I did a questionnaire where 8 of my target audience would tell me what they thought that I put into a average.
For the colour scheme : 7/10
Layout of magazine : 6/10
Language : 4/10
Easiness to read : 9/10
Images : 8/10
Headings : 7/10
Is the magazine eye catching : 7/10
Logo : 8/10
Name of Magazine : 6.5/10
Overall look of Magazine : 7/10
The comments from this questionnaire included: 'I like the difference in the front cover, its simple but eye-catching. I think the image on the front cover really draws you in and pops out of the page. All the colour scheme really compliments the colour and vibe of what the magazine is going for.'
'The double page spread I thought was the best bit about the magazine I thought that the colours went all together. I liked the fact it was an interview with the band and the language was easy to read and I felt, even though this isnt a real magazine, I was actually getting to know the band and was having a conversation with them myself. The only thing I thought was bad was the band name logo that was the bands. I thought the font wasnt that great and didnt really go with the rest of the page.'
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Feedback
I did a questionnaire where 8 of my target audience would tell me what they thought that I put into a average.
For the colour scheme : 7/10
Layout of magazine : 6/10
Language : 4/10
Easiness to read : 9/10
Images : 8/10
Headings : 7/10
Is the magazine eye catching : 7/10
Logo : 8/10
Name of Magazine : 6.5/10
Overall look of Magazine : 7/10
The comments from this questionnaire included: 'I like the difference in the front cover, its simple but eye-catching. I think the image on the front cover really draws you in and pops out of the page. All the colour scheme really compliments the colour and vibe of what the magazine is going for.'
'The double page spread I thought was the best bit about the magazine I thought that the colours went all together. I liked the fact it was an interview with the band and the language was easy to read and I felt, even though this isnt a real magazine, I was actually getting to know the band and was having a conversation with them myself. The only thing I thought was bad was the band name logo that was the bands. I thought the font wasnt that great and didnt really go with the rest of the page.'
For the colour scheme : 7/10
Layout of magazine : 6/10
Language : 4/10
Easiness to read : 9/10
Images : 8/10
Headings : 7/10
Is the magazine eye catching : 7/10
Logo : 8/10
Name of Magazine : 6.5/10
Overall look of Magazine : 7/10
The comments from this questionnaire included: 'I like the difference in the front cover, its simple but eye-catching. I think the image on the front cover really draws you in and pops out of the page. All the colour scheme really compliments the colour and vibe of what the magazine is going for.'
'The double page spread I thought was the best bit about the magazine I thought that the colours went all together. I liked the fact it was an interview with the band and the language was easy to read and I felt, even though this isnt a real magazine, I was actually getting to know the band and was having a conversation with them myself. The only thing I thought was bad was the band name logo that was the bands. I thought the font wasnt that great and didnt really go with the rest of the page.'
Feedback
I did a questionnaire where 8 of my target audience would tell me what they thought that I put into a average.
For the colour scheme : 7/10
Layout of magazine : 6/10
Language : 4/10
Easiness to read : 9/10
Images : 8/10
Headings : 7/10
Is the magazine eye catching : 7/10
Logo : 8/10
Name of Magazine : 6.5/10
Overall look of Magazine : 7/10
The comments from this questionnaire included: 'I like the difference in the front cover, its simple but eye-catching. I think the image on the front cover really draws you in and pops out of the page. All the colour scheme really compliments the colour and vibe of what the magazine is going for.'
'The double page spread I thought was the best bit about the magazine I thought that the colours went all together. I liked the fact it was an interview with the band and the language was easy to read and I felt, even though this isnt a real magazine, I was actually getting to know the band and was having a conversation with them myself. The only thing I thought was bad was the band name logo that was the bands. I thought the font wasnt that great and didnt really go with the rest of the page.'
For the colour scheme : 7/10
Layout of magazine : 6/10
Language : 4/10
Easiness to read : 9/10
Images : 8/10
Headings : 7/10
Is the magazine eye catching : 7/10
Logo : 8/10
Name of Magazine : 6.5/10
Overall look of Magazine : 7/10
The comments from this questionnaire included: 'I like the difference in the front cover, its simple but eye-catching. I think the image on the front cover really draws you in and pops out of the page. All the colour scheme really compliments the colour and vibe of what the magazine is going for.'
