Part 3 of my media evaluation
- 1. How did you attract/address your audience? What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- 2. In order to attract an audience I had to make sure my front page was crammed with exciting information that just reached out of the pages towards the potential audience. I used a brightly covered logo within my masthead to make it stand out in contrast to not only the white background but I included a competition onto the page to most other coloured lure fans of the mentioned band to purchase backgrounds for future issues. the magazine in order for them to have the It is easily recognisable and is big and bold for easy visibility chance to win the limited edition from a distance. It had been merchandise. placed on the left third of the magazine cover in order to be seen when on a magazine shelf.
- 3. On the double page spread I displayed and highlighted two quotes said from the band member within the interviewer I used two powerful statements that are very provocative to a potential reader when noticing them due to the extreme emotional subject matter displayed within the statement. By viewing this the audience will be enticed into reading the whole article in order to find out the meaning behind these strong statements.
- 4. On the contents page I have given a brief paragraph from one of the main articles. I have included this as this small segment will give the audience a taste of what is to come further on inside the pages. If a passer by is just skim reading the contents page when choosing to buy it or not they may glance at this paragraph and decide that they want to purchase the magazine in order to continue and read on. We all know how strong human curiosity can be. I have also highlighted the two main articles within the magazine in order to quickly show the audience which two bands have made it into the Kapoosh headlines that week. So at a glance the audience is aware that there is a big story on their favourite bands and will want to read all about them.
- 5. From this exercise I have learnt many things about various publishing technologies. For starters i learnt that Microsoft Publisher severely lacked room for creativity. Everything was in a template and the fonts/colours were very bland and not a lot could be done with the text. I personally felt as if publisher was very restricting in how far you could go when creatively trying to make your own magazine cover, you could not adjust fonts into more artistic creations and images could not be edited at all using publisher. However I found comic life which was an excellent tool for creating my magazine, it provided various exciting and creative editing choices for both text and images. It was easy to make your own template and I feel it allowed you to experiment more with different looks. I also learnt a lot about the use of Adobe fireworks which proved invaluable when editing my images. It allowed me to airbrush my pictures, duplicate areas or even change the image completely with various visual effects and colour changes.