Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product.

For this question, I used Windows Messenger video call to talk to a member of my target audience. Using 'Replay Video Capture' to record this conversation.

My target audience is rock fans aged around 15/16 to around 21. Nick sits in the middle of this range, and likes music contained in my media product. My target audience are socialable, and provides a friendly atmosphere for my music magazine, for example he likes going out and generally being with friends. He goes to college, doing AS levels; college being a good place for socialising.

You Me At Six: The Consequence, an example of what Nick listens to:

 

Nick also answered my survey  

(Facebook links only refer to people answering the question, so are unnecessary to show the actually images in this part of my answer)

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In which he said that he liked the music magazine, and would buy it "for its creative use of colour and image, and the bands are exactly what I'd like"

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

For this question I used scrapblog.com to present my answer.

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

For this answer I have once again created a powerpoint to be uploaded with slideshare.net

Question 6

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Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I have decided to create a prezi for this question.

Question 7 on Prezi

Audience Feedback

After finishing my media product, I needed to send my production to members of my target audience, for feedback as after all, it is aimed at them.

Firstly I used www.facebook.com as my first source of audience feedback. A few people commented on the images as I posted them onto my profile. These are screenshots of the comments:

Secondly, I produced a survey for my target audience to complete. However instead of printing out a questionnaire and manually collecting the results. I used a site called Survey Monkey. This allowed me to produce a professional looking survey which people could complete online easily, all they needing is access to my facebook. The results were instant and analysing the results proved much easier. This is an embedded version of the survey that I sent to people. (This embedding my ask for completion, please ignore)

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These are now the screenshots of the results.


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Overall, my audience liked my magazine. As seen from the survey the most popular item on the front cover was the main image, and the majority of people would buy this magazine. They thought that it was creative, interesting and easy to follow. But also, the main comment for improvement in this magazine was about the contents page having a bit too much writing. Whilst still being easy to follow and understand, some people said that there was a little bit too much, for example with the editors letter. Also, people would have preferred to have seen justified columns. However overall, my target audience really liked my magazine, thought that it suited them greatly, and would be happy to buy such a magazine.

Production - Second Drafts of Magazine Media

These are the 3 2nd Drafts of my Media production. Listed underneath are the changes that have been made to the Original media.


Front Cover

• Changed the title font to 'Impact'. I found that the original font of 'Mesquite Std' was very elaborate, which unfortunately connoted an older audience. Impact is much more modern and creates a much more stronger statement, much more like a young rocker audience.
• The image size was increased and the models head was placed slightly over the title. This was to add sophistication to the look of the overall cover.
• Positioning statement made smaller to accommodate the larger image.
• White strip at the bottom was decreased to 3 lines and the barcode was fitted inside this strip along with the date and price of issue. This makes it a lot tidier and looks sleeker and more professional.
• Another coverline added to fill up some of the black space which was making the cover look slightly empty. 
• Puff was deleted; did not fit in with the overall image of the cover
• Main coverline changed completely. Font was also elaborate and 'old' so was changed to a font similar to the rest of the coverlines. Changed to 'Sink or Swim?', byline changed to fit in with the main cover article, and the name of the band/singer was changed.

Contents Page

• Background changed to white from black. This is a magazine practicality issue as it is much cheaper to have a white background, as less ink is being used.
• The main thing that has changed is the whole layout. The content remained relatively similar, however the layout was changed dramatically. Keeping with the four columns and the smaller images framing the main image, the word 'Contents' was moved to the left, and the editor's letter moved to the bottom right. This is so 'Contents was the main line of the page.
• Finished front cover was added so to imply continuity.

Double Page Spread

• The whole image was flipped back to its original state, so it is now on the right hand side. This allows there to be four columns instead of three, and the whole article now bleeds into the second page.
• The text is now justified left, and the stand first does not bleed past the first column of the second page. This allows the headline to almost fill the two pages, and it was now able to start on the very left, and finishing just in line with the singers head.
• The page number and 'Sonitus' made smaller as they were far too big.

Production - Double Page Spread First Draft

This is my first draft of my double page spread article. Included are also the screenshots of how I created the double page article in QuarkXpress.