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.