Production: Final Double Page Spread

Production: Final Contents Page

Production: Final Cover

Time Management Update

Currently, I am on track with my original time management plan. I intend to stay this way until the end of the course.

Production: Audience Feedback

Here is my audience feedback. I chose people that I thought represented my potential readership quite well. Both of the interviewees are within my target age rage, and I have used both genders, as my readership would most likely be a mix of the two.

From this, I can take ideas on how to improve my current pages. Firstly, it has been suggested that I lower the price of my magazine. This will be easy enough to do this, as the only place where this is shown is on the barcode. Also, my audience feedback told me that the red text atop the black background is sometimes difficult to read when the text is smaller. I will experiment with colours, effects, font size and backgrounds to eradicate this issue. Other than this, my target audience seem pretty pleased with my magazine pages.

Production: Audience Feedback Questions

These are the questions that I will ask my target audience to improve my magazine.

1. What do you think of the layout of my magazine cover? How could it be improved?
2. What do you think of the £2.10 price for 45 pages? Too high? Too low? Just right?
3. What do you think is missing from my contents page?
4. What is your opinion on the red borders on the images on my contents page?
5. Are all the fonts clear and easy to read, in your opinion? Suggest improvements.
6. Any other comments?

Production: First Double Page Spread

This is my first cover. I will improve this after my audience feedback. Please see earlier post to see how I  constructed this.

Production: First Contents Page

This is my first cover. I will improve this after my audience feedback. Please see earlier post to see how I  constructed this.

Production: First Cover

This is my first cover. I will improve this after my audience feedback. Please see earlier post to see how I  constructed this.

Production: Constructing My Double Page Spread

Production: Constructing My Contents Page

Production: Constructing My Front Cover

Production: Photography Representation

Production: Editing

 Here are some of the edits that I have produced from my best images.

Production: Best Images

Here are the images that I think were most successful from my shoot.

Production: Photo Shoot

Here is the contact sheet from my photo shoot with Dan and Alex. For this shoot, I kept the aperture at f/1.8. This is because, not only did it help my get the required amount of light with a quicker shutter speed, but it also makes the depth of field shallower, giving the image a more intimate feel. These images were shot at 'golden hour' (pre-sunset), to give them interesting lighting. I used my Nikon D3100 DSLR and my Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens for this shoot.

Time Management Update

I am currently mostly on track with my original time management plan, however, a few things have fallen behind. I have not currently managed to collect any images, as my intended models have been very busy and the weather has been poor, and I have only got audience pith feedback from one person, as I haven't been able to get anyone else. I intend to have both of these things done by the end of this week.