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