Evaluation of the finished magazine

This is my finished magazine;
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BxS1If16SbtVNTc4NGQ5OWQtN2M3YS00NzM0LWJlMDEtNDkzNjgxY2MxYzdj&hl=en this link takes you to Google documents so my finished magazine can be viewed.


Here is a powerpoint version of my evaluation of my magazine;
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BxS1If16SbtVN2E3MDg3NmQtNGQzYy00ZjI1LWIzZjEtNTkyMjE1ZjRhYWIw&hl=en

Planning and evaluation of the article

Below are two articles from different magazines; Top of the pops and Smash Hits, I am going to examine how they use language, what tone they are writing the article in and what type of article it is, for example an interview or review etc.

Top of the pops;


This article is written in the form of an interview, asking questions to the band and the answering them, this is a fairly common form for articles either because its a new and upcoming band or the band have been 'away' or out of the media for a while and are coming back, which is what the interview in this magazine is for.
The tone of this article is quite informal, chatty and humorous as its written for the younger generation so therefore it tends to be cheesy in pop magazines for example, "Ouch! Danny, did you manage to get a tan?"

The use of language is very flowing as if it was a casual conversation between two people, this is a positive for this genre of magazine because it will be engaging to the target audience. They have also asked questions about the bands time away in Australia, this means that the readers will be able to get in an insight into what they don't know, which will encourage people to by the magazine and increase sales. I have used this in my own magazine by stating in the article that this is the first official interview that the band have given.

Another pop magazine article I looked at was;

This magazine article is in the form of an interview also, the author is interviewing the Jonas Brothers on their new film Camp Rock. It uses language such as 'Hello campers' to create a friendly tone and engage the reader into the article. And also alliterations to add interest to the article. The target audience of this magazine is 11-15 years old, the language used fits this target audience because its not complex and is engaging the readers (mainly females) by asking the right questions, and questions the readers will want to know the answers to.

Finally here is the draft of my interview for my magazine, I edit anything when I typed it up for my finished magazine; http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARS1If16SbtVZGM0ajh3Z3ZfMGN4Zzc4bmo0&hl=en

Photo editing

I chose to edit my photos that I had taken as I would prefer them to have plain white backgrounds, instead of the original background, this is because it improves the appearance of the pictures and also adds the effect of the girl band being in a photo shoot, with a white backdrop. I edited the photos in Adobe Photoshop.

I did this by using the magnetic lasso tool to draw round each main character in the picture, then selected inverse, to allow me to colour in the background white rather then colouring in the drawn around image. I coloured the backgrounds all white, I chose white because the background of my magazine, including the front cover, contents page and the double page spread will be all white, therefore I thought that it would look more appealing if it was white rather than black or any other coloured background so I don't have a 'box like' image.

I also then changed the red eye in all pictures, by adding blue colour to the eyes, I did this simply by using the brush tool.

Below is a photo before I started editing;

And below is during editing, changing the original background into a white background and before I removed the red eye;

And below is a finished edit of one of the photos, with a white background and blue eyes rather than red;