll = 2 students

Classical = 0 students

You can see that most of the students preferred R&B. 

This shows me what kind of music I could put in my magazine to attract my target audience.

Horoscope = 6 students              

 This is a popular pick from the girls, which could also be included in my magazine

   

Fashion tips and fashion = 9 students

This is a really popular pick from the females. This shows me that fashion tips and fashion would defiantly be in a female magazine.

Reviews of:

Music = 2 students

Books = 2 students

Theatre = 2 students

Other = 1 student

Games = 1 student

Not everyone chose this option, but you can see that music, books and theatre are popular picks.

4)    What colours would you want your school/college magazine to be?

Please state why?

This was an open question unlike my other closed questions. This was an open question, as I wanted to know why they chose their colours. A lot of the students (girls and boys) just wanted bright colours that would catch their eyes.

Evaluation of Questionnaire

To begin with we had to research what a teenage college magazine would need to include. We did this as a class and found out what our main interests were, instead of carrying on and researching on the Internet. I thought I might as well ask the 6^th form students in my school what they would want in there magazine. After I found out what would need to be included in my magazine to attract my target audience.

    Later on, I completed my questionnaire at home. Creating the questionnaire was quite difficult and I struggled with what kind of questions I would need to put in. I didn’t want to ask questions that would not be relevant to what I needed to find out. The next day (following my plan) I asked 20 students to complete my questionnaire. I found that when I asked the females to complete the questionnaire there were no problems. However, when I asked a few males they didn’t take my questionnaire as serious. To have prevented this I could of given out sweets after they had answered the questionnaire. This would of given them more motivation to completing it.

    Once the students had completed the questionnaires, I then took them home and did my analysis and evaluation. 

Abigails Party Review

Abigails party was a television programme written in 1977 by Mike Leigh Originating as a Hampstead Theatre production and first broadcast as part of Play for Today (BBC, 1970-84), 'Abigail's Party' (tx. 1/11/1977) is Mike Leigh's best-known television work, and perhaps the most celebrated TV play of the 1970s.

When teenager Abigail throws a party for her friends, her next-door neighbour, Beverly Moss, does likewise for the adults - inviting Abigail's mum, Sue, and neighbours Tony and Angela. In spite of the title of Mike Leigh's play, all the action takes place in Beverly's living room - and Abigail is never seen. And good luck to her, because Beverly is the hostess from hell.

Lacking any social skills Beverly stumbles through a series of cringe-making social blunders, begins flirting with Tony, starts sniping at her over-stressed husband, Laurence, does little to instill confidence in an already anxious Sue, and gets steadily sozzled whilst listening to, and inflicting on everyone else, Demis Roussos on the gramophone. Just when the evening looks as though it couldn't get any worse, her sniping at Laurence turns into a full-blown argument until he finally decides that the only way to extract himself from this awful situation is to drop dead with a heart attack.

Coursework Skills Audit

Analysis of key skills

Through answering each question, I have found out my strengths and weakness. I know that I am able to use the internet really well. I am able to use Microsoft and PowerPoint excellent as well; I am a confident person so I will be able to speak out about my ideas and thoughts. 

The areas that i need to improve in design packages, in house design and being able to manipulate pictures and merge them with the text.