Evaluation Question 6

 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I started off by using simpler technologies which were easy to use but more interesting than just pictures and words. In the research and planning stages I used presentational devices such as Prezi to present my research into the actual contents of a contents page i.e. the information that is included - 

 http://rubyrhodeswgsbmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/contents-page-content.html

 I also used SlideRocket to present my double page spread article -
http://rubyrhodeswgsbmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/double-page-spread-q.html

In addition to these, I used an online bar chart so that I could present my findings of my research into deciding which magazine title would be best -
http://rubyrhodeswgsbmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/magazine-title.html

As well as these I also used, bubbl.us, polljunkie, glogster, evernote, authorstream, and I also made my own online barcode for the cover of my magazine.

I then used iMovie to make a video where I have inserted pictures and some recordings of me speaking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdA60FHzGZc 

Evaluation Question 3

 The lad mags magazines and music magazine industry have their circulation figures dropping at a rapid pace year on year. The music magazine industry is a tough place to be due to the proliferation of titles (this one of the reasons to why lads mags began to close) with so many similar titles offering the same content. Also in the digital era, it is free to go on the internet to find the information offered by magazines such as tour dates.

With Q magazine (published by Bauer Media Group), it is now currently the worst performer in the industry with 20% sales decline each year. This personally puts me off going with this publisher because if a well known magazine is failing, it makes me worry to how successful my magazine will be with getting off the ground. Despite this one magazine dropping in figures, other magazines of which are produced by Bauer such as Kerrang! has a steady downfall rate of 4%, this is worrying but with all the technology at peoples fingertips it's to be expected. The fact that another Bauer published magazine MoJo is doing fair better with only losing 2.4% off their circulation figures gives me the idea that this magazine has something about it that keeps readers interested; this may be the content or the style/genre of music it offers.

Within IPC Media, NME is also suffering heavy losses with its circulation figures being down 13% year on year. This brings wonder to why Loaded would be planning to launch a new weekly women's title in 2013. Their justification to the matter is that it will not have the content of which causes the proliferation of titles. It also argues that it fits the gap in the market by offering content which isn't similar to Heat (celeb obsessed), an iPhone version and by having its target audience being 18-25 year olds. This magazine gives me confidence that my music magazine could be launched successfully. 

Pages Edited into Final Pieces

This is my front cover of which I received my feedback on therefore I worked with it in order to get a better cover:

 

This is my cover during the cover construction process. I feel that I need to add some design elements:

I feel that this layout didn't work and that there was too much white space therefore I edited this by adding new coverlines which included both music and other lifestyle issues and changing them around.

This is my contents page of which I received feedback on; I have edited accordingly:

From my feedback I edited the contents but I still feel that I need to get rid of the white space:

This is the DPS in which I got my feedback on:

 

Taking the feedback into consideration I edited it to this. The bottom photo is my final DPS. 

Original Photos

Cover:

Contents:

 

Double Page Spread: