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Evaluation

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Audience Feedback

After producing my final work, I asked ten people who come under my 'target audience' to take part in a questionnaire to establish if my audience liked my final work, what they thought was effective, and what they thought could be improved. My questionnaire consisted of eight questions, and here is the feedback I recieved!

Question One - What does the title 'Clash' suggest to you?

- Noise and clashing of different genres of music

- Individuality

- The band 'The Clash'

- Music, something crazy and cool

- Gossipy magazine, clashing of personalities

- Colour, in your face, loud

- Mixture of two opposing elements e.g. women and rock music. The two opposites clash together creating excitement.

- Young people, teenage girls

- Noisy, in a good way!

- Bin lids clashing together

- Clashing of personalities, vibrant and exciting

Question Two - What genre of music do you think the magazine focuses on?

Only 10% of my target audience misconstrued my intentions of a particular genre, however, even the 10% was pretty close. The other 90% interpreted my  magazine's genre as I had hoped, and 50% got it spot on!

Question Three - How do you know it was this genre?

- The bright colours

- Lots of colour, fonts looked quite edgy and indie

- Indie/Rock fonts and images

- The feature article looked really indie, the neutral colours and model's costumes showed this.

- The pink, purple and yellow on the front cover looks pop/rock

- Fonts and colours

- Bright colours and images

- The pictures of the band look indie, but the girl on the contents and front page looks rock, so I think its indie and rock

- The title sounds rock, and the colours and images look indie rock

- Colourful, busy, funky, indie

Question Four - What makes the pages look professional and what stops them from looking professional?

PROFESSIONAL

- The border, the pictures are amazing, especially the contents page image. 

- Letter from editor, photo editing, believable!

- Bright colours, barcode and price

- Interesting article, readable font, easy to read

- Good layout, photo editing, barcode, text grab in feature article, big photo

- Page numbers, very professional layout, big titles, very genuine

- Varying colour schemes but the pages are connected

- Colours, layout

- Genuine layout, pictures are nice

- Page numbers, bar code, different font sizes in article, pictures, colours

UNPROFESSIONAL

- Some fonts are a little unclear, such as 'Letter from editor' font

- Bunny ears on front page seem a little over the top

- Text falls out of box in one place

- Font on contents page looks a bit childish

- Text coming out of the box isn't right, looks accidental, doesn't work

- Its good, only flaws have already been pointed out!

- Nothing else to say, I really like it

- I don't think anything makes it look unprofessional

- Text falling out the box

- Text overflow

Question Five - How genuine does the front cover seem?

Question Six - Does the contents page simply inform or does it also manage to interest you in reading the restr of the magazine?

- Makes me want to read on, I love the Killers!

- Letter from the editor was very persuasive

- I want to read all of it, it sounds really good!

- Its tempting, I want to read more!

- Its informative, but still makes me want to read on

- Definitely want to read on

- Encourages to read on, particularly mentioning certain artists, Modest Mouse!

- I want to read on

- The artists that I know will be featured later on definitely makes me want to read on

- Yes, I want to read on, it sounds interesting

Question Seven - Does the article sound like a real piece of journalism? If not, which bits don't sound right?

- Its good

- Its real and beleievable

- Good

- Sounds very real

- Sounds very journalistic

- Professional sound and tone to writing

- Yes it sounds genuine

- Yes, its good

- Sounds very real

- Genuine

Question Eight - Does the article layout make you want to read it? If not, why?

One person who said yes also revealed that the text grabs really get your attention and interests you.

Informal Evaluation

Overall, I am really happy with final project, it has turned out a lot better than I originally planned. At first I thought I'd really struggle, especially because I'd never used the software before and didn't really know what to expect, but once I eventually understood the basics of photoshop, I managed to create some really nice pictures, which I felt were very typical of my music genre, but still very individual and quite quirky. The different images on each page tie in with the particular theme of each page, for example, the picture on the front cover is attention grabbing, and I hope, sells the product, which is what front pages are meant to do! The models' poses and the use of direct address all attract attention to the magazine, and would hopefully help to sell the magazine if it was published. I also really like my colour scheme on the front page, the use of pink, yellow, black and purple catches the eye, and looks young, funky and typical of the Indie 'look at me' style. The black over the top of the purple paint splodges reinforces the 'rock chick' style which I also wanted to represent.

I also like the contrast between the different pages, and what the different colours and images suggest and promote. The feature article uses simple black and white for the text, with naturalistic and sepia toned images, seemingly suggesting calm, cool, easy-listening indie tunes. In contrast to this, the front page suggests louder, more vibrant music, due to the bright colours, busy layout and eye catching images, and the rainbow coloured header image of the contents page suggests more funky, indiepop.

