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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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.

Comparing Bauer Media to IPC.

Both Bauer Media and IPC are massive companies when it comes to magazines, radio and TV. However, one has progressed further then the other.

Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK based media group which have two separate groups. Those being Magazines and Radio. The magazine side started with Angling Times in 1953. They then branched into the radio side in the 1990s setting up London’s dance radio station Kiss FM which is now known as Kiss 100. They also have other radio stations such as Radio City, Metro group and Magic 105.4. in 1994 Bauer bought a small magazine called for him magazine which is now known as FHM one of the leading men’s magazines in the world. They then moved onto TV in 1996 with their music channel called The Box, which is now grown into a joint channel with Channel 4. They then launched Britain’s first weekly gossip magazine Closer in 2002 and shortly followed by Grazia in 2005. Today they have over 80 different brand names cover a wide range of different genres.

Bauer Media now rivals with IPC another leading company in Magazines and Radio.

IPC consume 26 million UK adults which is almost two thirds of Britain’s population. They have 3 divisions IPC connect ( Their mass market women’s division with Now, Women and TV times) , IPC Inspire (Their men’s portfolio with magazines such as NME, Nuts and Mousebreaker) and IPC Southbank (Their upmarket women’s division with magazines such as Marie Claire, InStyle and Woman&Home) IPC Launched in 1853 with The Field which became the largest newspaper in Europe. The launched Woman’s Weekly in 1911. Women shortly followed 5 years later and came in colour in 1937. NME was then launched in 1952. In 1988 they launched Marie Claire. They then launched a range of TV Mags throughout the 1990s. All the magazines they have launched are still going strong today.

As a Media student making a magazine if i to chose a company to sell my magazine it would have to be IPC as they have such a wide range of knowledge about producing magazines and they seem to go worldwide. However, Bauer Media have more knowledge of Music magazines and music channels and as a student making a Music magazine it may be a better bet to go with someone like Bauer Media.

Readership Profile

School Mag Essay

School magazine comparison

Deconstruction of Caterham School and Fearns Lancs School magazines.

Both Magazines Caterhamain and FFH are about schools, however you can tell by the layout of Caterhamain that it is a very rich, well off school, whereas FFH isn’t as rich as Caterhamain.

FFH’s masthead takes up the right hand corner of the magazine and is very bold. They have used an abbreviation so that the name isn’t too long. It is short and snappy. They have used a san serif font, however the first F does have a tail on it, the letter interlink with their logo making it easy on the eye and easy to remember. Above their masthead they have their tagline ‘achieving success together’ this encodes that the magazine and school are all about achieving to the best of their ability together, they work as a community to strive for greatness.  The colour palette they chose to use are a maroon type could along with a light pink, they keep this theme throughout the magazine, thus making this work very well in their favour. The main image is of some girls playing netball, you can tell that this school don’t necessarily have a lot of money because the girls are wearing standard bibs whilst playing, a school like Caterhamain would have their own custom made. The bibs on the front also match in with the colour scheme. Furthermore you can tell that FFH do not use a lot of money toward their magazine because their contents page is also on the front cover of the magazine, by doing this they are saving money and making sure they are not wasting resources.

Interestingly, the caterhamain takes a different approach on their magazine, they use a very simple design with few words, and whereas FFH crammed everything they could onto their front page.

Caterhamain masthead is placed in the centre of the front page, they use a san serif font and the masthead is place on a yellow banner. The masthead isn’t very bold however. They want to draw more attention to what the school does, by showcasing some of their students on the front cover. The colour palette for this magazine is yellow and black. In the pictures displayed nothing of what they are wearing you would find at the school of FFH, they have everything designed just for them. This shows that the school have a lot of money to spend on the magazine. The contents page is then on the next page, this take up a whole page and have various pictures of the students, from the contents page you can see that the magazine is very long as they have a lot of topic to cover. This then again suggests that the school have spent a lot of money on the magazine, they probably got someone in to create it for them.

Taken together i can tell that Caterhamian have spent a lot of money on their magazine and is targeted at a person who is probably of middle class whereas FFH is more of a common school, where students work as a community rather than working on individual success.