EVALUATION PRESENTATION

Music Magazine Evaluation on Prezi

FINAL - Double page spread

This is my final double page spread which I am pleased with in regards to the audience it addresses and how easy it is to read and understand. I made a torn notepad in the top corner to introduce my artist and a torn piece of paper with the pull quote on it. I have edited her lips again to make them appear red and match the colour scheme. The microphone obviously connotes that she is an artist and I find the shot effective as the floorboard fade into darkness and allow the white and red text to stand out on its background.

The questions help the reader(s) to understand who she is and how she became who she is today. Her as an upcoming artist would be an interesting story to me personally which is why I have asked these questions.

FINAL - Contents Page

This is my final contents page, I feel proud of this in particular as the jumping picture of my artist was easy to crop out and make it look realistic by adding a drop shadow. I stuck with the general colour scheme of black white and red and I have included the "Upcoming gig" picture i had planned on taking as seen in my flat plans. The ripped effect, I find is very effective in presenting the alternative rock, teen rebellion nature of the magazine.

I have also included many famous featured bands related to my genre in order to relate to my target audience as well as a free poster and a chance to win concert tickets.

FINAL STEP - FRONT COVER

FINAL STEP:

• Added price tag; £2.99. I used this price because I found out from my survey results that most people would usually but magazines ranging from £2.00 to £3.00, I made mine £2.99 because it is affordable and it is at a price where you are expecting value for your money. Because if it was too cheap then it probably isn't worth reading. 
• The issue number and date of release is added below the price.
• I have added "KORN Where it all began" on the left and has the same colour scheme as the "MUSE" on the right hand side (which has been made right aligned).
• I made the two circles outside of the "WIN Sum41 tickets!" bigger so that all of the text could fit inside.
• The masthead has been made bigger so that it touches the two sides of the page.
• I've added boxes behind "Cleo gets personal" and "TOP 50 ROCK ALBUMS" to make these stand out further.
• Made spelling corrections on "Good Charlotte".
• Changed the colour of the "slipknot" puff and changed the font of "knots" to one which appears more like string and the band's album font.

STEP3 -FRONT COVER

STEP 3:

• I've made the cut-out layer of my model to be above the 'PLUS!' bar at the bottom to add to the effect of having her appear as though she is literally standing out.
• I have added a bar-code on the bottom right.
• From my survey results I have gathered that a large proportion of people are attracted to magazines which have free extras so I added the "Free punk poster special" puff on the bottom left of the magazine in yellow so it stands out from the red, black and white. I found these use of words effective as it uses alliteration. There is a skull added there to anchor the text; "punk". I have gotten the skull from this website:  http://www.wpclipart.com/signs_symbol/skull/skull_and_crossbones_large.png.html
• My colleague gave me a tip that I should use a pun, or a rhetorical question, so I used the two and came up with "Is slipknot now in knots?".
• I felt I wanted more things featured in my magazine which my readers would want, so I looked at my survey results (posted on my blog: Sunday, 19 February 2012) A large quantity said inside features, so I put on my front cover "MUSE album exclusive" and "TOP 50 ROCK ALBUMS".

STEP2 - FRONT COVER

Step 2:

• Now I have taken it up a little notch; I have added the 'EXCLUSIVE' text on the left slightly rotated. i managed to get the 'ripped' effect on the white box behind the 'exclusive' text by use of the paint brush tool to make the magazine a bit more edgy like the music its representing.
• I have also done the same pain brush effect on the masthead and the small white box at the bottom which will have my 'free posters' puff inside it.
• I changed the text colour on the pull quote so that I could make the "SCREAM" in red to make that word stand out from the other words in white.
• I made the 'pluses' in between the band names at the bottom white to make it draw more attention to the reader's eyes.

STEP1 - Front Cover

This is my first step in making the front cover to my music magazine, I decided to go along with the black, red and white colour scheme as this typically portrays a rock/alternative rock music genre. I have used the shape tool on Photoshop to add the 'PLUS bar' at the bottom wherein I have added famous band names that would be featured in the magazine. The 'WIN SUM41 TICKETS!' were put in two red and white circles that I have made from the shape tool in Photoshop, also I have rendered the shapes to give it a ripped effect. I made the cut-out layer of Cleo to be on top of the masthead so that it appears as she is literally standing out on the magazine; aggressive and in your face. Her lips have also been edited to be 'blood-red' so that it would help anchor her to the colour scheme a bit more. 
Here is the RAW picture that I took on the camera:

Here you can see the differences to the before and after (see above); I've added more brightness and a little contrast to make the colour white more prominent so it can stand out from the black background of my magazine. You can also see the difference of the lips and how much more effective they are when they are red (I was planning to have my model wear the lipstick she had but we both forgot so I used Photoshop to compensate). I feel this shot is effective because it has the artist's face closer to the camera to the rest of the body to allow her recognition as an artist and the shot shows her electrical guitar and amp which both are connotations of the rock/alternative rock genre.


I managed to get the electric guitar, amp, and Cleo to wear her 'Chelsea Grin' sweatshirt and converses as this would help attract my target audience as these are typical representations of a person in an alternative rock band. The reason I wanted my model to wear that particular graphic sweatshirt was because many many rock band members usually wear clothes with one of their favourite bands on it. For example, David Baksh (former Sum 41 member) was wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt in the music video 'In too Deep': 

So I wanted to use that finding to be reflected in my front cover, however I did cover her t-shirt in Photoshop with black rectangles because all the text on her top would be a distraction to the name 'CLEO' in big letters which would prevent her name from standing out. However I did manage to get her to wear black and white which is also what a lot of alternative rock musicians wear, for example Good Charlotte:

By doing this I have shown that I have tried to appeal to my target audience (by genre) and helped to typically present what genre my magazine is and what sort of artists and bands will be featured.