Evaluation

School Magazine: Evaluation

Now I’ve finish publishing my school magazine. I now need to analyse my magazine in my own opinion to the likes of my front cover and my contents page. I’m going to discuss how my magazine can compete in the real industry. Also to explain who my target audience are and why I have chosen this particular group for my magazine. What kind of media institution might my magazine can distribute in and in what way has my magazine been addressed to my audience? Explain how my experiences with the technology I have used to develop my magazine.

To be honest, I feel that my school magazine can compete well against real school magazines. This is because I think my magazine is very imaginative, well thought out and very educational for my audience to read. For example, the colourfulness of my texts on my front cover can really stand out to the reader especially for my target audience than any other school magazine that I have researched. This is because the colours of the text are matching really well with the background image. The way I’ve layered out my school magazine front cover is very organized between the images and the texts and that can make the reader see each of the headings or images in their own particular way. The way that I’ve developed my magazine is in a way that professional magazines are presented because I felt that the school magazine I have researched weren’t as professional compared to the likes of music magazines. I felt that the school magazine I have researched didn’t cover all the requirements a magazine needed. That is why I wanted to my magazine to stand from the rest of the school magazines.

For my contents page the simple creativity has had a good affect towards my magazine. Most content pages are just for the reader to what in each page generally. But my content page tries to engage the reader more not just knowing what is on that page but to go straight on that page and read further on. This is because the text on the contents page is very creative. The text is very persuasive because I put in the articles from the page further on the magazine into the contents page. These heading are subliminally makes the reader to read further. In my opinion my looks better than other contents page because the background image has the names of school subjects but the way it is wrote is a very youthful make. That makes my audience connect to the magazine more than any other school magazine.

The social group I am seeking out are the youths from Fortismere School. This is because I’m producing a school magazine at Fortismere School. On my front cover of my school magazine all the images are based on the pupils in Fortismere School. The reason I did this is because I wanted the Fortismere pupils’ (social group) to be a part of my magazine. I felt that, if they were a part of it then more of the pupils would go and buy the magazine. Also on the contents page as the background image you can see there are school subjects being written out of graffiti. The way it was written represents Fortismere pupils or teenagers in fact because most teenagers create this sort of writing to makes teenagers stand out.

My magazine is trying to go into to the institute of schools. The reason why its because my magazine is based on what happens in schools. The magazine is aiming at pupils in school to read. The reason why it’s being distributed at schools is because my school magazine is made by students, for the students. My magazine is based to be read at Fortismere School. You can this by the title of my magazine. The title “FORTIZINE” relates to the school of Fortismere because it has a combination of Fortismere (FORT) and magazine (ZINE) and that represents the school of Fortismere very clearly.

My target audience for my magazine are teenagers. This is because my magazine is aim towards school students between the years of year 7 to sixth formers. For example the colours that are presented on both the front cover and contents pages are very bold and attractive to the younger audience. The colours give you a sense that you know you are reading a magazine for teenagers. My school is going towards teenagers because teenagers have a large percentage at schools than teachers or other workers and if I can engage teenagers to read my magazine, that will boost my magazine against other school magazines.

The way I attracted my audience is that I’ve researched to try and find what my audience wanted in a magazine. For my questionnaire I was pursuing the reaction of teenagers. For instance, on my questionnaire I wrote down a question saying “what ideas would put down to try and influence the audience?”. I wanted to know what ideas teenagers have for improving my magazine towards them. I believed that if I made a survey to my target audience, I will have a full understanding on what my target wants to see.

I learnt a lot from using photo shop to develop my front cover and contents page. I’ve learnt how to improve my image in fine detail from photo shop instead of using paint or word document. One of the important assets I have learnt was layering in photo shop. I learnt how to not put everything on one image so you can just layer it and see if it fits. For example, on my front cover you see that I layered my close up images in front of the background image. This is an advantage for me because I can now move the first image anywhere I want and it to go and it wouldn’t affect my whole image. Also a useful thing I have learnt about technology is the transformation button on photo shop. This can help reshape an image to make it smaller or larger, wider or thinner. I think it is a great asset to have in technology.

I think that my magazine has great features like the themes of articles and the choice of images for the magazine. I like the way everything in my magazine relates well with the genre of the magazine and for my target audience. One of the things that I want to improve is to develop more of my ideas. For instance, the way the text is being present is too basic and vague. Next time I want to be do more research towards other magazine and what makes them stand than the rest and how they develop a tiny idea in well detail.