Evaluation
Slide one
The following are annotations of my music magazine front cover, double page spread and contents page explaining how they are conventional.
Slide two
For my main media project I created a brand new metal music magazine.
My music magazine does not represent any particular social group overtly. However it could be argued that metal music fans are represented through the magazine. This is because of things such as the main image on the front cover and use of direct address.
Slide three
As the two main rivals for my music magazine, “!Kerrang” and “Metal Hammer” are both published by Bauer, the obvious choice for my magazine distribution would be IPC due to competition. However my choice of distributor would be Bauer to cover all aspects of the market.
My magazine would be sold in Newsagents & Supermarkets. Music stores such as HMV, it would also be distributed in the on-line HMV store. It would also be sold in WH Smith and would be available by phone or over the internet for monthly subscription.
Slide four
The target audience for my music magazine is metal music fans aged between 13 and 25.
To attract/address my audience I produced a set of questionnaires in order to find out such things as my target audience's preferred colour scheme and favourite bands.
The contents of my magazine were also an important factor for attracting and addressing my audience, for example including things such as competitions and using direct address.
Slide five
The following slide is feedback from my audience research questionnaires.
I asked my audience if my front cover appealed to them, and if so which parts of it?
100% said yes, some of the responses were:
“The image and many bold titles”
“The layout and design look professional”
“The main image is very striking”
I asked my audience if the front cover appealed to them
80% said yes
I also asked my audience if the language I used in my article was appropriate
And if so which parts of it
90% said yes and some of the responses were:
“It is very relevant”
“It is good and not to informal”
“Yes it is very good and very informative”
I asked my audience if they found the featured and regular content listed on the contents page appealing
100% said yes
I finally asked my audience what improvements they think I could make to my magazine
Some of the responses were
“More images”
“Nothing, I would buy it”
“More images on the contents page”
“Use of more images”
Due to these responses I added more images to my contents page and changed the arrangement
Through the process of constructing this product I have learnt about new technologies. These include the use of Desktop publishing and learning that anyone can publish from their own Desktop through the use of programmes and a printer. I have also expanded my knowledge on Adobe Photo Shop, Quark Express and the use of a digital camera.
Slide six
Looking back at my preliminary exercise product I feel I have progressed in different areas. I have expanded on my creative ability and learnt how to put ideas into practice and have learnt how to apply and adapt my ideas. I have also progressed with my technical skills in use of computing.
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Monday, 2 February 2009
19th January – 23rd January
This week I began creating questionnaires for my audience research. Once I had compiled the questionnaires I began handing them out and retrieving feedback on my magazine. I handed out 10 of the following questionnaires:
Questionnaire
Please could you fill out this short questionnaire in order to give me feedback for AS media coursework, thank you.
Does my front cover appeal to you? IF so what parts of it?
Do the colour schemes I have used appeal to you?
Please circle Yes No
Do you think the images on the contents page portray metal music?
Please circle Yes No
Do you think the language I have used in my article is appropriate? If not, what could I change?
Do you find the featured and regular content appealing? (see contents page)
Please circle Yes No
What improvements do you think I could make to my music magazine?
12th January – 16th January
This week I created my contents page in Quark Express. I used my previous designs and filled in my regular, featured and “on the cover” content. I then edited my images in Photoshop and imported them into Quark. I took time to work out appropriate positioning for my images and decided on the final design. I finished my magazine this week and handed it in to meet the deadline.
This week I created my contents page in Quark Express. I used my previous designs and filled in my regular, featured and “on the cover” content. I then edited my images in Photoshop and imported them into Quark. I took time to work out appropriate positioning for my images and decided on the final design. I finished my magazine this week and handed it in to meet the deadline.
5th January – 9th January
This week I created my double page spread in Quark Express. I created my title and added in my stand first. I then continued to change the planning of my sketches and re-position the image so that it was on the right hand side of the article. After positioning my image I imported my text and cut my article to fit in.
15th December – 19th December
This week I began to create my magazine front cover using Photoshop. I imported my front cover image and edited the opacity to change the lighting and mood of the picture. I continued by adding in my title, “amplify” I embossed the title, changed the resolution and gave it a red outline to link in with the blue and purple colour scheme of my cover lines. TO finish the front cover I added in my positioning statement, “Can YOU handle the noise?” issue date and bar code.
8th December - 12th December
This week I made a final decision on the images I would use for my music magazine. I began taking the pictures and gathered the following:
I decided to use the first image for my front cover; I edited the opacity of the picture in Photoshop to make the contents of the image clearer. I used this picture because the person is looking directly at the camera, and the image portrays that of the metal music genre.
I took the above images of a drum kit for my double page spread. I decided to use the first image because of the lighting and the effect the picture has.
I took the following images for my contents page; I decided to use the first image as it uses direct address and therefore targets my audience.
The above images were taken
as ideas for my contents page, I used
two of the images because they related
to articles in my featured content.
This week I made a final decision on the images I would use for my music magazine. I began taking the pictures and gathered the following:
I decided to use the first image for my front cover; I edited the opacity of the picture in Photoshop to make the contents of the image clearer. I used this picture because the person is looking directly at the camera, and the image portrays that of the metal music genre.
