Evaluation-Conclusion

I think at the end of this project I have done reasonably well in creating ‘Soundwave.’ I tried to make the magazine as real to an actual magazine as possible, I think that ‘Soundwave’ could possibly be sold in a shop after a little bit more work and refining. The overall success of ‘Soundwave’ would be based on whether anyone would actually buy the magazine in a shop; this is hard to measure as I cannot actually market it in any major shops. However I think the cover of the magazine is quite eye catching and look reasonably authentic. This is because of the amount of time I spent making sure the cover was detailed and as close to a professional looking magazines such as ‘mixmag’ that I could, I found the only real challenge was learning to use Photoshop from scratch. During this process I have learned a lot about the form and structure of magazines from looking at authentic magazines, but it has also helped me to become more creative with the space provided on the pages, I really enjoyed the challenge of putting all of the relevant information on a page and playing around with different styles and layouts until it looks great. The double page spread was my favourite page to produce and I do think it shows with the unique but easy to read design of the article. Overall I think ‘Soundwave’ if it was to be produced and sold in a shop would attract the target audience of drum & bass music. This is because of its unique and slightly dark and dingy front cover. It is also quite a unique magazine from many others that soecialise in unique genres because of the different colours and designs I used while creating it, but mostly I am very pleased with how authentic ‘Soundwave’ looks compared to real magazines of a similar genre.