Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Magazine Evaluation
Magazine evaluation
I was asked to create a magazine that would suite the target audience that it was aimed at which were teenage girls ages from 11-16. The initial aims were to make a magazine that was suitable for girls and would include lots of interesting pieces, have suitable colours in it. The magazine had also had to include lots of pictures, which our survey showed. These aims were met by including more pictures than the main articles about it. My aim was also to include a famous celebrity (which was made up). This aim was met by doing a double page spread all about the famous person.
Also the double page spread has got appropriate codes and conventions. The double page spread has got the name written at top in big, bold letters of the person that the article is about. It also has about 4 images of the person. The article is layered in an appropriate way. Also the back ground shows that it is girly because it is using leopard print. The font is used italic, and it looks really feminine. And the colours, as in the front cover, are used pink and black.
This is the horoscope page and these pages appeal to my target audience because the colour of the back ground is layered in pink colour. There is al so images of the horoscope signs in there, because in the survey, it was said that there should be a number of pictures included in the magazine. Also I created the horoscope page because girls like to read about horoscopes and about what ‘stars’ tell about them.
The person in the image is always using direct mode of address. I have represented the person as being confident, happy person who has believe in herself. She is also represented as someone who has also got fame and money.
The double page article is about a famous girl that became a model. The message of the article is to give the audience more information about the model and get to know more about her personal life.
The shops that my magazine would be sold at would be probably corner shops. This would be because lots of teenagers go there and it would be seen more. It would also be in stores like Costcutters or Best-One. These shops are often visited by young girls who are going to the shop before or after school. My magazine would be published monthly. My magazine would have an online edition. The online website would have their own chat room, there would be some topics that people could share their ideas about, have things to discuss about. The online version would be update more often, there would be more stuff added to it but also all the stuff from the magazine would be kept in it. The advantages of having an online edition are more people reading it and getting engaged with it. The online web site could be published on facebook/twitter and it would be known more amongst friends.
I think our magazine images are original and based on nowadays types of pictures. I have used a mixture of original and found images. To use these images I had to get permission of the image holder. I got the images from Google.
The two codes of practice that would apply to my magazine would be Accuracy and Harassment. Accuracy has been applied because the interview with the person and the information that was found out wasn’t exaggerated. Harassment would be applied as well because I haven’t harassed my interviewer to tell me information and I haven’t taken pictures of him/her without their permission.
In conclusion, our magazines strengths are the colour of the magazine, the layout and the pictures. The weaknesses could be the background colours and maybe the colours of the font are a bit bold. The magazine meets my target audience needs by putting all the information that the audience (teenage girls) would love to see in a magazine.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Analysis of magazine cover
Inside the magazine there will be guidance on what to do when the toddler is crying. Also it gives guidance on how to change the nappies, how to feed the baby and etc.
The target audience for this magazine are mothers of new born babies or mothers who are still pregnant. The age on who reads the magazine doesn’t matter because a woman can be pregnant at any age.
Their interests are about the babies, how to feed them and etc. The magazine is using direct mode of address. The image in the magazine tries to engage you with the image that the mother with the baby is happy.
The front cover image is a woman holding a baby, because the magazine is for women with newborn babies.
The anchorage text say ‘Make the most of your maternity leave’, meaning that the mother should make the most of it when she leaves her job when she is pregnant.
The overall message that the person is giving is that that the mother of the baby is happy and the baby himself is happy. It is also giving the message that the parent is good.
The ‘buzz’ word in the magazine is the ‘FREE’ word. This catches the reader’s eye and makes him think what he/she can get for free and then makes the audience buy the magazine cause of the free thing they can get.
The title design shows that the title is kind of feminine. The letters are in red/pink colour and they are also round and soft which kind of represents a woman.
The puffs suggest that inside the magazine there’s going to be handbook about the new born baby, about the maternity leave. The audience that the puffs are expecting to get are mainly women but it could also be men.
There are no slogans.
The colours that are used are mainly womanly like red, yellow and pink. I find them attractive because it will attract the woman more because the colours are soft.
The strategies that the magazine is using to attract the audience are the main image which shows a happy woman with a happy baby in her arms. It is also using the big word ‘FREE’ that will catch the audience eye that they can get something for free.
Analysis of two page spread
The choice of the artist in this article suggests that the target audience would mainly be teenagers who are interested in the artist’s life and perhaps want to know about her more. The language that is used in the article is relaxing but also quite formal. The quotes that could explain the style of the magazine article could be ‘You will, even if only subliminally, have heard ‘Someone like you’, the ballad she wrote about a botched lo0ve affair, which is performed at Brits, making everyone (including herself) cry.’
The colour that are used throughout the whole pages, are used is mainly purple, black and white. These colours are a bit dim, but soft. Making this article and her pictures look calm and soft. There are no bright colours added to this article.
On the 4 pictures of Adele, the anchorage text is used in a soft, quite big italic writing, making it different from the text that the article is written in.
In total there are 7 pages, in which it includes 4 and a quarter of the pages of Adele, and 2 and a quarter pages of text. It also includes the anchorage text on the pictures.
The magazine is using a gentle, relaxing tone when addressing the reader. It is also addressing or a person that is interested in Adele’s life and would like to know more about her and her career.
Adele is presented as a calm and quite serious person. By looking in the pictures, you can see that she is pretty happy, but keeping it all to herself and not expressing it too much. The mode of address that she is using is a direct mode of address which is trying to interact with the reader.
The article demands some knowledge about the artist before reading the article. But for people, who want to know more about her, can read the article and find out more about her background.
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