Media Evaluation

Media evaluation

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Finished Two Page Spread

Finished Contents Page

Finished Magazine Front Cover

Audience reaction to magazine front cover

To get a better idea on how my target audience (15- 25 year olds)will react to my product I decided to put a near completed version of my magazine cover on the social networking site Facebook. As all the people who commented and liked it are in this boundary and do like the genre that this magazine would be about, I can get a good idea on whether it would be well recieved on the market. Due to the positive reaction to it, I know that my product is a success.

Extra details- CD cover

For my media product I decided that to make it more convincing as a music magazine I would have to include a CD cover for the artist featured in my interview. In the interview, I have detailed that both his fictional second album and the background on the front cover were drawn by the artist, so I decided I would hand draw the CD cover. I decided to name it Styx, after the river in Greek mythology that leads people to hell.


my initial drawing















My finished CD cover that will appear in my two page spread. I have also developed a Deluxe edition version of the cover, but I have decided to use the normal version in the final product;


























And this is my audience reaction to my CD cover on the social networking site Facebook

Background of Front Cover- Inspiration

After cutting out my picture I was left without an appropriate background. I needed one as without it, the cover would look less refined and less like one that would be sold on the market. I thought the gradient and fill effects for the background on Photoshop looked too amateur and more to a GCSE standard, so I chose against that. I decided to make a good background for it I would have to take a picture of something, but all the pictures I took didn't look appropriate for the magazine I was making. In the end, I took inspiration from The Mighty Boosh star Noel Fieldings book Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton, in which he uses a variety of self drawn doodles and scribblings as backgrounds for images. To mimic this effect, I scribbled various drawings on a wipeboard and built up a large image. After finishing, I took a picture of it. Here is an unedited version of the image and the book I took inspiration from: