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evaluation

Before even starting on my main task, I had to do a preliminary task that would help boost all my skills I needed to do well with my music magazine. For my preliminary task we had to make a school magazine. This was useful to get an idea of how to structure both a front cover and contents page, it was also useful in practising the skills I needed to use photoshop well and get the best out of it.

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My genre of music that I wanted to focuse my magazine on was indie. So before I started my magazine I needed to research into a magazine that also focused on the same genre of music. The biggest magazine in the country for this kind of music is New Musical Express (NME). Researching this wasnt that hard as I usually read the magazine anyway, but I took a deeper look at how they structure things within the magazine and the sort of language they use.

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Before I could start the production of my magazine I needed to look at the history and present of a music magazine that I hadnt previously done much research into. For this I looked at Q magazine. This would help because you need to have an idea of the history of a magazine to understand why it does the things it does in the modern day and how they came to publish things on that genre/genres of music.

The front cover is essential to get the audiences interest, this is has to be eye catching and sum up that issue of the magazine otherwise the audience will never even think about buying the magazine. You need a clear title and listed features so that people get an instant feel of what the magazine is and what is inside that weeks issue. The picture is key to representing what kind of magazine it is and showing what is the main feature without having to even read the contents, title or any of the feature inside.

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For me, the sole purpose of the contents is to help the reader find what they want quickly and easily. So for this reason it needs to be as easy to read and understand as possible to help the reader find what they want. The plain background make it easy for people to read and the bold heading helps split up the contents into sections which makes it even easier to find what you want, this is very similar to what they do in NME.

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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.