Weekly update - Post 9

Front cover draft - #2 -design 2

(these images are place holders until i have done my photoshoot).

Front Cover draft - #2 - design 1

(these images are place holders until i have done my photoshoot).

Weekly update - Post 8

Just before Christmas I managed to organise my cover lines establishing which ones I would like to have across my front cover. Explaining why I want them and why I think they will attract my audience into reading my magazine. I also started to draft my magazine. I managed to complete my contents page first adding image place holders as I haven’t done my photo shoot yet. I have also changed the colour scheme of my magazine as I thought the colour I have now on my draft suits the indie/rock style as red is just too powerful for the indie side of my magazine. I also managed to pick my font styles and have them all matching on my contents page. Also making sure my page numbers link to the correct page and do not overlap this is important to me as I do not want to lose marks for silly mistakes.

Contents page draft - #2

I have now finished all my text for my contents page. I used paragrapgh style for my text this helped me to keep the same sizes, fonts etc. This helped me lots ot complete my magazine and get my magazine to the best it can be, having my fonts and text all the same show i have a consistancy in my magazine. I currently have place holder photos on my contents page these are what i'd like my images on my contents page to look like. these images are only on my contents page until I have done my photoshoot. I have made my subscribe very bright and bold to attract the attention of my audience and drag them into buying my magazine. I have also added more text into my contents page as I needed to fill the gaps in my magazine. This fills my magazine and makes my magzine look full and creative with lots going on all over the pages.

Cover Lines

Weekly update - Post 7

Contents Text

Equipment

New Media

Promotional Methods

Design Sketches

These are my design sketches for my music magazine. I am able to use these sketches as a guideline to create my magazine and help me know where to place everything within my magazines. obvisously i do not have the text in my sketches as i will plan this somewhere else and then copy it into my magazine on Indesign. These sketches are purley for my images knowing where i shall place them and what headings i may have on my magazine.

Weekly update - Post 6

Props & Costumes

Box out text

Weekly update - Post 5

Magazine Template

Image Ideas

Weekly update - 4

This week i decided my magazine name would be Volume. this is a creative name that ties in well with the music industry and fits in well with my font i have chosen for my magazine (Broken47). I have now done some research on existing names & mastheads to give me an idea on why i should use my name and if it is suited enough to be on my magazine. i have just started to think about colours and what colours would fit in well with my genre and which would catch the audience's attention.

Colours

These are various colour schemes I may use for my music magazine.  The colours I like most are light blue and red these are both powerful colours and are used in many music magazines eg Kerrang and Q. these are very powerful colours and grab the reader’s attention straight away. Red stands for power and aggression which many rock artists are tied in with. And light blue is used in many of kerrang’s music magazines as it is made very bold and eye-catching as they have yellow along with this colour to have it standing out and attracting people to reading their magazine. I think it is very important that I only use one main colour along with black, white and grey otherwise my magazine will start to become very ‘pop’ and childish.

Masthead Deisgns

These are my masthead deisgns. i have used most of these as they have the rock/indie affect. I want my masthead to stand out and be very creative and eyecatching. I really like the second and third desgins although the third font does remind me of a cartoon magazine so i will not be using this for my magazine. the fourth font is very likeable although it reminds me of grunge music instead of rock. i have decided to go with the third one down (Broken74) as it is most sutitble to my rock/indie magazine and i think this font will stand out on my magazine as it is very bold and eyecatching. This font is also like KERRANG magazine's masthead although it is alike they are different and my magazine will have a different effect to KERRANG.

Names and Mastheads

Names and mastheads from DemiRowley

Weekly update - Post 3

Magazine Name Ideas

 



 

I have made a spider diagram for a bunch of magazine name ideas. i have picked 3 of my favourite magazine names.

Radar - i like radar because it gives the feeling that my magazine is 'alert' i feel it represents my music theme and connotataes searching and being alert. this also shows the magazine is 'on the radar' when comes to finding out new gossip and upcoming artists.

Volume - connects with music by using volume it could be a volume of the radio, ipod, cd this instantly reveals to my readers it is a music magazine and makes it very clear with a catchy name.

Discover - i like discover because its a quite catchy phrase also it is a metaphor for discovering new aritsts it although this is a very good name I’m not sure it will catch on as it could be mistaken for a geography/discovery magazine.

