Evaluation

I think that my presentation went good, however I missed out some key points while presenting my evaluation. I had the information, but wasnt able to say it, otherwise I think it went fine.

My Iconography

Test Shots

I took a variety of shots for my magazine. I got my model to pose in different poses. The top line are other shots that I took for the magazine and the bottom line are the shots that I actually decided to use for my final. I chose these shots as they protrayed my Hip Hop genre the best. The model has a straight, serious face and he hands are positioned in a way that is commonly seen in Hip Hop magazines. The model is wearing hoody, big earrings and a big silver chain, which are again a common convention used.

Picture for Interview Page

I used this picture for my final contents page as I needed 4 different photos and did not have four. I chose this photo as it again best represented my Hip Hop music genre, by the way she is sitting and her hands and positioned.

Final Name For Magazine

After playing around with many different names and experimenting, I chose the name " Un-Wiind" for the final name for my magzine. I had a lot of choices that I could choose from, however I thought Un-Wiind best represented my Hip Hop genre and would attract to my target audience. I first wrote the name as "Unwind" however, later on changed it to " Un-Wiind." I added the dash and the two i's, as I thought it created a different effect to the title, make it recognisable and to create it's own identity.

Possible Magazine Names

These were possible names for my music magazine that I came up with as they best suited my music genre :

• Un-wiind
• Vibes
• Pulse
• Ease
• Upbeat
• OnBeat
• Rythmatic
• FWD
• Replay

I annotated other coventions that famous magazines had used to find out what were the most popular types of things included and also helped me in my reseach in order to be able to produce a successful magazine.

This is the analysis of my contents page. It shows what magazine coventions I have used in my final contents page.

Interview Page Analysis

I analysed the interview page, to see what kind of magazine conventions I had for my final magazine and would the finish product appeal to the target audience.

Planning My Interview

1) What inspired you to join the music scene?
2) How do you feel now after joining the music scene?
3) How did you first find out that becoming a singer was the right path for you?
4) What were you first steps after becoming a singer?
5) How has the response been after becoming a singer?
6) What has your life been like after becoming a singer?
7) Tell us about your new upcoming album?
8) How did your decide on the sorts of tracks you wanted featured on your album?
9) What are you planning on doing after this interview?
10) What were you doing last night?
11) Tell us and interesting fact about yourself that no-one else knows.
12) How do you advertise your music and album
13) What is your ultimate goal with your music career?

Analysing Final Front Cover

I analysed my final magazine cover to see what kind of magazine conventions I had used for my magazine.

Masthead Designs

I researched the different kinds of mastheads for exisiting popular magazines. Some were from Hip Hop magazines and others were from various genres. This gave me an idea on how to design my masthead that would be attracting and would stand out. I needed to make my masthead different to the others for it to be appealing, otherwise it would look the same as the other magazines and would not have its own identity. By doing this I realised that using the colour red for my masthead would not be a good choice, as a lot of other magazines had used red as their main colour for the heading.

I took many shots using different camera angles, to experiment with the various shots that I could use and produce to use for my magazine and that would attract my target audience. Out of many pictures I took, I thought that these two shots would be most appropriate for my gebre of magazine, in order to create the Hip Hop effect.

This was my rough sketch on how I wanted my contents page to look like. I used this design to create my final contents page. It gave me an idea on how my finished page would look and whether it was portraying a magazine convention or not.

masthead designs

In order to be able to choose the right kind of style and font for my masthead, I created the title of my magazine "Un-Wiind" in various different fonts, which would help to represent the name and reflect the Hip Hop / Rap theme, to attract my target audience.

Questionnaire..Target Audience Research

I designed a questionnaire in order to help me create my magazine. I asked 10 people from my target audience (13-21 year olds) different questions which I thought would be useful to me. It would allow me to get an idea of the things that most appealed to my target audience and would want them to buy my magazine over others. The questions included "how much they were willing to spend on magazine" and "what draws them into buying a magazine." I was therefore able to construct a reader profile by using the information obtained by constructing and carrying out this questionnaire.

I used this to get an idea on how I could design my front page. I found images of Hip Hop cd covers which allowed me get and understanding of what kind of things I could possibly use on the front cover and the things that are common with all sorts of Hip Hop related things.

My contents page orginally looked like this when I was constructing it and thought that the picture on the left had been repeated before on the front page and therefore should be changed. I changed the picture and the way the text was laid out.

This was what my contents page looked like before I added a few changes to it, as I thought that the contents page did not look right. The writing I thought was unsuitable and the strip on the side did not stand out enough to catch the readers attention, as I found out that many people buy magazines if there is a free competition included in it. Therefore I made a couple of changes, so that my contents page would look more like an contents page and would appeal more to the consumers.

This was the rough design for my contents page. It gave me an idea on how my contents page was to look after being created on the computer and where everything should be positioned to allow the best possible look.

This was a rough sketch of what I wanted my final front cover to look like. It gave me an idea of where everything should be positioned, and to create the final cover accourdingly. It also allowed me to see whether this design would be suitable or not for the cover and if any changes in the design should be made.