Comments on Feedback

After I've created a pitch, a style sheet and flat plans for my magazine, I showed these to some people in my peer group in the hopes of getting some constructive feeback on my designs and how I could possiblly improve them.

The feedback that I received on my style sheets and flat pans was generally good; the people who saw it generally said they liked the colour scheme and the layout of the contents page. They was also a lot of positive feedback about my ideas of getting readers involved by using competitions and pages for fans letters and emails. There were a few constructive criticisms about my flat pans, a few people commented on my front cover saying that the second image was making the cover look crowded; I will change this by altering my flat pan for my front cover. Another issue was over that layout that I had used for my double page spread left a lot of space that left it looking a bit “empty” I will edit my flat pan to try and reduce the amount of empty space on my double page spread. Overall I was happy with the feedback I’d received on my style sheets and flat pans and will take the criticisms onboard when I come to creating my magazine to help it to become a much stronger product.

Flat plans

Here are some flat pans for my magazines front cover, contents page and double page spread. They give an idea of how my magazine will be set out, and what it will eventually look like.

Style sheet

Here is a my style sheet for my magazine it is a powerpoint presentation, uploaded using slideshare. It shows what type of fonts, photos and colour schemes I plan to use when I make my magazine;

Style Sheet

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Magazine Pitch

This is my pitch for my music magazine, it's mainly just a brief look at what my magazine will be about and what it will include:

Pitch

Soundwave is a new rock music magazine aimed at older teens and young adults within the 16-21 audience. Our readers are most likely to be white males who are either still in education or have just left education.

Soundwave will cover all types of rock music, including many of the sub-genres in order to try and cater for a higher number of readers. It will include interviews with bands, album previews and reviews and will also have interactive features that readers can get involved in such as competitions or a page for fans letters/e-mails.

The magazine style will have a “rock” feel to it, with a layout that excites the reader whilst still containing vital information for the reader. There will be an equal text to picture ratio, with the photos mainly being taken from live or studio performances.

My double page spread will be an interview with a band who are promoting the release of their new studio album, and will also be quizzed on what it’s like to tour and play sell-out gigs.

Soundwave's Ideal Reader

Kevin is 19 years old; he is a young white male who is in his first year at university. Despite being in full time education, Kevin still has time for his music, he enjoys going to gigs in his local area and seeing the newest unsigned bands on the local music scene. In the summertime he makes sure to attend at least one of the UK’s big rock music festivals. Kevin has been a fan of rock music for as long as he can remember, he is very loyal to bands that he likes and is often seen listening to his iPod. When Kevin isn’t at uni or listening to music, he is playing it instead, being a guitarist in a band who play small scale local gigs, the bands he listens to inspire the music him and his band play. Kevin has a lot of respect for the bands he loves even all the way to influencing the clothes that he buys. Despite this Kevin knows the importance of individuality and being himself no matter what anyone else thinks, it is this sort of rock fan with the “I don’t care what other people think" attitude that is Soundwave’s ultimate reader.