Final piece of evaluation

Survey analysis.

I gave out my survey to a group of 16-17 year old students in order to gain feed back on my designs for my magazines cover, article and contents page. The feed back was returned positive from the selected students. In my first question i asked what genre they believed was best associated with BASS magazine, judging from the cover and i received quite the mixed response. Three said rap music, one said other & R&B and four said Dubstep. They were all correct as my magazine was based around a mixed range of grime, rap Dubstep and R&B which are all fairly similar genres of music in the modern industry.
In the second question I asked what their impressions were towards my front cover, here's what they had to say- "Dark, modern looking with an inquisitive background", "eye catching, stands out", "good contrast of colours", "professional, well layed out" and "pretty freakin' cool". Very positive feed back.
For the third question, i asked what age group they believed my magazine was aimed at and all results ranged from 15-25. Exactly the same as i stated in my reader profile.
Fourth i questioned which gender they believed my magazine was aimed at, and as I planned my feed back consisted of they same answer, mainly male audience. 
After these four questions I asked a basic boolean style, yes/no range of questions, asking things like if they believed my contents page was user friendly, whether it was aesthetically pleasing and all feed back from my contents page came back positive, everyone answered yes. I then went on to asking similar questions about my article page, asking whether they found the story interesting and if the headline to the article sounded interesting also, and once again all feed back was returned positive. 

questionnaire- Bass evaluation

1.     What genre would you associate with the masthead BASS?

·         Pop

·         Dubstep

·         Grime

·         Rap

·         Rock

·         Indie

·         R&B

·         Country

·         Other

2.     What are your impressions on the main cover image?

……………………………………………………………………………

3.     Do you find the front cover appealing?

·         Yes

·         No

·         If no, why?

……………………………………………………………………………

4.     which of the following age group do you think the magazine would appeal to?

·         10-15

·         15-20

·         20-25

·         30-35

·         Anything above 35

5.     What gender do you think my magazine is likely aimed at?

·         Mostly male

·         Mostly female

·         Both male & female

6.     Is the layout and design of my contents page easy and friendly to navigate?

·         Yes

·         No

·         If no, why?

7.     is the contents page aesthetically pleasing?

·         Yes

·         No

·         If no, why?

8.     . did you enjoy reading the article?

·         Yes

·         No

Reason for answer

……………………………………………………………………..

9.     Does the headline sound interesting, and draw you in to the article?

·         Yes

·         No

10.  Do you think that the main image has relevance to the article?

·         Yes

·         no

Evaluation part one.

Finished contents page

Added social networking site addresses and subscription section. NEED MORE PHOTOS

Added concert image and Rizzle Kicks story info- Need more info!

Added page numbers, links etc

contents page photo 3

Contents page first day progress

Subwoof- Contents page

Nukidd contents page photo

Finished double page spread

Nukidd warfair album cover

Double page spread- Nu Kidd article

May add CD cover image in top right hand corner, to advertise the new release of this artists album.

Article template. Double page spread

Dimensions- 4592 x 3056 pixels

Page marker

Inspired by Q magazine's page marker of their logo, placed next to every page number.

E.g >>

Double page spread header-Created on photoshop

(One of two pages of a double page spread)

They layout of Rolling stones contents pages are very simple, and easy to read. They use both images and a good use of text to help the reader navigate the magazine. I like how at the top left of the contents page, they abbreviate the magazines name and then add the issue number next to that, it gives you information with out taking up too much of the page but the fact that its larger than the other text makes it stand out more, there proud of how many issues they have made.
At the bottom left hand corner of the magazine the editors put in a paragraph of who shot the main image for the cover, and then also information about the photo, which some readers may be interested in. Also, the magazine links its self to the medium of the internet, by having a link to the rolling stones website, in the contents page. 

One of my key attractions to NME's contents pages is that at the top of each one they use there bold title 'NME THIS WEEK'. This attracts the readers attention and pushes them to use the contents page, meaning not only easy navigation to the parts of the magazine they wish to read first, but also do drift there eyes towards any advertisements that may be on that page, E.g magazine subscription information, as seen on this contents page above. Another thing that i like about is that they have a small part of an article on the contents page which may get the reader motivated to read more. However, what i dislike about how NME decided to layout there contents page, is there lack of images, and therefore increased amount of text. Most readers are attracted to images first before reading text. 

Contents page analysis

I find that the style of Q magazines contents page is very aesthetically pleasing and informative. It uses a great range of images and doesn't bombard you with text. Each image represents what the article will be focused on, and somewhere on each image a number will be shown, indicating that that article can be found on that page, for example The gorilaz article will be found on page 44. I think this is a successful way of letting the reader navigate the magazine. You have also then got the three different sections placed with in the layout. The Q review, Regulars features.
This is likely the style and layout that will inspire my contents page.

Article analyses

Where as this article is not aimed at a similar genre of music as i have chosen in my magazine i found that this layout was rather unorthodox.
The use of the large red letter 'L' is something i have never seen in an article before and because of that i find it interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

However, what i would criticize about this article is the overwhelming amount of text tightly fitted onto one page, when the other page is being taken up by one simple photograph.

Two page spread -Photo's

Finished magazine front cover!

