LIIAR

Language - Specific Media Terminology, Masthead title, Teaser, Subtitle, Smaller Feature. All language portrayed on the cover.

Institution - Organisation, something that produces media / media text.

Ideology - Represented by values, ideas and beliefs.

Audience- Consumers and Target Audience. How they will interpret the media and in what ways it would effect them.

Representation - Re-presenting society back to us. Values people represent such as stereo types. How things and portrayed

Audience Feedback about DEFinitive Magazine

I asked various people around the college 5 simple questions about how well they felt the my magazine worked, I thought it was important to find out some audience feedback so that if they could see any faults with the magazine they could give me constructive criticism about the magazine and I could improve the various elements in the magazine which the audience which is most likely to read my magazine felt needed to be changed.
I asked 2 random people from around the college about what they thought worked well with the magazine and what needed to be improved, here is the feedback which they gave me:


Participant 1
Is this a type of magazine that you would consider reading?
I don't see why not, it looks quite interesting and the bands which seem to be featured are all bands which are in fact in my personal music library and the featured stories do look interesting.


Do you think the colours which are used throughout the magazine work well together?
Yes, they seem to bring out the best from the images as they are very sharp and un-pixelated and work well on the black background, the idea of using some coloured images throughout the magazine whilst the majority of the photos are black and white works well and the idea of the small areas of colour on a dark background works well.


Are the images the type of images which you feel you would generally find in a magazine?
Indeed, I think the quality and the style of the images is simple yet effective, although some more colour photos on the pages would have made the magazine stand out a little more.


Does the text on the front cover of the magazine stand out from the images?
The banner style headline on the page works well, and the colours of the text make it stand out from the black and white image and black background, but if I would criticise you for anything I would say more text needs to be added to the front page.


Is the contents page interesting to look at?
Yes I like that it stands out from the other pages because of the red border style thing. It is effective and definitely works well. Also the difference in the size of the page numbers to the text works well because it gives the audience something to look at.


Participant 2
Is this a type of magazine you would consider reading?
The music which is involved isn't really well but it does look quite interesting.


Do you think the colours which are used throughout the magazine work well together?
Yes although some brighter colours would maybe appeal to me more as it would make the magazine alot more interesting to look at. But the simpleness of the colour scheme does work well.


Are the images the type of images which you feel you would generally find in a magazine?
Yes, they are a good quality of image, but I feel it is usually more conventional to use coloured images but this style makes the magazine slightly different from others and more unique.


Dose the text on the front cover of the magazine stand out from the images?
Yes, but more text would make the page look more appealing and interesting as it would introduce more colour onto the page.


Is the contents page interesting to look at?
Yes, the different styles on the page work well together and the colours and styles of image work well for what they are meant to do on the page, I also like that the page has been cut in half in a way because of the separation of the text and the image at the top of the page.




Over all, I feel that my magazine works well although I feel that I should maybe consider adding in various things too it, such as more text on the front page of the magazine so that it is more colourful.

How would I promote my magazine?

In order to get more and more readers to become interested in my magazine, this is essential in order to get the highest possible readership figure as well as profit. In order for the magazine to become well known advertising is necessary so that people know about the magazine and what it has to offer.
To advertise the website I would do various things such as marketing campaigns which would include various things such as advertisements on both the web as well as the television.
In order for the magazine to appeal to the people who see the advertisements it must be advertised in the correct places in order for the magazine to appeal to the same people. To do this you would advertise the magazine in such places as music websites or channels on the television which play the type of music which is shown in the magazine, this would be on channels such as the NME channel, although NME do have there own magazine this magazine is for a specific genre of music which the NME magazine will only cover briefly as the magazine covers so many different type's of music. It would also work well if it was advertised on channels which get a wide range of viewers, such as ITV so that it is seen widely, not just by the audience which is necessary for the magazine but for everyone, so that the word about the magazine will get out and more and more people will be aware of the magazine.
Another way in which the magazine could be advertised it by making online versions of the magazine such as a website and an iPod/iPhone application this could work well in order to advertise the magazine as Internet use is so widely used. I feel that these two options would be very good in order to get the word out about the magazine, although the magazine website would have to be quite similar to the magazine it wouldn't contain some of the exclusives which the magazine included in order to keep the readership of the magazine up, this is important also so that the magazine will make a profit as the website will be free.
Another way in which i could promote my magazine is to make the magazine its own twitter page, this will mean that various people from across the world will be able to follow the magazine and find out about various updates on both the Internet and on mobile devices.

