Evaluation: Question 7

Evaluation: Question 6

As well as the technologies mentioned in the video above, I also learnt about my camera within the process of constructing my product. I chose to use my Nikon D3100 with 35mm Nikor f/1.8 lens, as I thought that this would work best for the portraits I intended to capture. I did, however, have issues here, as, due to the dark sunset setting of my cover shoot, it was difficult to find a slow enough shutter speed without reducing the quality of the photograph.

Evaluation: Question 5

Evaluation: Question 4

Evaluation: Question 2

Representation is very important in my chosen sub-genre, as I believe my target audience would not like to be presented as stereotypical for their age group. This is most likely due to how negatively teenagers are sometimes portrayed by the media.

Although I think the photography contributed the most to the representation within my magazine, the mode of address was also important. I chose to use quite informal language - which would appeal to a teen audience - but also use some more advanced phrasing choices, showing my audience to be more mature.

Photography representation:

Evaluation: Question 1

Final Time Management Update

I managed to complete my production in the time that I have planned throughout and am pleased with my result.

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