Monday, 12 November 2012
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Publication plan
Publication plan
Title: SHOUT
Positioning statement: For indie music fans written by
writers
Frequency of publication: monthly
Price: £3.00
Distribution: supermarkets, music stores, gigs, libraries
Rationale: The approach of the magazine is to provide
exclusive interviews and articles about bands/artists of that genre of music.
Its main purpose is to entertain the fans and give them an insight of what
their favourite artists are doing.
Style: The style will
be informal with elements of information using a friendly and humorous tone but
also giving formal opinions. The magazine is for all indie fans and therefore
will use a simple language that will be easy to grasp.
Regular content:
- Competitions
- Local gig reviews
- Concert reviews
-Hit of the month
-Favourite artist of the month
-Highlight shoots
-Fan page
-Fans chosen tune of the month
Feature content:
-An interview with Kasabian
- The Kaiser Chiefs get down and dirty
- The Killers talk about their band name
-Ellie Goulding talks about how she made it in LA
-The Kooks speak about their new album
-Eliza Doolittle tells us about her new single
-The Wombats are interviewed on their gig
-New singer Lisa Mitchell tells us about her big hit
-Mumford&Sons speak about their childhood in Scotland
-My Bloody Valentine look for their very own valentines
-Radiohead come back from tour
-The script talk about their crazy fans
-Ed sheeran talks about selling his instruments
-Tokyo Police Club visit Tokyo
-The View talk about their hit ‘Face for the radio’
-The Arctic Monkeys speak about performing at wakestock
-Bombay bicycle club talk about fame
-Coldplay speak about their 2week long tour
-Florence and the machine talk about V-fest
House style:
Coverlines: Book antique
Headlines: berlin
sans FB demi
Standfirst: berlin sans FB demi 14pt
Captions: berlin sans FB demi 8pt
Features first
paragraph: Drop capital berlin
sans FB demi, 5 lines deep
and first two words in capitals
News first
paragraph: first two words in bold capitals
Body text:
calibri 11pt
Colour
scheme: purple, black and gold
Monday, 5 November 2012
INITIAL PLANS FOR MY MAGAZNE
Title: SHOUT
Positioning statement:
Frequency of publication: monthly
Price: £3.00
Distribution: supermarkets, music stores, gigs, libraries
Rationale:
Style:
Regular content:
- Competitions
- Local gig reviews
- Concert reviews
-Hit of the month
-Favourite artist of the month
-Highlight shoots
-Fan page
-Fans chosen tune of the month
Feature content:
-An interview with Kasabian
- The Kaiser Chiefs get down and dirty
- The Killers talk about their band name
-Ellie Goulding talks about how she made it in LA
-The Kooks speak about their new album
-Eliza Doolittle tells us about her new single
-The Wombats are interviewed on their gig
-New singer Lisa Mitchell tells us about her big hit
-Mumford&Sons speak about their childhood in Scotland
-My Bloody Valentine look for their very own valentines
-Radiohead come back from tour
-The script talk about their crazy fans
-Ed sheeran talks about selling his instruments
-Tokyo Police Club visit Tokyo
-The View talk about their hit ‘Face for the radio’
-The Arctic Monkeys speak about performing at wakestock
-Bombay bicycle club talk about fame
-Coldplay speak about their 2week long tour
-Florence and the machine talk about V-fest
House style:
Coverlines:
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Friday, 2 November 2012
RESEARCHING THE MARKET PLACE
I am going to focus my research on Q and NME magazines as they are both similar in popularity throughout the United Kingdom.
Q :
Price- £3.99
Frequency of publication- Monthly
Issue size- 140
Regular content:
-The Q Recommender
-Q Mail
-Q Now
-Restoration Tragedy
-Q Then
-New To Q
-Cash For Questions
-Q&A
Feature articles:
-Cover Stories
Audience:
Q’s audience is younger and more affluent than any other music monthly.
NME:
Price- £2.40
Frequency of publication- Weekly
Issue size- 68
Regular content:
- Track of the week
Audience:
66% male,34% female, ages 15-34
Q :
Price- £3.99
Frequency of publication- Monthly
Issue size- 140
Regular content:
-The Q Recommender
-Q Mail
-Q Now
-Restoration Tragedy
-Q Then
-New To Q
-Cash For Questions
-Q&A
Feature articles:
-Cover Stories
Audience:
Q’s audience is younger and more affluent than any other music monthly.
NME:
Price- £2.40
Frequency of publication- Weekly
Issue size- 68
Regular content:
- Track of the week
Audience:
66% male,34% female, ages 15-34
Thursday, 1 November 2012
MAIN TASK- INITIAL IDEAS
INITIAL IDEAS
You need to make decisions about:
-The type of music magazine you are going to produce
-The target audience
For my music magazine I have chosen an indie genre with the target audience of 16-25. My magazine will be aimed at people who are interested in acoustic music and perhaps like to play instruments and also maybe singing. It will also be aimed at people who are a fan of young musical talent.
You need to make decisions about:
-The type of music magazine you are going to produce
-The target audience
For my music magazine I have chosen an indie genre with the target audience of 16-25. My magazine will be aimed at people who are interested in acoustic music and perhaps like to play instruments and also maybe singing. It will also be aimed at people who are a fan of young musical talent.
Monday, 15 October 2012
Overall evaluation
In what way does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
First of all I looked at the codes and conventions of
magazines, then I planned out and picked what my title would be to my magazine.
