Madona and Eminem.

In the workbooks giving to us by our teacher there was a article about Madona mauling Eminems critics. Beneath is the article and the questions of which i have answered. this helped me which my magazine research. 

Facebook page

I made a Facebook page to  keep people were associated with my magazine updated on how It was coming on. I only added people to the group who are linked in with the magazine. I kept this a closed group.

Above is a picture of the group.

I kept adding images of my magazine in steps so the people included in the group could see how it was coming on. I also asked for feedback to see if there was anything they thought i could change or anything they thought needed improving. 

My friends gave me some good feedback on my product. They told me to use a darker Colour on my double page spread as it would look effective and also different. I took this advice on board and used black on my DPS. I felt happy with this choice and used it for my final piece. They also told me to add a bright Colour through out my magazine. I took this on board and use a bright pink as one of the colours in my Colour scheme.

Looking at Magazines.

When we were first given the task to make a magazine very excited to work on power point creating my own product. Our teacher showed us some music magazines that were professional to get some ideas but also the ones off her class off previous years of which had got the higher marks. I got al ot of ideas from this. We also got told about the primarily task we had to do. I got nervous about this as our teacher old us we only had 2 hours.

Looking at magazines really helped me as I learnt where the masthead goes, the type of image which normally goes on the front cover, language used in sell lines and Colour schemes etc. I didn't realize the type of poses the models were doing reflected on the type of magazine it was until I looked through this power point. I learnt about the different style or fonts and the Primary and secondary Codes. Underneath are some of the magazines i looked at.

I could tell the target audience for this product by the text, colour scheme, pose of the model and content. The bright colours suggest a younger audience along with the pose of the model being very immature and childish. The main sell line 'your a star' connotes a younger audience as this isn't the type of thing you would say to an adult, and also links in with school as you could receive stars for good behaviour.

I could tell the target audience once again for this product by the colours and text. I found this magazine a lot harder to tell the target audience as although the model is wearing limited clothing her pose suggests other wise, and could be a woman's magazine to make them feel better about them selfs. I guessed this magazine is for both male and female as the sell lines talk about unisex subjects.

I could tell the target audience for this product automatically by the models pose and clothing. We know this magazine is for men as the model looks very seductive which will appeal to men. Also at the beginning one of the sell lines talks about tools which obviously is a male subject.

Screen Shots with my Model

I was lucky enough to have my friend accept to be my model for my magazine. I took the photos in my house on a plain white wall and also a couple against my garden fence. I took into consideration the type of magazine i was planning on doing with the places I took the photos. Underneath are screen shots of my model accepting the challenge to be my model.

Institution Research

I spent some time researching different magazine companies which have been sucsessful when publishing magazines. I also researched some sucsessful music magazines i knew off and found who which companies had published them. This is what i came up with.

Kerrang is published by Bauer Media Group
Top of the Pops is published by BBC Magazines
Vibe is published by Intermedia Parteners
Q is published by Bauer Media Group
NME is published by Bauer Media Group


I decided the most sucssessful magazines were all published by the same company so it would be a good idea to publish my magazine with them. I have chosen to publish my magazine with Bauer Media Group.  I have chosen this because they don't produce a product like mine apart from NME and Kerrang which would mean they wouldn't be a large competition between the three products. The company already produces music magazines so i would be pretty confident that they would take on my product aswell.

Initial Ideas for my magazine.

I want my magazine to be based on retro style music but also include chart music. I Thought I would base it around artists like Ellie Goulding, Lana Del Ray, Kate Nash and Paloma Faith. I chose this because this is the type of music I prefer most so i felt I Know more about this genre for my magazine. I want to use quite basic colours but use them effectively at the same time. I would also like my model so be holding a guitar. I plan to  stick with my initial idea for my final product.

If I didnt stick to this idea I would like to do a magazine just based on chart music. I think this would be a good idea as chart music is always changing and i could include loads of different styles. Underneath is the current top ten and the type of music i would be basing my magazine on if i chose this idea.

Colour and Font samples.

I chose to base my magazine on retro based music.

I thought fonts like Times New Roman and Georgia would be the best to suit my type of magazine. I have carried on using these two font throught out my magazine. Underneath is a sample of the two fonts.

Times New Roman

Georgia.

As for the colours for my magazine I wanted to base them on the main colours on my front cover image. The main colours were dark red and black. Underneath is my main cover image.

I added a third colour of dark durple as i felt a third colour needed to be added to liven up the front cover. Alot of my text has a drop shadow on just to make it look that bit better and make it stand out better.

BLACK

DARK RED

DARK PURPLE