How did you attract/address your audience?

• I tried to attract the audience by making a lot of things stand out. However I think they might have distracted from each other. The colour scheme was originally red and the layout vaguely resembled a game cover instead of a magazine, both of which I have changed since, because it looked nothing like a magazine, nor did it even look like it belonged to the genre I picked. In retrospect, it would have been a good idea to have familiarised myself with magazines, particularly ones in the rock genre as they would have given me a lot more ideas than I could think of on my own. The features include a subscription box, a banner at the bottom and two boxes showing what’s in the issue. The article is there and fills up the two pages quite nicely, but the layout of this should be amended as it looks shaky and unprofessional. There is not much semblance of order within the article as the lines weren’t measured properly and instead were measured against the picture to make sure nothing overlapped with each other. There is a promotion in the form of a free CD which is given a page to itself. The price is £1.50 which is a fairly cheap price considering the market at its current state.

The Front CoverThe page I designed to be the front cover of my magazine addressed the audience indirectly, but I made a few things stand out like the subscription box which catches the eye a little when you look at the magazine. Another part of it that stands out are the pictures – they’re big, not too covered by other things and are the main focus of the magazine issue.

The Contents PageThis page , designed to be a contents page, is probably not one of the best ones I made but it fits the colour theme I have going on. The font colour, however, was a bit tricky for me as none of the colours really fit into the page without either blending with the boxes or looking terrible. I settled with white because I couldn’t find a better colour to use.

DPS Page 1The first page of the DPS was, arguably, the better of the two as it is more presented and the lines are slightly better placed. They’re still somewhat disoriented and jumbled but they look a bit better than they do on the second page. The colour of the font is a little better than the contents page, but as before I had trouble finding a colour that fit into the colour scheme. It doesn’t follow conventions, either, so I would need to fix that properly, which means that I should familiarise myself with conventions before I try to fix it.

DPS Page 2The second page of the DPS was probably the worst of the two, with the text even worse than the last as it is extremely jumbled and lines do not even reach the end of the box even when there’s nothing there to stop them from doing so. It doesn’t follow any conventions like the other page and to fix this I need to, again, try to familiarise myself with conventions in detail to be able to amend this.