Questionnaire for Target Audience

On the Drafts.

1) Would the front cover buy your attention? If yes, why?

2) Is the content in the article interesting?

3) What else would you want to know in an article?

4) Is the contents easily navigate able?

5) Do the pictures catch your eye, look interesting or professional?

6) Do the pages obviously fit together?

7) Do the fonts fit/ look professional?

8) How much would you be prepared for this magazine?

9) Does the colour scheme fit the genre/ is it appealing?

10) What would you change to improve my magazine?

Draft Evaluation and Improvements

Cover.

As I said before when doing my final cover I need to make sure my model is looking at the camera to make the photo look professional and work well. I also need to change the grey as it is 'quite flat', so I need to lighten it to make it look good and not dull. I also need to fill all spaces with more coverlines and make my main article stand out on the front cover.

Contents.

Yet again I need to change my grey to something less dull and that will tie in with my changed front cover. More detail needs to be added, with more pages covered inside.

Double Page Spread.

I need to expand my article with more detail, and make the font smaller to be able to add more pictures and detail on the page. I personally also want to change the title of my article as it was suggested that my model should smile to link in with the current one, which I do not want my picture to be-so I will re-write a more fitting title.

Draft Contents Page 2 - Improved.

Yet again I haven't made many chnges, but the little things seem to have improved it greatly. Firstly, and most obviously, I have added a bigger picture of my cover star so as to draw attention to her and make my contents more interesting and diverse. I have also set my black and white photos to the left insetad of the right, which makes it look much more professional- along wth leaving a small gap on the right the same size as my lines of colour on the left so it doesn't break up the page. I've also changed the fonts to ones more fitting with my magazine's theme and broken the articles up with subheadings to make it easier to navigate around and to read.

Before my final photoshoot, I wanted to look into different poses and styles of clothes and hair that would fit not only my artist, but my whole magazine concept.

All of these poses are 'quirky' and different which is just whqat im looking for, and all of their clothing is typically 'unique'- though demin shorts and leather jackets seem to be a staple for the type of style my model should look like. I also like the hat as a prop as it is something different to what you would see in most magazines, aswell as the sunglasses- though they would hide my model's expression so would not nessicerily work.

The clothing used in these pictures are more feminine than the one's before- but with an edge, just like I would like my artist to look. So I wouold maybe use more floral patterned clothing or a skirt/dress with different types and styles of accessories and jewellry to give it something different.

Draft Front Cover- Improved.

I have not changed much, but I thought the splashes of colour looked abit too random- and therefore unprofessional- so rearranged them and also removed the flower as it was not appropriate for a multi-gender magazine- soemthing I would like mine to be.

Draft Double Page Spread 2 -New.

I re-did my double page spread as I did not think my first worked and looked professional. I first off decided with a simple layout of a picture filling one page and the article on the opposing page- simple but effective. I also wanted to add less colour- so used a splash of my colour scheme to make it creative and interesting, without being boring and too plain. I also changed my picture to black and white and higher contrast so the photo does not deviate from my colour scheme- and also looks more striking and eye-catching. I still used a handwritten-like font so as to keep and give a creative and unique edge to the simpler layout.

Draft Double Page Spread

This is my first double page draft of mine, and I like the way it greatly inkeeps with my colour scheme- however I find the pink too overwhelming in its amount. The creative fonts at the top help keep it individual and different and so does the 'quirky' pose- two things I would like to keep in my final draft. Though aswell as being too strong a colour, I do not like that my article is not in coloums- it defies a very important magazine technique and makes the page look messy and out of order- and sloso doesn't easily shopw where the page splits.

Draft Article - a lot of soul, a lot of passion and hell of a lot of fun.

At six o’clock in the morning the last thing you would normally expect to see when you walk into a coffee shop is a bright-eyed nineteen-year-old waiting eagerly for you to arrive. But alas in the heart of the bustle of London, the teenage singer/songwriter River Valentine is sitting casually sipping a cappuccino, blissfully unaware of the attention she seems to be getting. After all, she’s on the rise of fame since her latest song release, faith and order.

As we settle into our interview, River surprises me through her easy manner- something rather uncommon with many teenage celebrities I have encountered before- and graciously orders me a coffee of my own. As we discuss her growing fame she shy fully tells me that she honestly never expected this kind of reception to the industry, mostly due to her less-than-glamorous start in countryside pubs on karaoke night. ‘Like anyone, music is my passion, but doing it for a living is something I never even dreamed of as I knew to achieve it is so hard. I’m just so ecstatic that I’ve had the chance to play to so many people and share my words and lyrics’. And River has also been honoured, at a young age of nineteen, to headline many of this year’s biggest festivals- from Glastonbury to Reading. ‘I’m looking forward to the energy that they’ll bring, bigger crowds give me more energy onstage and of course, seeing the other bands and enjoying the festivals themselves will be out of this world!’ exclaimed the singer, ‘Plus I’ve heard I’ll be playing near a few of my own favourite artists, which will be phenomenal.’

And like her album name [something soulful, nothing shallow] states, River tries to keep her herself as real as possible through both her music and her life. ‘I try to keep myself grounded and not get too big-headed, though it can be quite difficult when a whole new world has been opened up to you. Though you’ll never see my falling around drunk and flashing my knickers; that’s just not my style!’ And true to her word, as of yet none of River’s dirty secrets have hit the newspapers- ‘They don’t exist!’ the dark haired singer assured us, ‘I can’t think of anything I wouldn’t want to tell the world about my life so far- they can have me for who I am; a bit musical, a bit mad and very much loving how my life is right now!’

Draft Cover

I wanted to keep my model to one side so my article could go down one side and not make the page look too messy/busy, and i like how this worked as they fitted around her and made it look tied together. I only used a different sort of font for muy main articel- my double page spread- as I think it helps symbolise that it is the main attraction of the issue. I also wanted to incorporate my colour scheme in a creative way so by used just splahes of colour my cover would look interesting, although on this copy I feel I have too many splashes so would use less in the real thing, aswell as taking away the flower as it makes the magazine too gender specific. I used another smaller puicture for a lesser article to give the magazine more interesting things to read and look out and keep it from being boring.

Magazine Pitch Feedback

Many mentioned that they liked the magazine's name due to it's meaning and connection to music, and also that I plan on keeping the magazine quite simple with handwriting font making it more personal.

The use of the colour scheme brought up many comments, though going agazinst conventions adn using pick in a multi-gender audience is something risky but effective if it works well. They have said it also makes my magazine indiviual which is good, but that I have to be careful it still fits my genre- something I will now keep a close eye on.