Monday, 30 January 2012
Research and Planning: Initial idea for Music Magazine
The magazine I intend to produce is an indie/rock subgenre music magazine. My intended target audience is for 17-24 year olds and both genders. The magazines that I have researched that have influence my initial idea were NME and Q. The artists I intend to include in my magazine is Coldplay, Noah and the Whale and Lana Del Rey.
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Research and Planning - Analysis of Music Magazine Front Covers
NME is a popular music magazine in the UK, the magazine focuses on the Punk Rock Genre. The publishing company of the magazine is called IPC Media. NME has a mass audience as it focuses on a big range of punk rock artists. The layout of the magazine is packed with coverlines to show the magazine is filled with exciting articles and features. The magazine has used puffs on the front cover to grab the audience’s attention and is used to make the magazine look interesting and exciting. The masthead of the magazine is behind the central image which shows the magazine in well-known and popular enough to cover their masthead to still be recognised. The masthead is the magazines Brand Identity as the NME title never changes where it is placed on the magazine and the stays the same styled font. The central image conveys a stereotypical Punk Rock band by having serious facial expressions. By having serious facial expressions it shows they are rebellious and serious. The central image portrays the magazine focus on Punk Rock. A cover line says ‘EXCLUSIVE NEW TRACK’ by saying that it exclusive it saying this is only available in this magazine. The colour scheme of the magazine also portrays the magazine focus on Punk Rock. Even though usually pink is associated with girls here it associated with a genre of music. The language used is informal which could suggest this magazine is for a young generation. By having the language in informal it could be suggesting the rebellious side of Punk Rock. The font is simple and in capitals, the font uses a housestyle that is common to NME readers.
Research and Planning - Analysis of Music Magazine Front Covers
Q is a music magazine that features different types of music artists and is the UK’s biggest music magazine. The publishing company of this magazine is called Bauer Media Group. Q magazine has a mass audience as it features a variety of different music artists. The magazine uses direct mode of address to get the audiences attention. By telling the audience to download these must have songs it lures them in to buying the magazine to find out what they must download. The magazines have gone for simple styled and simple font to make the magazine easily seen. The font uses a housestyle that is common With Q readers. The language used is informal which suggests the magazines target audience is aimed at the younger generation. The coverlines have been spread around the magazine to make the magazine look as if it’s packed with exciting features. The magazine has selected popular artists which are different genres of music as the coverlines on the front page. By doing this it allows them to expand their range of audience and portrays the magazines focus on different range of music. The magazine has used colours that will attract both sexes. The colours used are young and bold making this magazine more appealing to the younger audience. The central image is of a new popular artist. The makeup of the singer has fake blood dripping down from her forehead, this ties in with the text “So What’s So Bloody Good? “.
Monday, 23 January 2012
Research and Planning-Analysis of Music Magazine Front Covers
Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine that features R&B and hip hop artists. The publishing company of the magazine is called InterMedia. VIBE magazine has a mass audience as it is aimed at R&B and hip hop fans. This front cover uses the central image to draw the audience in having a mid shot of a famous Hip Hop artist. The image portrays the magazine focus on R&B music by having a popular Hip Hop artist as the central image. The image conveys a stereotypical hip hop artist by having a serious facial expression. The font uses a house style that is common with VIBE readers. The font is simple and in capitals which allows the magazine to be easily noticed. The language used is informal and simple which suggests this magazine is aimed for a young generation. The magazine coverlines are of popular artists rather than stories featured inside to excite the readers which the amount of artists they have featured inside this issue. The magazines have used colours that will attract both sexes such as blue, pink and black to have a bigger range of audience. The colours used are vibrant which shows the colours young people are associated with.
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Research magazine market place
Here I researched different types of music magazines to get an idea on how to produce a realistic music magazine myself. I have looked at different genres of music magazines to see what is needed to create a professional looking music magazine.
Monday, 16 January 2012
Research and Planning: Music Magazines and Institutions
Rolling Stone
Introduction to main task
Now that I have completed the prelim task I am going to research and plan the main task. Which is to create my own front cover cover, contents page and a double featured spread of a music magazine. Before I start creating my magazine I must research some existing products. I am going to begin research and planning to get an idea on what a music magazine should look like and what is inside a music magazine.
