Getting ready

At the top are photos of artists of the genre of my magazine, getting ready to do photo shoots. At the bottom are my own pictures of getting ready for my photo shoot.
Underneath is a plan for the shoot: the clothes, make-up, hair design and props that will be used.

Mood board of ideas for the photoshoot

moodboard ideas for colours, fonts and names for my magazine

Comparing contents, covers and double page spreads.

 This shows a comparison of price and when the magazines are published.

This shows the comparison in layout and colours used on the contents pages of the magazines.

Moodboard

In the mood board, i have included images of both the genre of my magazine which is pop/chart music and also images of the types of things you will find at a festival. this is because i am doing a special edition of my magazine 'Festival Edition'. The age range for my magazine is 13-20 because it features artists of a wide range that you would find in the charts and on radio stations such as Capital FM. The festival edition focuses on a more specific target audience: those who are interested in the festivals coming up in 2013. By putting BOTH festival and pop/music genre in the mood board, it widens the target audience for this specific edition of the magazine.

Behind the Scenes - Music Videos and Photoshoots

Rita Ora - Behind the scenes for Radioactive

Example - behind the scenes for Midnight run

Rihanna - behind the scenes Photoshoot

Taylor Swift - behind the scenes Photoshoot

test photoshoot

Price and publishing

To begin with my magazine was going to appear weekly. But as my target audience was for teenagers and those around my age (14-18) I realised that because they would be in education 5 days a week, then the weekend would be the only real time they would get to go out and buy the magazine and read it as well as have to do school work. That's when I thought I would publish it monthly so that then there is more chance of my audience being able to buy and read every copy. I then looked at other magazines that would be my competition and found the Top of the Pops magazine which was the same genre and age range that my magazine would be targeted at. By making my magazine the price of £2.00 then it would be 20p less than my competition and therefore be the one that readers would buy. Also, my audience research proved that my target audience would buy a magazine at the price of £2.00. 

Moodboard and artists music videos

Prezi presentation

This presentation includes my moodbard for my magazine and the different genres of music that i could have based my music magazine on.
It also has existing music videos for artists of the genre of music that i have decided to base my magazine on: POP

Double page spread LIAAR analysis

Cotents page LIAAR analysis

Top 40 songs

In the top 40 chart, there are about 32 singles from the artists listed that could come under the genre of music i am going to be using for my magazine. The top 10 contains 8/10 and the number 1 single is part of my genre.

Liaar analysis of a front cover

Initial Ideas spiderdiagrams

Why this genre?

-    The reason why i have chosen to do this genre of music (Pop/chart) is because it is the main type of music that i listen to. The only station that i listen to is Capital FM. this is due to starting to listen to it when i was about 13 because it was the only station that played in my taxi on the way to school. Due to this, in a way it is the type of music i have grown up listening to and i know that a lot of other people around my age have done the same and so would want to buy a magazine based on the songs and artists heard on radio stations such as Capital FM. artists such as Rihanna, Ke$ha, Jessie J, Example, Ed Sheeran and Labrinth are commonly played on the radio station and so would be of interest to those looking for a magazine that includes these people. 

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The Brief

To design a front cover, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, a minimum of four images must be used.

Final front cover and evaluation

Evaluation

Before I started to create my front cover I researched other college magazines to get ideas on what mine should look like. I also saw other people’s coursework and their feedback and so used their comments to improve my overall magazine look.
In my magazine front cover, I have used typical conventions of a magazine you would find on a real print product such as a masthead, barcode, left third, main image and model credit. This helps make the magazine seem more genuine.
In the main image I have used a student from the college. Her folders match the colour theme I have used throughout the cover and the pink could be used to show how she feels about the college and the fact that she is smiling does too. The folders show she is enthusiastic about her studies at the college and the bag on her shoulder shows she’s eager to learn. The image portrayed shows the college is a happy place to learn. The colours of the main image are brighter and have a higher contrast than the image used as the background. This helps draw the reader to the magazine. The background image is of the college and the name of the college is clear on the front of the magazine above the person’s head which shows that that’s the place she is happy to be learning in.
The main story line is a pull quote from the magazine article. It links to the main image. ‘I love my new subjects’ suggests that the student is enjoying her time at her new college and makes the reader want to find out why she feels that way.
The left third of the cover includes the cover stories you will find in the magazine. They are placed here because it follows the conventions of a typical magazine allowing the reader to see the stories when the magazines are stacked together on display. The colours used matches the colour scheme used at the college itself and the font matches the logo on the front of the college. The black banner used to mount the masthead of the front cover contrasts with the white background, making it stand out and eye-catching to the reader. Black and white also shows sophistication.  The masthead itself, ‘Student Scoop’, uses alliteration to make the name memorable.
By putting a Facebook page and Twitter address, it reminds the students that there are other ways to access information about the college. It also shows that the college is up to date with social networking and the other students who use them.
One thing I would change about my magazine would be to make the subjects on the folders in the main image more understandable so that students were able to see the different subjects that are available to study at the college.
If I could make this magazine again, I would use another person on the front of my magazine to show the reader that not only is the college a friendly place to be in, but it is also a place where you can meet new people and make new friends. I would also have the people on the cover taking part in some sort of sport to show that the college is athletic. I could also have put about its recent achievements in sport because it is one of the best sporting colleges in the area. 

Overall, I am pleased with my final product and feel it connects with not only the students in the college, but the staff and teachers as well and allows them to access information about the college itself.

Different types of camera shot

My photos

initial ideas

Front cover ideas

Analysis of a contents page

made using microsoft word

Mock up of a contents page

Made by using microsoft publisher

Mood board

Analysis of a college magazine front cover

LIIAR

Language:

Conventions of a magazine

The key ingrediens:

• Masthead
• Dateline
• Selling line
• Cover line
• Barcode
• Left third
• Main coverline
• Model credit
• Main image

The Brief

Preliminary Exercise:Using DTP (publisher) and an image manipuolation programme(Photoshop), produce the front page of a new school/college magazing, featuring a photography of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead(title). Additionally 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 double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images used.