RESEARCH AND PLANNING

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When I had completed my final annotations, my next task for my preliminary project wast to create and distribute a questionnaire to get a clear understanding of what my age demographic, those aged 15-18, would want in a school magazine. The questions I asked were purely to get to know my target audience better and to try and get into the position of my audience and try and understand what they would want to read about.

I found this task very beneficial as it made it easier to create a magazine that would appeal to my age demographic.

The first two questions were to understand what my audience's age. and gender was to be able to specifically target them as well as I could. These are the results.

From these results i came to the conclusion that I surveyed nearly an equal amount of male and female, which made it easy to make sure that my magazine unisex.

With the remainder of the questions, i wanted to personally get to know my audience. This was through their interests, favourite music genre, favourite subject, favourite colour, and what they like in a magazine and whaty price they'd want to pay for a magazine.

COLLEGE MAGAZINE

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MUSIC MAGAZINE

The target audience is for young people, mainly teenagers ages 16-17 who are interested in rugby and sports in general.

The main purpose of the article is to inform and entertain the readers giving info on the academy and give this info in more detail to draw the readers in even more and maybe even persuade them to consider attending the academy.

The target audience for this magazine is prodomintly males aged 16-18 who are interested in sport espeically focusing in on rugby.

The main strength of this article is to engage young people into joining a sport and keeping active. as well as this it addresses the fact that girls are not able to join.

Strengths- Good layout- three columns make it look professional.

Font and text size fit the topic

Weaknesses- Text boxes around pictures

- School logo should be included

PERSONAL EVALUATION

My newsletter sticks to codes and conventions by using columns and captioning the pictures. Although for a sport newsletter more blues, and bright colours could've been used to grab males attention more as they are commonly more attracted to colour and pictures than writing.

My newletter represents the school as very sporty, as well as year 12 boys as intelligent through the quote from Callum. The way he has been presented shows the boys to be intelligent but also eager to learn more and improve instead of being all about books, it shows they know they need downtime to relax and play a bit of sport to make balance of their work-life and 'play' life to be able to perform at their best.

Unfortunately there is no financial institution behind this, it was made for non profit reasons.

I tried to attract my target audience by using sport and pictures to grab their attention and using a famous person to make them want to know more.

I have learnt how to use InDesign roughly, and have broadened my knowledge of Macs and computer programmes. i find this useful because in the future it will not take me as long to complete a task.

Music magazines such as Kerrang are very easily recognised as 'rock' or 'alternative' music magazines. They will typically have the band or artist large in the centre of the page covering the masthead. The masthead is usually in a strong colour at the top of the page. The banner usually consists of sneak peaks of what posters are inside, as most music magazines will have at least 2 posters covering a double page spread. The band's name will be the most eye catching and will either be a bright colour such as red or yellow, or surrounded in a bright colour to get attention of the consumer. The subheadings and other featuring stories are placed messily around the perimeter of the page to give a roughed up feel much like the music genres which will be featured. One of the sub-headings attracts attention as it has a chance to win festival tickets, the background of this subtext is bright yellow which catches the reader's eye.

NEWSLETTER MINI EVALUATION

College magazines are usually low budget and consists of a large masthead in a bright colour, which corresponds with the main image. The image will usually be a medium close up shot of someone either in the college or around the same age as college students. The issue number, and date are situated under the masthead, this is so they can be noticed but as they are in such a small font they will not be what is getting the reader's attention. The subtitles are in a contrasting colour to the masthead and main image, this is so the are noticed and so they stand out over the background image. As well as this, all subheadings, and side text is laid over all images showing its importance. Yet the only text which is overlaid by an image is the masthead. This makes the reader think that the main image is the most important thing on the page.