Evaluation 5
- 1. Evaluation 5: How did you attract/address your audience?
- 2. Language: • I used informal language in my magazine it’s the most ideal approach to grab the attention of my audience. If I talk in a chatting language the audience can relate to it. As my feature article is about her life, its personal and can help people relate to her music, and seek help in her story. Her answers are short and its presented in a question and answer format. The feature article is relevant to 2017 as it is about the summer and festivals, my artist is young and her audience is also young all being able to relate to it. Its common through the music magazines to focus on a genre: dance, relates to summer or nights out, where you can chill listen to music and dance.
- 3. Font: • My font is many different ones to get the attention of my reader. Like: from 101 fonts, its big and bold for the mastheads, or important features, to stand out. The text I used was : Calibri headings, Peppermint were my main ones. My magazine font is different on each cover for different purposes. My fonts are small when writing about the feature and cover line. The font is bigger with titles and masthead.
- 4. Contents: • My content is about dance magazines. It features different festivals and style of music, as well as the artist advertising her clothing brand. Reflects the results of my survey where people chose the name of my magazine. On my double age spread I added pictures to my right side and in the middle of my left, as well as a pull quote in the middle in bright red. All my content on my double page spread the most important information is in bold and highlighted red. The contents page image is on the right hand side and all the information is in boxes around it. There are different cover lines.
- 5. Imagery: • My pictures I separated for all 3 piece of coursework what is appropriate for each spread. The double page spread I picked my best picture in my opinion, and a similar picture around my article. My cover page I picked the image where the model faces the front. My images are bright and engaging to the audience, my target audience is a bit younger, and the clothes she wears would appeal to that target audience. The front cover image shows the audience what the magazine is about. • My artist is front and centre of every shot and image, and is arranged so that all the attention is on the artist.
- 6. Lighting: • There is high key lighting in my pictures, and natural lighting. This will attract the audience due to the colour scheme. The yellow connotes positive imagery and general vibe of a dance magazine. It suits my magazine as the colouring is very bright.
- 7. Costume: • Casual clothing • Bright - Orange - - yellow • Summery clothing
- 8. Masthead: • The masthead is big and bold in the font Peppermint. It’s unique and unusual. I feel this would suit my target audience due to the colour scheme. I used black so it would stand out against the yellow background and makes it stand out. Also my artist head overlaps the masthead, showing that the brands is well known enough to sell covers even if you cant see it. I was able to find the dance conventions of this genre and what people like.
- 9. Layout: The layout is over 3 pages of work • Cover page • Contents • Double page spread I carried out my investigation and asked my fellow class mates what was the best option. I was able to find the most popular masthead and what people would like to see when they read.
- 10. Puff: • I have used a puff on my double page spread is done to add dimension and a way of advertising my magazine. I advertise about the giveaway of discounted tickets to wireless. As they will be interested in the idea of discounts and the bright orange attracts people to the article.