Orginal And Edited Images Used On My Magazine

These are all of the picture used on my music magazine, they go in order of non-edited and edited apart from picture 3 as that one had no edits done to it.

 

 

 

 

 

Music Magazine Double Page Draft

Music Magazine Contents Page Draft

Music Magazine Cover Page Draft

Music Magazine Mock Ups

Music Stereotypes

Explorations Of Font And Colours

I have looked at many different magazines during my research portion of my work and this has allowed me to view conventions of these magazines. I decided that I wanted to use a font that was easy to read but would also be considered fun to read, this is why I used Balloonist SF as this allowed to have both things that wanted, I did use other to split the text up a little and give it some variety but I used this font the most.

I tried to represent my  target audience of rock through colours and house style and this therefore allowed to set my colours and house style, the colours I did use are dark colours such as browns and blacks and this is because these are the colours that are usually represented with my target audience of the rock genre and because I did use colours that would normally represent them I am more likely to appeal to that target audience.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Hyperdermic Needle Theory

Music Magazine Photo Shoot Planning Sheet

My magazine will consist of a few images of people that will require a lot of thought in to what effect they give off when people look at them. Keeping this in mind I wanted to make my images fairly simple but still have them link to stories in the magazine.  I will be using a mostly close-up shots and longs shots of people in my magazine and the person I will be using as my model for these pictures is George Pierce, a fellow media student, as he has the type of look I need for my magazine which is things like a leather coat and can look very intimidating when he wants to be and this is the closest I can get to what I want for my images.. There will be no backgrounds to my images after they have been edited so I want to make it as easy as possible by putting my model on a dark background to make it easier to remove the background. I will be using images without background because I want to use the images as a reference or a guide to a page in the magazine and I don’t want them to distract people from the many stories so if I make them simple they will still catch people’s eyes but they won’t keep people occupied for long.

I want my model to be dressed in a very particular way so that it suits the type of people that my magazine is aimed at. Since they are the people that listen to rock they are Stereotyped in a very particular way;  wear lots of leather and have a lot of piercings and tattoos and they always look intimidating, I will use this stereotype while doing the photo-shoot because if the magazine has these types of images on it then it is more likely to attract and appeal to an audience of this stereotype.

The lighting that I will be using on my imagery will want to again follow the stereotype of the target audience and since they stereotyped as preferring darker colours to lighter colours I will use predominately dark colours on photo-shoot.

 This is the magazine that inspired me to do my magazine photo shoot in a particular way and as I would like my magazine to have a front cover picture similar to this one but following rock stereotypes and conventions such as dark clothing and lots of leather clothing and also being very intimidating  more closely . When I looked at this magazine it gave me so many ideas for what my magazine would be like and that is why my ideas will be quite similar to this design of magazine.

Magazine Cover Lines

I have come up with a few possible cover lines that I could put on my magazine front cover and this is because I decided that my cover line will heavily relate my cover image to my cover picture and because I want to have a picture of a new band I want to be able to have something related to them. I am thinking of using some type of language method such as alliteration to improve to the overall quality of the front cover but also making the cover lines catchier and will remind people of the magazine when they think of it. I will also try to use a simple two sentence line that is split up in to 2 separate parts which allows it to be still catchy and allows for the line to take longer to be read and entices the reader to read more.

What Will My Interview On My Double Page Spread Be?

For my double page spread I will be focusing on a story about a new band and their new songs and stuff similar to this. This will be laid out in a paragraph form to show that the different paragraphs will be talking about different things.

This story on this particular double page spread will be directly linked to story and image on the cover page as they will be about this story and will be about the same thing but the things on the cover are there to entice people to read the magazine and showing this story on the front makes it seem more important than others and increases its chances of being viewed by people. My contents page didn’t really contain a main story to link to the double page spread but it will contain an image that will link to my double page spread.

Magazine Questionnaire Analysis

On my questionnaire for question number 7 I asked people “What types of things would you like to see in a magazine?” and the most common answer from all the people that did my questionnaire was gossip meaning that my magazine will need to have some form of gossip to work with the thoughts of the people who answered as they are the type of people that would buy this magazine and therefore I would want to cater to their preferences so people like them would read my magazine.

Another question I asked on my magazine was how often my magazine should be published and the majority of people that did participated on my magazine thought that my magazine should be published monthly and  if I was to publish my magazine I would make sure that my magazine is published monthly as it can be assumed from the questionnaire that people prefer it this way.

