Further Updated Draft

Where I need to improve.

The main image is out of focus and weak. The picture needs to be bolder to match the rest of the magazine.

The blue text needs to bolder and move over to the left hand side and be smaller.

secondary photo needs to move down. 

All sell lines and anchorage is too long. They need to be punchier. (in the studio)

Footer is way too big.

Bar code is too big.

New main image is needed.

Updated Drafts

I cannot decide whether I should use a plain background, the union flag to represent the magazine's ideology or to have a totally different background.

Improvements 

The photo is out of focus and the headline is in the wrong place.
The T-shirt my model is wearing is too low-key. As this is rock music, his T-shirt needs to be a more bold colour or louder.
The union flag needs to be my own photo.
The photo with the blue background needs to be gone.

Unused Photos

The reason i chose the picture I did is because i thought it was suitable to the magazine. I like the photos where the model (Joe) is banging the sticks together and the 5th one down but I thought they may give off a more aggressive impression to the readers. I did not want this to happen because this pose may be associated with heavier rock/metal. I also decided on the one i chose because he was pointing at the reader, which i thought might draw people to it.

However, I need to take another photo because the one I chose is slightly out of focus. The new photo will be the same pose though, although I will take multiple photos of multiple poses.

All of the above photos are way too weak. They WILL NOT be featured in my magazine at all. The photos do not connote rock music or alternative music. I need to make my photos punchier in order for them to fit with my ideology.

My Magazine Name

The name for my music magazine is going to be ANTHEM. I decided on this even though it was not in the survey I took. The 4 names that were in my survey weren't really conventional or fitting to the genre I have chosen. I will later take another survey and see if the target audience I am aiming my magazine at think it is a good and appropriate name.

1st Draft Of The Front Cover

This is a quick draft of a music magazine front cover. I have not used my own images for this however. 

The reason I chose this picture was because the pose and image size is similar to what I want my model to do. 

Digital Mock Up

This is my first digital mock up for my music magazine. It's missing some conventions such as a barcode but that will be corrected in futre mock ups(if there are going to be any) and in my final draft for the front cover.

Updated Genre Idea

Instead of being a general rock magazine I have decide to do a magazine that focuses on British rock bands/artists and British music festivals. This means that I will have a more narrow theme to explore, meaning that magazine will not be too general. By doing this it means I can use colour schemes and phrases that suit a British audience only. Foreign bands might still be mentioned as they will play festivals in Britain, so brief mentions of Blink 182, the Ramones, Sigur Ros etc, might be in the magazine.

Font For The Masthead (Example)

Magazine Font/Type Style

The type and font styles i am going to use for my magazine are mostly eroded fonts. This is because I have found that they are conventional with rock magazines and suit the laid back, messy ideology of rock music.

The exception for this is going to be the double page spread. If the font on my double page spread is messy and eroded the reader will not be able to read it. Therefore, on my double page spread the font will be a clear and simple font.

Other Fonts

Possible Fonts To Use For The Masthead

For the masthead:

Test Shot Checklist

Shots in order of appearance: Two shot, long shot, group shot, medium close up, close up (bad framing) and a posed shot

Demographics

Social Classes Targeted


Q magazine is fairly similar to my magazine so I will have a similar demographic which is 70% ABC1.
The magazine will also mainly to targeted at men around 70% for Q and MOJO.

Price Of The Magazine
The magazine will be monthly so the price will be around £4. Also a higher price indicates it's a higher quality of magazine.

Free Gifts And Prizes 
The magazine is based entirely around the type of music you would find at festivals so winning tickets or something similar would be fitting. Or as a gift the magazine could offer a free download of the month with every purchase.

Props And Set Needed For My Pictures

• An old tomtom 
• A new bright tom
• Full drum kit of a bright colour 
• Drum Sticks 
• Bright t-shirt 
• An old wall 

Some of these props have not been used because the recurring theme has changed. A new list of props, setting and people has been added to my blog.

Colour Scheme

For The Double Page Spread:

A scrapbook effect is going to be used so I am using a yellowish paper with black and white pictures and a bright picture for the current picture so it shows modern innovation. This so it's clear we're looking at past achievements.

The Cover:
The Magazine is celebrating the best of british rock therefore the colour scheme will be red white and blue, however i need to make it clear it is red, white and blue representative of the union flag and not the american stars and stripes or the french flag.
Contents Page:

The contents page will have the same theme as the cover.

Changes

As I am doing a best of British theme, I realised that I should use the iconic Red, White and Blue to suit the idea. I have decided that the best of British idea will recur through the magazine.  

