Diary

Finally everything has gone up, perhaps a little later than I would have liked it to. Finishing the work wasn't the issue but a couple of technical problems postponed me being able to put the final bits up. I'm quite happy with the way everything turned out, but I have learnt that I really have to pay attention and be careful as I am creating everything to prevent making silly mistakes and wanting to changes things later.

Magazine After Final Editing

I have been through the editing process of these three pages again and again and again and now I finally made it the best it could be with the resources I had (I know I have said that a couple of times already, but this time I know it's true). Here is the front cover:

The contents page:

And the double page spread:

Magazine After Editing

Here is my the front cover, the contents page and the double page spread of my magazine after I did some editing.

Evaluation

Evaluation from judymilner001

Challenges Facing the Magazine Industry

A big challenge that I feel is facing the lack of available content for magazines, for example let's look at the biggest media event of the summer: Miley Cyrus's performance and the VMAs (Video Music Awards).

This was big, everyone had heard about this. It was covered on every network, it was all over the internet and all the magazines and newspapers were talking about it.

Supposing this (or something similar to this) had happened 40/50 years ago, when it would not have been shared quite so easily. Modern advances help information travel so quickly these days, video sharing websites and social networks, but without them this performance would have only been seen by  a very small amount of people. This is where magazines come in, they would help people who didn't see the outrageous event by explaining it too them. While some magazines still do this, it's very brief and probably skipped by the readers. By not being able to explain what actually happened you miss out on anything actually substantial or interesting to know. A lot of the articles covering Miley Cyrus's performance were double page spreads full of screen shots of her performance and various reactions to what happened. The usual reaction of this from the reader is this: 'Ha. They know that happened. I know that happened.' and then they move on when they've given the not-so-exclusive photos a two-second glance.
The internet is brimming with with everything that magazines cover, which really doesn't leave anything new for them to cover. So, the challenge for them is to find some interesting content which almost no-one else knows much about, the only problem is that doing that is pretty much impossible.

Lifestyle Questionnaire Results

I asked four people to take my lifestyle questionnaire: two girls and two boys. These are the results I got:

1) Which of the following age brackets are you in?:

      (16 and under)    (17 - 20)   (21 - 26)    (27 - 30)   (30+)
2) Do you or have you ever owned an iPhone?
       Yes             No
3) Do you invest money in good quality headphones?
       Yes            Sometimes         No
4) How many concerts/gigs would you say that you attended per year?:

       1 - 5             6 - 10            11 - 15       16 - 20        20+

5) Which genre of music out of the following do you prodominently listen to?

        Pop            Rock         Metal         Classical        Hip-hop/Rap

6) How many hours per day would you say you listened to music? :

       0 - 1hr        2 - 3hrs       4 - 6hrs         7hrs+ 

7) What do you think of the name 'ACID' for a metal magazine?

       Terrible         Bad             Okay          Great         Excellent

8) What do you think of the colour scheme of this cover?

       Terrible         Bad             Okay          Great         Excellent

9) What do you think of this issue's cover photo?

       Terrible         Bad              Okay         Great         Excellent

10)  Do you think that the price of this magazine (£2.50) is fair?

       No             Maybe            Yes              

Girl 1: (16 and under), Yes, Yes, 6-10, Rock, 4-6hrs, Excellent, Great, Great, Yes
Girl 2: (17 - 20), No, No, 6 - 10, Rock, 4 - 6hrs, Great, Great, Great, Yes
Boy 1: (21 - 26), No, Yes, 11-15, Metal, 4 - 6hrs,  Excellent, Great, Great, Maybe
Boy 2: (17 - 20), Yes, Sometimes, 6 - 10, Classical, Great, Okay, Great, Yes

From this information I can tell that Boy 1 is within my target audience.

Double Page Spread

This is my completed double page spread. I tried out using more than one image but I couldn't find a way to make it look right. As for the text I'm not too disappointed, I've seen plenty of interviews written in this format, the only problem is that I would have liked to add some more questions, but this is the exact volume of text that I wanted.