Evaluation: How did you attract and address your audience?

Double page spread

These are the two pages for my double page spread. I decided to make them as two separate A4 sized documents in photoshop, as I felt this would make sure they were both the same width

Contents page

This is the contents page that I am currently using for my music magazine

fifth front cover draft

I've had a very productive day it seems. This is the 5th draft I've done for my front cover, and the 3rd today. With this draft I reverted back to having more sell lines around the central model, but i edited the way the main story's sell line was written, as I feel this makes it stand out more from the other stories on the front page, due to it having more colours and overlapping words, which makes it more visible and draws the readers eye

Fourth front cover draft

After editing the positions of sell lines on my front cover I wanted to try out a new idea, so I tried to used a minimalist approach to my cover, removing almost all of the sell lines and replacing them with a list of artists in a line across the bottom of the page. While I enjoyed creating this draft, I don't think I will use it for my final piece, as while having very little on the page does look good, I think it is not done very widely in my genre to be considered as 'conventional', so it would not be done in normal circumstances.

Third front cover draft

After some going over of my current draft I decided to try to add more to my front cover, so I moved the sell lines around and added a new one to use the most of the space i had given myself by moving others around. While it is a minor change I am happy with how it turned out so I thought I should blog it

Media Institutions

A media institution is an organization that deals with the production, marketing, distribution and regulation of media products. While there are many of these companies to choose from, if I was to produce my magazine professionally I would want to use a company that already produces magazines similar to my product.


Some of the media institutions that produce music magazines in the same genre as my magazine are:

• Bauer Media Group - Publishers of Q and Kerrang! magazines
• Freeway Press Inc. - Publishers of Rock Sound magazine
• Alternative Press Magazine Inc. - Publishers of Alternate Press magazine
• Jann Wenner - Publisher of Rolling Stone magazine
• IPC Media (Subsidiary of Time Warner) - Publisher of NME

While any of these companies would be a potential publisher of my magazine, I could also go to a publisher which does not produce a rock music magazine, e.g. EMAP, who published smash hits magazine. Doing this would allow the company to tap into a new market, and increase their own profits without risking a loss to any magazines they currently produce.