3.(Preliminary Task) Evaluation

Evaluation of magazine ‘FOCUS’.

The task involved making an educational magazine for a school about anything that you want to but you needed 2 pages the front page and the contents page. The cover page needed to include title/ master head, cover line, image, tag line, barcode, date, issue number and model credit all of those needed to be on the front cover of the magazine.

The research that went into this magazine was that I looked at other magazines and asked people from my class who were working on their magazines as well what they thought of the magazine and put their tips into the magazine to improve it to the standards of the people who would be most likely to buy the magazine.

The resources that are available are Photoshop and cameras I used both of these resources in my magazine as the picture I took using a camera and Photoshop which was used to make the magazine in general. I need to changed many things in the front cover like the colour that I used as I was told that the colour wasn’t eye catching so I changed it to match the colour of the football strip.

I also used www.magforum.com but I didn’t use any of the magazines that they had on show as none of them appealed to what I was going to do in the magazine cover as none of them were the same forte of the one that I have done above.

I resolved any problems as I have said above by asking the people who I think would be most likely to purchase the magazine and what they would like to see on a magazine, other problems included log on, email and as I have said the colour was resolved with asking people how they felt.

The other products that are available that could be competition for my magazine are: Sky sports magazine, match and shoot  

As you can see in this the magazine on the left is the professional magazine and the one on the right is my magazine as you can see the left one is based for children as it is very colourful and has simple text which children would find very interesting as they can read it quickly while mine is more based for people who would follow one team and would just like to know important information.

 I can see my magazine being very successful as I have said it is based around one team and offers important information on the league tables and what famous player use when they play football and information about famous footballers and how they achieved their greatness and how they learnt how to play and how they where discovered. 

The other Magazine has good points as it has a large market of smaller children and different people to sell to plus they have a simpler format so the children will be more interested in their magazine and not in mine but as I am targeting more older people in the market as it is a more information magazine