2nd Draft- Music Magazine

These are my second drafts for my music magazine, I have made some small changes to it after I recieved feedback from my earlier draft, and I am still aware the more improvements are to be made for it to become a successful music magazine (cover, contents and double page spread).

Improvements on cover: For my cover I have decided to change the text of the articles on the right hand side of the magazine, changing the position of them also, as to make it look nice on the eye. I have decided to add a cover line to the front cover also, which says "THE BEST ELECTRTIC GUITAIRS ON THE MARKET", relating to one of the articles inside. The use of a cover line on the front cover will add interest to the cover itself, and be one of the reasons why someone would be drawn to it on a shelf.

Improvements on contents: On the contents page I have enlarged my title more as to try and fill up some of the blank space (as this was an issue which frequently arose when I was given my feedback), I have also changed the page numbers on the contents, leaving a bigger margin between each. This is to give an illusion that there are 40 pages or more in the magazine itself, contrary to the 20 I was advertising previously. The increased number of pages is also, now, more representitive of the price that I was aiming to sell my magazine at realistically. On the cover I have specified that I will be selling my music magazine (Amped Up!) at £2.99, and when I recieved the feedback, I was told that for the number of pages there was in the magazine, £2.99 was too dear. Since then I have "added" 20 more pages to it, so you would be getting more 'bang for your buck'- as it were.

Improvements on my double page spread: The double page spread itself has received some improvents since feedback was last made on the magazine as a whole. I have spread the title across the double pages as to make it look more professional (and to add more interest to the spread itself). From doing so I have repositioned the text (interview) slightly so it, again, would look more pleasing on the eye. Throughout the past couple of weeks I have attempted to wrap the text around the picture, but it has been unsucessful as far, though I plan to figure out how to do this in the coming weeks, thus to improve it even further.

Media Studies Coursework: Update

This week during our media studies coursework lessons we have been improving our magazine from our teachers suggestions. The main improvement which needs to be made for my magazine is to minimise the blank spaces, and fill it with either text or pictures. As I have already taken pictures of people, the main area of pictures that I need to work on is of props that relate to my magazine and articles. During the week I have been planning out which props I will be taking a picture of, and reevaluating certain aspects of my magazine such as price etc.

Music Magazine: What did they think?

For one of our tasks we had to "interrogate" a couple of people from our specific target audience on camera, and ask them what they initially thought of all aspects of my music magazine, and see what could be improved overall. From this video I took away that I needed to add more pictures where appropriate to fill the blank spaces, that I could include some sort of information about the artist 'The Dashing Racqueteers' on my double page spread, and to include more text in certain places on my magazine. I will definitely take these into account, and when working on the magazine in the next few weeks I will be sure to make improvements from the feedback I've got today.