Evaluation
My magazine uses the forms and conventions of magazine “Dazed and Confused”, a multi purpose magazine of music fashion and art aimed at an alternative underground target audience. It uses simple front covers with large bold magazine title and minimal puffs and buzz words. This front cover style creates an upmarket look and puts almost all concentration on the image used. I developed “Dazed and Confused” ideas by using a slightly more down to earth image than what they would use. I did this so that more people would look at the magazine and feel that they could relate to it. The font I used for the music artists name looked as though it had been painted on, I used this to attract an artistic audience as they are often more interested in alternative music rather than something more mainstream.
To attract my audience I used an image with a direct mode of address to make it eye catching and also so the audience feels they are connected with them.
“Dazed and Confused” publish their own magazines. I think they would be they perfect people to publish my magazine as it is the slightly less extreme version of “Dazed and Confused”. I know there is defiantly a market for a magazine like my own because by researching “Dazed and Confused” I have found out that a lot of young people between the age of 16 and 18 find “Dazed and Confused” a big investment to make financially if you are to buy it every month and not always is the material inside relevant to their younger student life.
By creating my music magazine I have learnt a huge amount about photoshop. At first I also found it very difficult to transfer my ideas into a photograph but after thinking things through and drawing out a plan I eventually was able to capture the perfect photographs for what I wanted! From this I have learnt how to compose photos the way that I personally want them and not just copy another.
My contents page was very important to me. When I did my preliminary task of making a school magazine contents page I found myself make things very basic and not something you would expect from a creative person like myself. Therefore when I came to make my contents page for my music magazine I made sure it was individual and interesting. I did this by creating a square collage of photos centre to the page relating to my front cover image and double spread. Underneath I then only listed a few eye catching and interesting stories, interviews and so on, from the inside of my magazine. Also since my preliminary task I have learnt that the composition of a double spread page needs to be though about well, especially the image and length of the article. I wanted my photograph to cover both pages, therefore I had to make sure it was cut so that my music artists’ face wasn’t cut between the two pages and just laid across one.
