Audience Feedback

 This is the feedback I gained from my target audience who assessed my magazine and told me what they thought were the best parts as well as what I could improve. These results were from a survey I created on the website 'Survey Monkey' where my audience answered questions about my magazine. I then took the responses on board, carrying out any final improvements I could to make my magazine better plus creating this survey was also an opportunity to present what people thought about my product and how successful it might be.

Production Diary

20/02/14 - Final Touches To My Magazine

 As it is leading up to the deadline date, I have been focusing on how to make my magazine look as professional as it can. I have done this by looking at all of my survey responses I have collected from my 'Audience Feedback' survey over time and also taking into consideration my teacher's feedback he gave me before.
 Some of my improvements included changing some of the fonts from serif fonts to sans-serif as these are more common in magazines. I have also made some of my images and pull out quotes larger in order to change the look/layout of my magazine because this was one of the main aspects my audience touched on that I needed to improve. Furthermore, I have also added more box out texts to separate some of my article's text and to make it look more like a realistic and interesting magazine.

Production Diary

15/02/14 - Creating My Evaluation

 During this week, I have started to change the format of my evaluations into something a bit more interesting. Personally, I believe the best way to do this would be to make my evaluation in a magazine format similar to my actual music magazine. Therefore I will include the same type of fonts, colour scheme and extra pictures of my model I took in my photo shoot. I think this is a good way to organise and present my questions about how I have created my magazine and my ideas throughout the project.

 I have started to create my evaluation on InDesign (the same programme I created my magazine as I have already learnt how to use this programme efficiently) and have started off with a simple cover including a large picture of my model I haven't used before as well as a masthead and a main sell line. I then moved onto the contents page where I made the text bigger than usual to fill up the whole page about where the different questions are in my evaluation magazine.

Production Diary

07/02/14 - Collecting Audience Data

Penultimate Version

Production Diary

30/01/14- Adding To My Blog & Improving My Magazine

 This week, I have continued to organise my blog by adding more posts such as my 'Cover Drafts'. I thought it was appropriate to create a PowerPoint showing the transformation of my cover page from my sketches to the various different drafts as I changed my ideas a lot. For example, I was unsure how to lay out my sell lines as well as being unsure about my cover image. This PowerPoint explains why I have changed my ideas and displays all the other ideas I had (including the selection of images).

 I have also continued to improve my magazine, for example I finally added some social media content to my content page. I added a way my audience can get involved with my magazine via Twitter and Facebook and also added both logos so my readers can clearly identify with the opportunity. I have also started to include headers and footers on each of my double page spreads to make the overall page look more interesting/more typical of a real life magazine.

Cover Drafts

This is the transformation of my cover page including my sketches and previous ideas. As you can see, my ideas about my cover page have changed a lot, yet this is still not the final draft as I feel there is still room for improvement to make it look more like a realistic music magazine.