Frankie's Evaluation Of Double Page

For my double spread page I decided to make it look different to the front cover and contents page by making the photograph black and white but felt it was important to keep to the colour scheme. I styled my artist in fairly smart clothing which is normally seen on younger males and fits the criteria of the indie rock artist I wanted my magazine to provide, I then edited the contrast to make the photograph stand out more and look more professional. I used a checkered black and white guitar strap to contrast with the striped shirt worn by the artist to make it clearer that a musical instrument had been used for the photo shoot, the contrast has a positive effect on the photograph as it makes the strap noticeable and leads the reader to look down the page to see the guitar in the hands of the artist. It look a time to capture a photo that i felt would make the magazine look more professional but by taking photographs at different angles to see which worked better with the page I was able to successfully get the photograph I wanted.
The heading for the double page represents my act as someone who wants to share his experiences with his fans and let them into his world to find out about what he has been doing since his popularity has increased.
The last answer in the interview is used to possibly create more fans based in the UK as he talks about how he is always going to stay there 'I'm always gonna stay in the UK'. Showing his sensitive side by talking about his family, this makes the audience feel that they are being trusted with the information they have been told by the artist and therefore brings them closer together.

I used a line from the interview to use as a pull quote to grab my reader's attention and make them want to read on to see why they said what they did. I think the quote targets the audience as it shows he cares about them and wants to produce music they would like and find useful for their own lives 'I really wanted people to feel they could relate to what I was saying.'

'talks to Entity about his life in music' also targets our audience as they aspire to acts like 'Vince Flynn' and are able to find out what life in the limelight is like which is an example of 'Uses and Gratifications' and allows the reader to Escape from their lives. I also use the gratification 'Entertainment' within the double page spread as the interview contains questions which need answers about other acts and the artists views on them which can be entertaining for our target audience to read about.

I followed the conventions of a typical double spread page for a music artist interview by using a dominant image to take up the space of two pages, by taking the photograph and editing it so that half of the photograph was fairly plain in background and was not the focus of the photo, it made it easier when coming to adding writing to the image as I was able to simply edit the colour so that this was made even more basic in colour and that writing would show up clearer. By using a single image it allowed me to easily connect the two pages together. I used a cover line which would summarise what the interview was about which was used by Q in their review of Kid Cudi which means that my magazine sticks to the conventions of magazines that are currently published.
So that the house style is kept throughout the magazine, I styled the double spread to match the colour scheme of the front cover and therefore keeping the continuity of our magazine.

Evalation of double spread page

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Frankie's Evaluation Of Journalism

The interview I conducted for my journalism on the double spread page of my magazine was done in a way which made the artist seem very down to earth and laid back. I didn't want them to sound rude so by making their language informal it provided an artist that would gain a positive response from our target audience.

To begin the interview I made the point that the artist had already collaborated with a well known act which immediately creates a positive image for the artist being questioned and targets our audience and the the type of music they listen too.
To include the language which would make my act seem more friendly to the readers I included speech which would lead to a playful response and laughter making him seem laid-back with the interviewing experience.

The use of musical lexis in my interview helped make the artist come across as a real song writer who was interested in the music not just the fame that came with it.

Talking about the positive feedback that the artist has received from fans when he wasn't as big as he now is shows the readers that he has talent and has worked hard to get where he is today, providing inspiration to the aspirers who will read the magazine and show that there support for his music has been recognised by him and that he appreciates it.

The whole interview is made fairly informal so that the audience feels closer to the artist as a person and see him as a friendly and outgoing individual with a fun personality. I found these conventions came up in the magazines I looked at previously when they talked about upcoming artists or contained interviews with acts to represent them in a certain way to gain approval from the target audience.

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Frankie's Preliminary to Final Production

My skills have progressed dramatically from when I created a school magazine in January. Since then I have become more aware of the work needed to make a magazine look professional and the planning which needs to go into the project in order for it to be successful.


To take the photographs I used a Nikon D3000 which instantly produced better looking photographs. I chose areas which I felt would represent the music genre my magazine was for. I looked online at photo shoots bands had been on and photographs used in interview pages in music magazines. Once I had a rough idea of the photo shoot I wanted to stage I was able to expand on the idea when I was actually at the shoot.

