mock up of my feautred article.

This is a mock up of that i would like my featured article to be like. As you can see i have thought about the layout very carefully and also looked at other magazines to see how they are layed out. On my featured article i am only going to use two photos of my artist as i dont want it to look to busy.

Mock up of my contents page

Here is a mock up of my contents page. I have decided to have a coloured background filled with photos of my artist and other artist such as JLS. My contents isnt boxed like and is more random which is different to other magazines contents pages.

props, costume and location.

Costumes..
i have had a few ideas on what my artist should wear for my photo shoot. My artist is going to have four different looks about them which are;

• A bad girl look - the artist will wear a black playsuit and lots of jewlerry. Her make-up will be mainly dark eyes. Her hair will be messy and have different styles into it such as crimped and big.
  
• Retro look - she will wear washed out jeans, leaotard and retro sunglasses. The make-up will be quite natural as it is based during the day an the hair pinned up.
  
• Innocent look - This shot will be in girly pj's with quite natural make-up and hair put up like the artist has just got out of bed. This shot will be a photo strip.

and for my final shot of my artist will be the cover shot which will be just a natural shot of the artist.

Prop..

Now i have chosen what my artist will look like i now have to think about what props will work well with the costume. I have chosen to use an old fashioned car for the retro look as i think it would work well, i have easy access to an old fashioned car as my dad has one. For the innocent look i am going to use a bed and the shot will be taken from a birds eye view. i will also use pillows.

Location..

The location of my photoshots is very important as they make the look of the artist real. For my bad girl look i wish to use a brick wall hopefully down a back alley. For my retro look as i am using a car i need to think about what location would be appropriate and so i will shoot this section on a road or a field. The innocent look will be shot in a girly bedroom.The cover of my magazine will be shot anywhere and then put onto a white background for the se of studio look.

Mock up of Cover

Below is a mock up of the cover of my Girly pop magazine.

The mock up of my cover includes the heading of my magazine Music Show Off which i have chosen for it to relate to music bt also fashion. As you can see the title of my magazine is on to lines which is breaking the rules and so when doing my actual cover i wil make the title fit onto one like. The image of my artist is bigger than the rest of the things on my magazine, this is done to make the audience become farmiliar with the magazine. You cant really tell which is the main story of my magaizne on the cover as all the headings are the same size so when doing my cover i will think about this and make the main story (relating o the artist on the cover) bolder and more clear to my audience. My magazine is combined with music and fashion so to show this on my cover i have used different sub headings such as; 'get the indie look' and my artist also shows her fashion side.

After looking at my mock up i have decided that my main story needs to be more effective than just 'official interview with FANTASY and her new album JUST ME' it needs to relate to the artist and sound more appealing to my audience.

Feedback - 6/12/09

Good progress Leanne- well done! Some interesting research and planning on here. Keep blogging for homework!

Research: Look at audience figures for similar magazines

research your chosen genre of music - put music videos on your blog etc...

Audience - use Msslow's Hierarchy of need to examine how your magazine will appeal to its audience.

Planning:

- It might be nice to outline your artist and their image - and why they are good to be the featured artists in your magazine

- Now that you have written your feature article - put it onto your blog also.

- once done- put your drawn mock -ups of your pages on here

- you could also go online to dafont and look and analyse the connotations of fonts - that you might use for your header (name of magazine) and throughout your magazine.

- see your 'before you blog sheet' for the other planning you can do!

Miss McNulty

Shots.

Before desinging my artist i need to think about what style they should wear and how to pose them in my photo shoot. I am using Pixie Lott as an example on how to design my artist as i think she has got a good fashion style and all her photoshoots are really interesting on the way she poses. Below are some examples of what i am thinking about when doing my photo shoot.

I like this style of shoot because it is nothing to bizarre and also doesn't break any rules for magazines. Pixie Lott is staring into the camera which drags the buyer into the magazine, i will think about this when doing my photo shoot. I don't think think will be a good image for a cover as it isn't really showing anything but would be a good image for a feature article.

This is my favourite shot out of my examples because it is taken in a good location and the location is really effective to what Pixie Lott is wearing. When doing my shoot i am going to use a location like this one as it shows a sort of dark side towards the artist. The clothing she is wearing also reveals her dark side and colourful clothing would not look good in this location.






