My Contents Page:
My Double Page Spread:
1) In what ways does your music magazine use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of existing music magazines?
My music magazine uses a lot of forms and conventions from existing music magazines, such as the title at the top, main image centred in the middle, puffs, sell lines, teasers, graphic features, buzz words and the price being next to the barcode however most magazines have the price at the top in bright colours to attract more customers because magazines are stocked up in a way that the top of the magazine is more visible. To make my magazine more unique I put the free CD inside, usually the free CD goes on top of the front cover because I wanted the front cover to be full of puffs and sell lines to look more interesting. To make my magazine more unique for my double page spread I had the interview on the left and the image on the right, however the image isn’t A4 size it’s a centre fold page of the image of my front cover central image character. On my front cover I have anchorage text to make it look more attractive, it also has a good and an attractive slogan related to the target audience, “From crime to grime”. I also followed the 4 colour scheme on my front cover and stayed with the same colours on the contents page as well as the double page spread. Most contents pages have the page numbers on the left side, so I used this for my contents page, to make it look more like an existing music magazine.
My Contents Page:
My music magazine uses a lot of forms and conventions from existing music magazines, such as the title at the top, main image centred in the middle, puffs, sell lines, teasers, graphic features, buzz words and the price being next to the barcode however most magazines have the price at the top in bright colours to attract more customers because magazines are stocked up in a way that the top of the magazine is more visible. To make my magazine more unique I put the free CD inside, usually the free CD goes on top of the front cover because I wanted the front cover to be full of puffs and sell lines to look more interesting. To make my magazine more unique for my double page spread I had the interview on the left and the image on the right, however the image isn’t A4 size it’s a centre fold page of the image of my front cover central image character. On my front cover I have anchorage text to make it look more attractive, it also has a good and an attractive slogan related to the target audience, “From crime to grime”. I also followed the 4 colour scheme on my front cover and stayed with the same colours on the contents page as well as the double page spread. Most contents pages have the page numbers on the left side, so I used this for my contents page, to make it look more like an existing music magazine.
My Contents Page:
Existing magazine Contents Page:
2.) How does your music magazine represent particular social groups?
My magazine represents teenagers in the urban scene that are mostly interested in R&B, Grime and Hip Hop. On the front cover of my magazine is a young female producer that has succeeded in her life to what she always wanted to be, this will inspire the young community showing that you can succeed in your future and be whatever you want to be only if you dedicate yourself you can even achieve it at a young age.
This is great for my magazine because my target audience are teenagers/ students, most of the teenagers spend their time on the streets with no inspirations. A lot of teenagers are inspired by music that’s why there are more teenagers that do music than anything else, this might open a wider view for some of the teenager’s future or it might help them with their music if they get in contact with the music video producer I used as my main image.
3.) Who would be the audience for your music magazine?
The target audience for my magazine is mainly teenagers from age 13 – 19 any race and any gender, the audience has to be interested in the music genre my magazine is based on. My intended audience has to be in the urban scene to like and to have an understanding of my magazine, because than the audience won’t need any background knowledge. The audience I’m aiming at have to be able to afford my magazine as well, they have to be able to afford £2 a month as my magazine is published once a month. This is an advantage for the teenage/ student audience as they would be able to buy my magazine, if the price was higher my intended audience might not be able to afford my magazine which would be a fail in my production as my targeted audience would not be able to get my magazine which would meant me not getting any profit or it could even mean bankruptcy as I will make less money and use more money for the production.
4.) How did you attract/address your target audience?
To attract my audience I used bright colours, stories related to everyday teenage life, celebrities that teenagers are interested in and freebies to attract more wide range of the audience. My main story is ‘From crime to Grime’ this would inspire my audience that are possibly going through this phrase or would like to change to this phrase, the genre of my music magazine most of the time is stereotyped by crime so this story could even change a lot of teenagers life’s by making them concentrate mostly on what they would like to do in their future. The funky colours I used are a lot like my music genre loud, funky, laid back and unique. The language I used for my double page spread is urban because if I’m trying to attract urban customers I need to use the urban slang they use to attract them into buying my magazine, words like ‘Tha Productionist’ instead of ‘The’. Mostly teenagers are interested in all of the above, so there is a more chance of me attracting the audience my music magazine is made for.