Prezi On My Chosen Genre For My Magazine

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Magazine Name Ideas

Outlook
Accentura (with an accent on the A)
Forte
Fortissimo
Live Sound
Live Outlook
Strum
Play
ICON
Beap
Rockfile

Initial Ideas And Drafts

To fit with the story of a drummer reflecting on past successes as well as talking about new innovation, I have decided the double page spread will have a scrapbook theme.
This theme however has changed to a best of British theme. I will still try and incorporate the scrapbook idea in my double page spread however.

Cover, contents page and cover 1st drafts:

Music Magazine Contents Pages With LIIAR Analysis

The iconic Andy Warhol banana from Velvet Underground's album; Velvet Underground & Nico immediately grabs the readers attention. This is because the banana is right in the centre of the page, it's also the biggest image on the page and is one of the most recognisable album covers to exist. This has been done so that the reader can instantly reconise what the main article is. The NME is typically known for celebrating artist indie music such as the velvet underground, who are idols in the indie world, and when an NME fan opens their issue to see what the main article is, they will be excited to see that an article on the band is on page 24. The other images being smaller also effects the importance on the main article. Bananas are not usually bigger than people, of course. But, the fact that this banana is a bigger image than the six images of bands indicates that this is a particularly important article to read in this issue of the NME.

The colour scheme used helps the audience to instantly reconise the genre of the music magazine. None of the colour used are bold colours and the paper isn't a bright white, which suggests that the magazine is not going to be about mega loud or super squeaky clean bubble gum pop. 

The audience is also reconisable from a glance of the contents page. Everyone on the page looks to be younger than 35, which suggests that the audience are supposed to be the same. The image about Velvet Underground is not of the band members themselves but instead of their album. This could suggest that the NME don't want their readers to be put off by a group of old men or an old picture because that doesn't fit with their ideology ( New Music Express) because the band are not in any way new.

This contents page from Q magazine is much more glossy, with brighter images and a bigger page. This tells us that more money has been used to make the magazine, suggesting it has been made for those with more money compared to the NME readers. The magazine features two bands of which Damon Albarn is a member telling us they are fond of his work; who covers many genres himself, in keeping with the magazine's ideology.

By looking at the two pages we can see that the magazine is very diverse in genres as we see 2D from Gorillaz next to an image of the village people. These two groups are not known to be associated with each other in any way so it can be a shock to anyone expecting a single genre. The image of 2D being larger than any other and not being crammed for space, tells us that this is the main article. It is by it's self, with white totally surrounding it, making it the most clear image as it's the one Q want us to see first. Like the NME contents page above, this contents page has 7 images. This seems to be common with rock music magazines; usually having 5,6 or 7 images. This is so the magazine stays true to it's conventions and the audience will always expect the contents page to look similar to this so they feel familiar with it and know what they're getting from Q. 

One difference this contents page has to the others is that it has the articles featured down the side, so the readers know what articles are featured and where they are. 

Music Magazine Front Covers With LIIAR Analysis

This front cover of Q  is taken entirely up by Dave Grohl, obviously telling us that he is the main featured artist in this issue. The readers of the magazine are going to be told that this issue is mainly on rock music. This is because Grohl takes up the who front cover, indicating that the magazine it's self will be taken up by rock. We can also tell it will be mainly rock because of the use of fire and black, which is conventional of hard rock. From the main image there is another indicating that Grohl is the main feature in the issue. This is the depiction of the other Foo Fighters members inside Grohl's mouth, which could tell us they're not as important as them.

We can also tell that the magazine aren't taking themselves too seriously. The main image it'self isn't meant to be artistic or innovative, instead it is playing around with hard rock conventions used previously by AC/DC, Areosmith, Zepplin etc...and having a joke with them.

This front cover makes it very clear what audience Q are trying to entice in. Q have used a picture of Dave Grohl, an icon in rock music, and next to it they have sell lines of Biffy Clyro and Arctic Monkeys who are also (the latter sort of) highly thought of in the rock world. There is also a small sell line about Radiohead. These sell lines along with the main image are clearly trying to entice fans of rock into reading this issue. This makes it so the audience almost doesn't see the Nicki Minaj sell line.

The fact that Minaj is in the same magazine as Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro sums up the ideology of the magazine. Q is known for being very diverse in genres of music and likes to write articles about nearly all genres. 

This Cover of NME  is a lot different to other issues. Normally NME has red text, this issue has orange text. The orange links in with the main article and image which is about "The reinvention of Mark Ronson", the orange could connote that the reinvention is one of their liking.

The main image of the cover is Ronson holding two halves of a trumpet, telling us of his new sound. Before this issue came out, Ronson was known for covering well known tracks and putting horn sections on top of them. This image depicting him with a broken trumpet tells us this is no more without the audience having to read the anchorage. 

The main article on the cover is conventional of NME. The NME are known for being very fond of innovative sounds and the changing of images of artists. The main article sums up the NME's ideology and therefore the main image sums up the magazines ideology. 

