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After doing my research in the beginning I looked at other magazines, their style and what company publishes them. This was useful as it helped me decide if my magazine was to be published who would be the likely company to do so.
One company that I think would publish my magazine would be IPC. This is a media publishing company that has many magazines in it's net work, one in particlular being NME magazine. It has many other different styles of magazine like home, fashion and sport magazines but I think a music magazine is the one that stands out the most.
I think that IPC would distribute my magazine because it is slightly different to NME, they a more of a Rock based magazine and mine is focusing on a particular genre (Acoustic). This makes it individual and interesting. Also my magazine focuses on the new young talent of this generation where as NME focuses on the big celebrities and worldwide known music stars.
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CONCLUSION
Overall I am very pleased with my final project, I feel as though I have created something that my target audience expected and also I have kept to my theme and original sketches of what each page would look like. There have been a few things that I have changed but only to make it look and work better on the page.
I think the key strengths of my work are definitely the images that I took, even though my front cover image is not close up like most magazine covers I like it on the front because it is slightly different and would stand out on the shelf it was to be published. I have still followed the typical element of using my featured artist on the front to attract my target audience and immediately show who is featured. Also the subheadings do this to add extra information.
On the conents page I have added more about what is inside the magazine as this is the purpose of a contents page. However after creating my final product and publishing it onto blogger I have realised that I have used the title 'cover stories' on the contents but the features under this are not the same as the features on the front cover. This is one error that I would correct if I had the time to do it again. However the contents page still works well and still serves it's pupose of informing the reader.
I think another strength of my magazine is the editors note on the contents page. Not all magazines have one of these but the ones that do I think seem to get read more. This is because an editors note makes the magazine personal to the reader and gets them involved in thinking about the themes of the magazine.
I am really pleased with my two page spread article that I wrote and created myself. I think that the style of the article is very chatty and laid back which is what I think my target audience would want to read. They are not the type of audience who read broadsheet newspapers, they would prefer a more journalistic, tabloid style read. I think I have achieved this by asking questions about girlfriends and fame and all the other things that would be typically in a tabloid magazine.
One error that I have realised is that I havn't included a barcode on the front of the magazine, this is something that I did include on my preliminary task. However looking at my front cover I dont think that a barcode would look right, I think it would make the page look messy. If this was to be a published magazine I would probably include the barcode on the back of the magasine or the spine, this would keep it out of the way and not obvious so it doesn't ruin the image on the front.
I think I have learnt a lot after creating this magazine, with the technologies I have used and also the style of writing a journalistic article and creating a magazine that suits my target audience. It has been a lot of work but I am pleased with the result.