Action Plan
16 January
- · Compare Magazine & Research the magazine market place
- · Research similar products: 3 x front covers,2 x contents page, 2x double page spread
24 January
- · Initial ideas
- · Audience research
- · Writing a treatment plan
30 January
- · Layout/masthead ideas
- · Plan photoshoot and take photos
- · Drafting of pages
- · Audience feedback
6-27 February
- · Drafting of pages
- · Audience feedback
5 March
- · Evaluation
9 March
- · Final Deadline
Friday, 13 January 2012
Evaluation
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Before creating my magazine, I analysed some examples of other student magazines, this allowed me to have an idea to what sort of things a magazine would need to include. I realized when looking at other magazines there are basic ingredients to a student magazine, the masthead is the largest text on the front and the most eye-catching. I also noticed the colour theme on student magazines aren’t boring colours but also aren’t too eye-catching. Another thing I realized was the language used wasn’t too serious and the language used was formal but not too formal to engage with the targeted audience. I have used all of these conventions to make my student magazine look realistic and professional. I only had a central image for the cover of my magazine to draw the audience in and not to overwhelm them with too many images on the cover. To make this issue interesting and exiting I have included features to interest both genders. I have included features like ‘Clubbing’ and ‘Money Tips’ to show the readers that the magazine isn’t going to be filled with things about inside college but outside out college as well. These features were included on my front cover and my contents page. I evened out the images and text on my contents page because I didn’t want my contents page with just text and by using images it enables the reader to see what is featured in the magazine.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My magazine is aimed at students so I took photographs that represented student life. For my front cover I took a mid-close up of a student against a white wall holding a sign saying ‘Talk Student’. By using this picture it gave my magazine have a young feel to it. The reason behind the sign saying ‘Talk Student’ was to show the audience that the magazine was based for students and to show the language inside isn’t formal and dull. My images I used in my contents page referred to what is featured in my magazine. The text I used on the cover lines were short and simple so it didn’t over power the central image. I didn’t include too much text on the front cover and focused more on the central image so the front cover didn’t look too overcrowded. The taglines are in the same colour as the title to draw the reader’s attention into the most interesting features inside the magazine.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
My magazine is student specific so it would be distributed in the college. My magazine is for free so as the magazine is distributed in college students will be more willing to read the magazine. My magazine would be made in the college so students will easily access the magazine. My magazine could be distributed to other local colleges in the area to get more readers interested and to make my magazine more popular and well known.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for my media product is aimed for 16-18 year olds college students, my magazine is for both genders allowing to have more range of readers.
How did you attract/address your audience?
I attracted my audience through my front cover, I made my front cover look new, fresh and exciting to appeal to my audience. The colours I used were fresh and exciting, I stayed away from bright tacky colours because I didn’t want my magazine to look unprofessional and cheap. I used light blues and greens to attract both genders and by using light colours it gave my magazine a young feel to it. The colour black was used to highlight the most exciting features in the magazine. I edited my central image to look brighter and modern, I did this to make the students know this magazine is aimed at them. I used tag lines based on student life such as ‘Clubbing’, ‘Fashion’, Film Reviews, etc to interest the audience. The design on my contents page used the same colour scheme as the front cover to make the magazine piece all together. I chose the name ‘Out Spoken’ for the title for my magazine, I feel it’s short and simple but easily memorable.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
When creating my magazine I was introduced to a new software called InDesign. I found this new software difficult at the start to use, but using it more has gained my confidence in using this software with other projects. I used this software to design the layout of my magazine and I found it easier to use the more I went on the software. I used software called Photoshop which I have used before and found useful to edit my images before I used them in the magazine. I used a digital camera to take my photographs, I found it exciting to make a photo shoot and take pictures of my friends for my magazine. I had never created a blog before so I have enjoyed this experience on how to create a blog and what to put into a blog.
Monday, 9 January 2012
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