First Music Magazine Drafts

This was my very first draft of my music magazine.

From the feedback I recieved back, I needed to improve many things on my magazine which would relate it more to my choosen genre. Firstly, I need to improve all of the text on my magazine, as it's very bland. My title is quite boring, and makes outling. In my final draft I will use more of a variety of fonts and colours to bring my magazine to life. I also need to change the background on Photoshop or make it duller so my model stands out. I'm also removing the star on my magazine as it's not very effective and looks unprofessional. The barcode needs to be smaller and more realistic so I am going to make a new one for my final draft. The image needs to be manipulated more.

Feedback

- Stronger barcode needed

- M&A? Need a better title to attract the audience into buying your magazine

- Remove sell lines

- Use bold/brash colours

- Change the font - Masthead

- Use a different varity of fonts

 

Feedback

- Completely needs rethinking and isn't good enough as a first draft - images needed. 

Feedback

- Need a caption

- Main headline?

- Need a sell line

- Stronger colours need to be used

Digital Mockups

Front Cover
This is my first digital mock up of my front cover. On this mock up I haven't use images just to decide where I want everything placed on my front over. I want my front cover to have many conventions as possible to make sure the magazine sells and there is enough information on it, for my chosen audience to see what sort of things are included in the magazine.

Planning

At the beginning of my planning, I started to look at other different magazines similar to my genre. I really enjoyed looking at "Q Magazine" which I hadn't really looked at before this course. I loved how the magazine looked very neat and sopisticated yet had a flare to it that made it different from other magazines. I also liked the fonts and layout of the magazine as a whole and took lots of ideas from their work to apply in a different style to my magazine. Although, I did find that "Q Magazine" did have a problem that, the music was really different, as one week it could be jay-z and the next it could be Muse, Coldplay or even Madonna which I find it wouldn't interest me every month. With my magazine I wanted to target a particalur audience and target the magazine just at their type of music instead of include all different sorts of genre which means that they would buy it every month.

Names

Here, I made a slide on Powerpoint for all the different names I could of used. This was really difficult as I felt I had to choose a name that fitted the genre but also what looked good in writing which would catch peoples eye.

Images

Target Audience

As my music genre is Indie, also including (Indie Pop and Indie Rock) which have quite niche audiences I am going to target my audience around the ages of 15-19. The music itself is usually targetted at young people as its usually very independent music which isn't usually mainstream as pop music for example. The gender is going to be targetted at both female and male, as there is going to be different artists included in the magazine that will appeal to both genders instead of just one, making it equal. As my age group goes as young as fifteen years old they are probably going to fit in with the E section in S.E.G as they are most likely to be unemployed. Perhaps even D or C2 to include ninteen year olds, as they make been in full time employment or semi-skilled manual workers by that age.

Initial Ideas

Music Genre on Prezi

Price & Publishing

Price and when to publish your magazine is very important, music magazines are usually published every fornight or month depending on the type of audiene. I'm going to publish my magazine every fornight and make it £2.00 per copy usually magazines such as "Q" magazine is priced around £3.50 which I've closly related to magazine too. Usually if magazines are published per month they would cost £4.00-£5.00. My magazine is cheaper for twice the features, which makes it really good value for my target audience which is teenagers to young adults. I think this is an affordable price as if they buy it twice a month it will only cost £4.00 which is the average for most music magazines as they are quite big. Also, if I were making the magazine for real the price would also depend on how much it would cost to make, and how much of a profit would be made to decide on an exact price for the magazine this has to be taken into consideration.

LIIAR Analysis of Music Magazines

I really liked the front cover of Q Magazine, as Florence and the Machine is an Indie-Pop band it's very similar to my genre for my magazine. The magazine has used obvious things to make it look, eye grabbing.

As the artist on the front cover, Florence is known for her red hair they have used it to fill the whole of the page so it makes it look like the background without really noticing that it's her hair. Her face is directly in the middle of the page which makes us straight away look in that position and makes her look reconisable to the audience. Above it says her name and a preview of what the article/interview is going to be about. As it's the biggest text on the page a part from the title of the magazine "Q", it's obvious that this is what the majority of the magazine is going to feature. They have used white text all throughout with hints of blue, which has created a housestyle theme of white and blue which compliments the background of Florence's red hair.

