Evaluation

Article

College mag

Pandemic: Front Cover, Contents, Double page spread

Reader Profile

Photography Plan

Location – 

The Duchess (Live gig) or at The Riverside in Selby (Live gig)Abandoned railway (with After Your Betrayal the band)

Any area which can be considered to have a dark atmosphere

Possibly a brick wall background or old, trashed or abandoned

Possible Models  –  

Ben Wilkinson, a student, a close friend and also a vocalist from the band After Your Betrayal

The other band members from After Your Betrayal

2 Guitarist, One Vocalist, One Drummer, One bassist

Props - 

Instruments (2x guitar, microphone, drums, bass if the pictures are taken live)

Other props could consist of things such as chains, a weapon or beer for a rebellious violent theme

  Layout ideas –

Medium shot of Ben the vocalist screaming into the microphone (Cover)

Close up or medium close up of Ben for one of the double page spreads (Interview)

Some shots of support bands or After Your Betrayal for background pictures for the double page spread and contents page

Long shot of Ben the vocalist with or without his microphone looking away from the camera.

Medium shot of Ben the vocalist with or without his microphone looking/screaming directly at the audience

Costume - 

Clothing suiting to the magazine style and the music genre, consisting of blacks, some red or whites mostly band influenced so band members or Ben will be wearing bands merchandise which is well suited.

Peer Feedback + Analysis

Positive feedback:

Good idea, made sense and well explained

I like the colour scheme and the yellow/black tape idea gives the sense of rock and roll and metal

Style and colour matched genre very well and I like the idea that it is local (+14 a possibility?)

Improvements suggested:

Make audience wider maybe by including other genres or things which aren’t so narrow to the genre

Decide on a title either epidemic or pandemic

Try and spread variety

Analysis:

From the majority of the feedback that I received It is clear I need to not be so narrow with my ideas and try and widen my audience if my magazine were to realistically be placed on the market.

I also gained from my feedback a vote on who preferred Epidemic and who preferred Pandemic, the majority was Pandemic and I also agree with this as the play on words works better with my magazine and genre and also I may be covering a band called Epidemic in the double page spread and this could cause confusion or repetition.

The feedback on my style, colours and unique ideas were very positive so I should focus less on the design and more on the content with the implantation of something which will widen my audience and variety.

Overall my feedback has helped me greatly in understanding where I need to improve and where I should leave designs as they are as my target audience ( which was the majority of the class age wise) liked the designs and ideas but not just how narrow the genre of the music/content would be. Also other than expanding out to a wider audience it would be a better idea to aim it between a bigger age ranegs such as 14-18 instead of specific teen ages.