PLANNING!

POSSIBLE MAGAZINE NAMES:
DIFFERENTTO
scrap
junk
RISE
mew!
MACHINE!
BURST!

possible slogons :
differentto- burst out with a difference
- changing your music
- rock out with difference
- rock out with the different

target audience

after studying different magazines, i thought it would be best to now decide on my target audience. the three magazines i have studied seems to be mostly for intellectual people, this can be proved as most of the text inside are more than 3 sylibles long for each word.
i would like to follow in using big terms that young adults would understand as i have now 3 magazines to inspire me.
the genre for my audience, i would like to go with a rock genre. this is because i would have more to speak of and to include in my magazine. this genre is one of the genre's i have mostly studied and has been said that the rock genre is one of the most sold magazines.
since i have tageted my audience around young adults, around the age of 17 -25's, the price can be offered over the price of £2. this would be because that this age, thy would be students or in jobs, being able to afford without having to ask parents for money.

MF Magazine:

Image:

The image for this magazine takes up the full cover. Using only the one image, it is hard to understand that this is a music magazine at all. It shows me more fashion than anything else.

text:

Again there isnt that much to show that this is a music magazine. The colour text over a black and white photo seems like a great combination and brings out a good effect but there isnt that much.

The writng the the side doesnt seem to show more of whats inside the magazine.

The font looks hand written which is good but only for the target audience of girls.

colour:

Again i would have to say that there isnt that much to the magazine, also in the area of colour. I do think that it would be a good idea to place a colour font onto a black and white photo. For my magazine, if i went with this idea i would make sure that the colour stands out more, like in the Kerrange magazine.

the layout:

I would think that this magazine has also gone for the simple layout, just like how Q magazine has. Although i think the creatures for this magazine have made a bit to simple as they havnt put much onto the page. Also, jus like they have used the one image in the Qmagazine, this magazine is different as they have used this one image to take up the full page but still leaving the women in the image to be the main focus of the magazine.

Q-MAGAZINE!!!

This magazine is one of the best selling, and told one of the best music guide. inside this magazine, there are more information of CDs DVDs Radio and books. Inside the magazine, they also show interviews and dates for many gigs.

the image :

This magazine is different to the kerrang magazine, there are not that many images on the cover, leaving lots of place. This makes the magazine seem more simple.

The main and only image in this cover s a very well known band looking directly into the camera, again inviting people into the magazine.

text:

The headlines for he cover stories arethe samecolour as the logo background. This makes it seem like the editors are keeping to a colour scheme.

There is much to this text than were in the kerrange magazine Which shows there isnt much desriction about the magazine. (but this old be a good)

colour:

Again i see that this magazine has kept to a simple colour scheme. red makes some of the text stand out. An example wouldbe the little box in the corner of the cover, explaining and showing how they are displaying 175 albums.

layout:

Also in this magazine the layout is placed in a simple form. the simple form for the layout seems to make more negative space. This could be a good thing as now the white background stands out to the buyers.

kerrang!!!

The Kerrang! magazine is known for being a rock genre magazine. Selling information about bands, shows and interviews. Plus they also advertise many companys to do with fashion, music and much more. Also the fact that they have their own comic strip i would say that this magazine has much to sell.

image:

For this magazine, there appears to be more than one photo. But the audience can tell that the lead singer for green day is the main star for this issues cover.

The fact that he is directly looking into the camera gives the effect that he is inviting people into the magazine.

The other little pictures seem to take up most space on the page. This seems to show how there are lots to talk about using the audience favorite bands.

this rule also goes for the contents page. there is one main image dominating the page. then below there are more leading the reader to the page which holds their favouriate celebs.

text:

The text for this magazine seems to glow all over the front cover. It is shown around the page in many colours that seem to glow of the page, as though it is trying to be noticed.

for the contents page, the page is moslty busy with text, this is not only to show that reader which page they want but also introducing new readers to the magazine in total, i think this is a really good idea to include to my magazine.

colour:

The colours in this cover seem to glow, i think the two colours pink and yellow work very well together as they are both almost contrasting. Another part of the cover that constrast that they use is the logo.

reading through the pages, the colour scheme has stuck to the colour black and yellow, these two coloures together stand out really well and attracts the readers very effective.

the layout:

The layout for this magazine is busy. There seems to be many stuff place everywhere on the page leaving no space for negative space.

mind map

Conventions for A music magazine

• main image
• masthead
• main cover stories
• logo
• coverlines
• cover image
• price and barcodes
• genre of music
• colour
• special features
• contacts page
• page numbers
• slogon
• double page spread
• story
• interviews
• page number
• font

L.I.I.A.R

language:
are all the parts that make a magazine, the languge in the magazine is what helps gets the message across to the audience. the language is the one part or L.I.I.A.R that we mostly look out for in termanology.

Institution:
creates the media text. contorls the language, Representation and ideology of a text.

Ideology:
is the studies of ideas that are put into a magazine.

Audience:
who is the magazine aimed for....
there are many classes, age, gender and many more.

Representation:
shows how different groups, individuals, and other stuff portrayed in a magazine.

new brief - music magazine

Preliminary exercise :
using DPT an an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new music magazine. using the conventions of a magazine. there has to be a main image. there must be a cover stories and masthead.

main task:
to create an outcome of a front page with one or more images, a masthead, cover stories which all must be orignial and produced be me.