Magazine Audience Research Project

I gathered information from Miya Biggin and Megan Wallace to conduct the following review of my double page magazine feature. These to young people are of the age that my article is targeting so it will be good to get the feedback from them.

We started with the quality of the article its self. They both said that it was an informative article that was innovative but also had some humour throughout that really target the right audience. They then went on to say that the topic of the article was relevant to the age range, mainly because more and more young people are going away on holiday and need the right information to choose where and when to go.

I then asked them about the image quality and they said it looked great and the colour in the image paired lovely with the black background but they did say that the white quote needed something else to make it stand out. They further went on to say that the font looked really good but could have been handwritten to get a more relaxed feel and because of this that is one of the things that I am going to have a play about with. The overall design of the spread was great and easy to navigate and both Miya and Megan said that it was eye catching and eye pleasing.

When it comes to the title both of the people in my focus group said it was straight to the point and punchy. Megan said that the main strengths of the article were that it provides adverse options to a holiday because it shows that you can go out and party but then relax at the same time.

An area for improvement would have to be the fonts, to find something even more eye catching and bold.

The overall appeal for the target audience is positive and I can confidently argee.

Codes + Conventions of Magazines A

This link will take you to a word document containing my Article Analysis.

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Media Regulation – Legal and ethical issues and my article

When I was writing my article I had to follow the guidelines the legal and ethical issues. There are many laws and issues and I had to follow them all.

Copyright- There could have been some issues with the copyright law when it comes to using images for our double page spread and because of the law in place which clearly says that you would have to give some assets to the original owner we have had to produce and shoot out own photos for the spread but because it is for educational purposes there would have been some flexibility and because it isn’t intended on financial gain.

Defamation – I had to be careful when writing my article because when following the defamation law you can’t: lower the person in the minds of right-thinking members of society, injures the person’s job reputation, causes a person to be shunned or avoided, and exposes a person to hatred or ridicule. So when writing quotes they had to be correct to the words of the interviewee.

Editors code – because I had to make the article suitable for people under the age of 18 there were some rules you had to follow which is covered by the editor’s code. I had to make sure that the material that I was producing wouldn’t physically, mentally or morally harm people who were under the age of 18 as this would be against the ethical code.