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I felt that the most important thing on my double page spread was the black on white contrast. I feel it needs to be this way because it needs to be easy for the audience to read otherwise they just wont read it. If the colours dont stand out well against each other it will make it difficult to read and you will lose the interest of the audience. A clear headline and an obvious quote from the text also help to get the attention of the reader and give you a good idea of the text. This is like what NME do with their double page spreads.

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Before you can attempt to attract your audience, you need to know who your audience are. The slide above lists the typical person that I believe the audience type is based on. I got these ideas from looking at a magazine I think is most similar and looking at its audience.

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It was key while making my magazine, especially the front cover, that I knew how to attract the audience. The ways I used to attract my audience are shown on my presentation. To attract my audience I first need to get their attention, this is done by using things like bold colours, clear title and clear text. Once the persons attention has been gained it is important to sell the magazine to them and things such as free offers and a well related picture help to interest the audience into buying the magazine.

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While making my magazine I used various different technologies. The main one I used to construct my actual magazine was Photoshop. I found Photoshop quite difficult to use because of all the icons and different things available to do on it, also before this project I had never previously used Photoshop. After my preliminary and practise tasks I was better at using photoshop which allowed me to use it fairly well while constructing my music magazine. I also used various music websites to make research into how to make my magazine and I used powerpoint for things like this presentation.

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Looking at the publishers, I think that the best oppourtunity for my music magazine would be with the publisher emap. As far as I could find, emap dont currently publish a major music magazine. Both Bauer and IPC both publish major magazines already and so this would be difficult for them to start to publish my magazine in the first place and then starting to compete with these magazines in terms of sales would be even harder.

Music Magazine - front page

This is the front cover for my music magazine 'The Scene'. I wanted the front covers main focus to be on the picture of Billy Lunn and I think that I have done that. The black and white fonts stand out clearly and are easy to read while they dont take away the focus from the picture. The title and information circle being in green help to blend in with the shirt Billy is wearing in the picture so they blend in rather than stand out. My only problem with the front page is the free offer square in the top right corner. The colours of it dont really go with the rest of the front page and if I had the chance to do it again I would do it with another colour apart from red.

Music Magazine - contents page

This is the contents page for my music magazine 'The Scene'. This also is a very basic layout placed on a white background to help make the pictures and text stand out. The layout of the contents page is very simple which makes it quick for the reader to find the page or pages that they want to look at. The green and white section headers make each section easy to find and then once youre on that section, the red font makes it easy for you to find the text that you want. My only problem with the contents page is that bits of it, particularly the right hand side is a bit bare. I could have done with adding a bit more information to fill it out a bit more.