Production Diary

I have created the production diary to help me stay up to date with the work for creating my magazine cover, contents and double page spread. The diary will simple help me to have specific dead lines to stick to and achieve. 

Task	Start date	End date
Drafting	22/11/2012	22/11/2012
Photo shoot one	24/11/2012	24/11/2012
Photo editing	28/11/2012	2/12/2012
Photo shoot two	1/12/2012	2/12/2012
Photo editing	5/12/2012	5/12/2012
Photo shoot three	10/12/2012	11/12/2012
Photo editing	12/12/2012	12/12/2012
Uploading chosen photos to blog	15/12/2012	15/12/2012
Producing designs for front cover	17/12/2012	18/12/2012
Inputting photos	19/12/2012	20/12/2012
Inputting text	20/12/2012	20/12/2012
Merging all elements together	22/12/2012	13/02/2013

Photo shoot location mood board

Layout mood board

Double page spread mind map

Contents mind map

Cover mind map

Questionnaire results

Questionnaire Analysis

Question 1

What gender are you?

From this chart you can that the questionnaire was answered by the same amount of men as women to keep the questionnaire fair and unbiased.

Question 2

How old are you?

I asked students in my class to answer the questionnaire and my friend’s younger brother. That is why the age range is so limited and not varied. This does limit the variety of answers a bit but my magazine was going to be aimed at the younger generations anyway.

Question 3

When buying a music magazine, what genre would interest you the most?

From the results of this chart you can see the most popular genre of music that the people would be interested in reading about. The answers are not that amount of people for each answer is that far apart, this shows that the there is a lot of variation in the genres the public would like to read about. The most popular genre for the public to read about is clearly D ‘n’ B, because of this question I will base my magazine on the genre Drum & Bass

Question 4

Out of these four music magazine covers, which layout do you prefer?

From the answers to the questionnaire you can see that the most popular layout is for the Vibe magazine. The layout is very simple with just a main image and a bold masthead; this is to attract the reader’s eye. The simple layout of this cover makes it very easy for the reader to identify the key points of the magazine before they buy it.

Question 5

Out of these four colour schemes, which do you prefer?

The results of this graph show that most people would generally prefer a simpler and contrasted colour scheme rather than one that consists of the same sort of colours. This is probably because the bold and contrasting colours make the magazine cover and all pages a lot more interesting to look at compared to one that consists of lots of the same colour.

Question 6

How often do you purchase a music magazine?

From these results you can see that most people either buy a music magazine never or once a month. This shows us that the magazine should be released on a monthly basis because not many people buy a magazine once a week rather than once a month.

Question 7

How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?

From these results most people expect to pay £3-£4 for a music magazine, because of these result I will make the music magazine 50 pence cheaper than £3 so that more people will be inclined to buy it. This will hopefully boost the sales of the music magazine and help make the magazine better.

Question 8

Do you prefer a simple or busy front cover of a music magazine?

This pie chart shows that most people would prefer a simple music magazine to a busy one this is probably because they will be a lot easier to read the front cover if it is not full of information and images. Because of this the cover of my magazine will be quite simple and not very busy as to make it seem a lot simpler.

Question 9

Out of this selection which musical aspect would you prefer to read about?

From this graph you can see that most people would prefer to read about solo artists in the magazine. For this reason the magazines articles will mostly be about solo artists inside the decided genre, but some of the articles will be about bands and other aspects of the genre so the magazine has a bit of variety.