'The double page spread I thought was the best bit about the magazine I thought that the colours went all together. I liked the fact it was an interview with the band and the language was easy to read and I felt, even though this isnt a real magazine, I was actually getting to know the band and was having a conversation with them myself. The only thing I thought was bad was the band name logo that was the bands. I thought the font wasnt that great and didnt really go with the rest of the page.'
Evaluation of the Finished Magazine
For my final result I used existing publications from other magazines that were in the same genre and target audience. For example; I used the logo of 'NME' to influence my logo. I thought the colour of the logo, red, I thought really brought out and attracted my target audience but to make it my own I made the colour of the red a bit deeper then the 'NME' logo. Also I liked the fact that the 'NME' logo had a great outline to it and that part of the font i thought was different and eye catching but again to mix it up I thought by making it white it would be to similar to 'NME' and it would actually be copyright so I thought by having it clear and the ph
oto as the background border it made it my own and stop it from being so much like all the other logos on the stands like 'NME'.
I also had influences from 'Q'. For example for the 'Win' on the front cover I didnt want it to be cheesy and take over the page but I wanted it to stand out. I got an idea of the colours being the same as the other puts of the magazine, blue and white and having the circles around it instead of one bond circle block from 'Q' but the difference with 'Q' was I thought just have to many circles and it took over the page to much so I chose to only do two. I thought tied in with the whole fact of the magazine being different and indie.
Another influence from 'Q' magazine was from my front cover image. I got this idea from a 'Kings of Leon' image that was on one of 'Q's' issues
. Picture shown below. I thought image was really different to an image i had ever seen on a magazine in my music genre. I changed it a bit by the fact that there is 5 band members in 'Rob the Rich' and I had the leading man at the front of the line and instead of having a black on white look I thought I would show the band as how they are. For example; it was shot at night because most of the guys in the 'Rob the Rich' are night people because they gig at night all the time and I let them be in their own cloths because it is more relatible to my target indie audience.
Also in my front cover image, like all my images, their is a clear display going on which really hit the hammer on the nail of how in my target audience, new music/indie, all the people in it are white and have a querky style, like wearing plad and hoodies etc which somes up what people who would read my magazine would be like and it is stereotyping my target audience a bit. Also in all my images the people are young, in their early 20's which is giving the idea of the whole because a young rebel and listening to different, 'cool', 'in' music.
The language I use in my magazine is simple, shot, snappy and easy to read. This is because of the my target audiences age is a young age. If the language was to complicated it will draw the readers away and make them not want to go to the effort to read the article and headings.
When I made this magazine I thought about what stores would take my magazine and ones that I would want to take my magazine. I thought about big branch stores like WHSmith which carries every magazine to nature to kids to store like the record store 'ape' in Brighton. I thought that WHSmith would get a good for the general public and the minor band type of my target audience where 'ape' would be where my majority of my target audience would be because WHSmiths is to mainstream so I thought they might not go into there to buy records where they would go to 'ape'. 'Ape' would store my magazine because 'ape' is mainly about new music and my magazine is based around new, 'in' music and the style of how the magazine is displayed like the way the photos have been edited and the language matches in with the same target audience as the stores.
http://www.uniquebrighton.com/htm/t20080207.974647.htm = Ape link
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/ = WHSmiths link
Please go to blog 2 because there is a full explanation on my target audience -http://georginalevey.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-2-target-aundience.html
I have learnt a lot from Indesign and Photoshop, at first I found it a bit tricky at first. I thought Indesign would be simpler then it actually was. I thought that you wouldn't have to go the long way around of doing everything like having to make a place box before actually placing the image on the page, which I found really annoying. Funnily enough there wasn't anything I wanted to do that Indeisgn didn't let me do. It did the colours I wanted to the spots around the band name in the double page. Photoshop is a different thing though. I really thought it would be better but because I didnt really know how to work it there was only so much I could do but from asking people I found how to shine didnt parts of the image to make it stand out. I also found it easy to do the simple things like brightening and darkening the image and making the contrast.I wish I could of made the contrast of where t
he flash really appeared on the image to disappear but Photoshop or maybe I didnt know how to do that. I think if I had more time to understand Photoshop I could of made my images better but I think from knowing nothing about either Indesign and Photoshop I dont think I did to badly at working them and they did everything I knew how to do so I was fine.
On my uploading of my magazine there is actually a image missing in the contents page of a bass player from 'Black Iced Birds' which I took that would of been my fourth image that I needed. My teacher is a eye witness to this and has seen and stated this. Apart from that I think I think if I knew more about the software I think my magazine could of been better and look more professional. Also I think if I knew about more fonts the fonts could of been better and could of made more a difference to the magazine but I would of then had to try and not get to carried away. If I had to improve on thing I think it would of been the contents page but because I didnt have time I dont think it was done as thoroughly as the other pages, because I spent most my time of them. I think I could of also made my language better with better words that were more eye catching and would draw the audience in more but because I dont no how to spell higher class words due to dyslexia I did shy away from doing so. I think over all in the whole product if I had planned better and had a better time scale I think my magazine would be better because at the beginning of the product I did a lot of work and research towards it but as time went on I lost track of time I let things slip.
oto as the background border it made it my own and stop it from being so much like all the other logos on the stands like 'NME'.I also had influences from 'Q'. For example for the 'Win' on the front cover I didnt want it to be cheesy and take over the page but I wanted it to stand out. I got an idea of the colours being the same as the other puts of the magazine, blue and white and having the circles around it instead of one bond circle block from 'Q' but the difference with 'Q' was I thought just have to many circles and it took over the page to much so I chose to only do two. I thought tied in with the whole fact of the magazine being different and indie.
Another influence from 'Q' magazine was from my front cover image. I got this idea from a 'Kings of Leon' image that was on one of 'Q's' issues
. Picture shown below. I thought image was really different to an image i had ever seen on a magazine in my music genre. I changed it a bit by the fact that there is 5 band members in 'Rob the Rich' and I had the leading man at the front of the line and instead of having a black on white look I thought I would show the band as how they are. For example; it was shot at night because most of the guys in the 'Rob the Rich' are night people because they gig at night all the time and I let them be in their own cloths because it is more relatible to my target indie audience.Also in my front cover image, like all my images, their is a clear display going on which really hit the hammer on the nail of how in my target audience, new music/indie, all the people in it are white and have a querky style, like wearing plad and hoodies etc which somes up what people who would read my magazine would be like and it is stereotyping my target audience a bit. Also in all my images the people are young, in their early 20's which is giving the idea of the whole because a young rebel and listening to different, 'cool', 'in' music.
The language I use in my magazine is simple, shot, snappy and easy to read. This is because of the my target audiences age is a young age. If the language was to complicated it will draw the readers away and make them not want to go to the effort to read the article and headings.
When I made this magazine I thought about what stores would take my magazine and ones that I would want to take my magazine. I thought about big branch stores like WHSmith which carries every magazine to nature to kids to store like the record store 'ape' in Brighton. I thought that WHSmith would get a good for the general public and the minor band type of my target audience where 'ape' would be where my majority of my target audience would be because WHSmiths is to mainstream so I thought they might not go into there to buy records where they would go to 'ape'. 'Ape' would store my magazine because 'ape' is mainly about new music and my magazine is based around new, 'in' music and the style of how the magazine is displayed like the way the photos have been edited and the language matches in with the same target audience as the stores.