5.) What kind of media institution might distribute your music magazine and why?
To publish my magazine I would use IPC media institution because they publish a lot of famous magazines like ‘Now’, ‘Look’ and many other brands, they also own NME the third largest commercial music website in the UK. However they don’t specifically have anything published to do with my music magazines genre, which could be seen as an advantage because it will be something new the institution could publish and get a lot of audience from it. IPC Media is a leading UK consumer magazine publisher. Almost two in every three UK women and over 44% of UK men read an IPC magazine, that's over 26 million UK adults. My magazine is unique which is good for the profit, my intended audience are teenagers they might also be interested in the other magazine brands by IPC, IPC’s target audience is mainly adults however my magazine would bring a wider audience to the company. My magazine will advertise IPC well, IPC will be more known because they specialise in mostly fashion magazines but this will put IPC in a different group as well. It will be also known in the urban scene which will be great way to attract a wider range of different type of audience, this would bring more profit to the IPC media institution.
6.) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your music magazine?
By constructing my magazine I have learned a lot about different technologies I used such as Photoshop which improved the quality of the images I used and Adobe Illustrator which improved my skills of setting out the layout of my music magazine. For my double page spread I used the skills I have learned from Adobe Illustrator to set out my interview page, which still had the same colour scheme that stayed the same throughout the whole magazine. Then I used my skills from what I learned about Photoshop and used it for my spreads centre fold picture which I edited on Photoshop to make it look different from other magazines, my unique skills only came out after I have learned about Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and also after the research I have done in my own time to see how magazines are made and many different ways it could be made so I could have a wider range of ideas that would come together for my final design.
My magazine before I knew how to use Photoshop & Adobe:
My magazine represents teenagers in the urban scene that are mostly interested in R&B, Grime and Hip Hop. On the front cover of my magazine is a young female producer that has succeeded in her life to what she always wanted to be, this will inspire the young community showing that you can succeed in your future and be whatever you want to be only if you dedicate yourself you can even achieve it at a young age.
This is great for my magazine because my target audience are teenagers/ students, most of the teenagers spend their time on the streets with no inspirations. A lot of teenagers are inspired by music that’s why there are more teenagers that do music than anything else, this might open a wider view for some of the teenager’s future or it might help them with their music if they get in contact with the music video producer I used as my main image.
3.) Who would be the audience for your music magazine?
The target audience for my magazine is mainly teenagers from age 13 – 19 any race and any gender, the audience has to be interested in the music genre my magazine is based on. My intended audience has to be in the urban scene to like and to have an understanding of my magazine, because than the audience won’t need any background knowledge. The audience I’m aiming at have to be able to afford my magazine as well, they have to be able to afford £2 a month as my magazine is published once a month. This is an advantage for the teenage/ student audience as they would be able to buy my magazine, if the price was higher my intended audience might not be able to afford my magazine which would be a fail in my production as my targeted audience would not be able to get my magazine which would meant me not getting any profit or it could even mean bankruptcy as I will make less money and use more money for the production.
4.) How did you attract/address your target audience?
To attract my audience I used bright colours, stories related to everyday teenage life, celebrities that teenagers are interested in and freebies to attract more wide range of the audience. My main story is ‘From crime to Grime’ this would inspire my audience that are possibly going through this phrase or would like to change to this phrase, the genre of my music magazine most of the time is stereotyped by crime so this story could even change a lot of teenagers life’s by making them concentrate mostly on what they would like to do in their future. The funky colours I used are a lot like my music genre loud, funky, laid back and unique. The language I used for my double page spread is urban because if I’m trying to attract urban customers I need to use the urban slang they use to attract them into buying my magazine, words like ‘Tha Productionist’ instead of ‘The’. Mostly teenagers are interested in all of the above, so there is a more chance of me attracting the audience my music magazine is made for.
5.) What kind of media institution might distribute your music magazine and why?