The title of the magazine is "Q" which is known for being a white "Q" with a background of a bright red box. The reason that it's named Q magazine is because at first they was going to name is "cue" as a sense of recording however later that name was changed to just "Q" as it may have been mistaken for a snooker magazine and that the single letter would stand out more to the audience. The colour red can connotate either danger, or in this case perhaps exclusive information, as this magazine advertises new realeases for example and promotes new artists. Red is also a primary colour, which also adds to the simplicity of the magazine being called "Q".

My Music Genre

My music magazine is going to be based on a couple of different genres that merge together. I want my magazine to focus on mainstream music that is popular at this moment in time. For example, popular music. I also want my magazine to feature "indie pop" which is for the bands such as "Florence and the Machine". I am also basing my model that is going to feature on my front cover on "Florence and the Machince.

"Indie" music is shortened for independent music which means "do it yourself" in a recording and publishing sense. During the punk rock era of music the number of independent labels grew and the UK Indie Chart came about. Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music, that originated here in the United Kingdom.

Here are some pictures of artists that I want to assoicate with my magazine.

Ed sheeran

Lana Del Rey

Florence and the Machine

Music Genre

A Music Genre is a category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music. Music is divided into many different genres. Music Genre depends on opinion, as all different people like all different genres. A genre is split into three different groups, then they are split further into sub genres.

Art Music
Art music is usually classical music as well as historical. The music is usually formal however it can include certain forms of jazz (although jazz is a primarily form of popular music). Art music is usually only instrumental and if and when vocals are include they explicit poetic, political, or religious meanings.

Popular Music
Popular music belonging to any of the musical styles that are promoted to the general public by one or more of the mass media. Unlike art music, popular music is distributed to a large group of listeners. Popular music benefits the market economy as it makes a profit, most commercial  music retailers will put their music on radio stations or on television advertisements.

Traditional Music
Traditional music or what used to be known as "Folk Music" is passed down usually through singing, listening and sometimes dancing. The music is part of a certain region or culture.

Heres a spider diagram of different types of music genre. There is many types of genres, some are more popular then others as some genres fit into "Popular Music".

Here is an example of a rock magazine "Kerrang". Without knowing this was a rock magazine, you could spot the ideology on the cover. Firstly, the lead singer of "Green Day" is the main image. It also includes in big bold lettering "GREEN DAY". This is to attract an audience that might like "Green Day" so they will buy the magazine. It's also writen in the same font as "Kerrang" is written, this implys that they are both the same thing, they are both rock genre for example. You know it's a music magazine as the lead singer is holding a guitar. Guitars are usually assoicated with rock genre. Some of the text above the "GREEN DAY" has been writen in green.

The Brief - Analysis

Language
The language for my Music Magazine is going to include all the magazine conventions. For example a main masthead, subtitles, headlines etc. The front cover needs a housestyle or colour scheme that will follow through the contents page also. Depending on the genre of your magazine, your colour scheme will change to make it suitable. Also the camera angles are very important as it needs to look like a realistic magazine and the image is the most central part of the front cover. The front cover needs to include things like the price & barcode, anchorage, teaser, kicker, adverts/blurb, the date & issue number, main feature, main image, subtitles and headlines. All of thes things are important for a successful magazine. Also the front cover needs to look busy, advertising everything thats included in the magazine, so people will want to buy it and read the contents.

Intuition
The insuition is to create a magazine for all different audiences. If a student is creating the magazine for example, it would be for students similar ages as they already know what kind of music people their age are interested in. It may advertise a different, new brand of music to a specif audience who may like it.

Ideology
The ideology of the magazine is too promote the music. They might promote it too the people who are already intrested in a specific type of music OR even try and introduce the music to a new audience using celebrities or familar artists as the frotn cover. This might persuade people to buy the magazine because for example, their favorite artist is included.

Audience
The audience would depend on who your target audience for the magazine is. The magazine could be targetted at young people by promoting celebrities. Or it could be targetted at middle aged people using old bands and music they would enjoy. The audience could be split into demographics, this could depend on how expensive the magazine is, and could the target audience afford it. A student making a Music Magazine would probably target a younger audience as the maudity of young people listen to similar music.

