Evaluation.

My magazine is called, 'ROCKAbeatz' which automatically shows a musical element. I used the basics of a magazine e.g. a head mast, captions, a primary image, offers, barcodes, prices, dates, issue number etc...
My issue is specifed on the rock; jazz/classical theme which is my speciality. I did some research on some jazz/classical magazines and took a few ideas from each and put them together to make my magazine. I thought of the 'sitting on Cello' look would make the theme stand out more.
The main photo is of the 'star' sitting on a Cello, which automatically you will notice since it's the main image on the cover, judging by that you will also straight away get the hint of it being a musical magazine. We based our magazine around the theme of Rock, we have: Jazz/Classical Rock, Indie Rock etc.. a wide variety of rock is used throughout our magazines. My magazine is on the theme of Jazz/Classical. We had many ideas in mind on how to make a classical instrument look like it is used for a rock theme. So I figured that if I had sat on my Cello rather than sit with it, this changes the image of the classical instrument. We also took this photo outside on the grass, rather than it being indoors on the floor, because this also creates a wide theme of rock in the outdoor world. My magazine features many musical themes which makes it seem more real magazine type.. e.g. "The world's worst rock band revealed!" this immediately makes the reader know that the magazine features music.
My magazine has a twist of rock and classical music, people who this magazine would represent are those who enjoy both rock and jazz/classical, who enjoy soft music with a beat. I chose to do this to help represent more than one social group, wider the variety the more this magazine would appeal to others.
My cover is aimed at those who enjoy listening to rock with a twist. The cover is aimed at any ages but preferably older teens to late 20s or early 30s, who enjoy classical music and rock. Also due to the price, only older teens+ would be able to dish out that kind of money for a magazine. My theme of a grassy open area reflects on the open and carefree world of rock. Rock has many forms as me and my group has shown. The clothing that im am wearing also represents the carefree matter, if i was to be playing in an orchestra you would not see me dressed like that. I would be suited up in black and white, the more formal wear. I used bold colours on my cover to draw the attention of the readers, I used a minimum amount of photos as possible to not drag the attention away from the text/captions, which are one ofo the main priority of the magazine.
My magazine has a yellow and green main theme as the two colour go together, this helps draw the attention of the readers to both my main photo and the heading.
What i have learnt is not to over crowd my cover because this becomes to busy for the eye to respond to, which causes the reader to not fully respond to what is going on, on the front cover.
I used a simply main photo and text which are bold over the green and short snappy captions to help the reader look at it and go, "wow! thats the magazine i'm looking for!" rather than, "oh, what? too much text. what's this magazine really about?". I've learnt how to use Photoshop in a more detailed manner, which is very useful for me and my photoshop works. Photoshop is used widely throughout the Media industry: Air-brushing, editing backgrounds, editing most stuff that can really be done to a photo to make you look 'good'. Cropping is also used a lot through editing because usually a photo of a person is taken then a photo of a setting is taken and merged together to make one photo, this becomes very handy to make the impossible, well... possible.
Creating something interesting is very important in the media industry, because creating something boring will draw no attention to it. I've now understood that over crowding a cover or not making the main photo interesting or relative to the theme will simply not gain any audience or appreciation.
What i would do differently next time will be to; retake my main photo at a different angle, because the image is making me look a bit 'fat' and slightly hunched over. Next time i would also change the colour as the whole green makes this magazine look abit like a gardening magazine.