I took the above images of a drum kit for my double page spread. I decided to use the first image because of the lighting and the effect the picture has.
I took the following images for my contents page; I decided to use the first image as it uses direct address and therefore targets my audience.
The above images were taken
as ideas for my contents page, I used
two of the images because they related
to articles in my featured content.
24th November – 28th November
This week we began our publication plan, to begin setting ideas on our music magazines.
Publication plan
Title: “ AMPLIFY ”
Positioning Statement: “Can YOU handle the noise?”
Frequency of publication: Monthly
Price: £3.20
Distribution: Newsagents, Supermarkets, Music stores, gigs, festivals, online, subscription.
Rationale: The magazine will consist of music from the metal genre only, including unsigned bands as well as well known bands. The magazine will be original, releasing exclusive information from big record label companies. All the latest news will be included and it will consist of unseen photographs.
Style: The magazine will be informal with use of colloquial language. It will be dominated by images and the majority of text will be to inform or get fans involved. Simple syntax and vocabulary will be used as the target audience is fairly young.
Regular content
Fan page (fan’s letters)
Album reviews
What do YOU think?
Editor’s letter
Free band and artist posters
- Competitions
- Gig reviews
- News
- Unsigned band of the month
- Crazy Bass man column
- Gig updates
Feature articles
Exclusive line-up for Download festival ‘09
The Devil wears Prada
Interview with Ferret Music
Carcass – How we made it
Lacuna Coil band review over the years
- This or the Apocalypse
How Funeral for a friend became famous
Chimaira
A blast from the past with the Damned
Behind the scenes at MEN
Be a part of the unsigned bands campaign
Vote on years best drummer
Shades of Dusk
Linkin Park in the making
House Style
Cover lines: Tahoma
Headlines: Rockwell Extra Bold
Stand first: Rockwell 14pt (By-line included)
Captions: Arial 8pt
Features first paragraph: Drop capital Rockwell Extra Bold all in CAPITALS 4 lines deep.
Body text: Times New Roman 11pt
Colour scheme: Black, Blue and Purple.
11th November 2008
Today we constructed our questionnaires on the computers; we then printed them out and began getting them filled in by our target audience, in order to gather information for our own music magazines. I handed out 20 of the following questionnaires:
Questionnaire
This is a short questionnaire in order to help me conduct some AS media research I would appreciate it if you could take the time to fill it in.
Are you:
Male □ Female □
How old are you?
14 – 18 □ 19 – 23 □ 24-28 □
What band(s) or solo artist(s) is your favourite?
How often do you buy a music magazine?
Daily □ Weekly □ Monthly □ Never □
Other □ (If so please specify)
How much would you pay for a music magazine?
£1 □ £2 □ £3 □ £4 □ other □ (Please specify)
Which three words come to mind when thinking of the metal genre of
Music?
On a scale of 1-5 would you rate the following components of a music
Magazine? 1 being worthless and 5 being very important.
Interviews 1 2 3 4 5
Letters 1 2 3 4 5
Freebies 1 2 3 4 5
Competitions 1 2 3 4 5
Reviews 1 2 3 4 5
Photographs 1 2 3 4 5
Concert
Updates 1 2 3 4 5
What are your favourite colour(s)?
3rd November 2008
As we begun to work on the main task we had to know the codes and conventions of a music magazine.
These included:
Front cover
Main image overlaps main title – only well established magazines.
Title is one word
Strip across bottom of cover
Main image is a band or singer – more frequent magazines use more than one main image
Monthly magazines often have poster and CD give aways
Body language is important as it conveys attitude
Main image is a medium close-up or a close-up
Contempory fonts – sans serif fonts
Contents page
Monthly contents pages tend to be two page spreads
Typography reflects the genre of the music magazine e.g. indie magazines are straight forward
Large picture dominates
As we begun to work on the main task we had to know the codes and conventions of a music magazine.
These included:
Front cover
Main image overlaps main title – only well established magazines.
Title is one word
Strip across bottom of cover
Main image is a band or singer – more frequent magazines use more than one main image
Monthly magazines often have poster and CD give aways
Body language is important as it conveys attitude
Main image is a medium close-up or a close-up
Contempory fonts – sans serif fonts
Contents page
Monthly contents pages tend to be two page spreads
Typography reflects the genre of the music magazine e.g. indie magazines are straight forward
Large picture dominates
24th October 2008
Today we completed the evaluation of our front cover and contents pages and handed them in.
Evaluation
My magazine front cover and contents page follow the codes and conventions of a magazine in many different ways. The main ways in which I did this was by using a unique font for my title and positioning it in the top left corner of the front cover; I used one main image on the front cover of my magazine, with direct address, the image related to the magazine because it was of a girl acting as head girl which linked to the main cover line of the magazine
Another main way I followed the codes and conventions was by being consistent with the typeface of my magazine front cover, however I did not use the same font type for the title and cover lines on my magazine because if I did I would be deviating from the codes and conventions.
I also positioned my cover lines in significant areas of my magazine front cover, this is because the cover lines were not able to be across the face of the model in the main image, and also the main cover line had to be of a larger font than the rest on the front cover. On the contents page
We were set homework to read music magazines over the half term and also to decide the genre and target audience of our music magazine.
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