My Music Magazine - Double Page Spread Draft 9

Since my last draft, I have only changed the image pull quote and borders. There was a large amount of white space on the right hand side of the image which I felt I needed to fill. To minimise the remaining white space, I copied the flower border and flipped it vertically to fill the other side of the page. This meant that I had to make my image and pull quote slightly smaller, but overall I feel the look of the piece is better with the border on both sides of the image.

My Music Magazine - Contents Page Draft 12

In this draft, I have moved my page number to the right hand side to fit conventions better for a magazine. I have used colours that I feel work well together and look effective on the black background. I feel there are still a few changes that could be made to really finish my product, as I am currently unhappy with the fonts, they are all very similar, and although this creates synergy with my other pages, I feel a variety is more conventional and also my work better to highlight different sections of the magazine text.

My Music Magazine - Contents Page Draft 11

After leaving my draft for 2 days and then coming back to it, I have decided to make a large change and to make the background black. I feel that, although unconventional. having the background black with the white and red text and the gold colourings of my puffs, I have created a better synergy to my cover. I am much happier now than I was with my contents page, and after a few final tweaks I think that I will be finished.

My Music Magazine - Double Page Spread Draft 8

To this there have been some minor changes since the last draft, however I feel that they have created an effective and professional appearance to my magazine. I have added a gold background to one of my pull quotes and change the font colour to black to allow it to stand out. The design of this box is as if paint has been smeared on the page, and the opacity has been lessened so that the text stands out more. The style of this box adds to the rebellious, rock style of the magazine genre alongside the font used for 'dream' in the title, while the rest of the page, I feel, has a more vintage style, lots of flowers and black and white. 

Also to this page I have moved one of the previous pull quotes onto the black part of the image in the upper right corner. I still felt that with the addition of the border, the image was not as eye-catching as possible, but I feel that now with a brighter colour and something to read, that people would pay it more attention and read into the image more, matching it with the article content. This then left me the room to add another pull quote from the text in the previous position of the other, and I chose another that I had highlighted in my article.

Finally I ensured that my text was left aligned around my pull quotes to make the boxing and the professional appearance tidier and more effective and also to fit to convention of magazines.

My Music Magazine - Double Page Spread Draft 7

To this draft, I have added a drop capital, as specified on my plan, this required a small amount of movement of the text but I think the end effect looks professional and styled. I have also added the website and name of the magazine to the bottom of the page, and moved my page numbers to the corners, this fits more with conventions of double page spreads, and finally to these pages I have added a small triangle at the end of the first page to inform the reader to carry onto the next page, as is sometimes included in the articles. I feel that I am almost finished with these two pages and I am happy with the way they look so far.

My Music Magazine - Contents Page Draft 10

Finally on this draft I have added the website and magazine name underneath the banner along the top. This allows the branding to create synergy throughout my magazine. I think that I have now completed my contents page and I am very happy with it. I am going to leave this draft for a couple of days before coming back to it and seeing if I would change anything again.

Target Audience Feedback - What I Have Created So Far

Target Audience Research - draft of front cover, contents and dps

Can you identify the music genre from the front cover? Please write it below.

Yes - Rock.              rock/vintage
pop rock                  definatley (sic) rock
Rock (vintage)        rock
rock                         only because of sell line. Image says nothing.

Is synergy created between the pages? How?

Yes they all have the same colours.
similar fonts and colour scheme
same fonts
similar fonts + colours
colour scheme + fonts
the colour scheme and font
synergy is created through black and red text

Are there iconic, symbolic or indexical signs? What are they?

The red and black is symbolic of rock.
Symbolism of leaves?
Red & black = rock, symbolic
Make up and dark colours are symbolic
red + black symbolises rock
red + black - rock
The make up and the use of the colour red

Who do you think the TA is? Age? Gender? Ethnicity? Sexuality?

I think the target audience is teenagers, and female.
16-25, female, all sexualities.
16-25, female, both, both, Both
16-25 female
16-20 female!
16-20 Female, all races, and Both sexualities.
both genders 16-19

What representations are created?

The dark eyeliner and colours represents the rock genre
dark clothing, rock genre
Dark clothes and strong make up represent rock.
the deep colours & bold makeup
bold strong makeup
Bold makeup and Dark colour's (sic) swit (sic) rock
dark eyeliner represents rock black and red symbolic

Is the language formal, informal or a mixture?

Informal due to including a swear word.
Informal
Informal
informal
informal
informal
informal register appropriate for a younger TA.

Is there anything missing? Anything you would like to see added? Are there changes you think should be made?

The price is too high for the ta.
Price too high
Banners
quite pricey, and white
bit high of a price, otherwise great!
price too high otherwise i love it
price extremely high for young TA
front cover needs more features
page no's in wrong place on dps + needs mag name/website on dps/contents
Contents fonts/layout is wrong - delete "page"