Representation
The representation of the magazine is importantant as people will only purhase it if it's modern and up to date with the music young people are associated with. They will also be promoting a certain artist related to that magazine by representing them in a certain way. They can make the artist seem suitable for that style of magazine by changing their appearance.

Music Magazine Brief

Main task: the front page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.

Audience Feedback

This is audience Feedback from my final draft of the magazine.-

The creator has kept to a colour scheme and house style, mainly consisting of purple and white. She has a clear MCL photograph taken, but even though the information on her magazine cover is clear she lacks it and could of written more. The masthead is very clear and is white and purple, which also signifies relevance to Wyke College's colour scheme for their logo etc.
She has also used a consistent pattern of the same font, style and colour for the subtitles etc.   

Launch of Magazine

Here is many ways in which I could promote my magazine to students.

I could use viral advertsfor example on the internet, perhaps putting it on the college website or making a website link for the students to read the magazine online. However students could not buy the magazine if they could just read it online. By adding a feature to the magazine for example, free tickets to an event for party, students will buy the magazine for that feature instead of reading it online.

I could also promote the magazine on popular social networking websites such as Facebook or Twitter. This could mean making a profile, or just simply adding an advert to them which students could look at.

Final Product

This is my final draft of my front cover, which I have also sent to Moodle as a image file.

This is my final contents page which I have also sent to Moodle as a picture file.

Planning - Draft's Contents Page

Planning - Drafts

This was my first rough draft without adding features to see if I would have enough room for my masthead. I was going to include the

Planning - Images

I took many images of Wyke College, the college that I am creating a magazine for. For my front cover image I am using  a mid-shot of a girl representing the college. I have took the images against one of the bulidings, with yellow and red tiles, as I wanted the image to have some colour instead of just been plain. This will help me decide on my colour scheme. I have left enough room at both sides of the image and above to make sure that I have enough space on the image to add all my magazine conventions, most importantly the Masthead. My model is holding a folder to represent education, she is also smiling to represent her positiviely towards the students.

This is the image I've decided to use for my front cover. Has it has the right amount of space above to include my masthead and plently of room at the side for my information.

I am also going to include photos on my Contents Page, these are going to be photos of the college.

Planning - Fonts

Fonts
Testing out fonts I could use for my Masthead on my College Magazine Cover.

The color I am going to use for my font is going to be purple as it's the theme colour for Wykes logo and I want to incorporate that in my magazine so students will be familar with the colour. My masthead is the biggest object on my magazine apart from the image so it needed to stand out and be bold. I have chosen enboldened fonts instead of italics for my main title to make it stand out above the rest of the titles. Also because it's a college magazine the fonts are quite basic to make it look formal but still have that bold element to it.







I have chosen this font to feature in my college magazine as the masthead. The font is Rockwell condensed.

 

 

Digital Mock Up

Front cover





This is my Digital Mock Up for my magazine. I created it on publisher and decided where I was going to include all my magazine conventions. When I create my drafts I will add more conventions and experiment to see what looks best where. I want my magazine to have as many conventions as possible to attract students to buy it but I didn't want it to be too over crowded so it over-lapps my focal image.

Contents page

For my contents page I am going to have a similar masthead to my front cover. I am going to put Wyke's logo at the top and underneath an introducation to the magazine that will be in every magazine and a signiture underneath from who it's written by. All my features are going to be placed at the right hand side of the magazine. All my features are going to be placed underneath subtitles to tell the students what them features are about. The features are going to have page numbers at the side so they can pick and choose what they want to look at. My images are going to be placed at the bottom left of the page to make the page look tidy.

Initial ideas

Initial Ideas on Prezi

Paper Draft

Price & published

Price is very important feature on the magazine, because if it's too expensive people will tend not to buy it. Sometimes magazines feature special offers on the price of magazine so audiences will buy their magazine then the ones in competition with it. For my college magazine I am going to make the price around £0.80 this is because my target audience are students and they are not full-time employed. The magazine needs to be affordable to them, in order for them to want to purchase it.

I have chosen my magazine to be published every fortnight, if it was published weekly it would have little information in and if it was published monthly it would have too much information to include. As it would have notices in and events all the students would be up to date with the college every fortnight the magazine is published.