Another Draft Of Double Page Spread

After looking at the double page spread again I realised that I had included the same picture twice in the magazine, one on the contents page and again on the double page spread, I also felt that if I changed this image putting more colour into the page would make it look alot more welcomeing to the audience, So i then deleted the new image which I had added onto the page and added in a newer image which was colour which made the page look alot more colourful and went with the other elements of the page alot better, this is the new version of the double page spread:

Final Draft of Double Page Spread

I felt that although there was alot of information included on the 2nd draft of the double page spread and it did look quite alot better than the previous drafts I felt that it needed gto include more images so that the page had more elements, this is the draft which I have come up with:

3rd Draft of Double Page Spread

I felt htat when i had completed the second draft of my double page spread for my magazine that there were various elements missing from the page. I felt that the page needed slightly more colour on it. So i then added some more text to the page. As well as a separator between the image and the text. This is the final product:

2nd Draft of Double Page Spread

I have made a 2nd draft of my double page spread so that more improvements can be made, i have taken out one of the images on the page as i felt that it looked out of place on the page so know i have one large image. I have added in the text onto the page and included to magazines new colour scheme so that it will match all the way through the magazine. This is the end product:

New Draft of Contents Page

Because I made a new draft of my Front cover I also needed to make various changes to my contents page in order to make the house style throughout the pages consistent. I need to remove and add various different aspects to the page as well as change the colour of various elements so that the contents page is consistent with the style of the new front page.
I took the small photo which was a part of the page off, as i felt that it didn't quite go with the images which  I felt that magazine would look best with. And because I personally feel that the magazine's style is important in order to appeal to the reader.
I also changed various pieces of text on the page red so that it would fit in with the front cover as well as adding a separator between the image on the page and the various text at the bottom page so that the page was more spaced out and separated the page slightly.
I also added various bursts of colour around the outside of the page so that the colour wasn't as dark and stood out alot more. This is the contents page in which I have altered:

New draft of Front Cover.

When I revisited the front cover of my music magazine I decided that I felt it could be improved alot more. I felt that more colour needed to be added to the page so that it was more likely to stand out from various other music magazines. Also I felt that various other elements on the front page needed to be changed. For example the images quality of the image which had been used was very poor quality and the pose which was used could be improved alot more. I decided to use a similar style of image which would work better for the page. Although it has less people in the image I felt that this drew more attention to the page. Also the pose in which the artist in the shot was doing was alot more interesting compared to that of the previous image which had been used.
I also resolved the issues of the lacking of color on  the page by adding another color into the color scheme which I had chosen to use. This colour was red. I felt that this would work well along side the other main colour orange as well as the other dark colours which I have used throughout the magazine.
I also felt that for the masthead to stand out slightly more it should be separated from the various other elements on the page so i used a bold orange line in order to separate this. I also made the word 'UNPLUGGED' alot larger and made it red so that it would also stand out. I also moved this to the top of the word 'DEFinitive' so that the masthead as a whole would work alot better and would be alot more noticeable.

Third draft of Text for Double page spread.

When i had then completed the second draft of the text which i planned to include on the double page spread of my magazine I felt that although all of the various gramatical errors had been changed, it should contain more writing so that it would fill up the page alot more.
These are the changes which I have made:

Q. Welcome, how does it feel to be currently working on your debut album?
A. It feels brilliant. We got signed so quickly that its all seems like such a daze. Were just happy to be here

Q. Do you write all your own songs or do you have certain song-writers which you generally get to write for you?
A. We have always written our own music and plan on continuing to do so. It seems like we've come this far doing out own thing and it would be sad to see it all change now we have got this far.

Q. Brilliant, Do you enjoy recording?
A. Yeah of coarse, we cant wait to get the album out so that all of our fans can here all of our newest additions, then after this come the best bit, Touring!

Q. Which out of the 18 songs on your album do you prefer?
A. Well I think personally it depends on who you ask, because we all play different instruments some songs are more enjoyable to play for one of us than the other. because i sing, i enjoy each of the songs because I get a chance to play a big role in each of them.

Q. Are you planning a tour?
A. Of coarse, its were we started out, doing small gigs in Hull. We love gigging, I mean what band doesn't the feeling you get from a crowd of people enjoying your music is just ace! I think we are planning to tour next summer. Maybe we will even get chance to do a few festivals in the summer which would be brilliant! Performing something like Leeds/Reading fest would probably be the highlight of the year!

Q. I'm sure your fans cannot wait! Is there any particular artist you would really enjoy performing with?
A. There is plenty, someone we have always admired is Laura Marling, and with her up and coming tour next year, we are hoping she would want us to perform at one of her shows with her.

Q. Oooh, we here at Definitive love Laura Marling! Would you say you'd like to become bigger in the near future?
A. Definately the more fans we get the better. Not only does it seem like we've gone from playing small venues with audiences of about 20 people, it seems like we get recognised a lot more on the street these days, it's so odd!

Q. That can never be bad, I'm sure you'll be signing a fair few autographs as it is?
A. Yeah we are, its mad! It doesn't even feel like we have been signed for long, never mind fans screaming at us every way in which we turn.

Q. Nothing better than popularity! Anyway thanks for visiting the team here at Definitive, we hope to see you again soon!
A. Oh no worries thank you for having us, I'm sure we will be back very soon!