This shot of her is really good and the use of prop works well so when thinking about my photo shoot rather just thinking about clothing i also need to think about the use of location and prop. This image would look good on a featured article or contents page put not cover as it isn't close up to the artist and the use of prop wouldn't work.

This photo shot is perfect for a cover of a magazine and would work well as it is a close up of the artist. The pose works well with the artist and the background and outfit also work well together.
















After looking at Pixie Lott and the way she has been shot to work well for a magazine i now have an idea of what i want my artist to look like and how to be posed. As i am going to use four photographs in my magazine i need to dress my artist in four different outfits each giving the audience a different feel to the artist.

Mood Board

After researching several different music magazine and after choosing my genre of music, which is girly pop, i am now going to start planning it.

Before going straight into producing my magazine i need to have some ideas so i created a mood

board which shows fonts and images from other magazines that caught my eye.

Mood Board:

As you can see i have used alot of images of female models on my mood board this is because my target audience for my magazine is females as it is a girly pop magazine. i have used retro style of clothing as i want my model to look fashionable and seem a role model for teenaged girls. The use of mis en scene is what i also looked for when finding good examples to put on my mood board. I really like the use of mis en scene of the model propped up against a tree as it looks unique, when doing my photo shoot i will think about what location would relate well to the artist. i have also looked at fonts and colour when making my mood board, i like the style of 'THE REAL FASHION STORY' as the font is original and i would like to use this sort of font on my cover magazine for my sub headings. For my heading of my magazine i have thought about using the font used on my mood board, 'MISS DIOR' this is because i think it would relate well to the genre of music. It is really girly because it has been worte in ribbon style.

Feedback 23/11/09

Good Leanne a good start - good research on conventions of music magazines

Now you should be analysing music magazines - look at covers, contents pages and feature articles and think about the following questions...

- Do they follow typical conventions of music magazines? If not why?

- Who is the target audience (GRASS) and how have they been made to appeal to them?

- Do they successfully make the audience want to read on? ( Cover and contents?)

- why do they work?

In research you need a little more on audience - who is you target audience (Demographic - GRASS and psychographic profiling - Young and Rubicon) Also how will your product appeal to its audience - use MAslow too.

Audience questionnaires are needed - to your target audience - and feedback on this - charts and graphs are always good!

Go onto the ABC website to find out audience/circulation figures for magazines too - is there a market out there for your product?

Now move onto planning this week - ( see the last two sheets on the 'before you blog' handout) Start your mood boards, rough mock up of pages, props list, shooting schedule etc....

Audience research

I have come up with a questionnaire and have asked ten people to fill it out so i know what my audience is interested in.

Here is an example of what my questionnaire looked like and what most people answered.

From this example of my questionairre you can't really read the answers but below are some charts to show which colours seemed most popular to use for a girly pop magazine and whether the magazine should be published weekly or monthly.

Genre of music magazines

Now i am going to talk about what makes a good music magazine and use examples.

All music magazines follow the same rule whether it is a rock magazine or a hip hop magazine. When producing a music magazine you have to think about the image that will go on the cover, it must fit the content and the target audience. The name of the magazine must also fit the target audience. Whilst thinking about all this you also have to make sure the colour scheme is also very important because you couldn't use bright colours such as pinks and yellows for a rock magazine you would use reds and blacks. These are good examples of the images and logos on music magazines;

Mode of address is important when producing magazines because it is the way a text creates a relationship with its audience. Direct address is most common as it is created when the model on the cover is inviting the reader in. Mode of address can also refer to the writing in a magazine

and how it addresses the reader this is done usually in a friendly informal way. Magazines use stars or celebrities as their model to increase sales and profit this is because stars are admired and are aspirational for the audience.