Preliminary Task

In my Preliminary Task I am going to create a college magazine. I am going to choose to create a cover for Wyke College as I attend this college and will have much more useful resources. I will be able to take my own photographs of how I want the college to look and add real-life subjects to the magazine, this will make it easier then making it up myself. As the college is a sixth form it is smaller which will make the magazine much more personal and direct. All the students are similar ages ranging from 16 to 19 so my target audience is going much more easier to target because it's for young people.

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From my research on target audience I am going to make my college magazine appeal to both male and female, as both attend my chosen college and it will be a wider audience. The age range will have to be from 15 to 24 as you don't start college until your at least 16. My S.E.G for my chosen audience will vary around E and D as they are students. They could be classed also under D as they could be employed outside of college.

The Brief - Analysis

Liar analysis of the College Magazine Brief

Language
The language of a college magazine includes everything I have covered in my key conventions of a magazine. These conventions are very important as they all have equal importance of what makes up a magazine.


Institution
Most college's have their own magazine, not only does this promote education. It can be made by the students themselves which makes the magazine come from the perpiective of a student and other students will be more eager to read it.

Ideogly
The ideogly of the magazine would to encourage education to the students and also a great social life. This will be balanced information to enable students to enjoy student life but also get good grades. If the students themselves created the magazine other students would feel more encouraged to work harder as well and it would set a positive example.


Audience
The audience for a college magazine is basically the people who attend the college, as it would include stories and information for students. The magazine would not promote the college. It wouldn't be a large audience as the magazine would stay within the college.


Represented
The college magazine would represtent the college but also students, as students are sterotypically seen as negative in the Media. The college magazine should premote positivity to show that all students are not sterotypically all the same. The magazine would represent students in a positive way to encourage other students to follow that trend, socially and in their education.

Annotated Magazine's

Language
The colour scheme is important as it sets the style of the magazine, the colour scheme of this magazine itself is yellowy-green this stands out against the black and grey gradient background which looks sophisticated to give the college theme to the magazine. The colour green is used for the subtitles, to highlight them and summarise what the smaller features below is about, the colour green symbolizes nature and life which could represent college life. The Masthead Title Piece is placed at the top but spread out so it's not directly in the top left so if other magazines are overlapping it, you could still recognise it. Underneath is a subtitle which is part of the title as its not as important. There is a adverts blurb or a graphic this could be a banner-style shape however in this case it's in a paint shape and its also emphasised by including the word "splat" this draws the readers eye straight to it from the explosion of colour. The writing in the middle is not only to match up with the rest of the type but to contrast against the hot pink background. The price is at the bottom left of the magazine underneath the bar code this is so you can easily find the price, as the barcode stands out. The font is written in mostly Ariel to make the magazine sophisticated, and suitable for college. However the subtitles emboldened and is in a different colour to highlight them and the smaller features are just written in the same font but in a smaller font and the colour white to look plain. The subtitles are arranged in a colour coded fashion, and include four words to summarise the information below and attract the audience to the main features of the magazine.

Institution
The makers of the magazine will control the product, the makers is most probably a selection of studets themselves. This will effect the final product as students will know what is going to interest them to buy the product as they are very similar.

Ideology
The ideology of the magazine is represent the college as being smart and sensible. It's also to encourage education to students and a healthy social balance between social life and college work. Reading the college magazine weekly/ monthly should put students on the right track of mind to do well in their studies. Not only does the magazine promote education but it also promotes events too, this way students will feel happier if they have a great social life, to learn and do well at college.

Audience
The audience is for uni-sex students in that college. As it's a boy that's represented, boys will look up to him and girls will like him. The smart colours show that its for both audiences as it's not a gender dominated colour or example blue or pink. It includes events and advise which all college students would be interested in.

Representation
The college magazine "College" is represented by a possible student who attends the college. They have represented him in a positive way because he looks smart, but also cool. He is also holding books in one hand this is to encourage education to the students. He is wearing a black leather jacket to make the magazine look smart, but also a cool edge.

