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Initial Plans For My Magazine

For this lesson, I decided what my initial plans would be for my music magazine.

-Price: £3.75

-Frequency of publication: Monthly

-Average issue size: 115

-Regular Content:
  - Gig reviews
  - Introducing new acts
  - Album reviews
  - Latest News
  - Inside the mind of...

-Feature Articles:
  - Purple Science Hoodie! The Future Of British Rock
  - MCR's Gerard Way Speaks Out
  - Win A Date To Nando's With Four Year Strong
  - Metallica's Greatest Tour Yet
  - Greatest Punk Tracks EVER!


I will use the media pack from Kerrang! Magazine to make sure I am sticking to the codes and conventions of a Rock magazine:


http://bauermediaadvertising.com/uploads/Kerrang!-MediaPack-2011.pdf

Researching The Market Place

The task for this lesson was to research real music magazines that would rival my music magazine. I shall be researching music magazines covering the genre of Rock.


Magazine 1: Kerrang!

Price: £2.20
Frequency of Publication: Weekly
Issue Size: 63
Regular Content: Feedback letters & The K Quiz
Feature Articles: Biffy Clyro, Download ticket competition
Positioning Statement: Life Is Loud!
Website: www.kerrang.com
Publisher's Website:

Kerrang! magazine media pack:
http://bauermediaadvertising.com/uploads/Kerrang!-MediaPack-2011.pdf


Magazine 2: Rock Sound

Price: £3.99
Frequency of Publication: Monthly
Issue Size: 115
Regular Content: Gig Reviews & Album Reviews
Feature Articles: 30 Seconds To Mars, Fall Out Boy
Positioning Statement:
Website: rocksound.tv
Publisher's Website:


Magazine 3: Metal Hammer

Price: £4.25
Frequency of Publication: Monthly
Issue Size: 130
Regular Content: Tales from the Pit
Feature Articles: Avenged Sevenfold
Positioning Statement:
Website:www.metalhammer.co.uk
Publisher's Website:


Magazine 4: Big Cheese

Price: £3.75
Frequency of Publication: Monthly
Issue Size: 122
Regular Content: Album reviews
Feature Article: Paramore, 30 Greatest Pop Punk anthems
Positioning Statement: Punk. Metal. Rock. Since 1996
Website: www.bigcheesemagazine.com/magazine
Publisher's Website:

Inital Ideas

In today's lesson we decided what type of music magazine we are going to produce, and discussed our target audience for the magazine.


For my music magazine I have chosen to study the Rock music genre.


My target audience will be rock music fan of both genders and between the ages of 16-25.

Evaluation

This was the finished product of my School magazine front cover made on Adobe Photoshop.

This was the finished product of my School magazine contents page made on Quark Xpress.

My front page follows the forms and conventions of a real magazine, using methods such as including a barcode, a main image , a mast head which was spread across the top of the page in bold text, i made sure that the eyes on my main image were not covered by any text to gain a captive audience. Also my contents page contains the codes and conventions of a real magazine by using methods such as i organised the page into coloums with headings and page numbers, i then added a few smaller images and kept the bold masthead which spread across the page.
Throughout my front page and my contents i kept the same colour scheme and font. However i have challenged these forms and conventions as i did not use a proper background as i was not very familiar with the software we were using.

For creating my front cover we used adobe photoshop, which was a easy software to use however for my contents page we used quark Xpress which i wasnt very confident with because i had only used it twice before so it was all new too me. So i decided to experiment a bit with the software to gain more knowledge .I found that i was more confident on photoshop than i was on quark Xpress as i had used it many times before and knew exactly what tools to use for certain aspects of my magazine cover. My other strengths in terms of forms and conventions were i was able to follow most of them using my own ideas and designs to create a good school magazine cover. Although i was confident in my front cover i was not so confident with the designs of my contents page as the software i was using was challenging and diffcult to use.

Final Images For School Magazine

Whilst creating our magazine front cover and contents page, we took screen shots of each step we did when making them.

The first 4 screen shots are of my front cover. These were taken when I was using Photoshop to create my magazine.

The first screen shot is of my main image cut out from a photograph and pasted onto a new page. I also added a mast head across the top of the page.

In the next screen shot, I have added a coverline to my main image and some smaller coverlines at the bottom of the page.

I added a column of coverlines to the left hand side of the page in orange to match the mast head.

Finally, I added a couple more coverlines to the right hand side and this is my complete front cover for my school magazine.

The next 4 screen shots are of my contents page on Quark.

I coloured the background in green and places a different main image in the top left hand corner, leaving a bit of room for a cover line.

Next, I added a title and a column of regulars that appear in the magazine.

Finally, I added another two columns at the bottom of the page for the features of my magazine.