Equipment Used

Contents Page Experimenting

I have changed the middle photo on my contents page so that it was my own, as the other was just a temporary. I wanted the photo to look like a papparazzi shot to fit with the article about 'Frankie' going solo. I edited the photo to make the contrast and brightness higher so that the photo looked more professional.

Ident Placement

I have experimented with the placement of my chosen ident in the top and bottom hand corners and I think that it looks best in the bottom right because in the top left, it takes the attention away from the photos a little bit and here it fills an empty space.

Double Page Spread Experimenting

In my teacher feedback, I was adviced to experiment with the black and white effect. However I am not so sure about it and prefer the photos all in colour as it looks more like a photobooth picture which I liked the effect of.

Here I have tweaked little parts of my article to improve it, have added a line as the crease in my double page spread, added a page number in the bottom right hand corner and added the publicist name beneath the article, which was on my to-do list.

More Front Cover Improvements...

I have added the price of £3 (the average price from my market research survey that my intended audience would pay for a magazine) to the bottom right of my magazine above the barcode.

Idents

These are three ideas for my Ident. I chose the name 'buzz productions' as it is fun and quirky, and used fun and quirky fonts to go with the name. I am going to use the top one on my contents page.

Market Research Questionaire Feedback

The price that came out most in my feedback was approximately £3, so this is the price at which I will price my magazine. People said that they would like to see interviews, music reviews, album recommendations, new music and tour info inside a music magazine and all these things besides album recommendations appear in my magazine :)
Almost all of my feedback suggested more photos of different people as a general improvement, so I have incorporated this into my contents page, adding two photos of two different people and I think this is better and more effective. Nearly all of my feedback suggested to change the background to white on my contents page, so I did this and definately really prefer this. Some of my feedback suggested changing my article to a regular article but I think that my page looks more interesting with the different style of article, so I am going to keep it as it is but maybe tweak the content a little.

To Do List

• Add price
• Experiment with black and white effect on the DPS photos
• Include the writer name on my article
• Make an ident

Contents Page Adjustments

I didn't like my original contents page at all and decided to almost completely change it. I think that this design looks more like a typical contents page and I prefer it a lot more. I have included more photos, which most of my feedback suggested, (the middle photo is at the moment just a tester picture and I will be taking my own as soon as possible), and I think this makes the page more interesting with more to look at. I added more pages onto my contents list to fill it out more, changed the colour of the 'contents' title and changed the background colour to white, like the double page spread and this was also something suggested in my feedback and I think it works really well.

Front Cover Improvements

I have changed the 'a day in the life of' text because I couldn't find anywhere that it would go that would make it clearer and easier to read, so I changed the text to 'meet...' and added 'a new starlette about town' at the top of the page to add more to the purpose of the cover photo, and to make the page look more filled out. I moved the barcode to the bottom of the page as this was some peer feedback I recieved and I prefer it here. I changed the heading colour and cover feature text colour to pink, the same colour as the models sunglasses and this adds more colour to the page making it look more interesting and bright and I prefer it like this.

Here I have changed some of the text to black because it is bolder than grey and this is some feedback I recieved from a teacher. I think that the grey goes better with the pink because they compliment each other, and I am not keen on how pink and black go together, so I think I will keep the text as grey.

Teacher's Feedback

The feedback I recieved from my teachers was:

• Alter the 'a day in the life of' text to make it more clear (consider shadowing)
• Add price of magazine
• Consider spacing of features on the contents page
• Colour of the speaker needs adjusting on the contents page
• Consider a black and white effect on the double page spread (two diagonal pictures)
• Include writer of the article

Market Research Questionaire

I will be conducting a questionaire for my target audience concerning oppinnions on my magazine and other magazines and finding out what they do and don't like.

GENERAL
1. How much would you pay for a magazine?
2. What magazine (if any) does my magazine remind you of?
3. What sort of things would you like to see inside a music magazine?
4. What improvements would you make?
FRONT COVER
1. On first look, what genre would you assume my magazine was about?
2. What do you think of my title 'Tuned'?
3. What do you like/dislike about my choice of font on the magazine cover?
4. What improvements would you suggest?
CONTENTS PAGE
1. Do you think the background colour works well or would it look better in white?
2. Does it relate to a typical contents page?
3. Do you think the subheadings work well?
4. What improvements would you suggest?
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
1. Do you like the idea of my article and is it well written?
2. Do you think my choice of fonts works well?
3. What do you think of the photograph layouts on the right side of my DPS?
4. What improvements would you suggest?

The Soloist Articles

Times Online Article

The aricle briefly explains the plot line before going on to explain the troubles The Soloist had getting into British cinemas, as it's release was pushed back behind Revolutionary Road and Benjamin Button. The article is quite criticising of the film by saying, "There’s a cringeworthy sequence in which Wright attempts to convey just how noble and unbroken the homeless man’s spirit is by intercutting his violin playing with shots of pigeons flying over LA," and saying that the film will leave you feeling disappointed. However it continues to credit the film a bit by saying, "To be fair to the makers of The Soloist, this is a true story and they evidently felt it would be improper to depart too far from the facts." Ultimately, it concludes to say that the film 'fails'.

Tribune Blogs

This article explains how Paramount pictures had a fall in advertising budgets and so decided to move The Soloist's release date back. It also had to put back a number of other films e.g 'Defiance'.

Defamer

This article explains how The Soloist was dropped as the film to open AFI Fest and replaced with 'Doubt'. AFI Fest presents a survey of the years most significant films and would have been amazing press for the film.