Music Magazine Research

Research music magazines

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This powerpoint was produced so that i can show my research upon music magazines, how their articles are written and set out.
I studied NME magazine, Q magazine and KERRANG! magazine, all three magazine tend to cover different forms of music, NME being new bands, Q magazine tending towards more traditional bands and KERRANG! tending towards more punk music.
I feel that in my research, it has helped me decide on how i want my magazine and its articles look, for example i want my music magazine to resemble the style of how NME magazine sets out its pages and covers, going for a formal approach but having informal text content, i feel that i want my magazine to have the target audience of roughly 16-23 year olds, covering new bands, particularly indie rock music.

Daniel Rawlings Post 5 School Magazine

This is how i wanted the contents page to look, i used white font with a black background so that the colours would compliment eachother completely. The contrast in colours is not traditional so it gives the page some originality.
I used a different picture for the contents, it is in long shot form, which gives the page a different look to that of the cover page. both the pictures are of the same person, therefore it still relates to the cover page, and compliments it quite well.
I used the same font for the title "Contents" as i did for the title of the magazine on the front cover, this again makes it a relation to the cover page. I also used the same font for the list of pages found in the book as the lure headings that were applicated to the front cover.
I have gone for a slightly formal/ relaxed look, which I believe resembles school life, as in the fact that you are there to work, but also have a good time, which is the message i would like the magazine to express.

To conclude i am reasonably happy with my cover and contents pages for my preliminary task, however if I were to do them again, i would improve on the complexity of the features on both the pages, because i am new to using the programme Serif Page Plus, my IT skills on the programme are very limited, therefore if I were to do them again, I would make them look more complex if i become more skilled at using the programme.

Daniel Rawlings Post 4 School Magazine

This is my second and final draft of my school magazine cover, i have improved on the design by making it look less formal and more interesting. I have kept the title the same font, because i believe that it represented the old fashion style of the schools in the Consortium that the magazine is representing.
The school logos that were used in the orignal draft unfortuantely had a background to them, and through attempting to get rid of the background i found out that it would take far to long to reach the specific deadline, so i added white squares which matches the colour of the logos backgrounds, and tilted them around to make it look less formal.
The picture unfortuantely is not completely medium close up, but in the allocated time i was given i did not find it possible to retake a picture that completely matched the requirements, however i still believe that the picture used does slightly resemble that of a medium close up, therefore i am content with how the magazine cover looks.

Daniel Rawlings Post 3 School Magazine

Following showing people my first draft for my school magazine cover, i received feedback from three different groups of people.

The comments were as follows,

Group 1:

• Overall effect: Professional, good title layout
• Images: Good composition although the logos seem to big
• Text: Simple but catchy

Group 2:

• Fits the brief
• Nice Picture
• Layout of the text around the image is good
• Use of the logos is good bye the white background does not look to good.

Group 3:

• Medium close up picture ✔
• Laid out correctly ✔
• Masthead ✔

As you can see all three pieces of feedback were written in three different ways, this may make it look more confusing, but it gives me a more widespread outlook on what i have done right and wrong.

I believe now that with more practice of the programme Serif, i shall be able to "neaten up" my page and add better and less formal looking graphics.

Daniel Rawlings Post 2 School Magazine

As my partner for the research has been away for a while, i have had to the begin part of the research by myself, i have studied some successful school magazines in class, but i have also studied successful magazine that the media mass produce.
Magazines such as OK! magazine are big sellers, especially to women consumers.
The front cover is set out so that it has many lures, over lapping pictures and bright colours, this will grab the potential consumers attention and will make the cover look a lot more appealing to potential purchasers.

I have made a first draft to my School magazine cover, I am very unfamiliar with the programme Serif Page Plus, because I have never used it before, but that is the programme that is best for the job, so at the moment I have a very simple front cover, with very little effects, but i hope to improve upon my design as i become more familiar with the programme.

The picture is bad quality because i don't have the software to save it as a Jpeg format, so therefore i had to take a picture of the printed copy. i shall be improving on the logos, the title and the lure captions will also be improved, i will have to improve them as i become more familiar with the software however.

Daniel Rawlings Post 1 School Magazine

My name is Daniel Rawlings and i am studying Media Studies for AS level. I have a great interest in Media and i am intrigued at how people create successful media products that appeal signficantly to different groups of society.

I started my project by analysing different stereotypes that are represented by the public, I then studied at how the media cope with this and target their product successfully at the target audience. I have also currently taken part in a work shop programme at the BBC White City studio in which we used a programme to help us make a professional looking magazine cover.

For my preliminary piece of work, i am currently studying how to produce a successful school magazine cover, which appeals to teenagers to pick up about their school, and for my main piece of coursework i will be producing a music magazine cover that could appeal to a wide range of people with a wide age range.