My photography skills have improved greatly during this project and I have learnt that taking the time to stage the photographs allowed me to improve my overall presentation for my magazine and helped me to get the best results I was capable of getting. Editing the photographs with the skills from photography that I already had was an advantage and I was able to expand on these skills further when it came to learning how to erase certain areas of the photograph in detail so that the image was of the best quality, whereas in my preliminary work I only used a simple programme called Picasa in order to change the brightness and shadows which didn't really show any obvious use of editing tools in the end result.
I used Jasc Paint Shop Pro X2 to edit my photographs for my magazine when I began my final production as the range of tools available was more varied and enabled me to edit my photographs in both complicated and simple ways to make my work stand out and show the effort I put into making my photographs look the best they could.


I used Macromedia Fireworks for designing the layout of my magazine as it provided lots of tools which were simple to use and allowed me to create a number of different layers which I could later edit separately before merging them to finally piece my magazine together. I used the Fireworks software to also complete the text which was going to be used on each page of my magazine and to then add effects which would make it look more professional. The simplicity of the tools enabled me to easily create shapes and lines in which I could write in or to section my work in order for it to be easily read by the reader.

The graphic design of my preliminary work was all done on Microsoft word and using the Paint accessory which limited my quality of work greatly as the programmes didn't contain many tools in which I could edit my work with which resulted in my school magazine looking unprofessional.

To write the journalism for my magazine I decided it would be a good idea to read some music magazines to find out how they spoke to artists in interviews and if they was formal or informal with their questions. After I had enough data to referr back to when I wrote the journalism for my double spread page I decided to also include to the personality of the model I used for the double spread page as I know them well and could incorporate my own ideas into the writing using my knowledge of what people my age and I would be interested in reading about which then allowed me to create the text for my double page.


For most of my work I had to use powerpoints to summarise the writing on my blog and to show the progress I had made whilst making the magazine. To then put these on my blog I had to use a website which I had never used before called 'SlideShare' which I uploaded my Powerpoints on to and then gained a HTML which allowed me to publish it onto my blog for people to view.

Frankie's Use Of Technology

Use of Technology

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Jamie's Evaluation of Front Cover

The artist on my front cover has a very relaxed, serious pose whilst playing his guitar, this shows that he is concentrating and is confident about his up-coming career. When the photo was taken I knew the colour scheme was a red themed magazine, so I used background colours which would make the masthead stand out. Also I had to edit the cover image to make it brighter as when it was taken on the photo shoot the lighting wasn’t very bright; this also gave the image a more professional effect.
I knew by using this image for the front cover I would have a decent amount of room for the text. During the photo shoot we made the background by sticking magazines onto the wall which made it look like a professional photo shoot. As I had a professional background to the image I did not need to crop the artist out of the image.
I made the text next to the cover artist larger than the other text as this is the important main story so it had to be larger and bolder to stand out more from the other text.

The text on the front cover represents our target audience as I included bands and acts that are popular and our target audience would enjoy which I found out via the questionnaire which was handed out. Also I included a celebrity which fits into our target audience who will be featured in the magazine. This will represent our audience as they will want to know about the celebrity which will want to make them read the magazine. There will also be competitions in my magazine, and all teens love to compete against each other!

My front cover represents my magazine being a successful as it is the first to have the latest news on all bands than any other music magazine. I show this by using the words “exclusive interview”, this connotes that popular artists will come to us about interviews rather than any other magazine. This creates a positive view on our magazine as the audience believe that we have all the first interviews on bands, this will persuade readers to buy our magazine.

The cover line “Shia LaBeouf” links to my target audience as he is a well-known actor for our age group and has starred in films such as Transformers, Disturbia and Indiana Jones, these are films that our target audience would go to see. So when they see we gave interviews with him, they recognise who he is and want to find out more which will want to make them buy our magazine.

The Uses and Gratifications theory is also used in my magazine;
Inform & Educate - a quote from the front cover that says “I was at breaking point” is explained in an interview and is informing the audience what happened. There is also a feature called 200 reviews which educates the audience on new bands.
Entertainment - there is many different band interviews and reviews which will keep the audience entertained when reading.

I have used the Utopian Solutions theory by making the audience free of boredom and giving them excitement from my magazine by features such as reviews and interviews that are included in my magazine. My magazine can also clear the audience’s confusion by telling them what music they should be listening to and giving them top bands to listen to which will offer them clarity.