Preliminary task

Preliminary Task

Survey Results

I have found my survey results very beneficial as they have helped me identify my main features of my music magazine and have a great inside to what my target audience want in their music magazine and what they enjoy and like to see.  It has been very successful in getting results and helping me understand the music press more.  

Mood Board

Weekly Update - Post 2

Proposal Feedback

I got two students in the class to read my proposal and pick out good and bad points of my proposal i wanted to record them to use a wider range of media and i also wanted to hear they're opinions word for word. i think this benifted me as i could change the bad parts of my propsoal and knew not to use/do them again and carried on using my good points as a strong part for all my media work. using this for other parts of my blogger.

Speaker 1 - Gemma Malcolm
Speaker 2 - David Campbell

Key Concepts

Representation Research- My genre for my magazine will be rock/indie music. Rock music is normally represented by being very aggressive angry and dark. The colours of a rock magazine are normally bold colours eg black, red. Also they have many bright but bold colours most rock magazines contain colours like oranges and bold blues. Indie magazines have a calm feeling to them. They normally go with the basic white, black, and grey and then have an stand out bold colour. They never normally go for neutral colours. They do this to make it stand out. My magazine will be a mix of these as my magzine is a mix of rock and indie. gathering a wider audience. I shall make my magazine stand out and be bold like a indie magazine but I also shall have an angry tone to it as it also is rock a magazine example for this is NME and Kerrang these magazines create a great rock atmosphere and have a huge audience that manage to keep buying their magazines every week. i would like my magazine to be along the lines of them magazines as they are very successful and give a good example of a leading magazine. I  choose rock/indie not just because i am into this genre of music it is because i know their is a gap in the market for a magazine like this as i am questioned many people with the same genre of music as me and we agreed it would be perfect to have another magazine like kerrang but a little bit toned down. and this is why my magazine shall be perfect for my audience and the gap in the market. i shall disturbte my magazine through festivals, on tv programmes eg E4. also having them at gigs. and getting people to do reviews or tweeting us their thoughts so they can be in our magazine and possibly gain more followers with the same opinions as you.

Audience - I think the reason why music press remains so popular is because everyone is interested in music whether its rock, classical or pop. People all like music and they all want to know what’s going on with their favourite artist or band. As we have grown so have ways of presenting information people now use the internet to find out information where as others like to believe that its un reliable and still want to buy music magazines. I believe the reason that it remains so popular is the fact that everyone enjoys music. The simple reason for this is that they are able to sit down, flick through the pages and finish within a time limit getting all the relevant pieces of information. The more popular magazines that are sold are the rock and heavy metal magazines instead of the mainstream dance, pop music magazines.

Institution - The magazine NME gets its money from its circulation 20,011 copies sold per week. Also they make most of their money by advertising. To advertise in an NME magazine it costs £6,920 per advert in the magazine.  Kerrang magazine has wider assests and get a wider audience as they have a radio station, online website and TV channel. This creates a much bigger audience than just having a magazine because Kerrang is then on most technology for everyone to listen/watch/read. Kerrang and NME manage to retain their readers by adding freebies, competitions and always having a main big article with the biggest artists/bands out on that week. 

Conventions of music magazines –

 

Front Cover – with music magazines on the front cover you usually expect to have a well known artist on the front cover dragging the audience into the magazine because they want to know more about why this famous artist/band is on this magazine. They also use very strong and interesting cover lines to grab the reader’s attention. The images on the front cover are normally very eye catching maybe close up’s or a band doing something crazy. They mostly always put the photo in front of the magazine name to show the importance of this artist/band and to show they don’t need their magazine name to be the biggest thing on the page as it is already very well known and makes many people want to buy this magazine. Also mostly every music magazine has buttons to for fill the front cover as they are normally very busy with lots going on this makes them stand out and again attract the readers.

 

Contents of the magazine – Many music magazines include bundles of interviews, photos, behind the scenes, freebies, festival information.. They do this to make the readers think they are getting their money’s worth. This helps sell the magazine and also helps promote artists/bands/festivals. Very known to music magazines is having a double page spread of a known artist or band and the article tends to be very honest and opinionated they also do this with reviews on new songs and albums. They include many more things like tour dates, upcoming festivals or past festival gossip. This makes readers feel involved with the music industry and like they we’re there with the bands/artists. Music magazines also include freebies to make the readers feel they are getting their money’s worth.

