Contents Page Layout

Digital Mock-up

Music Magazine - Initial Ideas (Name, D'graphics, VALS, Price, Release)

Music Magazine - Initial Ideas on Prezi

The Genre for my Music Magazine

Music Magazine Genre on Prezi

Music Magazine LIIAR Analyses: Mojo, NME, Kerrang



NME



The Masthead is easy to recognise, as is repeated on the contents page with the same font and house style. Part of the masthead is actually hidden by the head of a member of the featured band, and this effect is only done on top magazine covers.

The band on the front cover are there to show the audience that a main article will be based on them. If someone is into that specific band, the large image will attract them.

The house style (bold, capital letter, with the colours black, white and red) portrays a rebellious, emotional lifestyle, which is reflective of the audience's lives, the target audience being teenagers and young adults.

On the contents page, navigation is made easy by an index of featured artists listed down the left-hand side, so a reader can easy find a band they like.

The feature page is a double page spread, and the majority of one of the sides is the artist being interviewed. This has been done because a reader can easily recognise the singer if they are flicking through the magazine, and to show the importance of the singer. Also, the masthead is all in capital letters, with individual letters sized differently.

The colour scheme is continued here, with the main lettering being black and white, with important details (like the artist's name and the author of the piece) in red. Also, the scheme is used in the artists clothing, as she has pale makeup, black hair and a black and red shirt.

 MOJO

Like NME, the Masthead is hidden by the featured author, showing that the content is more important than the identity.

The colour scheme is different on each page, but this will be because for this analysis, I have used different pages from different issues - each issue will have its own colour scheme.


On the left of the front cover, there are a list of artists, again making it easy to see if your favourite band is featured.

The contents page shows a list in black of featured artists, with page numbers and subheadings in orange, to show a contrast. The magazine name is on the top of the page, so that it can be identified, even if it, for example, casually left on a table. A featured artists appears on the left, with a caption of a page number (for easy-to-find access), and a quote from an interview with another band is on the bottom of the page, again with a page number reference.

The title on the double page spread is made of different colours (orange, fading into white) to link to the title 'best of both worlds', ie 'best of two colours'. The orange/white scheme is used in the main article, with a black background (conventionally, it is black writing on white paper. This shows the rebellious side to music)

KERRANG

Kerrang has a large range of colours on the front cover, which can be linked to the range of music/artists it features. Again, a list of featured artists are in a prominent position on the front page, and other featured artists are shown in images. Also, the Masthead is hidden by the artist's head.

The contents page is similar to the front cover, as it shows images of various artists (with page numbers), mixed in with text-only artist features (with page numbers). The main feature is shown as a large image at the top half of the page, as if the magazine is saying: "This is the main band, but that's not all! We also have..."

The double page spread has a large group image of the featured band, with smaller images of individual groups in black and white dotted around. The band's name is displayed in a prominent place about the title, and a memorable quote from the interview is displayed in the middle of the article.

Music Magazine Brief

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).

LIIAR Analysis and Images (unfinished)

College Magazine: LIIAR Analysis

Language:

Like professional magazine, I have used a realistic MCU, barcode and cover lines. I have used captions to tease articles about the images to the reader, with page references to the articles related.

I have also followed the conventions of a magazine, having a MCU in the centre of the front cover, a barcode in the bottom corner and cover lines surrounding the images.

Institution:

I have based my magazine on Wyke College, so logically; Wyke College would be the institute that sells the magazine. The magazine may also be sold in secondary schools, during open evenings, to attract new students.

Ideology:

I need to project the idea that students are intelligent and helpful to the local community, and the staff are helpful and approachable. I also need to argue against the stereotype of the anti-social, uneducation youth that is frequently publicised in newspapers and the media.

Audience:

The audience for my magazine are Wyke College students, (males and females, 16-20), Wyke College staff, families of Wyke College staff and students, ex students and possible new students.

Future and current students would be in group E (casual labourers, unemployed, state pensioners) of the socio-economic groups, due to the fact that most of them will be in education full time, and the ones that have jobs will be low-paid and part time.

To make it attractive to this audience, I will use photographs of students in the magazine, to make the audience connect with the articles. Also, I have added articles that I believe would be interesting to student readers, and also show the success of the college to families, future and past students, and students of other college. To make it affordable, I will launch the magazine monthly, and have it at a low price (e.g., 50p to £1.50.)
Families and staff wikll be in A/B/C1 groups (higher/intermediate/lower managerial, administrative or professional). It would be quite hard to make this magazine attract both the A/B/C1 groups and the E group, so I believe the magazine will attract the members of these groups, due to their current relations to the college it is related to (i.e., the magazine covers an issue they are interested in.)

Representation:

I need to represent a happy, intelligent and successful college, with positive students and helpful staff. To do this, I have included a photo of a young man reading a book in a library, with a smile on his face, to represent the intelligence of the students of Wyke, and also the students' keen interest in their studies. I also used a small thumbnail image of a member of staff smiling at the camera. I have used this image to show how friendly and approachable the staff are in Wyke.

Draft Front Covers

To improve this draft, I will remove the teasing contents, improve the coverlines, change and add more thumbnails and add a date and price to the barcode.

To change this draft, I will add more pictures, a barcode and more attractive text.