Unit 30 LO5
- 4. Pitch improvements Whilst I was doing my pitch I was filmed with a camera as you can see from the screenshots. Furthermore, this helped me to see what I can improve from my pitch. In addition to this, I was also observed and received a witness statement. This is important as it gives me a different perspective and what other people think I can do to improve my pitch. Moreover, some of the positive feedback I got from my pitch was that I had a well organised script. However, some constructive feedback I received was to speak louder and look at the audience more.
- 5. Risk assessment Eye dropper tool In order to maintain consistency with my colours throughout my front cover and DPS I used the eyedropper tool. This allowed me to use the same colours for my masthead and colour of the font. This is important as without it my colours would have looked inconsistent and therefore unprofessional. This would also make my magazine front cover and DPS look less appealing. Furthermore to use this you can create a colour and save and every time you would like to use it you can click on the saved colour as you can see from the image in the bottom left. When editing the images I used I had to consider factors such as if it looked the right size. This is important as you need to be careful especially with the pixilation and also I can potentially become stretched. Furthermore, I found that the most useful to in order to resize was the transform tool which is on Photoshop. To carry this out you had to hold down the shift key whilst clicking and holding on the corner of the image and then when you are at a size which you are happy with you release the corner and then release the shift. This is important as it helps you maintain a square shape and also prevents from stretching the image. Resizing an image
- 6. Survey monkey Survey monkey is what I used to gain general feedback for my pitch. It allowed me to create and send out a questionnaire for people to fill out. Furthermore this is good as it will also help me in the future to make improvements. In addition, the answers are fed back to me on this website and it allows me to see the responses from the survey that I made and can also show me the most frequent answer which therefore shows me what I need to change or improve on the most.
- 7. Feedback from survey monkey The first question I asked my viewers was what do you think I can do to improve my pitch?. The most frequent response to this was to speak louder. This will help my pitch as speaking louder will therefore allow my audience to hear the information within my slide easier which will lead to better feedback and I can improve even more from that. The second question I asked my viewers was do you think my magazine covers were appealing. Most of the responses I received were yes answers. However, this also links to another question I asked my viewers which was what do you think I could do to improve my magazine in which the most of the responses replied with change some of the cover lines in order to make the overall magazine stand out more. Furthermore, this feedback is very useful as this will therefore allow me to fix some of the aspects which have been suggested and allow my magazine to look more aesthetically pleasing.
- 8. One of the next questions I asked in my questionnaire was were my proposals detailed enough. All of the responses to this were yes. This is important as I do not need to improve my proposals. Furthermore, another question I asked what do you think I could do to improve my chosen magazine cover. Most of the responses I got to this was to improve the cover lines. This is important as I can now go back to my magazine and make it look better by improving the cover lines. Survey monkey feedback continued
- 9. Survey monkey feedback continued In addition, the next question I asked was did I have a suitable target audience. Everyone answered back with yes. This is important as it connotes that the target audience I picked was suitable when compared to my magazine. Furthermore, this is important because because in order for me to generate sales people will need to buy my magazine but if I target the right audience this means that I will be able to generate sales easier as the people who I am targeting may be more interested rather than if I just chose to not have a target audience. Furthermore, the question which followed that was what would you do to change the front cover of my magazine. This question was quite similar to one of my other ones and got mostly the same response. The question is what could I do to change the front cover of my magazine. The most frequent response was again to improve the cover lines on the front cover of my magazine. The final question I asked was did I cover everything from the mark scheme. Every response to this was yes as I had all the correct slides which were needed to complete the PowerPoint.
- 10. Pitch improvements The first thing I have done to improve my pitch is line up the cover lines. This is important as they can potentially look out of place if not lined up. Furthermore, I did this with a ruler tool by the left column to make sure that the starting point is the same. Another improvement in which I needed to do was to make to my front cover was to make the barcode bigger. This is important as also within my barcode is social media and web address. This is important because it gives my customers direction if they want to find out more information about my magazine or perhaps the extended interviews. Before After
- 11. Production plan- fixed Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Look for office space, staff and equipment. Set up all equipment and get ready to start the magazine process. Set up interviews for job roles such as editor, writer, designer and others available within the business. Set up interviews for job roles such as editor, writer, designer and others available within the business. Set up interviews for job roles such as editor, writer, designer and others available within the business. DAYS OFF DAYS OFF Complete by: 5th June Complete by: 6th June Complete by: 9th June Complete by: 9th June Complete by: 9th June Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Find someone to host on the first addition of the magazine. Find someone to host on the first addition of the magazine. Get the head writer to come up with interesting questions to ask the artist whilst being interviewed. Get reporter to go to interview the chosen artist with the questions and record the answers. Type up the interview and add it to the magazine. Take photoshoot of the chosen artist for the front cover and double page spread of the magazine. DAY OFF Complete by: 14th June Complete by: 14th June Complete by: 15th June Completed by: 16th June Completed by: 17th June Completed by: 18th June Monday Tuesday Wednesda y Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Get the reporter to investigat e more stories about the artist/hip hop in general Edit the photos taken of the artist in Photosho p to improve the image. Insert interview into the double page spread of the magazine Look for potential advertise ments you could use within your magazin e. Start integratin g other stories/ar ticles into the magazine . DAY OFF DAY OFF Complete by: 21st June Complete by: 23rd June Complete by: 24th June Complet e by: 25th June Complete by: 26th June Monday Tuesday Wednesda y Thursda y Friday Saturday Sunday Finish off designing the magazine Find some more short stories about the artist to put into the magazine Send the magazine off for production Once magazin es arrive find places where the magazin e can be distribut ed. Distribute the magazine s to stores and websites which have given you permissio n DAY OFF DAY OFF Complete by: 29th June Complete by: 30th June Complete by: 1st July Complet e by: 2nd July Complete by: 3rd July Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursda y Friday Saturday Sunday Set up social media account and advertise the magazine on it. Set up social media account and advertise the magazine on it. Product Launch Complete by: 7th July Complete by: 7th July Complete by: 8th July
- 12. Production plan continued • My production plan is a detailed plan for the development and making process of my magazine(TUNE). This includes sections of preparation such as the costs of the process and also everything to do with the chosen artist and interviews. Furthermore, another section to this plan was to do with the staff and other equipment which will be needed. In addition a lot of work needed to be put in to make sure that the double page spread was of a good standard and therefore a couple of days was to be spent on that. Finally, some of the last things within the production plan was to finish the interview with the artist and inset it into my magazine. This ia an essential part as star appeal is what most of my new customers may be interested in and may therefore generate many of my sales.
- 13. Calendar events-Improved • One area in which I will be advertising within my magazine is the upcoming festivals in the next year. This is important as many people go to these festivals and will want to find out when they are, therefore giving them another reason to buy my magazine. Furthermore, this may also include information about the previous years festivals in order to give the readers something to expect. In addition, there will also be puff promotion on the front cover of my magazine. This is to win tickets to see an artist live. This is important as my customers may be particularly interested in this and due to concert tickets being hard to get I expect that there will be some people also buying my magazine for this reason.
- 14. Chosen magazine I've decided to choose this as my favored magazine. This is because I prefer the colour scheme and overall layout. This is important as I think it is more representative to my magazine of inspiration. Furthermore, I also prefer the masthead of this magazine. This is because I think it looks more professional and would therefore stand out of the shelves of shops more.
- 15. Conclusion • Within LO5 I had to analyse the feedback of my pitch. This is important as I can then take this information and improve how I presented or how to improve some of my slides within my presentation. Furthermore, I have also was given feedback in which I read in order to help me improve my presentation.