For this I chose ‘Love School’. For the front cover I used one main image, this
was of a school pupil with the camera shot of ‘close up’. Then for my contents
page I used two other images both related to school and the coverlines of which
was inside the magazine. I used up to 10 coverlines including regular and
features. The colour scheme I chose was consistent and followed the codes and
conventions of a magazine front cover and contents page. These were all ways in
which a magazine should be all because I followed the codes and conventions.
USING TECHNOLOGY
Strengths of technology
To do my preliminary task I picked up a lot on my media
skills, to design and plan my magazine I was using a lot of technology that I
had never used before such as prezi, QuarkXPress and setting up accounts on
various websites. I found this quite easy to grasp and it helped me a lot with
my work. Prezi taught me that I could make my presentations a lot more
interesting to viewers as it looked much more fun. Things such as Microsoft PowerPoint
and Photoshop were easy as I had used them before and they are very straight
forward.
Weaknesses of technology
However I found that using quarkxpress was quite hard and
confusing at times because I had never used it before and therefore not as
familiar with it as the others. Because I found it difficult to use this meant
that work took a lot longer to produce and wasn’t always completed in time as I
was trying to grasp it still.
MEDIA EVALUATION
The strengths of my front cover
I think the strengths of my front cover was the main image
and title that I chose to go onto it, the image was of a pupil smiling which
related to the main headline of the magazine. This headline was about the ‘pupil
of the week’ who was smiling which connoted that she loves school anchoring the
title of the magazine..’Love school’. The title was the main strength because I
believed that it would interest readers and turn education into a positive
thought opposed to negative and therefore went perfectly with the concept of
the magazine.
The weaknesses of my front cover
The weaknesses of my magazine front cover are the fact there
is no date, price or barcode on it. This will always appear on a real magazine
and therefore a downfall on my magazine as this doesn't follow the codes and
conventions of a magazine front cover. As well as this the layout of the front
cover could have been better, it looks a bit thrown together and not very
professional.
The strengths of my contents page
The strengths of my contents page is mainly the layout of
the columns and the text written in it, I believe that I took a lot of time and
effort to produce a professional-looking contents page. The colour scheme was
kept consistent with the front cover and therefore looked even more
professional. I followed the codes and conventions of magazine contents pages
and kept to a maximum of 4 colours.
The weaknesses of my contents page
The only weakness of my contents page are the images I put
onto it, I only inserted two therefore I did not follow the codes and
conventions of a magazine contents page properly as there is usually four or
more pictures. If I had added more pictures I believe my contents page would be
a lot better.
Thursday, 11 October 2012
Photographs for school magazine
These are the pictures I took for my magazine, one of them was cropped and manipulated for my front cover image and the two others went onto my contents page.
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Planning content
PLANNING CONTENT
-First of all I had to write a list of regular content which will appear in my new school magazine, this was the coverlines I had previously chosen which would be appearing every week.
-After that I had to write a list of feature articles which were one-off articles. I had previously decided on these and just had to add them into my content.
-Finally I had to decide on images that I wanted to be on my contents page, for this I again looked at things related to school and came up with using a school logo, pictures of teachers and pupils.
-For this plan I drew it all down onto a piece of A4 paper so I had a rough idea what it would look like.
-I annotated the codes and conventions of a contents page of a magazine to show me what mine should look like.
After the plan was made and I was happy with the results I then went onto quarkexpress and designed my contents page.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Front cover plan
You need to come up with :
- Title for your new school magazine
- Details of the mise en scene of your front cover image
- Coverlines for the front cover of your magazine
First of all I had to come up with a title for my front cover, I made a spider diagram with the word 'school' in the middle of the page. I then jotted down around it all the words I related to school to give me a possible idea for my title. I then decided on using the title 'Love School' as I thought it would be appropriate for the genre.
My next step was having to find the mise-en-scene of the front cover image. For this I also designed a spider diagram and put down ideas as well as looking at other magazine covers and got ideas from them. Overall I decided that using a pupil of the school would relate to the magazine and so settled on having a girl holding a folder up in the air with a smile on her face connoting that she 'loves school' which anchors the title of the magazine.
Lastly I had to come up with coverlines for my magazine, for this I thought about what schools have to offer and things that may come up in other magazines to give me some rough ideas. I then noted all them down and looked through them to come to an overall decision of which ones would be best. I then came up with 10 coverlines related to school. A few examples of these are 'teacher of the week' 'pupil of the week' 'monthly famous author' 'FOOD FIGHT!?' and 'local braniacs'.
- Title for your new school magazine
- Details of the mise en scene of your front cover image
- Coverlines for the front cover of your magazine
First of all I had to come up with a title for my front cover, I made a spider diagram with the word 'school' in the middle of the page. I then jotted down around it all the words I related to school to give me a possible idea for my title. I then decided on using the title 'Love School' as I thought it would be appropriate for the genre.
My next step was having to find the mise-en-scene of the front cover image. For this I also designed a spider diagram and put down ideas as well as looking at other magazine covers and got ideas from them. Overall I decided that using a pupil of the school would relate to the magazine and so settled on having a girl holding a folder up in the air with a smile on her face connoting that she 'loves school' which anchors the title of the magazine.
Lastly I had to come up with coverlines for my magazine, for this I thought about what schools have to offer and things that may come up in other magazines to give me some rough ideas. I then noted all them down and looked through them to come to an overall decision of which ones would be best. I then came up with 10 coverlines related to school. A few examples of these are 'teacher of the week' 'pupil of the week' 'monthly famous author' 'FOOD FIGHT!?' and 'local braniacs'.
Monday, 8 October 2012
Friday, 21 September 2012
Brief
Print
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, 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 candidates 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 must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, 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 candidates 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 must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.
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