Before I could start looking at the planning for production or anything else I carried out various tasks which helped me gather the research I needed to make my magazine suitable for my audience and also help me understand the magazine industry.
Front Page/Contents Page/Double Page Evaluation
By analysing all of theses elements of magazines it helped me break away each piece of material and understand the connotations of the magazine idea. It gave me inspiration and ideas also to create my own ideas, and helped me see how all of these little components help create one large image for the reader. It also helped me see that everything on the page is used/put there for a reason. Whether the reason was the represent ideas or to create an atmosphere the magazines manipulate the audiences mind to guide it to the idea they’re trying to portray. I will think of all of these ideas when I’m planning for my magazine.
Audience Questioner Evaluation
I carried this piece of research out to help me understand my target group more and help me understand how to give them what they want. It’s important that you understand your audience and know what they want because that’s what will help your magazines sell. Target audiences will buy the magazine if there’s something in there that they want or are interested in. This is obvious because it’s pointless making a music magazine for teenagers then offering a free cookery pot, because that’s not what a teenager would buy a magazine for. From this task of research it’s helped me understand my audience and know what they would want out of a music magazine. I will constantly be thinking of what will appeal to my audience when planning for my magazine.
Flat Planning Evaluation
From carrying this research out it helped me understand how a music magazine is set out and organised. Many advertisements were used in both magazines which helped me realise that a lot of magazines are every dependant on advertisements to keep the company running because company’s pay a lot to magazines for advertisement spots. The flat planning of the two magazines showed me a variety of the layouts in both magazines and showed me the differences in the two different genres of music magazine. Because one magazine had an indie music genre and the other a R&B genre it gave me a variation of layouts to look at and to see how they different they lay out their magazines. Overall I’m going to think about the flat planning of these magazines when I’m flat planning for my magazine.
Find Your Tribe
I took this quiz as part of my research to find out what it took to be a certain ‘tribe’. From taking this quiz it helped me realise the different things it took to be of a tribe. From this quiz it helped me understand my audience and understand what they want and they don’t want. I will think of the tribes and the different choices when I’m planning for my magazine.
Magazine Institutions
I researched the different magazine institutions to help me understand the world of magazines. From the information I found out, it helped me understand the different magazine company’s and how their business works. This has helped me personally because now in feel like I fully understand the magazine institution buisness.
Overall Evaluation
From all of the research that I have carried out I have overall learnt that what and how you feature things in your magazine can affect the audience’s opinions and overall feel to your magazine. I learnt that it’s always important to give the audience what they want in order for your magazine to sale. I’m going to think of all of these elements when planning and designing my magazine.
No comments:
Post a Comment