Questionnaire

1. What gender are you?
2. How old are you?
3. What genre of music are you interested in?
4. Do you enjot indie music?
5. If you what is your favourite indie song
6. Who is your favourite indie band?
7. Do you buy music magazines?
8. If yes, how often?
9. What 3 images would you link with indie music?
10. How much would you pay for a music magazine?
11. Name 3 words that connote with indie
12. Whats your favourite part of a magazine?

Kerrang and NME Magazine

Kerrang and NME magazines are two  of the most successful music magazines out in stores at the moment. I will be closely evaluating these magazines for my final magazine product because I can analyse each code and convention and interpret it for my own. Below is the link for the Kerrang which shows the statics of what gender buy the magazine more and what age range most of the readers are. And beneath that link is another link directing you to the NME statics website.

http://magazines.bauermediaadvertising.com/magazines/detail/kerrang

http://www.ipcadvertising.com/resource/99gzt67ilbyjlxie0lvxvld9.pdf

Two page layout Analysis

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Intial Ideas

For our AS Media level, we are producing our own music magazine. All our images will be taken ourselves. I've decided to make my magazine genre 'Indie' mainly because, most successful music magazines in the industry now are indie or rock, and to make it easier for myself to get an interview with a local band, there are many indie bands around locally. My genre is also based on magazines I'm interested in such as Q, NME and Mojo magazine, they are all mostly indie but Q is a mix which gives me a good insite on how I should represent my magazine I will produce. Most target audiences for indie magazines are quite youthful, e.g. 16-24 is an estimate, so I will most likely follow in their footsteps.

Research of the Market Place

Q Magazine
Price: £3.90
Frequency of publication: Monthly
Publisher: Bauer Media Group
First issue: October 1986
Addional information: After a few years as a radio jukebox, Q Radio launched in June 2008 as a full service radio station with a complete roster.

Kerrang! Magazine
Price: £2.20
Frequency of publication: Weekly
Publisher: Bauer Media Group
First issue: June 6 1981
Addional information: Since 1993, the magazine have been holding an annual awards ceremony to mark the most successful bands in the interests of their readers. The awards became one of Britain's most recognised award events
In 2000, EMAP launched Kerrang! as a digital radio station, across the United Kingdom. This was principally a 'jukebox' station, playing a back-to-back sequence of rock and alternative music
In 2001 EMAP launched Kerrang! TV. As with the radio station, the television channel covers the more mainstream side of the rock music as well as classic rock bands like

Evaluation of School Magazine

Our task was to produce and make a magazine for school. We had to make a font cover and then further a contents page, the front cover was created on Photoshop and the contents page on Quark Xpress. We started by going into pairs and taking pictures, these pictures had to have something to do with the headlines and sub headlines we have made up. For example, I talked about having an exclusive interview with our own school janitor Jeff, so I went out in lesson with a camera that the school had provided and took my own pictures. This gave us a feel for how an actual magazine would be made, and how you have to take your own pictures and them not be copyrighted.

After we completed this task we finally started to produce our front covers, I enjoyed this task because I'm used to Photoshop and know my way around it very easily. We had one 50 minute lesson to complete this. My magazine name is 'Weatherproof' and my positing statement is 'Don't let the weather get you down'. Whilst completing this task, we had to follow the codes and conventions of a magazine cover, but I did forget one or two things. Including, the issue number, date and price on the top left corner in the magazine, for my Music magazine I will produce later on in the year I will learn from my mistakes and make sure that I strictly follow these codes and conventions. My main cover line is 'How to handle Exam stress' so I asked a year 11 pupil to model for my front cover, the pupil looks distress and is making direct address towards the camera, this is essential to follows the codes and conventions because it attracts the attention of the reader and invites you in. Additionally, my front cover does not look very interesting because there is only 5 sub headlines, so it doesn't look like the magazine has much to offer, but as again I will remember this for my Music magazine I will be creating. The colour theme I chose is Pink and Navy, these are the schools main colours so this is easy for pupils in Weather head High School to recognise and relate, I have stuck to this through out my front cover. Also ,I have chose 1 font and this is constant in my magazine. I completed this task on 04/10/2011.

The following lesson I then further created my contents page on the programme Quark Xpress. I did not enjoy creating this as much as I did my front cover this is because, I am very familiar with Photoshop but this has been my first time using Quark so it was difficult to grasp and to work my way around it. The page numbers are in different colours, this is so it separates them from the normal text and so it stands out to reader and they understand and know where to go. I have also included the Weatherhead High School logo in the top left corner and underneath, the issue number and date, this is just a reference to readers. Again, I have been constant with my font type and have used the same one with all of my text. Although I have followed more codes and conventions I'm as happy with the final result as I am with my front cover. My front cover looks very more presentable and professional, however my contents page does not. I wish to gain more knowledge and have more practice with Quark in the future so my music magazine I will create will look very attractive and presentable.

In conclusion, I have followed most of the codes and conventions but the ones I have not and have forgotten I will make sure I include on my Music magazine I will be creating later in the school year, so my final piece will be up to my best ability.

Contents Page

In today's lesson, as we finished our cover page we have then further completed our contents page for our school magazine. We again, sketched out a draft drawing of our contents page and then produced it on 'Quark Xpress'  a programme like photoshop. This was harder to use than photoshop because I'm quite used to it, and have had previous experiences, but this was my first time using Quark so it took a little getting used to. So I am glad I've had practise before making my music magazine.

Print Screening of Contents Page

Front Cover School Magazine

In today's lesson we made our front cover for our school magazine on photoshop. We previously sketched out a draft drawing of our magazine and had it checked over by our teacher to make sure we included everything. Later, we then began to make it on photoshop whilst looking back at our drawing. We only had one 50 minute lesson to make this so we had to do this task quiet quickly. I've had previous experiences with photoshop, so i understand how to use it, and what tools to use for each task so this was quiet easy to grasp.


Here is the final 'Weatherhead magazine cover':

Print Screening of Front Cover

Rough draft of a School magazine

Final Images for School magazine

Photos for school Magazine

In todays lesson we were given a camera between two and were sent away to take pictures for our front cover and contents page for out school magazine.

Planning for Front Cover & Contents (School Mag)

Name: Weatherproof

Positing statement: "Don't let the weather get you down"

Colour Scheme: Navy and Pink

Font type: Ebrima

Main image: Girl in uniform - Looks distressed

Main Cover story: 'How to handle exam stress'

Sub headline stories: 'Trampoling clubs' 'Welcoming new year sevens to Weatherhead' 'Media takes over' and 'Jeff tells all'

Features: Letter from Mr. Dymnet, Library notices, Iris competitions and Horoscopes