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LanguageThe masthead on this college magazine is placed across the top of the page. The font is very basic but sporty and is in a red shade to compliment the red of the t-shirt the girl is wearing. For there housestyle they have used black, blue and red, these are primary colours. They have placed the barcode at the bottom right of the magazine, possibily so it's easily to see.The date and issue number is directly underneath the masthead so it is visable and students can see what date it was released and such.

Instiution
This magazine has also possibly been created by students, as college magazines usually are. This will also mean the final product will be more effective as students themselves will know what to include in the magazine to make it relevent to the students lifestyle and education.

Ideology
The idea of the magazine is to promote education to students. This college magazine is spefic to sports as the girl is wearing a "sporty" outfit. This could also mean the magazine is there to educate and promote not only sports, but a healthy and fit lifestyle whilst they attend college. This would benefit the students as it might make them more motivated with their studies.

Audience
The audience for this magazine would be the students who attend the college and possibily some of the teachers who attend also who would maybe be interested in the events.

Represention
The represention of the girl is in a positive outlook. She is representing the sports in the college, and being healthy and fit. She is smiling on the image which might motivate students to want to keep healthy and fit also.

Contents Page

Language
At the top of a contents page it will usually have a similar masthead title like the front cover however it will say "contents" instead of the title of the magazine. This magazine contents page has a masthead title saying "contents" in green brick writing. Green is a vibrant colour, this could suggest the liveliness of the college and what it brings to its students. Sometimes the contents title will display the date and issue number however because this is for a college magazine it's more simple. Each features section on this contents page has a colour code red, blue, purple and yellow. This makes it easier to follow and understand whats in each category. For the titles they are in large clear font with a white shadow around to stand out against the features underneath which is in white plain font. There is page references against each feature to locate people whereabouts they are in the magazine.

Institution


Ideology


Audience
The audience for this magazine will be college student, has it has images of students on the contents page.


Representation

Magazine Front Cover Conventions

They are many magazine front cover conventions, which are all very important in selling the magazine.

Masthead title piece: This is basically the magazines name/title. This is usually placed at the top left corner of the magazine so when the magazine is on the shelf, in a shop buyers can easily see the title and straight away identity it.

Price: This is the price the magazine is going to be sold for. This is usually in small font placed on the magazine however sometimes can be a big feature of the magazine if its on offer.

Date: The date of the magazine is important specially for collectors magazines. Magazines can range from weekly: Saturday to Friday OR Monthly: a month ahead.

Issue Number: The issue number is also important for collectors magazines especially, the issue number is just the tally of the magazines.

Barcode: The barcode is read electronically and decoded into a usable information, this process is done when the magazine is bought.

Teaser: This is a one word or phase that grabs the readers attention and to also sell the magazine.

Main Feature: Headline: This is a phase that many summarise the main point of the main feature. In large print, different style, bold colours in order to catch the attention of the reader.

Subtitle: This is a small headline that may summarise the feature.

Small Feature: This is basically the features that are included in the advert.

Images: Size: CU to med CU. They can rannge from one main image to x amount featuring one main image and smaller images. Helps make the page look more interesting. It can also aadd understanding of a story and/or entice someone to read the magazine.

Font: The style and size of the type face.

Colour: Specific/stylistic/thematic types.

Graphics: Graphical shapes to highlight feature(s).

Offers/adverts Blurb: This is a banner-style shape featuring free products/promotions.

Other Conventions:

Left Third: This is everything included on the left side of the magazine, this has the same idea as the Masthead title piece in which when people are buying the magazine they can see whats included as the magazines are overlapped.

Cover Lines: The cover lines tell you exactly whats included in the magazine such as storys and interviews.

Sell Lines: These are clever lines to sell the magazine.

Anchorage: This is when the main cover line supports the image.

Teller: A teller is a line that tells you what the Headline is about.

Flash: Everything that is on the front of the magazine.

Graphology: This is the study and analysis of handwriting.

Colour Scheme: This is the colour scheme of the magazine which usually all matches or fits together in a special way. The colour scheme tells us alot about the magazine.

Kicker: Often seen in newsletters and magazines, the kicker is a short phrase found set above the headline. Usually set in a smaller type than the headline, the kicker can serve as an introduction or as a type of section heading to identify a regular column, for instance.

The Brief AS Media

Preliminary exercise: Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additiomally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main task: the front page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.