Another question I asked on my questionnaire was how much people would pay for the magazine of this type and the most common answer was “£2.01-£3” which means people would be willing to pay quite a bit for my magazine meaning that I would have to have high quality magazine and not many ads for this prices range as a price as high as £3 people would be expecting quality.

Another question I asked on my questionnaire was how often do you listen to music and the most common answer was people listened to music for 10+ hours a week meaning that I would need to have a very eye catching magazine to get their attention as these people would be listening to music a lot and won’t notice as music as people who do but this also means that people who do read the magazine are more likely to understand some references to music therefore engaging them more.

For the most part the participants that did my questionnaire fully and correctly but some people however answers some of the questions as a joke but the rest of the results allowed me to understand want people want in magazines and therefore allows me to change my magazine to make it more appealing.

Music Magazine Questionnaire

Music Magazine Title

Music Magazine Title

 

I had to come up with a name for my magazine and for this I thought up of 4 different names for my magazine and asked my peers to so which on they preferred and the results were as follows:

Music Madness

10

Madness Music

3

Rock And Roll

4

Control The Night

3

Music Madness won by a land slide meaning that I will be naming my magazine Music Madness. I believe that name was chosen over the other because Madness Music doesn’t flow very well and the other two names that I came up with and two general or don’t fit the genre of my magazine very well. If for some reason my magazine title doesn’t work very well for some reason then I will use Control The Night as a backup title.

Genre Of My Music Magazine

For my music magazine I will be targeting a certain audience to aim my magazine at. I will be aiming my magazine at the stereotype of people who listen to Rock since my magazine will contain music mostly in the Rock genre. These types of people are stereotyped as wearing lots of leather clothing and having long beards and hair, so when I come to making my magazine I will try to represent these people with imagery and colouring that would match their stereotype in this case I would be lots of brown or black colours.

 

The magazine will have a colour scheme involving lots of brown and black or other dark colours and this is because people who listen to rock are stereotyped as wearing lots of dark coloured leather clothing, the picture below would be an example of the type of people that would listen to rock.

 

 

 

As seen the people in the picture these people would be stereotyped as listening to a lot of rock and they are wearing leather jackets and a lot of them have long hair and beards, I will need to somehow represent these types of people in my magazine but I am planning to do to do it through my colour scheme. I can also do it through the type of language I use, this is because these types of people are stereotyped as only have the basic concept on language so I will use basic language to represent them.

 

 

 

Orignal Image For College Magazine

These are my images for my  college magazine I only showed the edited and unedited pictures for my first image because the other 2 only had small adjustments such as resizing added to them.

 

 

College Magazine Front Cover & Contents

This is my college magazine front cover and contents page, originally I had planned for my cover page to be slightly different to what I had planned to do was have the person on my magazine be siting in a cross legged and have to words around but when I came to doing this I found I very difficult to find a decent picture when I took them. So instead I used a different picture of someone standing up and put pictures around them, I did this because it looked a lot better and was easier to accomplish. I also changed the colour of my text on both pages as before I w
asn't very clear so I changed it to complement my backgrounds colours. I didn't change much on the contents page.

Drafts For College Magazine

Music Magazine Analysis (Cover Page, Contents Page And Double Page Spread)

 

Front Cover Analysis

AS Media Front Cover Analysis

This particular magazine is aimed at people who want to join a college so mainly people aged around 16 – 18. I would say that the college magazine is aimed at people who maybe more interested in creative studies such as art or product design.

The masthead is in white bold text and stands out from the rest of the magazine; this is done to make sure that you know what magazine you are reading the second you look at it.

The strapline is giving the reader  information about the college and what magazine is about but it is straight after the masthead so you could possibly see it after taking a deeper look it the magazine, the text is like this because it shows the importance of text as the larger the text, the higher importance the text is considered. 50^TH Anniversary is in large italics and is very large on the cover this is done because making it large and putting it in italics makes it more pleasant to look and attracts the reader’s attention, this can also be done to point out something of very high importance and the 50^th anniversary could be considered important.

The colour scheme of the magazine is very plain with lots of greys and white with a picture of a girl with paint on her hands, the paint is the only really colourful thing on the entire and it stands out very much.  The greys and white suggest that the college is very professional and follows very high standards, while the paint on the girl’s hands represents the college as also being full of creativity and happiness.

