We've recently started our music magazine coursework and after planning, giving our surveys etc, we finally started the front cover in class. My music magazine will be called 'Lyric', contains artists in the rock/alternative genre, aimed at both sexes and potentially for 14 years old and over. We're all using 'In Design' to design our music magazines and it's gradually getting easier to understand the program, especially the more we use it.
I've currently only got half of my front cover done as all I need is some photographs to add so then I can include my features and cover lines too so it all fits. I made my background black, my font white as well as a 'pink/purple' over glow. I added the 'over glow' using the effects on the edit/tool bars. The reason I also used this colour scheme as it got the most votes in my survey, despite the fact I was hoping to at least use black and white anyway. My masthead is large, white, with an over glow of pink/purple and in italics. I may change the pink/purple colour scheme though incase it looks too feminine as well as the font if it all doesn't stand out or fit nicely. I've also used the same colours for my selling line and the words, "Music is the rhythm, Lyrics are the rhyme. Sit up, plug in and go." hoping to attract the audience, although I may change it later on as well as the font used. I've also included the bar code, the issue number and the skyline. I also helped a few people in the class about how to use tools and colours which educated myself even more!
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Thursday 6 January 2011
Audience Research
I have created a survey about my music magazine 'Lyric' for 20 people to fill out and collect data.
The aim is that I have 20 responses from all different types of people, i.e. age, gender etc, so that it gives me more suggestions/ideas on how to improve my magazine. I also receive information from these people, judging by the answers in my survey, about what they assume/think my magazine will be like from their own perspective.
I created my survey on 'www.surveymonkey.com' which had a selection of different types of sample questions. I commonly used an essay box so that I could receive suggestions/comments from the surveyors and an example of this was a question about what musical artists they expect to appear in my magazine. Other questions used were called multi choice questions, ratings and open comments which gave a surveyor more of an opportunity to write their own personal opinions or suggestions. The sample I will be using to complete my survey will be to several friends and family, also notifying them to take this seriously. This means that my survey could be bias as they are people I know and don't want to be too critical.
My survey link is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W9ZJRNN
The aim is that I have 20 responses from all different types of people, i.e. age, gender etc, so that it gives me more suggestions/ideas on how to improve my magazine. I also receive information from these people, judging by the answers in my survey, about what they assume/think my magazine will be like from their own perspective.
I created my survey on 'www.surveymonkey.com' which had a selection of different types of sample questions. I commonly used an essay box so that I could receive suggestions/comments from the surveyors and an example of this was a question about what musical artists they expect to appear in my magazine. Other questions used were called multi choice questions, ratings and open comments which gave a surveyor more of an opportunity to write their own personal opinions or suggestions. The sample I will be using to complete my survey will be to several friends and family, also notifying them to take this seriously. This means that my survey could be bias as they are people I know and don't want to be too critical.
My survey link is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W9ZJRNN
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