Magazine Front Cover

 This is my Final front cover on both the right third and left third there is a lot of information that will tell you all about what is inside. Also the i decided to stick with my colour scheme and use bring colours to attract a younger audience. I struggled to find what picture to used but finally came to use this picture and I think that its the right choice.

Double page spread

i finally made my double page spread on in design. we decided to use this programme because it would show us the actual to page spread instead of having to work on two individual different things without knowing how to put stuff across two pages. So on in design we could see the whole layout. i decided to stick to my colour scheme of pink and purple. I wanted to get as much information about the boy band in as possible so i made it clear when the magazine was talking and when the boys were talking. i decided to do a little fact file on each of them so that people who read the magazine could get to know the boy band better. I also put in a colour of facts about the boys so that girl who read the magazine can get some more knowledge on the boyband as a whole.

Music Mag Contents

Here i decided that instead of using a pop magazines contents to help relate i decided to look at Glamours contents page because this is aimed at women so i thought that doing this would help attract the older part of my target market (20-25). I wanted my boy band story to be the main feature of this page as it is my double page spread. i have sourced the picture of Ryan Gosling in another post. i tried to fill as much space on the page as i could without it being to overloaded. i stuck with the same colour as i used on my front cover. I wanted to do a kind of banner on the top and the bottom and i believe that it makes the page ook as though there is more going on.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you fell you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing this product?

How did you attract/address your audience?

I addressed my audience firstly by getting people to take a survey answering questions about what they like. I then went on to calculate my results and came up with my answers. A lot of the girls said they liked pink and purple so i tried to incorporate this as much as possible on the front cover to attract them in. My survey also showed that girls like boy bands and so I created my own, calling them the new one direction. This will also attract my audience as they are young girls who love boys and also love one direction. I used the conventions of a typical magazine like glamour. I also used bright colours and pictures that look directly at my audience to pull them in.

What would be the audience for your media product?

What kind of media institution would distribute your media product why?

A company like IPC or Bauer media as they are both very big companies. Bauer media distribute magazines and music channels and IPC distribute a wide range of magazines. IPC is an outstanding company which distributes many big magazines of all genres. However, if I had to choose one company I would choose Bauer media as they produce a lot of music magazines and they also have a line of music channels. So they have a wide knowledge of music and could help advertise and promote my magazine in the right way. Furthermore, IPC are an amazing company that are specifically for producing magazine, they also have all different types of genres of magazines. Unlike Bauer. Bauer have a good knowledge of music, however, not a great knowledge of producing music magazines. Either company that I would chose to produce my magazine would do a good job. However, now that I have looked over both companies I would choose IPC as they do not have a Pop magazine like mine so they wouldn’t have to compete with their own type of magazine.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represents my particular social group because the group that I chose is young girls between the ages of 15 to 25. This allows me to use very girly colours such as pink and purple. The social group that I want to mainly attract is a very girly kind of girl. The type of girl that would listen to boy bands and girls like Miley Cyrus. They would be young, predominantly white typically in full time education. They don’t have much money to spend spare but they have enough a month to buy my magazine. The girl would typically spend time with her friends and socialize with other music fans.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Ryans Gosling Images

I got this image from google images. The website is www.digitalspy.co.uk. i decided to use a found image because i wanted to have an image of someone who was
extremely good looking  and had a good body. so i thought it would be appropriate to get someone 
famous off of the internet.

Front cover Progresion

The first front cover i came up with didn't feel right so i decided that i should change the background image. so i then found the image on the second front cover and decided that looked a lot more professional. i am yet you add in a poster in the blank space. i am putting together a boy band so pictures will be on soon.

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AFTER

Masthead final design

i decide to put my masthead all together. i tried different ways of trying the crown. i got my peers to asses which ones they like the best. they all opted for the 3rd design for the crown leaning to the side. therefore im going to go with this masthead.

Crown

i traced and scanned the crown onto the computer and then opened it in photoshop. i then used the outline and filled in the middle with black to make a silhouette.

MQ colours

i decided to change the colours of the MQ to test it, i decided to two different colours and over lap them to make something a bit more interesting

MQ Colours

so i took the MQ to photoshop to edit, i thought that it would look to use these colours and it fits into the aztec design, however the image was to pixelated for me to work with so it did not come out as well as i would of liked it to. so i decided not to do that design.

MQ fonts

i decided on the name that i wanted, i settled for MQ. i tried a bunch of fonts and decided that i liked the last MQ font with the crown. i then took this idea to photoshop to edit it.

character profile

this is my character profile for Sinead.

Music magazine - Top of the Pops & Smash Hits

Top of the Pops and Smash Hits

The front cover of Top of the pops is pretty over loaded. They pack everything into the front cover trying to get as much attention as possible. The cover acts like a contents as well as a front cover. It tells you everything that is in the magazine. They have cute little flashes everywhere of the most famous people in pop which will draw in their young audience. I would say that their target market for this magazine would be from the age of 8-13 as the things included in the magazine would be most relevant to those age groups. The colour scheme of Top the Pops have a range of different colours but not to many so that it looks a mess. They have Red, Black, Yellow, Pink and White. The main colour of the magazine is the light pink and then they have a splash of Yellow, black and red around the front cover. The fonts they have used are very big a bold and the writing seems to be in capitals a lot. They don't use complicated fonts as they want their audience to be able to read the words like 'Secret' instantly.

In comparison to Smash Hits, it is similar in some ways to TOTPs. Once again the cover is over loaded with things to attract their young audience. I would say they attract the same age group as TOTPs do. Their main colour scheme is Pink, Yellow, Blue and Black. Yellow being their main colour. They also have the American flag in the background adding more colour to the magazine.

Both magazine seem to have the same kind of outline. They both have very similar features. So therefore making a pop magazine that is what the magazine should typically look like.

Mastheads - Music Mag

These are my mastheads for my music magazine. i really like the first one MQ with the crown. i would most probably use that as my masthead and use the tablets we have in school to get the crown on the top. Mubble Jummble is to long for a magazine name. Pop Hits is to simple and wouldnt attract many people. Pop Up isnt bold enough. i dont really like the style on it. Smash Pop is okay, it is a bit to long and not really a pop magazine kind of style.

Colour Schemes - Music Mag

This is my colour scheme. my first colour scheme consists on 5 colours. I have black in all of them because its a nice colour to have around but not too much of it. i don't like the 2 greens in the first row so i wouldn't use this colour scheme. the second one i have done a sort of blue colour scheme with a yellow and a black. i wouldn't use this however because it is too much blue. Stuff that i want to stand out wont because of the blue. The third colour scheme i like because there is a range of different colours and i could use this as my house style. The fourth colour scheme i like as there is all different colours that i could use. i would also use this as a house style. the last colour scheme i like, however it is too much pink and like i said before the things i would like to stand out wouldn't because there is too much pink.

Music Magazine Flat Plans - Front covers

These are my first two detailed flat plans for my music magazine.
i made sure that i included i the Masthead, a Flash, Sell Line, Pull Quote, Pricing information.
The Name of my magazine is going to be MQ, standing for Music Queen. On the first one i made sure that i put a lot of information in the left third.