Media Evaluation

LINKS BELOW DO NOT WORK ON POWERPOINT (ALL OTHERS DO) http://meganmailidomedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/mojo-magazine-analysis.html Link 1 Analysis of Mojo Magazine // http://meganmailidomedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/codes-and-conventions-task.html Link 2 Codes & Conventions Task //

Drafting & Planning: Front Cover

For my final front cover I only needed to make one change.
I changed 'Lana Del Rey's New Album: Ultraviolence is here' to 'Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence is here' as it was too informative. By changing it I have made sure that the cover line is demanding and 'out there' like it is brand new whilst also sounding like Lana Del Rey has a quality in her that has arrived alongside her album. It is very forward.

Drafting & Planning: Researching Album/Single Reviews

On the contents page, there are two sections which features Single and Album Reviews. I have included made up bands and also real life bands in them.
Instead of just making up random ratings out of 5 for all of them (excluding made up bands/songs) I researched each album and what different websites had given them out of 5. I collected the data from different websites to see which rating had the most votes and then placed that data in my own work.
I used websites such as www.billboard.com and www.rollingstone.com to help me investigate the ratings of albums such as Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence, Marilyn Manson: Pale Emperor, Fall Out Boy: American Beauty / American Psycho and Bob Dylan: Shadows in the Night.
For my made up bands/songs I decided that having higher ratings near the top would be the wisest idea as those songs as the top are featured at the top of the "Top 10" for a reason and when going down to 10 I made sure the ratings out of 5 stars were lowered.
I used golden stars for the ratings as it is typical to see the stars in some online versions of magazines and in newspapers. I incorporated this idea into my work so that my contents page has it's own style of uniqueness and so that it was not fully influenced by one magazine. 

Evaluation

I am currently 3/4 of the way through my evaluation and aim to finish by tomorrow :-)

Drafting & Planning: Double Page Spread

I finished my double page spread a week ago and have only changed a few things. I made the page numbers white with a red background to fit with the red colours throughout the magazine. I also moved the quote into the middle of the questions to make it look more neat and clear.

Drafting & Planning: Final Draft Contents Page

For my final draft contents page I have added more pages and added more red lines underneath my features. I got this design idea from my inspiration, Q and have incorporated their ideas into my own. I have also added some section that are highlighted and are more noticeable than others so that it attracts the readers attention. By doing these small sections it also gives readers easy access to top things featured rather than turning to the page in the magazine in case they only want to look at certain things. I also added stars for ratings out of 5 so that it is easy to see the ratings rather than flipping to the page it is easily accessible. and it looks more professional and typical for the section.I also made the font bigger on the "This week in INDI..." so that it stands out and it is clear that it is a weekly magazine. Finally I added a page number "3" which is typical in most magazines and is an obvious feature. 

Drafting & Planning: Front Cover

I think I have finished my draft front cover and I'm actually pleased with it so I think that this could be my final front cover. I haven't changed much of it since I first did it but I took out "into" from my main cover line so that it says "THE LIONHEARTS STORM THE MUSIC INDUSTRY" rather than "THE LIONHEARTS STORM INTO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY" as it sounds more like they've rolled in and just taken it as a whole. 

On my front cover I have kept the colours of red, white and black consistent and they are also consistent throughout the entirety of my magazine. All of the artists featured in my cover lines are featured in my contents page.