Joe King: September 2012

Initial ideas

Initial Ideas:

The type of music magazine I want to create would be one for the teenager so modern music but not just one specific genre a wide vary of different types of music such as dub step, electronic, indie, pop, rock, rap...so on and so forth.

Other ideas could be just bringing it down to a one genre magazine so maybe just and an indie one or just a dub step one.

The target audience is the younger generation so teenagers and Young adults, looking to get an age range from 13~20 or so.

This sort of format is what I would like as its simple but effective but i would change what its like as it focuses on one genre if it was more broad then it would be what im looking for.

Price would be around £2.50~£3

I would like to make my maagazine once every two weeks as the frequency of production is important to keep the reader intrested in the magazine as too long and they will start looking else where for other magazine and too much and they wont be able to keep up.

The key stats show that more males read this music magazine than women and neary half of the readers are students showing that it is most likely that younger people read it more than older people and also it sais that there readers are obssesed by music and therefore it shows that this would not be a bad thing to base your magazine on.

The issue size would be 30-40 pages, typical content would be band of the week, festival rumours and so on.

Researching the market place

Research:

NME magazine:

Vibe magazine:

Circulation-Rate Base-300,000

ADULTS

Men 55%

Women 45%

AGE

18-24 35%

18-34 67%

21+ 82%

35+ 29%

Median Age

30yrs

Rolling Stone magazine:

Evaluation of college magazine

Evaluation

To create my front cover and contents page I used Photo shop which was very useful as its tools are very useful when making magazine as they can help it look a lot like the real thing. I think both my contents page and front cover can be improved but they have everything that their supposed to have on them, I think they could be improved as some of the colours do not match and makes it look a bit untidy and also the titles could of been in better positioning and in better font. I also think the photos on the contents page could of been arranged better as it looks a bit like they have been just plonked on there.

Photo shop was what I used to construct my magazine as it has vital tools needed to create your magazine to the best possible extent such as the lasso tool, the magic wand tool, shapes, text boxes...etc. It was also much needed as with no other program could you go into such a detail such as putting a drop shadow on text or making a shape look its 3D. I used the magic wand tool on my magazine cover to get rid of bits that made it look messy as if you copy and pasted something you might not want the extra bit around it so that it fits in and looks neater on the page. I used the shapes tool to create the background for certain bits of text to show that they are separate to the rest of the page and make certain things stand out more, I used the lasso tool to crop out bits of the photo's I didn't want, I put drop shadows on headings to make them stand out more and look more effective.

My strengths were being able to use certain tools on Photo shop as without them I wouldn't of been able to make my magazine look half decent although I still think that I can improve these skills with time. Another strength was the photos I took as I think they did what I needed them too they helped emphasize the fact that it was a 'wicked special' or 'stoptober'. My magazine could of been improved overall as it was a bit sketchy in places with the choice of colours for the background and fonts but I think the chosen titles and name of the magazine were very good and some of the photos were quite effective. A weakness of my front end product was some of the placing of pictures as on the contents page a few of them looked a bit out of place and there were probably too many surrounding the wicked special bit on the contents page.
By Joe King

Analysis of our heat magazine front cover

For our induction activity we had to try and copy the front cover of heat magazine above to the closest possible extent we could, It was hard to get the same mast head as the magazine as they are the only ones who are permitted to have it but the rest of it can pretty much be copied.

One of the tools I used was the polygonal lasoo tool that allows you to cut out pictures such as the way that ashley cole and a bit of cheryls head has been cut around at the top so that the picture is not getting in the way but you can still see them clearly.

Another tool I used was the shapes tool as there are some that you need to replcate it such as the arrow at the top right.

Another tool I used was the text box tool as it is needed on probably every magazine cover to create the text used such as the big headlines to the small website at the side of the heat mast head.

The Mast head was impossible to replicate as heat magazine are the only ones who have the exact copy of this font so we had to compromise and settle for the nearest we could get too it.

The exact barcode could not be copied either but you can get ones that look similar enough and not many people tend to examine the barcode that much when there reading a magazine they more look at the pictures and headlines.

The big headlines and small ones could be copied as them fonts are ones that we can gain access to so they could be done quite close to the actual magazine covered.

The pictures could sometimes be copied such as the marly and me one and some of the smaller pictures but the one of cheryl and ashley was exclusive to heat so that one could not be found or used.

priestley talent show
tips to keeping up attendance
students going to uni
pictures from the music performance in the wicked
new equipment in the media department
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