http://www.uniquebrighton.com/htm/t20080207.974647.htm = Ape link
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/ = WHSmiths link
Please go to blog 2 because there is a full explanation on my target audience -http://georginalevey.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-2-target-aundience.html
I have learnt a lot from Indesign and Photoshop, at first I found it a bit tricky at first. I thought Indesign would be simpler then it actually was. I thought that you wouldn't have to go the long way around of doing everything like having to make a place box before actually placing the image on the page, which I found really annoying. Funnily enough there wasn't anything I wanted to do that Indeisgn didn't let me do. It did the colours I wanted to the spots around the band name in the double page. Photoshop is a different thing though. I really thought it would be better but because I didnt really know how to work it there was only so much I could do but from asking people I found how to shine didnt parts of the image to make it stand out. I also found it easy to do the simple things like brightening and darkening the image and making the contrast.I wish I could of made the contrast of where t
he flash really appeared on the image to disappear but Photoshop or maybe I didnt know how to do that. I think if I had more time to understand Photoshop I could of made my images better but I think from knowing nothing about either Indesign and Photoshop I dont think I did to badly at working them and they did everything I knew how to do so I was fine.On my uploading of my magazine there is actually a image missing in the contents page of a bass player from 'Black Iced Birds' which I took that would of been my fourth image that I needed. My teacher is a eye witness to this and has seen and stated this. Apart from that I think I think if I knew more about the software I think my magazine could of been better and look more professional. Also I think if I knew about more fonts the fonts could of been better and could of made more a difference to the magazine but I would of then had to try and not get to carried away. If I had to improve on thing I think it would of been the contents page but because I didnt have time I dont think it was done as thoroughly as the other pages, because I spent most my time of them. I think I could of also made my language better with better words that were more eye catching and would draw the audience in more but because I dont no how to spell higher class words due to dyslexia I did shy away from doing so. I think over all in the whole product if I had planned better and had a better time scale I think my magazine would be better because at the beginning of the product I did a lot of work and research towards it but as time went on I lost track of time I let things slip.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Web Pages
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzZJHu90cgnLNGEzMzFlMGQtNWI2YS00N2M0LTlkNGEtNjM4ODFhYzA4MGE3&hl=en_GB
= link to magazine cover
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzZJHu90cgnLYTBmNmZjMzYtMGI5ZC00ZjYyLTk5MTctYTQ5NTQ4Mzk0M2Q2&hl=en_GB
= link to double page and contents
= link to magazine cover
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzZJHu90cgnLYTBmNmZjMzYtMGI5ZC00ZjYyLTk5MTctYTQ5NTQ4Mzk0M2Q2&hl=en_GB
= link to double page and contents
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Blog 8 - Planning and Evalution of the article.
I choose to analyse an extract from NME and Q where I found that both of the extracts were more formal then I thought my magazine should be. I thought that because the extract were not a question and answer based the extract lost the connection to what the band. It also I thought is to formal in the language and doesnt contact with my target audinece who I think would rather have the language be informal
I met ‘Rob the Rich’ for the first time after seeing them at one of their gigs back last August. As I waited for what I thought was going to be another typical indie/rock band, my eyes widen with surprise as the first song played. The energy of the room suddenly changed with the roar of the crowd and the atmosphere illuminating off the stage. ‘Rob the Rich’s’ new fresh sound was different, clever and they owned it unlike any other band around. As I told everyone I knew about this new fresh band it wasn’t until I sat down with boys, one nippy winters night at ‘The Prince Albert’ in Brighton the machines and witty minds of the boys came out.
IN: When did the band get started?
RTR: Well the band started about three or four years ago with
just Sam and Rich, who met in college, but it didn’t really
get out the ground until late 2007 when Adam, Harry and
John joined.
IN: When did the band get to where it is today with the
touring and having a single under your bend and a new
one on the way?
RTR: Well we waited for something to happen for ages but
realized when nothing was happening that we had to do
something ourselves by getting gigs ect. It has been
really slow but its all a one step at a time process. You
gotta start small and then things get bigger and bigger
like fan bases and getting reviews.
IN: When advice would you give to musicians who are just
getting started in the music business?
RTR: Adam: Don’t bother! Haha no really erm… just keep
gigging and writing.
IN: So I’m guessing that all you guys write all your own songs
then. Who is the main writer?
RTR: Sam…… he wrote ‘Tiger’ but we all co-write.
IN: Sam, what did you write ‘Tiger’ about?
RTR: Sam: Oh I wrote it about an argument I had.
IN: If Sam is the main writer of the band, who is the main
person who drives the band?
RTR: Haha well legally Adam in the driver because he has the
car…. but really we all drive each other. For the tour we
all had our little job like Rich was the press man and he
had his own press room with a hat and John was head of
art. We really just pull each other along and try and have
fun while doing it.
