Evaluation

Media evaluation pp copy 1

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Audience feedback

I designed a questionnaire that was specific to my music magazine product and gave it to ten people. Here are my results, illustrated with pie charts for some questions..

 (Here are the answers that i recived, some were said more than once. this is an open ended question)

Question 1. What does the title "Retro Rock!" suggest to you?

              Retro/80's Rocl

              Rock stereotypes (e.g Glam rock?)

              Indie/ rock music

             Classic rock music

              Rock ledgends (old) and new rockers

Question 2. What is the genre of the magazine?  (open ended question)

And how can you tell this? 

(some people gave more than one answer)

Question 3: How genuine, compared to something like NME or Kerrang dose The front cover of my product seem. the answers to chooses from were     Very   Moderate    Not at all

Question 4: With regards to the contents page does it just inform you or does it also interest you into reading other things within the magazine.

 (closed question)  Yes, it interestes me in other things    No, it just informs me

Question 5: Does the  main feature article sound genuine?   (closed question)   answers were> Yes   No    Not sure

Question 6: Do all of the pages look like they fit well together (Have a house theme?)

(closed question) Answers : Yes     No    Not sure

I recived one that had a no answer circled. i put a 6b) question to ask why, this persons response was 

 "One page is landscape, the rest are portrait"

Question 7) What gender do you think the magazine is aimed at? (Closed question, Answers:  Male/ Female/ Both/ Don't Know )

Question 8) Does the:
A) Font cover look professionally laid out?

B) Contents page look professionally laid out?

C) Main Feature look professionally laid out?

Question 9) Did you like the color scheme?

Reflection. Changes/ Challenges

Throughout the production of my magazine, I have had to change my ideas, design layouts and other aspects of my magazine.

For example, on the front cover, the image of my model had to be changed so that the image was big enough and would fit on the page. My original intention was to use and image if her standing up with a guitar, but ii was brought to my attention that the image would be far to small. This led to me changing the image to something that would be bigger and have a better fit on the page.

Another Challenge i had to overcome was my font usage. For the main feature, because the font of the heading is rather curly i have to alter the size of the font. my original intention was to have the first 'S' drop down the page, but due to the amount extra curls on the 'S' I could not have the drop down 'S' i desired.

One of my main challenges I had to overcome was the usage of the colleges software programs such as InDesign and Photoshop (Cs3). As i have never used either of these programmes before, At first i found it very difficult to use either program . I overcame this by using Youtube for tutorial videos on how to use the programs and i found this an effective way of learning.

Another challenge/ change i had to make to my work was with regards to my contents page.I had allot of trouble with getting my words to run down the page. I tried to use the text wrap tool on InDesign but then my titles and subtitle ended up being overlaid by my images. In the end I had to manually position the words by using the space bar and altering the font size.