photoshoot

This is a mid-shot as its from the knee up

This shot is taken from a high angle

another high angle shot

medium close up

close up

This is the picture I'm using for my front cover draft

Magazine plan

This is a rough idea of how my own Country music magazine is going to look. I want a very simple colour scheme using primary colours like red and blue, and also the simple colours of black and white. I may use brown as I think it has a country feel as brown can be associated to guitars and Nashville, with its wooden houses, as Nashville is the home of Country music. I put my cover stories of the left hand side as this is a convention of most magazines called a left third. This technique stands out and automatically draws the reader’s attention as they expect to see the left third on most magazine layouts that they see.   

When I do my music magazine, I will put the conventional things of a barcode, a price, a date, and a selling line, as these are all missing from my mock up. Barcodes are conventional on every magazine, and without one it looks unrealistic. A price is needed so people can interpret the kind of target audience I will have, a higher price means a higher class of person that I am targeting.  A date and issue number is also part of the magazine convention, this shows how long the magazine has been running, and when it was released. The selling line, or slogan, is important as the reader will associate this line with the magazine always.

On my mock-up of the magazine I used a medium close up of a country singer, this is the type of shot I would like to use on my final front page. I plan on putting the main cover on the right hand side, whilst including the name of the artist, I will also put a quote by them, what thewy have supposedly said in their interview.

Font ideas

Blumler and Katz

Focus Group

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Demographics.

Reader profile

Mood board

LIIAR analysis

NME – 25 august 2012. Price £2.40


Language – The photograph is split into four sections, there are four individual pictures of the band separately, and this could be to show that all members of the band are significant, instead of there being one main figure head of the band. The colour theme goes with the Leeds and Reading festival logo, yellow, red and black. The Leeds and Reading festival is featured in this magazine, with a 22 page special, so the colour theme fits the feature.

Contents page

Front cover of magazine

The NME logo is placed in the left hand corner, like the usual convention of a magazine, its plain white, which makes it not stand out, this could show that NME is a well-known brand, which indicates that it doesn’t have to standout for people to know what it is. The layout is very un-conventional as there are no article previews down the left hand side, instead there are two article previews on the right, and this could be because NME want more focus on the two main features on the magazine, The Vaccines and Leeds and Reading festival. On the contents page, its very different from a conventional contents page. It’s all over the place, with no real order, with bigger pictures being bigger stories. The colour theme of the contents matches that of the double page spread. White and red and black, so this shows a running theme. The photo of The Vaccines on the double page spread is a long shot, it looks like the scene is derelict, like they are on their own which enforces the quote on the double page spread “We’re a gang now… it’s us against the world”

Institution – NME stands for New Musical Express. NME is published by IPC Media (Time inc.). The editor of NME is Mark Williams. The first issue was released on 7th March 1952.

Double page spread

Ideology - Promotes new indie music. NME focuses on bands that are yet to make it, promoting them. 70% male audience, 30% female audience.

Audience - 16-25

Representation - NME doesn’t always follow the conventions of normal music magazines and this could show its abnormal, and like's to not follow the crowd. People who listen to indie bands would buy this magazine as if focuses on what they like.

Brief

To design a front cover, contents page and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, a minimum of four images must be used.

contents layout

Pictures

Front cover of Magazine

My magazine logo/font

mood board

LIAR analysis

Magazine front page layout

College magazine survey

Would you like to hear about sport?    Yes/No

Would you like to have the chance to transmit your own work?  Yes/No

Would you like to hear about different subjects every week?  Yes/No

How much do you like reading magazines?     1      2      3      4     5

Would you read the college magazine?  Yes/No

What would you like to see in the magazine?

Would you like lots of pictures in it?  Yes/No

Would you like world news to be featured in the magazine?  Yes/No

Would you like celebrity news in the magazine? E.g. tour dates, new film releases.  Yes/No

 

Results from the survey -

• People don’t necessarily want world news in it.

• The majority want some type of celeb news, e.g. tour dates, film releases.
• All of the people surveyed like to read magazines
• Half of the people surveyed would read the college magazine.

 

Conventions of a magazine front cover and contents page