To publish my magazine I would use IPC media institution because they publish a lot of famous magazines like ‘Now’, ‘Look’ and many other brands, they also own NME the third largest commercial music website in the UK. However they don’t specifically have anything published to do with my music magazines genre, which could be seen as an advantage because it will be something new the institution could publish and get a lot of audience from it. IPC Media is a leading UK consumer magazine publisher. Almost two in every three UK women and over 44% of UK men read an IPC magazine, that's over 26 million UK adults. My magazine is unique which is good for the profit, my intended audience are teenagers they might also be interested in the other magazine brands by IPC, IPC’s target audience is mainly adults however my magazine would bring a wider audience to the company. My magazine will advertise IPC well, IPC will be more known because they specialise in mostly fashion magazines but this will put IPC in a different group as well. It will be also known in the urban scene which will be great way to attract a wider range of different type of audience, this would bring more profit to the IPC media institution.
6.) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your music magazine?
By constructing my magazine I have learned a lot about different technologies I used such as Photoshop which improved the quality of the images I used and Adobe Illustrator which improved my skills of setting out the layout of my music magazine. For my double page spread I used the skills I have learned from Adobe Illustrator to set out my interview page, which still had the same colour scheme that stayed the same throughout the whole magazine. Then I used my skills from what I learned about Photoshop and used it for my spreads centre fold picture which I edited on Photoshop to make it look different from other magazines, my unique skills only came out after I have learned about Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and also after the research I have done in my own time to see how magazines are made and many different ways it could be made so I could have a wider range of ideas that would come together for my final design.
My magazine before I knew how to use Photoshop & Adobe:
My magazine after I found out how to use Photoshop & Adobe:
To store all my work for teachers to mark my work I made a blog on Blogspot.com and put all my work on there daily, I can also look at examples of other students work and rate them. Blogspot is really good because it stores all my documents so if I lose them on my computer I can get them back on my blog, however somehow my account wasn’t able to upload pictures on my documents so I had to save the pictures and upload them on the documents on a Mac, this held me back but I still managed to stay ahead.
7.) What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from creating the school magazine (preliminary task), to creating your music magazine?
When I made my school magazine which was just to test my skills, I didn’t know how to use Photoshop so my central image looked plain it didn’t stand out to attract any audience the image didn’t look like a music magazine it looked more of a fashion magazine. I also didn’t know how to use Adobe Illustrator to set it out like an existing music magazine, after research and more practises I have learned much more and improved a lot for my final music magazine. Now I know how to take a photo in an appropriate setting and edit it on Photoshop to make it look more appealing and more focused, I also have learned how to put the image on Adobe Illustrator and set out the writing well around the image. After studying a lot of magazines in my spare time I have realised that the colours and fonts used have to relate throughout the magazine to be more like an existing magazine and to make it look more professional, so I kept this primary research in mind and used it for the front of my magazine, contents page and my double page article. This is important because now all my pages look related, instead of looking like pages from totally different magazines. On my blog I also had a pole asking people if they like my Front page, Contents page and my double page spread I had 100% positive feedback, this means all the people that went on my blog liked my Front page, Contents page and the double page spread.
7.) What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from creating the school magazine (preliminary task), to creating your music magazine?
When I made my school magazine which was just to test my skills, I didn’t know how to use Photoshop so my central image looked plain it didn’t stand out to attract any audience the image didn’t look like a music magazine it looked more of a fashion magazine. I also didn’t know how to use Adobe Illustrator to set it out like an existing music magazine, after research and more practises I have learned much more and improved a lot for my final music magazine. Now I know how to take a photo in an appropriate setting and edit it on Photoshop to make it look more appealing and more focused, I also have learned how to put the image on Adobe Illustrator and set out the writing well around the image. After studying a lot of magazines in my spare time I have realised that the colours and fonts used have to relate throughout the magazine to be more like an existing magazine and to make it look more professional, so I kept this primary research in mind and used it for the front of my magazine, contents page and my double page article. This is important because now all my pages look related, instead of looking like pages from totally different magazines. On my blog I also had a pole asking people if they like my Front page, Contents page and my double page spread I had 100% positive feedback, this means all the people that went on my blog liked my Front page, Contents page and the double page spread.
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