Research and Planning: Analysing Contents Page

This is a contents page of a music magazine and you can tell this buy firstly the mast head at the top of the page. also the pictures on the page represent what the magazine will be featuring in later pages, and also on the left hand side of the page there are sub headings with information which they will be talking about. The pictures on the Page are different from a Long Shots and Wide shots to show the locations and you can tell from the pictures the genre is Rock, Indie style but one thing you cannot really ell the the age which it is aimed at.

Research and Planning: Questionnaire results

These are my Questionnaire results for my magazine. I have learnt what age most people are and also what genre of music people are into. o this helps dramatically to what type of music magazine I am going to produce.

Research and Planning: Target Audience

This picture to the left of us is a typical person that will read the magazine i am going to produce.

The target audience that I am going to use for my music magazine will be:

• It is going to be towards 16-19 year old, which are usually in college or doing an apprenticeship
• My magazine will be looking towards both genders as it will be talking about the bands in the particular genre with both male and female bands.
• the music magazine I am going to produce will be aimed at people who are students, got a part time job, or is on an apprenticeship which are semi skilled. also unemployed people will be aimed at but from my questionnaire results people are either in a part time job or are still in education
  
• The magazine will be people who enjoy the genre of rock music as from my questionnaire results, the majority of people liked rock or indie music the most.
• The Wealth of people are usually got a part time job so they can afford to go gigs etc
• and also the magazine will be targeted at people who have got good chance that people will have a successful life and people who would like to live life to the full, within reason.
  

Research and Planning: Analysing Two Music Magazines

This is the music magazine called Kerrang which i am going to be analyzing.

• First of all the main image is of a person that is well known in the rock music business so you know that it is a rock magazine and would stand out towards people who like rock music. The shot that has been taken is a medium close up towards
  the Main person in the band.
  

• The Mast Head is at the top of the page but you cannot see all the of it so i presume that this magazine has been out quite along time so people do not need to see the whole mast head. Also the font of the magazine is is bold and mostly black and white, as these colours are mostly used on rock magazines.
  

• The layout is very well planned out and also has not much space but is effective as you can see all the text clearly.
  

• Again in the Main image, it shows the main character putting two fingers u which could show that its is not really aimed at children under 14 years of age but anyone above who likes the genre of music.
  

• In the Sub headings, all of them are related to rock bands in some way or another, and as you also should notice that the bigger font of PARAMORE it is related to the main image of the women who is in that band.

This is my second music magazine I am analyzing which is NME.

• Again the main image is of the main topic that will be issued, which is to bring the reader in as they are a very famous band.Just from the image you can tell it is more of a Rock Magazine. You can also see its a two shot with the main band members in the shot.
  

• As you can see the Mast Head is at the top of the page, but you cannot see all of it, which gives an indication that it is a well known magazine so everyone should notice which magazine it is.

• As you can see the Sub heading is also with the main image, and that is why is bolder and bigger than all the other text. it also has a little bit of information on what topic they will be talking about to the band.

• At the bottom of the page, there are other images and text about the other issues and topics that will also be in the magazine.
  

• The colour of the magazine relates to the images and the text stands out so the colours were chosen perfectly
  

Research and Planning: Camera Shots

These are the camera shots that i could use in my magazine. i have now learnt what type of camera shots i could use. In the images i described all the shots and what they consist of.

Research and Planning: Preliminary Task Evaluation

This is my College magazine. As you can see it is still pretty plain, but i am still learning and it had to be done within 2 weeks.

My likes of this magazine is the colours that I have used in this magazine are in good effect as you are able to read each text clearly and when on a shelf, the cover would stand out and would get people to look at the cover. On the Contents, it has a lot of images on the page which is showing what will be in the magazine as images are more interesting than text.

My dislikes of the magazine is at the bottom of the cover, it is rather plain and if I had more time I would make sure that information would be there and use the space appropriately. my dislikes on the contents page is the text is all over the place and not in real order, so next time i could make it more formal and easy to read.

The college magazine does look like a typical magazine and contents page as it has a mast head at the top of the page, then there is a medium shot image which takes a lot of the space on the magazine, and then we have sub-headings going around all over the cover. On the contents page, there is text around the whole of the page then images that are relevant to the text which is being displayed.

For my cover, I used Photoshop, and I chose the write font for the type of magazine i was going to produce. I put an image from what we went and took in the college to make it relevant to a college magazine. I then used used the text box to put text around the page and then made it more interesting making the boxes into different shapes.

For my Contents page, I used Indesign to design my page. It is quite simple my page but i just added a few images in relevance to the headings that are going to be in the magazine. i put another mast head at the top of the page and more headings around the page. i put the images around the page to fill the gaps and make it more appealing.