Production Report of Designing a Magazine

Problems with the creation of the magazine mainly were with transferring my magazine from paper to Microsoft Publisher. Firstly, it was hard to find the picture that I wanted because I already had an idea of it but there was no exact match. Secondly, another problem was finding the right font to match with what I had drawn on the plan of my magazine on paper. Thirdly, when the design is on Publisher you see things that would look better, such as I changed the colour of the cover lines to match the dots in-between the masthead. I also added in a circle at the bottom right-rand corner of the page because it looked better and I moved the text “Win – Friends DVD’s” as it also looked better at the bottom corner. The things I would do differently next time would be maybe doing the theme with different colours such as maybe a black background. Also I would use a different layout as I think the Friends one is quite boring and plain.

The features I used to appeal to my target audience were things such as: the masthead as it is the name of the program so it uses audience foreknowledge and brand identity of the TV program, also it catches the reader’s attention; I used the font Forte as it matched the Friends font and it fitted with the theme and looked more appealing. Another thing that will appeal to the target audience is that the magazine has a unique selling point in that there is no other magazine available. I would sell this magazine in a newsagent as I think it will be noticed more and there are less different magazines in a newsagent than in a major supermarket.

On my magazine the things I like are: the title looks a lot like the Friends brand even though I made it in another way instead of just getting a picture; the style of font used for plug words because it is quite childish like the friends font but also quite stylish and I like how the fonts on the contents page matches up with the front page as it keeps consistency and could work as brand identity. The thing I dislike is that nothing seems to stand out enough to catch the buyer’s attention or to draw people in. I think that the issues the target audience will have with it are that although the title is the same font as the Friends logo the layout and design isn’t very in keeping with the program.