Magazine U-turn

In reviewing my magazine with some media collegues I decided to abort my plans to create a multi genre magazine and went on to make a horror-specific magazine. Below are the installments to my magazine and how its different to my old multi-genre magazine.

Above was the first installment to my magazine cover, this was the picture taken and used for my background and main image of my magazine. The pciture is very scary in my opinion espcially with the eyeballs in an odd position. I discuss this picture in further detail in a seperate post on the pictures alone.

The second development of my magazine cover was the addition of the title. I changed this from "Exclusive" which feedback showed me that the title was "boring" and didn't really lure the audience in. My new title is "Exhibit" which I used and feedback proved to be much more positive than with Exclusive. To make the title stand out more I used the "Wind" effect on Photoshop to enhance the title and emphasise on that, as this is a key factor in the magazine, one of the most important, alongside the main picture.

The third stage to my magazine development although small are extremely improtant and neccesary ot any magazine. The additions to my magazine above were the date/price/issue number and a small "what's inside" shape giving out some information about what's inside the magazine.
The significance of these is important as the price is a key contributor to whether the magazine is bought or not. The price cannot be too high and has to be at an adequate rate dependent on what the consumer gets out of it, e.g. exclusive interviews, inside contents and number of pages is important to the price. The issue number and date is less important but still has to be there to allow the consumer to be aware of their possible purchase.

The final installment is the text or the catch line shown above. This is the same as in the previous magazine with the exception of a change in the style of the text. The previous style was quite hard to read and caused some strain however the new style and font is easy to read and is of the same standard as the other style.

You may notice that I have used my actor George in my poster and my female actress Ellie in my magazine and this is because I wanted to add variety to the anciallry tasks and I wanted them to stand out from each other. So I decided to have my actress on my Magazine and my actor on the poster, one critic who gave me some feedback said this may cause some confusion but most said it was fine and liked that there was some variety and distinction betweem the two media products.