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Photo editing
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Photo editing
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Uploading chosen photos to blog
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Producing designs for front cover
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Inputting photos
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Inputting text
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Merging all elements together
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Friday, 23 November 2012
Production schedule
This is a production schedule I produced, I will use it to make sure I keep on track of the tasks I need to complete, while also trying to create a music magazine front cover. If I am able to complete the assigned target within the deadlines provided i should keep on top of my work and finish it promptly.
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Questionnaire analysis
From this graph we see that half of the people I asked about a music magazine were between 11 and 16 years old. This may be biased but it is helpful as I will be aiming my magazine at this age group anyway and their opinion is valid to me.
For this questionnaire I made sure I asked the same amount of males and females so my own magazine is not gender biased.
I gave my friends and family the option of seven different genres to chose from so that I get an idea of what they enjoy reading about.
Over half of the people I asked do not read music magazines which may have heavily influenced their responses and they may have not thought about their answers much because they hadn't any comparisons to make from what they had previously read.
I can clearly see here that my audience wouldn't be willing to pay too much money for a music magazine so when I create mine, I will keep the price between £1-£2.
For my double page spread I will most likely do an interview of an artist or band as that is what people want to read about the most.
When creating the front cover of my music magazine, I will keep the colour scheme differentiated as people seem to prefer a mix of colours.
9) What do you consider the most important thing about a front cover to be? The people I asked to fill in my questionnaire seemed to think that all of these elements were rather important, I would agree in saying that the main image/model and the cover lines are the two most important things.
10) Out of these magazine front covers, which do you prefer?
I can see in this pie chart that people most prefer the second layout in my questionnaire, which is quite simple. I will be sure not to overload my own front cover with text when I have to create it because from this question, I can tell people don't like too much text.
Music Magazine Questionnaire
Music Magazine Questionnaire
11. What
age are you? (please circle)
0-10 11-15 16-20 21-30
31-40 40+
22. Please
select your gender?
Male Female
33. What
is your favorite genre of music? (please circle)
Pop Rock Emo Punk Heavy Metal Indie Jazz Country
44. How
often do you read music magazines? (please
circle)
1-2 a week 1-2
a month less than once a month never
55. What
do you consider the most suitable price for a music magazine?
(please circle)
Less than £1 £1-£2 £3-£4 £5 more
than £5
66. What
would you be most interested in for a double page spread?
(Please
circle)
Celebrities personal life Fan page Information
on upcoming artists
Interviews with
artists Other:...................................................
77. Who
is your favourite artist or band?
______________________________________________________
88. For
a magazine cover, would you prefer? (please circle)
Dark colours bright colours a mixture
99. What
do you consider the most important thing about a front cover?
(Please circle)
Masthead Tag
line Images Cover lines Colour scheme
Other:...........................................
110. Out of these magazines front covers what is
your favorite? (please circle)
Friday, 16 November 2012
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Codes and Conventions
Codes and Conventions of Magazines
The
common codes and conventions of a magazine front cover are;
- A masthead (the name of the magazine)
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Cover lines of the magazine
- The main image (this is usually an image of the celebrity from the main
cover line)
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Barcode
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Price
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A form of advertisement
The masthead is often positioned at the top of the page, and usually
stands out the most. The cover lines are positioned around the front page, sometimes
on overlapping the main image. The main image is often the largest part of the
front cover and takes up a large percentage of the page. Forms of advertisement
and offers normally are positioned near the boarders of the magazine.
Similar
to cover pages, contents pages follow a comparable set of codes and conventions;
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Columns of text providing information about the contents
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Page number references
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The name of the magazine (normally at the top)
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Images - often a larger image relating to the main article
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The colour scheme is normally similar to the front cover
Most of the codes and conventions of the front cover are similar to
those of the contents page; this is mainly because the magazine wants to keep
the same theme through the magazine to appeal to their audience. The codes and
conventions are very important as the front cover effectively ‘sells’ the
magazine, also certain codes and conventions will appeal to a certain type of people
which should be their target market.
There
are three types of codes: symbolic, technical and written
Symbolic
codes - These are to do with what the objects in the page connate. Such as
colour or body language
Technical
codes – These are usually to do with the photography of an image, including
lighting, depth of field and framing
Friday, 9 November 2012
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Textual Analysis cover page - rolling stone
Textual Analysis - Rolling Stone
The magazine uses Robert
Downey Jr as the model of the front cover. His facial expression is very blank
and almost quite distant, he isn’t really showing any emotion, this ties in
with the main cover line ‘To Hell and Back With Robert Downey Jr’ because the
use of the word ‘hell’ and also his facial expression shows he is not
necessarily happy. There for the article in the magazine will most probably
look at the worse times of his life which customers would probably be more
interested in than all the high points of his life, and consequently sell more
magazines.
Also he is wearing just an
orange hoody with the hood up. This is not an expected choice of attire for a
famous movie star, so there for I think it represents a more personal side to
him and also could link back to the main cover line and show the lower times of
his life, when he wasn’t so successful and maybe wore hoodies as appose to
expensive suits.
Also he is not clean-shaven,
which could also imply the harder, worse off times in his life, as he is not
looking his best.
The colour scheme is very
limited, with all the typography in the black, white or grey and the image of
Robert Downey Jr in colour with an orange hoody that stands out a lot. I think
the colour pallet is limited because they want the celebrity image to stand
out, as he is popular and will appeal to a lot of people, there for increasing
sales. I also think there is limited colour because I think the target market
is middle aged so they wouldn’t be interested in a lot bright colours.
The cover lines lack a lot
of colour and the font is quite basic and dull, there for it wouldn’t appeal to
a younger audience, on the other hand I think it appeals to a middle aged
audience really well as that is there target market. I think the masthead is
also very boring in colour although the grey contrasts the white background and
the orange from image.
One of the cover lines is
about politics; I think this definitely highlights the fact that the target
audience is quite old as generally a young audience would not be interested in
politics.
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