 

Magazine Analysis

Target Audience

Music Magazine Proposal

Media Studies –Music Magazine Proposal

 

Genre – The genre of my music will be indie/rock.  This means I have a bigger target audience and I will have many buyers and my magazine will be more successful. I have picked indie/rock as this genre of magazine is very commercially successful. I will have features in my magazine such as behind the scenes, tour pictures, interviews and new releases. Also i would like to give the audience a chance to connect with my magazine so I will have such things as tweeted in, chances to win tickets, meet artists/bands etc. My magazine will always have an up and coming artist and an article from them.

Frequency – My magazine will be published every fortnight as it is keeping in the loop with all the latest gossip. And as the music industry is a never ending cycle I will create an online website to keep the readers up to date with all the latest gossip and trends. Eg most sold new releases. My magazine will cost £3.20 and my magazine will have up to 160 pages unlike normal magazines that only have 100 pages. This means my readers are getting more for their money and I am still making a valuable profit.

Target Audience - The focus of my magazine will be mixed genders aged 17-22 this is my target audience as many females enjoy indie music and many males enjoy rock. Killing two birds in one stone. It is also known that these ages of people are very engaged with music as many people cannot go a day without listening to music or hearing about their favourite artists and what they have been up to within the weeks.

Contents-

·         New artists

·         Top 10 new releases

·         Festival Guide

·         Reviews

·         Twitter feeds

·         Competitions

·         Upcoming tours

·         Music video disasters

Unique selling point - One of my unique selling points will be having exclusive posters from bands/artists each week in my magazine for free. This is known as a plug as it drags the audience’s attention and drags them into buying them.

Magazine Audience Survey

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YGNSZH2

I created a magazine survey to find out information on what peoples perfect idea of a music magazine is. i've asked how prices, aritists, shots of images, getting their music etc. this will hopefully help me understand how to create my music magazine as i will know what to inculde in my magazine. this will help me create the perfect music magazine for my target audience. i shall get people aged 16-19 to fill out my questionaire as that is my target audience for my magaine. the main question i want to help me is how often do people want their music magazine distribute, the answers will help me to know how often i shoulddistribute my magazine.

Preliminary Task Designs

I have created my front cover and contents page. my front cover has changed slightly from when i created my desgins. i have re arranged the layout and the type of photos i have used. my front cover is very bold with the main story taking up most of the page. i have added photos on my front cover to make it intresting and stand out. the text is black so it is bold for everyone to read. i have added the haydon logo which is a stag. this matches well with my magazine's name. i have also faded the logo so the main story covers it and makes it look more effective. i have added an issue number and date to the cover incase people collect them or just want to know what number magazine their on. My contents page is simple and effective. Big, bold title. which drags the attention of the readers. having my articles and stories in collums so it is easy to understand and i still can manage to have a image on my contents page. having the page numbers big always helps for people to understand and know exactly what page they are want to go to. i have the text in black and red because these colours contrast eachother and stand out. i decided to go along with a photo of the sixth form common room as in this issue of the magazine their are many stories on results, sixth formers unifom, their work and the sixth form food. so i think this fits in very well with the weekly issue. although if my stories we're many about sports eg pe, sports day, compeitions i would may of had the cover photo as a student doing PE.

Preliminary Task Designs

 

This is my preliminary task scetches. my magazine is a school magazine for haydon. i have created this for students to buy and enjoy whilst finding out all the latest information about the school and whats going on within. my front cover has a main story of Olivia heading to live xfactor. i also add in more intresting photos into my front cover to drag readers attention. i have headings like students get outstanding results, the new canteen food and the upcoming events. this makes the readers feel involded as they are finding out all the gossip that is happening around the school. My contents page is very simple but has is going to have a nice layout. their is going to be a big photo on the top of either the sixth form common room or the new canteen food. i have choosen between these photos because they are bold and exciting to look at. i am going to have 'contents' written below my photo in bold capitals to make it stand out. then i am going to have 3 collums to show what contants on each page. this helps the reader understand the magazine and what it contants so they dont have to read the whole magazine to find one story. my colours for my contents page are going to be very simple and bold so readers can see it and understand it clearly.

 

Weekly update - Post 1