Media Magazine Evaluation

Evaluation

Final Product

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion of: Organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props

At the start of this product I gave a specification of my artists and locations.  A review of these points has shown...

 

As I wanted to create a hidden personality throughout my character, his costume would play a vital role in showing his confidence and the locations and camera shots used would portray this deeper.

For example, the pose used and explained in my cover page has been used to show a shy, covered up personality.  His costume relates to this as I have used a puffa coat.  This coat appears bigger on the character in the image.  This makes the character, neorix, look smaller and hidden within his clothing.  I have presented him with a number of layers.  By wearing layers of clothing, creates the same effect.  It displays his attempt to cover up and hide away from the line light.
 

 My first double page spread, down and dirty, neorix is wearing black.  I have chosen black as neorix is currently positioned at the front of the media coverage in my story.  The page describes the top places to visit.  The colour black, as a known tale, draws heat from the sun.  The phrase, drawing heat relates to him being the biggest DJ around at this time as the term hot/heat is found to be dominant.

My second double page spread, this was the best by far, is showing neorix in a more casual form. As the story progresses throughout the magazine, neorix is showing to be coming more and more out of his shell.  I have therefore removed the effect of the puffa coat, as position him wearing jeans, casual trainers, yet still wearing a black top as he is the dominant image across the page so I contrasts well against the white background.

The common use of the SnapBack cap is used as a trend throughout my magazine.  As the snapbacks commonly have a large peak, I have used it to create a shadow effect across his face.  This relates well to his hidden personality.

 

Finally, my last double page spread shows my artist wearing a jacket with leather sleeves.  This has been used to link well with the location of the shot.  The location is designed to look gritty, run down and out of the high street or line light. Leather jackets were commonly used to show a rebellious side.  Therefore, this links well with the location as back streets and run down areas are linked with crime and rebellious acts.
As for the image on paper, the pixels and presentation of the image are focused out.  I have done this to create a representation of a blurred past or future.  Life is taking over Neorix and it is almost like he is living a blur/dream.

Features

 

I got inspiration from NME when designing part of my front cover.  As you can see above, NME hides half of the image off the page.  To me, this makes me wants to read on and turn the page to see what it says.  Therefore I feel this technique in my magazine would want to entice people to purchase the magazine.  As you can see below, I have used the same format (the yellow text box) as NME but related it to my magazine, character and colour scheme.

 

 

 

Cover Page Development

 

After feedback from classmates on my previous designs, the above was the popular choice.  They liked the image and colour scheme and thought the banners and house style linked well with the genre. 
However, after asking for feedback from persons out of the classroom.  Issues and faults began to arise.  For Example, the "Exclusive" badge didn't really look like a sticker.  Instead It looked out of position and ill proportioned to the rest of the magazine front page. 
Another point raised was that the left hand side looked to open/bland compared with the right hand side.  Also, my previously design Masthead and its grey print appeared to sit in the background compared with the white and yellow text.  A finally criticism was that the magazine looked to linear or organised for my genre of dance music.

Therefore, I have taken these points and re-thought my design.  First of all, adding more text to the left and redesigning the artist's title, also adding sell and cover lines.  I have removed the exclusive badge and replaced it with something that looks more sticker/leaflet like.  This has text written on it, designed to draw the reader into the magazine through the point of some of the text being hidden off page to the right. 
I have then added another colour.  Having concluded that the majority of 2 colours looked to plain, I have added a 3rd contrasting colour of red.  This will link closer with my contents page.  As well as adding red, I have now made the banner stretch complete across the bottom of the page, with a "PLUS" icon added at the bottom left.  This draws the reader attention and may lead to them finding something extra they like. 
Removing the grey over my Masthead has lifted the Masthead "off" of the page and made it stand out.  This was an important added feature as all magazine must catch the eye of the consumer in order to look attractive and make a sale.
Finally, I have now angle features such as the sticker/leaflet on the left.  I have also added "Wacky" text on the right.  I have achieved this by setting each letter slightly off alignment from one another.  This took time but this has now addressed the issue of the magazine being to linear.  I feel that it now suits my genre more professionally and adaptively.

 

Evaluations and Third Party Opinions

 

Despite asking for constant opinions and feedback as I have been designing my work, I created/built a wall on Padlet.com which allowed fellow class mates to critique my work and give me feedback.  This has meant that I have been able to improve my work to the specifications of my target audience that my class mates fit into.

 

My Wall