Evaluation:

Ability to refer to choices made

Front Cover

A lot of my main inspiration for my front cover came from Kerrang magazine, this is because Kerreng magazine caters for the same music genre as I wanted my magazine to cater for, therefore Kerrang would be the correct type of inspiration to use for my front cover. For my front cover I have incorporated normal convention a lot. Examples of this are my magazine title my magazine title spreads across the whole page which is of normal convention. I have also followed normal convention through my barcode; I felt that by following normal convention for my barcode it would be a lot easier for me to position everything else on my front cover. Feedback has told me that I have followed normal convention with the layout of my articles, and it sated that ‘the articles follow normal convention because if they didn’t then the articles would be all over the place and would be over the models face’ I feel that the overall outcome of my front cover has been successful as it is clear, well organised and follows normal convention well. I also believe that my front cover is very effective in targeting my desired audience.

I took inspiration from Kerrang about the poster special, even though this idea was originally my own, I phrased it this way after seeing this magazine.

I took inspiration from Kerrang for the arrow that is at the bottom of my front cover.

Contents Page:

For my contents page the only real inspiration that I had was from a magazine called vibe. I found this magazine whilst looking for inspiration for my preliminary exercise, I really liked the way the word contents was split up, I found it very original and I thought I would try it to see how it worked within my preliminary exercise and I thought it worked really well, and by it working really well I decided to take the idea through to my final media product. Looking back over my preliminary task I feel that by me moving the words ‘contents’ from right to left has helped me layout my contents page more effectively. I feel that I have followed normal convention with the way I have presented my contents page listing as they are usually to the left of the page, however I feel that I have disregarded the normal convention of the use and layout of pictures on my contents page, I think this because normal layouts of magazines in which I have researched such as Kerrang, have a lot of pictures crowding their contents page, however I decided to go basic and the layout of my contents page were of my own ideas, and I feel that this has worked really well and the final outcome of my contents page is well presented, and it is successfully targeting my desired audience, and I also feel that the layout of my contents page is very clear, and this is what I aimed for, therefore I feel that the overall outcome of my contents page is successful.

Inspiration

Preliminary Task

Final Media Product

Double Page Spread:

For my double page spread I took no major inspiration from any magazine, as all the ideas are my own. I would say that in some aspects I have followed normal convention with my double page spread; however I do not feel that they are as obvious as my front cover or my contents page. As some double page spreads that I have seen during my research are of the double page spread including a full picture one either side of the page. I tried to do this convention however I did not feel that it worked well with what I was trying to achieve, this meant that I had to take a different approach. I then saw a double page spread with a film reel with pictures going across the pages, found that this was a good idea so I tried it, and it was successful. I was really pleased with the outcome of my double page spread as I didn’t follow as much convention as I could have. The major convention that I followed during the making of my double page spread was the way I presented my interview, I have seen a few different way to presenting the interview in a double page spread throughout my research, however I feel that many of them do not work very well, and this is why I chose to follow normal convention. I am happy with the final outcome of my double page spread I feel that it is well organised and isn’t boring. I also feel that I have used the correct amount of pictures, as one of the main things I tried to avoid during the making of my double page spread was to not have enough pictures and too much writing as I felt that this might put my readers off.