IN: So on a different note, who is the funniest guy in the band?
RTR: Sam: We all I guess are funny. We love to quote movie and
stuff like ‘Peep Show,’ ‘Anchorman’ and ‘Dumb and
Dumber.’
Adam: (Interrupting) Rich! Rich by far is the funniest!
Sam: Haha actually yeah he is. Classic Rich is loosing
something and finding it in his pocket. Haha its
always in his pocket.
IN: You say you guys quote films ect. Do you have any of your
own catch phrases or funny game you made up?
RTR: Rich’s is ‘Boa Boa Hello,’ everything starts and ends in
‘Boa Boa Hello.’ Apart from that we generally just love
taking the piss out of everything.
IN: Was the best part of touring?
RTR: Seeing how many fans we had in different places and seeing new
people and parts of the country we wouldn’t normally see.
IN: Have you guys always wanted to be musicians?
RTR: Rich: No I wanted to be a Astronaut but you know after going to the
moon I thought I would learn how to play the bass guitar. On
the way home I thought ‘Hmmm I’ve done my dream maybe I
try and be a musician/ rock star when I get back to earth.
IN: Where do you guys see yourselves as a band in the next 5 years.
RTR: Well ideally we want to be making a living out of music and get
signed. Gig more. Oh and Rich wants to go back to the moon.
IN: So then what’s the next step for the band?
RTR: Well we have a new single coming out in February and we hopefully
will get to be a support act for someone.
IN: What’s the hardest part about being in the music business?
RTR: Really, it’s the not knowing. You don’t know what’s going to happen
next and you can really get your hopes up because someone
important said they were going to be there and they didn’t show. Its
just a really up and down business.
IN: This is the last question so I hope you’re ready. If you guys could
support any band who would it be?
RTR: We would love to support the ‘Macabees’ or if you were really
thinking big we would love to support a band like ‘Kings of Leon.’
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Blog 6 - Photos
These first to frames are for the front cover. The frames are of the band I have written my article about which is 'Rob the Rich'. I am using the second photo out of theses two because in the first one the three at the back are either not looking in the right place or their body is in the wrong precision. I have chosen the second photo because you can see all the band member equally and they are all in the right precision. The frame is the second picture is also better because it is more centered.I took this photo outside the 'Prince Albert' in the tunnel underneath Brighton Station. I choice this because i thought it would make the front cover more appealing because it wasn't in a studio space so it would be more relative to the my target audience.
I told the boys to wear what they wanted to wear because it shown the band as they actually were on a everyday bases. They weren't wearing any make
up either. I wouldn't my target audience to think that people in a band weren't just people in a band but were just like everyone else. I also wanted to grab my target audiences attention because of the fact that the front cover would reflect the article because just like the front cover the article is very stripped.On this front cover I didn't just want just want boring face shoots. I wanted to mix it up a bit so instead of having their heads all in a row I decided I would have their heads one after the other with one facing front then the next facing to the side (the head to the side happens twice.) By having their faces looking towards and away from the camera it makes the cover eye-catching because it is different meaning more readings will pick it up.
These photos are for the double page spread. The costume are the same as they are in the front cover picture. I took these photos in the 'Prince Albert' where they performed one night. This is the same as it is at any of their gigs. This gives the reader a real look at what one of 'Rob the Rich's' gigs would be like and if you are a music fanatic then it will want you to go to one of their gigs.
the second photo doesn't show all the band members clearly and has a member of the audience in the way.
These two photos are for the contents page. I choice to take them in the same place as I took the cover photo. I decided this because the place I took the cover photo is quite indie and edge which will appeal to my target audience. Again the costumes are the same as the other photo apart from three of the band members now have cloths on. I did this to make a bit more of a contrast between colours so wasn't just white, grey, blue.
Even though I love the first frame I couldn't use it because John's leg ( last on the right) so I choice the second because it was take as a natural shoot. As them just being them. I thought this would be better because it would put together my over all idea of the band just being like everyone else. This will relate more to my target audience because they will be able to relate to the indie and fun side of the band member.
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