Magazine covers:
The front cover of a magazine is extremely important as it is the first thing the audience see so it is the main advertisement. It should be bright, interesting and eye-catching to entice the reader to buy the magazine. The colors should represent the style of music magazine you chose to do. The title needs to stand out from the rest of the cover so it becomes recognizable for your audience. A slogan is often used to explain the magazine and for it to stand out from it's rivals. The leading caption is featured on your main article and usually why the audience buys the magazine. This is a good example of a cover of a magazine as the color, image and fonts relate to the hip hop style;

Contents page:
Contents pages should be bright and colorful which encourages the reader to read on. The images on the page dominate the text. It consists of a list of contents usually under sections e.g gig guide, reviews, interview etc...
These are examples of contents pages;











Feature Articles:

The heading and subheadings on the double page spread of your magazine have to explain the story and catch the audiences interest. Also the artist you are interviewing or your main story is about usually has something to promote such as a new album, single, clothes line etc. Always refer to what they are promoting! The images should consist of one large image and a few smaller ones. The smaller ones are usually shot in a different location to the larger image. The writing should be clear and easy to follow and most importantly interesting as you don't want your audience to be bored and give up reading your magazine.

GRASS:
Now i have looked at the typical genre of music magazines and what they consist of. Now i am going to define my target audience my using the GRASS method.

G the gender of my music magazine is mainly female as it is girly pop/fashion.


R my magazine is targeted at any race.


A as it is a girly pop magazine my target age would be between thirteen and nineteen.


S my socio - economic status would be group E or D as it is mainly for teenagers.


S

examples of music magazines!

Before starting producing my magazine i am going to look at other music magazines for ideas.

These two magazines are good examples of what i should think about when producing my own magazine as they both apeal to their audience which is young people who are interested in music. The genre of this magazine 'Rollingstone' is pop music as it has pop artists on both covers. Girls are most likely to buy the second example because it has Zac efrom on it and the main story is about Zac Efron. When i start to produce my own magazine i need to

think about who would buy my magazine and why because this would then help me think of what main story to write about and the image itself. The image on the front of the cover is important because it tells the audience what is in the magazine and has to apeal to the audeince, if the magazine was for a certain streotype like 'girly girl' then it would most likely have an image of a pop group or a male artist just like the second example has. The postioning of the image is important also, alot of magazines now have the model over the top of the name of the magazine, usually well known magazines do this such as 'rollingstones'.

These two music magazines are totally different to the ones above as they are are layed out differently especially the second example. These magazines apeal to people who enjoy listening and reading about rock music. We know this as soon as we look at the image as they both have a male artist singing and playing an electric gutiar. When producing my magazine cover aswell as thinking about the postioning of everything on the cover i also need to think about the mis en scene and how i can make my model relate to the genre. As you can see the colouring of everthing is important because it has to capture the target audeinces eye for example on the second example the colours are mainly red and white and in bold which stands out! The main story is spread across the page and lager than the rest of the sub headings so that it is the frist thing the audeince read. I need to take all this information and board and make sure i think about them when starting my own magazine cover.

This is a good example of the contents page of a music magazine 'NME'. Instead of just listing on what is on each page 'NME' have inclded lots of colour to make it more interesting and images. When doing my contents page i will be using this one as an example, although it looks very busy this is what makes the whole magazine look apealing and without colour and it would be boring.

Preliminary Task

After doing my preliminary task i found that i could have done things to improve it. As you can see the background doesn't really go with the main story because the main story is about the girl on the picture being new bu the background she is on is someone else's art work. When i do my magazine i will think about what the magazine will be about and who the main story is about and then decide what background would work well with the story. When doing my photo-shoot i should have thought about what i am going to write on the magazine and then left enough room around my model for the titles. I am very pleased with my layout of the magazine as the headings are equally spread out which stops the cover from looking to busy. The colors i have chosen make the magazine look bright which when in the shop it would stand out and would hopefully be the first thing that the customers would see. The pose from the model works well with the college magazine as she has a book in her hand and stood in front of art work obviously done by a pupil.

This is my contents page which i designed myself. After looking at my design i found that it was very plain and when producing my contents page for my music magazine i will look at images that relate to the magazine and alot of color to make it look attractive. It doesn't look as busy as it should as there is no images and only indicates what is in the magazine but nothing about the actual stories. When producing my contents page i will think about the color, layout and pictures to make it look appealing and will research contents pages from music magazines so i have a good idea on what i should do.

Music Magazine

My name is Leanne Green and i have chosen to do a music magazine for my coursework project. I am going to create a new girly pop magazine which will appeal to teenagers 13+ who are interested in music.