Print screens for front cover, contents page and double page spread

Questionnaire Results

   Questionnaire

1.       Are you male or female?

Male           Female

2.       What magazine genre do you normally buy?

Pop/rock         Pop/indie         R&B          Hip hop         Rap

3.       How often do you buy a music magazine?

Everyday          Every week          Every month        Other_____

4.    What is your favourite feature of a magazine?

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5.    What bands or songers inspire you?

___________________________________________________

6.    How often do you listen to music?
All the time          Most of the time          Not so often          Never

7.    What things do you like to see in music magazines you currently read?
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8.    What colour scheme would you most like for a music magazine?
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9.    Would you be interested in reading interviews in a music magazine?
_____________________________________________________

10.   What words do you associate with pop/indie?
______________________________________________________

Photo's for my magazine

Planning Production

Front cover
For my magazine I have decided to use my friend for the main image. I am going to make sure that she represents the genre of the magazine by making her look like unique and attractive and wear something that will represent music. For the colour scheme I am going to use the following colours: hot pink, electric blue, purple and white. The models makeup is going to be very bright and unusual to catch the buyers eye and make it look different from any other magzine on the market.

Coverlines for magazine

• Cheryl cole sneak peak
• Exclusive interview
• Celeb bloopers
• Behind the scenes
• Win Michael Buble UK tour tickets
• Free Kings of Leon CD
• Review of Rihannas new calender
• Miley Cyrus leaked photo's
• 100 top itune downloads



Front cover

Contents page

Double page spread

Publication plan

Title: Tune

Positioning statement: Turn it up, tune it in

Frequency of publication: Up to 24 a year

Price: £2.40

Distribution: Newsagents and supermarkets. E.g Asda, Tesco

Rationale: The magazine will have a content of what influences me in the music industrie. I will use my research to include interesting information that will attract my buyers.

Style: My magazine will be informal, using humour as it is a pop/rock type magazine. I will use simple vocabulary with slang. It will contain an interview each issue, general information about the music world and top news. I will try to make the presentation of my magazine as attractive and eye-catching as I can to really attract buyers.

Regular Content
Reviews on bands or music groups
Live interviews with bands/groups or singers
Pictures of groups/bands or singers
Top news about bands/groups or singers
Live pictures or videos of groups/bands

Feature Content
Articles on bands
True stories
Gossip on music celebrities
Interviews with bands/groups or singers
Price of tickets to see bands/groups live
Questions that involve the reader

House Style
Headlines Verdana Bold
Coverlines Trebuchet
Colour scheme Pink Blue Purple White

Codes and conventions of contents page/ double page spread

Codes and conventions of a contents page should include:

• images
• Font no bigger than 12pt
• drop quotes
• editors letter if needs be

Codes and conventions of a double page spread should include:

• heading, usually across both pages
• font size, normally between 9-12
• drop cap, This..
• drop quote, quote in middle of article taken from actual article
• strap line, at top of page
• by line, who the article is by
• image, left/right can be background
• stand first, underneath title sums up whole article
• content, links with images

Initial plans for magazine

After researching music magazines i have decided:

Price: £2.40

Frequency of publication: up to 24 a year

Published: every 2 weeks

Genre: pop/rock

Issue size: 90-100

I have chosen pop/rock for my magazine genre, this is because i am going to compare my magazine with NME.

Researching the market place



NME
Price: £2.30
Frequency of publication: 51 issues per year
Published: Weekly
Feature articles: News, pictures, reviews, biography, videos and lyrics

Mojo
Price: £4.50

Issue size: 52 pages

Publication: Monthly

Competition, video, blogs

Q
Price: £3.99

Issue size: 132-115

Frequency: 12 issues per year
Published: Monthly

Feature articles: New releases, live concert reviews

Regular content: 'top 10 commandments according to..'

Evaluation

My product uses conventions of a real magazine as it includes the following:
A title that is in italian so is very unique and different to other school magazines

A main image that you would find on a conventional magazine

Included a barcode on the magazine to show the customers that the magazine is available to buy
Also included the price so the buyers are informed how much the magazine will cost
Added the date so the readers are aware of the date it was published
Chose a suitable background that is relevant to a school magazine and chose colours from the background and used them throughout the front cover and contents page

When creating my front cover I used photoshop. Photoshop is very useful as it is a good programme for designing the front cover of a magazine. It had the right tools for making the front cover look professional and eye-catching. By doing the preliminary task it has recapped my memory of how to use photoshop and am now ready to use this programme on my main task. For my contents page I used a similar programme that i wasnt familiar with. This was called Quark Xpress. After using this I realised that this was a much better programme for making a contents page.

I think the strengths of my product is that i have used similar colours to the school colours and have used these colours throughout both the front cover and content. Also this colour goes well with the background i chose on the main image. By experimenting with the tools more on photoshop I think I could have made the front cover look more professional. Also i forgot to include an issue number, however I can learn from my mistakes and can make sure I include everything on my main task. I have now learnt how to use Quark Xpress and can use that programme in the future.

Final front cover

Camera shots for magazine

Today using the school camaras we went out in groups and took photographs we may use for our front cover and contents page of the school  magazine. Here are the photographs i took:

Image may be used on contents page reprenting stress relief

May use for main image and contents page for exam results



Fruit machine, image may be used on contents page for healthy eating



Preliminary work

For our preliminary work we were asked to design and make the front cover and contents page for a school magazine. Here are the designs for both the front cover and contents page:

Front cover

Title: Scuola!

Main image: Medium close up of sixth form girl who attends weatherhead holding books to represent her work

Coverlines: 'Stress got you a mess?' '60+ Revision secrets' 'Exam results' Healthy eating' 'IRIS' and 'Breakfast club'
Buzzword: 'PLUS' free calender inside

Contents page

Images: School girl for Revision secrets, school girl holding papers representing exam results, fruit machine for healthy eating and IRIS taken from school website to represent IRIS points

Different camera angles

Today we were shown many different camera angles. The angles include:

• Close up
• Medium close up
• Big close up
• Extreme close up
• Mid shot
• Medium long shot
• Long shot
• Very long shot
• Low angle
• High angle
• Two shot
• Tilted frame
• Over the shoulder

Camera angle shots

Big close up of someone using a mobile phone

Medium close over the shoulder shot

Low angle mid shot tilted frame

Close up connoting stress

Extreme close up of someone in nature

Mid long two shot

Extreme long shot connoting friendship

Codes and conventions of a music magazine

We also analysed the codes and conventions of the contents page of the music magazine;

- has a main image that is positioned in the centre of the magazine. This is the largest image included on the magazine.

- has a masthead. This is near the top, in bold to catch the audiences eye.

- includes buzzwords such as plus and exclusive.

- has a bar code on the front page as a way of scanning the product.

- issue number 1 as it's the first new issue.