Magazine Prices

Weekly Music Magazines:
Kerrang £2.20, NME £2.20,

Monthly Music Magazines:
Mojo £4.60, Q £3.50, Rock Sound £5+

In conclusion, weekly magazines are around half the price as those released monthly

My Target Audience

Audience Targeted by my magazine:
Young average age of 20-25 but other age ranges will appreciate the magazine so around 60% 15-35 and 20-30% 36-45
Mostly male generally 60-80% male with other magazines in a similar genre
Around 50% ABC
Interested in the alternative life style and fashion ie. anti chinos
Go to gigs and festivals or watch festival coverage
Listen to Q radio
Watch predominantly channel 4 or E4
Passionate hatred of generic pop music. eg. Britney Spears, Peter Andre, Justin Bieber etc...
Appreciates all genres of rock music except generic rock. eg. Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Coldplay etc...
Slight interest in other genres. So a small blues article could feature

My Music Magazine Genre

http://goanimate.com/videos/09WCsNx6Hz0Y
This is my  goanimate video on deciding my music magazine genre

Conventions of music magazines

Cover:
Main image, headline, masthead, anchorage, barcode, date, price, sell lines, plugs/promotional offers, teasers, following the rule of thirds.
Contents Page:
Continuous colour scheme, main article taking up more than any others, title, date, page numbers, quotes from the article or band members etc, big stories with pictures and lesser articles without images, small ads, editor's section (picture with a paragraph or two.
Double Page Spread:
Picture of the band, overlapping text, title/headline, many pictures of the band, extracts/quotes from the article, continuos colour scheme, an article written in columns, captions, extra information eg. tours, festivals albums etc...

Main Task Brief

Music magazine front cover and double page spread.
Need to choose a specific genre. (alternative/hard rock)
at least 4 images in front cover, but maybe have more.
Use icons of that genre.

College Magazine Contents Page

College Magazine Front Cover

Hand-drawn Drafts

College Magazine Digital Mock Up

 

 

My digital mock of a magazine contents page

Ideas Moodboard

have a student in front of the college with a headline explaining their recent success
include either oak or a specific department
have a music and film section talking about albums and upcoming gigs, films, tv shows etc
have separate articles as well as the main one with the headline and anchorage text

Initial magazine ideas

Ideas for a magazine front cover 

• A headline appropriate to the college. e g. a recent event, success etc.
• A main image appropriate to the headline. eg. A student with the college or a particular department in the background.
• Appropriate anchorage text suiting the main image and headline.
• Sell lines featuring extracts from article.
• A barcode with the date of completion and a appropriate price typical to college magazines, unless they're free.
• have the masthead in the left corner if possible...

write about the success of a particular wyke student

Conventions of magazines

Conventions of magazines:

Main Image 

Barcode (with price and date)

Masthead

Anchorage text

Sell lines

Headline 

Skyline 

Footer

Possibly a plug or promotion

The Brief

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation programme, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid out text and a masthead. 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.

Examples of medium close-ups

 Medium close-ups are shots usually with only one person in the frame. They are usually from the shoulders or chest upwards.

LIIAR analysis of college magazines

This magazine has used mis en scene to put across it's ideology. The text books used put across the idea of a hard working student, whilst the clothing worn by the student is stylish, giving the image of a typical student. This then shows the magazine's representation of students as well as showing it's ideology. An Audience can easily be drawn in by the magazine due to it's representation, this is because most college students look like the student on the picture and therefore will assume the magazine is aimed at them.

This cover is not as effective as the last. It does not clearly show a theme or purpose in its text or image. It's design is very basic and doesn't show the attitudes or beliefs it needs to be an effective cover, because of this its audience is not clearly stated. I can see it looks to be aimed at females because of the woman on the front and the light blue used, however it does not mention any typical female content to be found inside the magazine.
 The magazine cover has not used typical conventions, most college magazines use a main image of a student whereas the woman on this cover looks about 30. The text anchorage does not fully explain the image, this could mean that those who do not know who Brooke Burns is (like me) will not know what the interview will include nor will it excite anyone. As well as an image not expected nor useful text anchorage, the cover has not used effective sell lines, a headline or a barcode with a date and price.
 

This magazine cover manages to put across an appropriate image that matches the text used. The text explaining what's inside the magazine is fairly general to college life and those who attend college, therefore the designer has put a student who fits the general image of a college student. Because the magazine is so general, more people are likely to read it therefore it has a large target audience. The magazine has a house theme in it's cover, this is the theme of red; blue; and white with some black text and a young college student wearing red, blue and white. These are also the colours of many countries including the UK and USA so the colour theme could represent a patriotic institution and ideology behind the magazine.