Final Idea

For my Classic Rock themed Music Magazine I have decided to use a colour scheme of red, black, pale grey and white. It will match my sophisticated classic/neat mode of address and my model will relate to the rock theme as well, I am going to use my friend Roni in a studio and take mid shots of her to show the audience her facial expression, along with the clothes she's going to wear. My issue won't have a specific theme to it, it will be a normal weekly issue, my target audience are young adults. My cover lines will include lots of artists and upcoming concerts/albums and my anchor text will be "Bad girl gone good". My magazine is going to be called V11.

Analysis of Response

After I received my questionnaires back, I analysed all of the responses and created pie charts for each question to show which was the most popular answer.

Focus Group

This is the focus group I recorded with myself and my two friends Lucy and Summer, they both came up with some good points which I am going to take into perspective. I am going to think about what Lucy said about changing the questionnaire to closed questions so I have an easier chance of putting them into graphs.

Social Media

I put four different ideas for my masthead up on my twitter account and I received these responses, I also asked my teach and he also said the 2nd one, right top hand corner. This means I am going to use this one for my masthead on my final magazine cover.

Hand Drawn Layouts

These are my hand drawn designs of the layout i would like to go with when designing my magazine.

Front Cover:

Contents Page:

Double Page Spread:

My Initial Ideas

For my Classic Rock themed Music Magazine I might decide to use a colour scheme of red, black, pale grey and white. It will match my sophisticated classic/neat mode of address and my model will relate to the rock theme as well, I might use my friend Roni in a studio and take mid shots of her to show the audience her facial expression, along with the clothes she's going to wear. I don't think my issue will have a specific theme to it, it might be a normal weekly issue, my target audience are young adults. My cover line might include lots of artists and upcoming concerts/albums and my anchor text, if I use Roni, then it might be "Roni Kicks Off!". My magazine is going to be called V11.

Questionnaire

I created this questionnaire to help me find out what my target audience is interested in, i handed out 20 questionnaires and got all of them filled out properly. I used and tallied all the answers to create a good idea for my magazine and what will sell well.

Star Image Moodboard

This is a mood board that contains all the ideas I intend to inspire off of, for my star image model. I will use a typical dark looking girl, heavy makeup and dark clothing. Either looking straight at the camera in a close up focusing on her face and makeup, or a mid shot so I can see half her body focusing on her clothes.

Initial Ideas

This is my spider diagram that contains my initial ideas for my Classic Rock Magazine, including the Model ideas, Colour schemes, Title ideas, Locations and Target audiences etc.

Music Magazine Annotations

Rock Magazine

I used the rock magazine 'Kerrang!' to annotate;

• The Front cover

• The Contents Page

• The Double Page Spread

Pop Magazine

I used 'Top of the Pops' for my pop magazine to annotate;

• The Front Cover

• The Contents Page

• The Double Page Spread

Classic Rock Magazine

I used 'Q' for my Classic Rock Magazine annotations;

• The Front Cover

• The Contents Page

• The Double Page Spread

Colour Wheel

This Colour Wheel shows you what colours compliment your theme. Colours that you should or shouldn't use together, when making a magazine. This  mainly involves primary colours. In music there are specific colours that go with each music genre, when making my music magazine i will make sure the colours I use go with the genre's colour scheme, this way my audience will know exactly what it contains and they won't get confused.

Mode of Adress

Mode of Address is how media shouts at the audience. For example how music magazines are presented to the audience.

There are four main types of modes:

• 1st person - this can be used in a diary because you are talking about yourself, as in 'I and Me'.
• 3rd person - this can be used as a narrative.

There is also 'Formal and Informal' modes. For example formal may be represented in a classical music magazine or in a letter 'Yours Faithfully' or 'Yours sincerely'.

Also there are features that represent informal text in different ways, i.e:

• Colloquial Language - this can being interpreted as 'slang' or words that may be abbreviated. '.............'
• Expletive Language - this comes across as informal as it is known for 'swearing'.

The influences that may affect the modes of address in a music magazine may be:

• Genre
• Format of magazine
• Target Audience

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selective typefaces, point size, line-length, line-spacing, letter-spacing and adjusting the space within letter pairs. Kerning is the spacing between letters and it is varied depending on the font and size of the text, this helps to achieve a visually pleasing result.

Conventions

Here is a slideshow I created explaining what the different conventions are for magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads.

Music Magazine Info.

A Music Magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photoshoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music.

Each music magazine has a different audience depending on the genre the magazine is covering. There are many different types of genres, such as, Rock, Indie, Jazz, Punk, Classical, Lounge and Pop, all of these types are portrayed in their own way in each magazine.

Here are a few examples of different magazine genres and what they are:

Rock: Rock magazines are dedicated to Rock Music. It focuses on key bands from the 1960s to the 1990s, it includes articles and reviews of current and upcoming artists. The target audience for rock magazines are usually young adults, between 18-30, because the language used is older and the colours used, red, gold, silver, black and white, are more sophisticated.


Indie: Indie magazines are full of independent music choices, such as, rock and indie music. It is more current and vibrant as it aims at a target audience with ages of 18-25 year olds. Indie magazines use a lot of red and black as it is a simple layout and there is a lot of writing on it which promotes inside content. It also shows the latest and best gigs to go to, the new and interesting upcoming artists with reviews and ratings.

Pop: Pop magazines are dedicated to the teens of our generations as it is full of celebrity gossip, Top 40 artists, typical pop celebrities and is full of bold colours, usually blues, pinks and yellows. The magazine contains interviews, images, gossip of celebrities and reviews and rating of upcoming films and music.

Introduction

Hello, my name is Steph Beal and this is my Media Studies Blog. I will be posting on this throughout the next 2 years of my A Levels to show my progression in the AS Media Studies that I will be taking.

This year I will be working on making a Music Magazine, analysing and examining TV dramas and British and USA films.

This is the link to my school magazine blog that I designed.

http://stephschoolmagazineblog.blogspot.co.uk/