I'm also pleased with my feature article, to me it sounds believable, and is easy to read. It sells the band well and promotes their album and tour. However, there are a few aspects of the magazine, the front cover in particular has a couple of flaws which I didn't realise until after I'd completed the work! Because I spent a lot of time editing my pictures, the production of my magazine was a little rushed, and so my final work suffered, because it meant I didn't have the time to do trial prints to make sure that there weren't any flaws. Time management would definitely be something to improved on if I was given another opportunity, as I feel this was my main weakness. However, overall I am very pleased with my final work!

Feedback 2.2.10

Please evalute informally the finished project. Then post your audience testing findings, use charts, summarise and reflect on them. You couls also scan i a completed questionnaire to exmplify your research.

Mrs A

Final Work

Here are my finished pages :)

Reader Profile

Being my usual ditsy self, I just realized I hadn't published a post I had saved a while ago! However, here it is, better late than never! This is a profile of what I expect a typical reader of my magazine to look like. I did it in the style of a social networking site, because your profile is a really good way to express yourself.

Click to enlarge and read my "witty" stereotypical summary of my target reader!

Feature Article

After many, many drafts, I've come up with my finished article for my magazine! Here it is!

They're new. They're hot. They've sold a half a million copies of their new single 'Just another wasted youth' just in the UK. They are The Station.

Their catchy, indie rock tunes have been played nonstop by the nation for the past 6 months, and they still haven't stopped! It seems our country has fallen in love with the three indie-cindys that make up The Station, and their totally unique sound and style which has taken over the face of Indie as we used to know it by storm.

"Fame will never go to our heads" said lead singer and guitarist Jas at their first ever, exclusive interview with CLASH! magazine. And despite their success, wealth and public attention, this statement seems to be true. The three girls are really down to earth in the interview and talk to us as if we were old friends. Ha, we wish! "Even if nobody listened to us, we'd still be making music, to us this career is all about our passion for music, although all the attention is a bonus!" laughed Leah, the drummer in the group, who has made it clear on many occasions that she loves al the media attention she’s been getting. “Ever since I was little I always knew this is what I wanted to do, I feel like I was born to do this! A lot of people moan about the paparazzi constantly chasing them, but I love it! Its mental!” It seems Leah is entirely comfortable in the public eye, particularly now with the controversy of her newest (of many) relationships with rock stars. Leah was recently pictured looking more than just a little worse-for-wear on a number of occasions within the space of a month, each time with new arm candy. "Most of them are just really good friends!" she said, "The paps have made look stupid, it doesn’t bother me, as long as my real friends aren't fooled by all the crap that’s been published about me. I’m not bothered if the papers are saying I party too hard, at the end of the day, I’m eighteen, I’m doing a great job that I love, why shouldn’t I be celebrating!?"

Despite Leah's words being serious, the girls did have a giggle about the amount of boys Leah has been seen with. "Leah's the feisty one in the group.Me and Jas are really well behaved in comparison!" laughed Kimmy. "Thats why Leah plays drums; so that she gets to bash things really hard! Its just her way of releasing her agression!" It was great to see how close the girls were, and despite Kimmy's teasing, it is obvious how much they love each other! "I can't imagine making music with anyone else" said Kimmy, who plays bass guitar. "The girls and I are like sisters. We've known each other for so long it'd be wrong if we weren't making music together now!"

And the story of how they met is an interesting one as well, believe it or not, the three rock and roll divas were in their local youth orchestra in their home town in Essex, very hardcore! Jas and Kimmy were already close friends, Jas played the violin and Kimmy played the double bass, so they joined the orchestra together when they were thirteen years old, and it was at their weekly rehearsals in the cold, damp church hall where they met Leah, who played percussion. Despite playing only classical music, the girls all shared a passion a more modern sound, and formed the band first when they were just fourteen, playing covers of old rock tunes by The Rolling Stones (yes, really!) and The Stranglers, which Jas later revealed was the band that 'inspired' their own individual sound. "I first heard the Stranglers when I was nine years old, and I instantly fell in love their unique sound. I wanted to recreate that sound in a modern, up-to-date way that every teenager would listen to. I must admit I think were doing kinda well!"

Kinda well is an understatement, at just seventeen and eighteen years old the girls have been signed by Island Records, one of the UK’s biggest labels, and have had three numbers ones in just one year! And there’s more, The Station will be releasing their debut album very shortly, and are so popular that the tickets for their tour in the summer have almost sold out! “Nothings official yet, but were hoping to put on some more shows, because the tickets practically all sold out within a week of being on sale! It was an amazing feeling to know that our fans wanted to come and see us! We've had so much support, we feel so lucky, and we’re so grateful for everything, to all our fans and all the people who've helped us get to where we are today."

The Station’s debut album “Unleashed” will be available for download on Tuesday 26th of January.