Production Diary Week 4

In this weeks lesson, I edited my target audience profile and added images which represent the audience of which my magazine is targeted at. I created this on Prezi as it is an interactive and fun way of portraying my work in a different way on my blog. I also made a summary to my survey results and explained what I am going to do with my magazine which is helped by the results that I have gained from the survey. I created this on PowerPoint and I uploaded it onto SlideShare to upload to my blog. I provided pictures of the results to prove evidence of my results and then briefly concluded the results.
I also created my preliminary film video on CamStudio which illustrated my magazine step-by-step of what I had added to the magazine. I used InDesign to portray my magazine in the video, and briefly highlighted what I had made. I found this task quite fun as it was quick and easy to complete, and I gained new skills whilst doing it so it's a win-win situation!

Survey results

Using a questionnaire to collect my data had many advantages. Large numbers of people could be contacted quickly and easily, meaning that a lot of useful information could be collected efficiently. It is relatively easy to make and doesn't take too long - once finished, the respondent does most of the work! Another advantage is that it's easy to standardise, as everyone answers the same question. Questionnaires also can be used to explore sensitive material, as they can be anonymous and completed in private. This was helpful because not only did it enable me to gain more information to put into my magazine, but it also told me a lot about the target audience and what they want to see.

3 Double Page Spread Analysis

3 Double Page Spread Analysis

Analysing the 3 different double page spreads helped me in various different ways, including how I could develop these ideas and put them into my magazine. It also taught me to pay attention to every little detail, from the house style, language and the models featured right to the props in the images and the pull quotes to grab maximum attention from the reader. In the future, I will refer back to this post to get some more ideas and improve them to make my magazine to the best of my ability.

Target Audience

Proposal feedback

I found getting feedback on my proposal really useful as it allowed me to understand how my target audience would view my magazine and the ideas resolving it, and also taught me about what they'd like to see inside and how I could improve my magazine. By making small changes like this to my magazine, I will be creating a higher quality product which will resemble a real magazine and will be more appealing towards the target audience.

Production Diary Week 3

In today's lesson, I created my proposal. My proposal contains all of the ideas that I have come up with for the production of my magazine. Some of the ideas that I came up with were:

• Genre
• Frequency
• Target audience
• Content
• Mood
• Unique selling point

These factors are significant for my magazine as they are in the general conventions of a magazine and are what will make my magazine stand out amongst the crowd and sit upon the pedestal of music magazines. It is also important that I created this before creating my actual magazine because I can develop these ideas further and make the magazine to the best of my ability.

I now need to gain feedback from my peers to see what I have done well and to also see what I could improve on. This is vital for the project because I can pick up extra marks and generally make the magazine more appealing towards the target audience.

Proposal

I found that creating my proposal was a vital feature towards making my magazine. The reason for this is because this is where my initial ideas were first created, and without the proposal the magazine would crumble. It is mandatory to gather as many ideas as you can and go into great depth with the ideas so that you can make the magazine to the best of your ability, and this is one of my aims. I intend on using my proposal a lot therefore it is very necessary as it is where all of my ideas are and where I plan on adding any if I gather any more ideas soon.