Diary entry week 9/feedback

Weekly review 29/03/2010 week 9

After all 3 weeks all three drafts of the 3 pages are finished I will show my magazine to my target audience of 16+ to see what they think of my magazine “REPLAY” and what could be improved. After my magazine was critically evaluated by my audience I took the feedback to see what they liked about my project at this stage and what I could improve. Many consumers liked the layout of my magazine as it was easy to read with it being set out in columns and having many focuses. Like my double page spread being almost half and half with the image and text. They also liked my front covered image as it was very striking and the Mise En Scene of the headphone linked to music perfectly, therefore demonstrating that this magazine is a music one. Another reason why they liked this picture was that it captured Ke$ha’s personality as she is wild and crazy and doesn’t care what anyone thinks so she can get away with pulling a face like this on the front cover. Also they thought other parts of my magazine related to music well as my magazine was called replay and the symbols used related to playing music. Although due to this they said I needed to improve on my Mise En Scene of my pictures for example making them have more music equipment in them. Therefore some of my pictures need retaking, for example my contents pictures, but some don’t such as my front cover picture and my double page spread picture. However to make sure my magazine is to good quality I will retake all my photos to see if I can improve the pictures any better. For example using more lighting that is unnatural to bright out every part of the image and putting more and bigger music equipment that you can see like audio boxes and record CDs as my double page spread pictures uses a CD and it is quite small and hard to see. Also another point my consumers pointed out was the colour difference in some parts which should have been the same, which was spotted very cleverly as you can tell when working on the computer until you print it out. Therefore it should have all been bright yellow, but it was greenish yellow. My music magazines genre is pop although people thought this didn’t suit the magazine, therefore I my have to be more specific and change it to sophisticated pop. Although many people liked parts of my magazine there was still room for improvements like the symbols in my magazine names were good but they could be better by putting the play symbol is the actual word play so it related more. I also had to be carefully with the text as they thought that “GLEE” was very sophisticated pop so I had to change that and the name “Puddle Pie” as it wasn’t relevant to the genre. Therefore I must apply all these improvements to my magazine pages as this will really benefit me by making my magazine more liked and sellable.