Second draft of my article

‘Nu’Artist, ‘Nu’Album, ‘Nu’sound

The fresh new artist, Nukidd, aged nineteen is the up and coming rapper and music producer in the grime genre, real name Jason Curtis. Since early 2010, his music could only be heard on pirate radio stations, broadcasting there frequency over the eastern area of London city, where Jason grew up. The young artist lived his childhood in a tower block with his mother, two sisters and his only brother, who was born just a year after he was. At the age of fourteen, Jason’s father left him and his family with out a note or any explanation to why he left, or where he would be heading. The family say that they haven’t heard from him since the day he left. It was not long after Jason’s farther left that he began writing lyrics, one of his earliest pieces, ‘Rapture’, was his first fully written song, he told us that this song represented everything he despised about life and how he just turns a blind eye too it all and gets on with his life and enjoys himself.

One of the questions we know your all thinking, is where did the name Nukidd come from so we decided to ask Nukidd himself, and this is what he told us. "I thought up the name round the time I started writing lyrics, back in the day when I rapped for Eastgrimefm, [Laugh] the pirate station. The inspiration came from when my dad left, I thought it was time for a new start after he had gone, turn over a new leaf, and the fact that i was just a kid at the time. New life, childhood, new kid. But i thought mixing the spelling up a bit seemed a bit more fresh, a bit more interesting to read. So Nukidd it is!"
Nukidd, was discovered by the record label Disturbing London. When one of their producers was listening to the radio he picked up the pirate station that Nukidd sang on, every Thursday evening. Straight away the producer reported back to the record company of this talent and with out Jason even knowing, for about two months, Disturbing London tuned in every Thursday to listen and study his potential. By the Christmas holidays of 2010, the producer who first discovered Nukidd on the radio, decided to contact him and arrange a meeting with the owner of the record company. From that day, the Jason Curtis that his family all knew and loved was about to lead his own future doing something he had a passion for doing and they couldn’t have been happier.
As for Jason himself he turned up at the company building an hour before the meeting took place, anxious to get inside, he even met Tinnie Tempah in the building, there on his first day.
Finally by spring 2011, Jason Curtis, stage name Nukidd was given the record deal with the company Disturbing London and he began work on his first album. Jason told us that when he began writing his album, he wasn’t sure whether to write what the public would enjoy, or just write what he was used to doing and feel it to be more his work, than mainstream, but after he did his homework on past artists of the same genre he was into, he found out that lyrics that come from the heart mean a lot more than “that mainstream bull**** everyone listens too”

Nukidd's new album, Warfair, released on the 25^th of January 2012, will be his first full album, featuring his number one single A’state. Jason tells us that he put his heart and soul into this album and when we asked him what to expect from his latest works he answered this, “I put a lot of effort into this album, many of the songs featured on the album were written to question the very morals of modern day society, to challenge the boundaries of what is excepted in the music industry, and what is not. Let’s just say, this is a borderline album.
If you’re looking forward to the bombs dropping on the 25^th, email us at Bassfanmail@disturbinlondon.co.uk, where looking forward to seeing your reaction to what we at BASS expect to be a great album to take us into the new year.

First draft of my two page article.

‘Nu’Artist, ‘Nu’Album, ‘Nu’sound

The fresh new artist, Nukidd, aged nineteen is the up and coming rapper and music producer in the grime genre, real name Jason Curtis. Since early 2010, his music could only be heard on pirate radio stations, broadcasting there frequency over the eastern area of London city, where Jason grew up. The young artist lived his childhood in a tower block with his mother, two sisters and his only brother, who was born just a year after he was. At the age of fourteen, Jason’s farther left him and his family with out a note or any explanation to why he left, or where he would be heading, the family say that they haven’t heard from him since the day he left. It was not long after Jason’s farther left that he began writing lyrics, one of his earliest pieces, ‘Rapture’, was his first fully written song, he told us that this song represented everything he despised about life and how he just turns a blind eye too it all and gets on with his life and enjoys himself.
Nukidd, was discovered by the record label Disturbing London. When one of there producers were listening to the radio he picked up the pirate station that Nukidd sang on, every Thursday evening. Straight away the producer reported back to the record company of this talent and with out Jason even knowing, for about two months, Disturbing London tuned in every Thursday to listen and study his potential. By the Christmas holidays of 2010, the producer who first discovered Nukidd on the radio, decided to contact him and arrange a meeting with the owner of the record company, from that day, the Jason Curtis that his family all knew and loved was about to lead his own future doing something he had a passion for doing and they couldn’t of been happier, as for Jason himself he turned up at the company building and hour before the meeting took place, anxious to get inside, he even met Tinnie Tempah in the building, there on his first day.
Finally by spring 2011, Jason Curtis, stage name Nukidd was given the record deal with the company Disturbing London and he began work on his first album. Jason told us that when he began writing his album, he wasn’t sure weather to write what the public would enjoy, or just write what he was used to doing and feel it to be more his work, than mainstream, but after he did his homework on past artists of the same genre he was into, he found out that lyrics that come from the heart mean a lot more than “that mainstream Bull**** everyone listens too”

Nukidds new album, Warfair, said to release 25^th January 2012, will be his first full album, featuring his number one single A’state. Jason tells us that he put his heart and soul into this album and when we asked him what to expect from his latest works he answered this, “I put a lot of effort into this album, many of the songs featured on the album were written to question the very morals of modern day society, I seen it fit right to challenge the boundaries of what is excepted in the music industry, and what is not. Let’s just say, this is a borderline album.
If you’re looking forward to the bombs dropping on the 25^th, email us at Bassfanmail@disturbinlondon.co.uk, where looking forward to seeing your reaction to what we at BASS expect to be a great album to take us into the new year.

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