Audience feedback

For my audience feedback I asked ten people of my target audience to complete a quesionnaire about my magazine and overall my feedback was good. Here are just some of the answers that the audience gave.


1. What does the title 'Rewind' suggest to you?

"That the magazine is music related,."

"That the bands inside are really good,as the front cover shows'


2. What genre/type of music does the magazine focus on and how do you know this?

' It does not say a specific genre but we know it is music related as there is a caption saying 'Exclusive interview with one of the hottest girl groups around'

3. What makes the pages look professional and what stops them from looking professional?

"The layout of the magazine makes it look professional."

"Keeping to a certain colour scheme would have made it look more professional, then again, lots of different colours make it different to magazines you usually see. "

"The photographs are good which makes it look professional."



4. How realistic does the front cover seem?
"Looks quite genuine due to the layout."

"Very realistic."

"The fact that a barcode, date, issue number etc are included makes it look genuine."
"Looks quite realistic due to the layout."


5. Does the contents page simply inform or does it also manage to interest you in reading the rest of the magazine?
"It informs but it also interests me to read the rest of it because it has included images."
"It manages to inform me and interest me to read on."

"It includes a short line about whats included so it interests me to read on."


6. Does the article sound like a piece of journalism? if not what bits do not sound right?

"Yes it does, it sounds like someone has actually interviewed a celebrity."

"Some things could be changed to ensure it sounds 100% journalistic, but overall it's really good."

7. Does the article layout make you want to read it? if not why not?

"Yes because it's in different paragraphs for different questions so you know which parts are which are its easily readable."

"The layout is good, the colours make it look more attractive and the use of image do the same.

"Yes, because after reading the text grab on the picture, it makes you want to know who he's talking about."

Analysis of contents page

This contents page is limited with 4 colours, Gold, Black, Red and white. The Gold is used entirely on the magazine’s name – ‘’ICONS’’ Perhaps this is trying to establish the importance of the word and the magazine, because Gold is a highly favoured colour often associated with Wealth and Fame. Red is used alongside black most of the time on this contents page, most probably because the colour blends very well with one another. The numbers are coloured red and alongside the contents of what is in each page which is in black. The Title of the page is not very dominant, but it is clear that this is a contents page. The word Contents is cleverly translated in to the words ‘’Departments’’ Showing how different this magazine is. The term ‘’Departments’’ is often used in clothing shops. So therefore the title ‘’Departments’’ further implies the associated of the magazine to ‘’fashion and Lifestyle’’ and the contents of the magazine. The words ‘‘Premiere Issue’’ also implies that this issue of the magazine is important. White text is used at the top with a thick black bar behind to support the colouring of the white text. The text ‘’CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD STARS & LIFESTYLES’’ also shows what the contents of the magazine is. The model on the right hand side of this contents page seems to be very fashionable, with also white and black clothing to go along with the theme of the page. Her positioning works very well with the page, because they have been able to use clever ideas such as under her arm which is holding the umbrella. ‘’WHO’S YOUR INFLUENCE?’’ with the number page on it. Clearly the woman may be some sort of influence upon people, and the magazine questions the readers.

This magazine article has been done on the group 'Muse'. The use of colour in this article helps the text stand out more so the reader will be more tempted to read it. 
    The article has a number of pictures of the group to show the reader what the group are like, and what type of image they want to portray,

RESEARCH AND PLANNING EMAP

EMAP is a media publishing company which was founded in 1947. EMAP is an abbreviation of East Midlands Allied Press. They have published many magazines and one particular music magazine that they were involved with was Smash Hits.