Audience Feedback

To gain some audience feedback on my magazine, I decided to use facebook to get people to comment on what they liked and disliked about my magazine. I thought that this would be a good idea as I have a large age group on my facebook and therefore would get a different variety of ages views about the magazine. This would also allow me to see if I have gained the interest of my target audience by knowing what age people are that are commenting. Many of my friends who are on facebook are at the age of the target audience I have aimed my magazine at, therefore I would get to hear what they think about it.  Below I have written the comments that were posted about my magazine and the age that they are and gender:

15 year old male: "It's really good. I like the colour scheme. Orange is interesting as you don't really see it used in magazines, but it makes it difference. It looks like both females and males could buy it which is good. I like the image on the front cover."

17 year old female: "I like it. The double page spreads are done well. I like the big image of the two girls on them. I'd be interested in a pop rock magazine but i'm not sure how many guys would be interested in it. So maybe target it to a specific gender such as females rather than males maybe? Hope this helps!"

21 year old male: "I'd buy that if it was in the shops."

18 year old female: "Love the colours! Makes a change and i'm sure it would interest both guys and girls. You can tell its a pop rock magazine but it could also fit in with other genres. So maybe try and say what genre of music magazine it is more somehow. But I really like it. I like the article in the double page spread because it isnt boring. Quite funny actually, sounds real though."

16 year old male: "I like the fact you get a free poster."

27 year old female: "Looks great, and it's based on the music I like. I reckon I would buy it if it was in the shops. The front cover is awesome."

Overall I got a few views about my magazine from a different variety of age groups ranging from 15-27 which enabled me to see that some slightly older people than my target audience were interested in my magazine as well as the younger people I targetted my magazine at. This shows that my magazine is quite diverse and that a wider age group likes it. Therefore there is a larger target audience and need for my genre and type of magazine out there. The colour scheme seemed to work well as all ages liked it. They both males and females also said that they liked it which shows that my magazine would possibly be bought buy both males and females which allows me to have a bigger target audience. Some of the things that people said they would change would be to make the magazine look more specific for my chosen genre of music of 'pop rock'. This may mean that because pop rock can be shown in many forms, I should try to really influence the fact that my magazine is for pop rock rather than a possible variety of music genres.

Comparison to existing magazines

Production Log 18

Production Log 17

I have completed one of my double page spreads. I have made a small adjustment from my first draft by deleting a photograph and replacing this with a "five minute fact" box. I think this gives the page more diversity and seperation from images. It also makes the magazine look more professiona as many music magazines contain a small box with information in it. I have now completed my front cover and have now started to create my second double page spread. I want this page to mostly consist of images as I want to make the magazine look like it has more than just text in it. I also want to fill up the white space on the second double page spread and think that the easiest way to do this would be to add a photograph. I'm going to incorporate some more text onto the second double page spread such as a pull quote or small paragraph about the two artists. Below is an image of what my second double page spread currently looks like unfinished.

Production Log 16

I have started at adjust my draft to become my final magazine. I have made a various amount of changes to my magazine. Today I mainly focussed on changing the front cover of my magazine. The biggest change has been changing the front cover image. Instead of having both my models on the front cover, I have decided to use one. This is because I felt that the original picture did not look professional and seemed out of proportion with the sell lines. I think that it also enables me to include a better selling point for the magazine as I can now get the audience wondering who the artist is that sang with Carly Evans, as there is no image to give this away. I have changed my mast head completely including the fonts. I have created the letter R as a simple iconic logo for the masthead and changed the font completely for "Rampage" to a more basic style. However this still stands out on my masgazine and makes it look more professional. I also changed the font for all of my sell lines on the front cover and used two different ones rather than just one font for all of them. This creates a better contrast and divides the quotes and storylines up better, making them easier to read.