My front cover has similar conventions to other magazines. To make the masthead stand out and to make it more attractive we made it red which is used in a lot of music magazines. We also combined uppercase with lowercase letters in the masthead as this is commonly used by looking at our radial analysis. One dominant image is mainly used in most magazines so we done the same thing as they are the first thing the audience see so the image has to be attractive and eye-catching. To find an estimate price for this magazine I looked at many different magazines and came to a conclusion that £3.99 is a reasonable price for a magazine of this standard, we also found this out by looking at our radial analysis. I then added the price next to the barcode along with the date to keep the conventions of a music magazine.

Front cover analysis

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Jamie's Evaluation of Contents Page

When making my contents page I needed to keep the conventions similar to any other music magazine. After studying my radial analysis we decided to make two columns of “features” and “regulars” so the content is clearly set out. Magazines such as Kerrang inspired us as they were very clearly laid out and also kept the house style.

By studying the radial analysis I found that other magazines include fourth coming events such as gigs into their contents page. This could also make the audience want to buy it to find out information about these events. The photography on this contents page has been chosen deliberately to fit the theme and style of the page. The photo was then edited to our desirability and was included as one of the features of the magazines, so I included some text explaining the picture and the band.

I represented this month’s issue of Entity in a positive way by including popular bands and artists in the features section which is more likely to attract our desired target audience. The bands also included in the features have also been interviewed so the readers will find out information they cannot find anywhere else in this magazine. Also the stories included could be left on cliff hangers and will tell the audience will be included in next months issue which will make them want to buy the next issue. The bands that I have included in my contents page fit into an era of the genre of music so the audience has a variety of different artists from old to new. I found this information by studying our radial analysis of current music. This allowed us to identify all the current popular songs to add to my features. I have kept the conventions of a music magazine by listing the current features of this magazine, but I also added a sentence beneath this heading explaining a little about the specific feature.

To make sure I hit my targeted audience I added a regular to the contents page called “Gig Guide”, in this feature the readers can check up coming gigs and information about them all, this links to my target audience as mainly gigs of our genre of music are made up of youthful people who love this kind of music, the same people who would read our magazine and will want to find out about the fourth coming event and will therefore buy my magazine. This also links to Richard Dyers theory of Utopian Solutions as the readers boredom is solved by attending these gigs/events which offer excitement. The feature “200 reviews” will offer the audience clarity as some readers will be confused about their favourite artists and this feature will offer them clarity.

Blumier and Katz Uses and Gratifications allows the feature “Entity News” informs and educates the reader on the latest news going on in the music industry such and gigs and new album releases.

Contents analysis

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Jamie's Evaluation of Double Page Spread

In my double page spread I chose my image carefully, it had to be a dominating photo but with space to the side for some text. I found a perfect photo to do this. The artist in my photo has been styled wearing informal and casual clothing; this represents him as being a much laid back artist. This style of clothing fits in with our genre of music for our magazine. The artist used in my double page spread is the same one used on my front cover but on a different photo shoot. We tried out many different photos for this page, by taking them from different angles and placing the artist on different areas of the photo. The sub-heading “the man behind the guitar” represents the artist being dedicated to him music as it implies he is always practising or singing. Also the pull quote suggests that he is also dedicated to his work as it shows he wasn’t doing so well but he kept on trying and finally made it.
The text represents the artist as being a normal guy “growing up in the city” shows he is ordinary and just like everyone else.

I have hit my target audience using the double page spread by styling my artist in the image in clothing that links to the genre of our magazine, this links to our target audience as they are also readers of this magazine therefore they will dress in the same way. The pull quote I have used in the text could also target our audience as it shows that the artist will never give up, this can also be the same for reader and have the same views as him.

The text also tells us about the life of the artist which also targets our audience as it explains how a normal person just like our target audience made it to the top, so they will want to find out how, this links to the Uses & Gratifications theory as this offers our target audience an escape from their normal lives to be like him. The double page spread also offers the audience entertainment and inform and educate as the story will entertain them and will inform them about the life of “Seth Moore”.

My double page spread follows the typical conventions of a music magazine by covering the whole double page with a dominant photo and having the artist to the side of the photo leaving a lot of the background leaving enough room for the text to go on without covering the artist. I used a heading and a sub-heading for the copy on my double page spread, I decided to do this as I found this was common amongst music magazine by looking at our radial analysis, this style was often used in Uncut and Q magazine. To keep the house style the same, I used the same colours throughout this page as the other pages which kept the continuity.

Double page analysis

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