The sell line ‘The Future Is Hands-On’ links very heavily with model and the cover as it is showing that the future is in her hands in this case and her hands with paint on show creativity which would show off what the college has to offer in a very simple but effective way. This would make people consider this college because of how effective it is.

This magazine is less professional and more casual than the previous one and I believe that it would be aimed at females aged around 16 – 18 either just about to join college or have been in college for some time. This magazine is less specific

than the previous one and I believe that people who like

gossip magazines would like this type of magazine. I also

believe that this is a female oriented magazine because

some of the largest text writes about ‘Beauty’ and women

tend to be more concerned with their beauty and looks than

men.

The colour scheme of the magazine is very bland and plain

but the colour white can also represent purity which

would link to the model as it is showing her as pure and

even the magazine as pure and honest.  This  is also

done to make the woman in the middle of the magazine

cover stand out as much as possible, it is also done to

make all the text stand out. The magazine masthead has

been blocked out by the woman in the middle of the

cover suggesting that she is a very important person and

may even be a model or famous person of some sort;

this again refers back to the gossipy vibe of the

magazine, this could have also have been done because

it showing that most people who read this magazine are

regulars are already know the name of the magazine.

She is also wearing a very bright coloured dress which

again makes her stand out more than anything on the

cover and this is again reinforcing the fact that she is important.

Some sell lines around the woman is in a bold text

suggesting that it is of more relevance than text with smaller

text, since this magazine seems to be very gossipy these

bolder text are about gossipy things such as ‘Sean Kingston’ 

Like the following one this magazine seems to be less serious than the first as it is the same magazine just a different issue. However this magazine wouldn’t be solely for females as I believe that if would be for both gender aged around 16 – 18 as it is for college students.  Again I think that this magazine is quite gossipy and a lot less professional than the first as the texts are about gossip and things like ‘thank god it’s Friday’ which again shows that magazines supports other things than just college.

The house style of this magazine cover is unlike the other two magazines as this one is very bright text on a dark background which makes all the yellow text stand out more than anything on the page and this make the reader look at the yellow texts first before anything on the page.

The male on the front cover is again in front of the title which makes him seem more important but this time he doesn’t stand out as much because he is wearing a darker clothing that matches the colour of the background suggesting that he isn’t as important as the last woman. This magazine doesn’t have a specific gender audience as it has used a male model and he is particularly famous which suggests that the main focus is on him.  More important texts look to be in the same colour as the masthead, a bright yellow which makes them stand while less important texts look to be in a white colour. This is done to make you look at yellow texts first to draw you in.

Than man on the middle of the cover is shown wearing casual clothing and holding work books which is representing college life and what it is like, it could be also representing what the magazine is like. The magazine is shown as casual but still about education.

The magazine cover seems to have somewhat of a balance especially with the colours as there doesn’t seem to be too much of any colour of the cover but also the amount of text to the size of the model on the page seems to be in balance.

Contents Page Analysis

Contents Page Analysis

 

 On the contents page there is only really one main person. The picture of this person is a long shot and the person is called Ciara and she is a famous song writer, this shows that she has had quite a large story in the magazine as she covers a large portion of the magazine it suggests that she is important and will be the first thing people see.

The house style for the magazine is prominently black and white. The background is a black/white fade and this is done so the text can follow a similar pattern and stand out really well. The title of the page has an extremely big font size and is in bold white and a black background which makes it stand out, and the single world ‘CONTENTS’ is split up into 3 separate lines, this is done to make you take your time to read the title and in the process of reading the title you will begin to notice other things on the page which will make you more interested.

Behind the title there is an outline of a ‘V’ which stands for the name of the magazine ‘Vibe’, this is done to remind the reader what magazine they are reading. This is done again with the woman on the front as her legs are in the shape of a ‘V’ again representing ‘Vibe’ this is done to reinforce the reminder that this magazine is Vibe and you should expect quality from it.

The magazine uses quite a few font types and sizes to represent different things of the page, for example the title uses a very bold text to make it stand out while each of the categories use a different font type to provide a variety between fonts and this is done for nearly all pieces of text of the contents page and this is done because it shows that the magazine has more variety and is not plain.

The target audience for this magazine would be a majority of males as the woman on the page is shown in a very provocative way and would entice a lot of males to look at this magazine as it is more likely to attract a man’s attention rather than females. The expression on the woman face is again supporting this view as she has a seductive gaze; she is also wearing quite a short dress and is putting her legs up in the air to again entice the male reader.