2 Covers, 2 Contents and 2 Double Page Spreads of Music Magazines

Target Audience for Music Magazine

My target audience is for mainly for someone in their late teens to early thirties. It may appeal to people younger and older than the main target audience. This is because some people are mature for their age and some people are younger at heart.
The people within the age range do stream music and occasionally buy songs and albums too. Music is now often bought through phones on things like I Tunes and not CD's. Music is mainly streamed on Spotify and You Tube. People mainly use Instagram and Snap-chat as social media nowadays.
The main gender for my magazine would be women as I reckon it will appeal more to them rather than men. Men can read the magazine if they want to as they may enjoy all the music aspects to it and reviews of films or television series.
People do attend gigs and festivals especially in their late teens and twenties. They attend festivals such as V-fest and Glastonbury.
 They can be in any socio-class as well as well because a magazine would not be too much money as people in lower class systems may actually want to look at the magazine and look for inspiration. People in upper class systems as well will read it as in my magazine fashion and perfumes will be featured and the upper class people can afford items available with in the magazine. All types of people like music though and is what connects everyone together. You do not have to be a specific age to listen to a specific, certain music type.

Music Magazine Cover Draft 3

Music Cover Draft 2

Music Cover Draft 1

Front Cover Ideas Music Magazine

On my music magazine front cover, I hopefully will be able to get one of my friends to pose as a convincing artist. The photo will be a portrait photo with a well thought out background. Make up and costumes for the 'artist' will be well thought out as well. I will make the model chosen look as much like the person that I want them to model.

Tuned Brand Identity and Ideology

My magazine is going to be called Tuned. It features pop and current music in the industry. The aim of the magazine is to look quite classy and elegant appealing to younger adults but not younger teenage girls. Tuned is all about engaging the reader and giving them time out of the real world so they can relax. It gives the reader time to themselves which everyone needs from time to time. On the cover each time there will only be one artist on the cover so people know what the main focus is and focus will be drawn to the main artist at the time. The colour scheme will be black and white to add a sense of aunthenticity.

Survey on Preferred Music Masthead

These are people in my target audience suggesting which masthead they prefer for a music magazine. When asking people within my target audience what the preferred image was, it ranged from many different mastheads. People who chose their favourite mainly picked them for the layout of the masthead, the text and the colour. After the screenshots, I asked a few people why that is specifically their favourite and they answered the as following:

Asha's favourite one was the black and white one in the middle column. This is because she thinks that it is not over the top and it is simple yet edgy and bold.

 James' favourite was the green capital letter, in the last column. This is because he likes the colour and layout of  the word 'tune.' He thinks it is different to other mastheads on other magazines.

George claimed to prefer the blue one on the bottom right. This is because he likes the colour as he thinks that it is quite fresh and current. 

VIBE brand identity and ideology

The magazine 'Vibe' is based on urban style of music such as R&B, rap and hip hop. Vibe is all about allowing an individual express themselves and helping them feel confident with in. This is often expressed by being presented in a bold, courageous way with the choice of layout, pictures and colour choices. In the Screenshot the images reinforce dominant ideology that urban artists are black. On the front covers there is only two white woman (on the bottom row) and only one white man featured a couple of ties (Eminem). In my opinion, I would suggest that the target audience is is for younger adults ranged between 18-28. This is because the magazine can sometimes have quite explicit photos on the cover and the coverlids can sometimes connotate that Vibe is not for the younger generation.

Masthead for Music Magazine

Music Mood Board

Conventions of a Front Cover

• Main image
• A headline to match main image
• Other headlines for the stories in the magazine
• A pug (chance to win something)
• Masthead 
• Barcode
• Maybe a pull quote
• Coverlines
• Price
• Date of issue
• Variety of font sizes

Conventions of a Contents Page

• A title
• Images
• Page numbers 
• What is issued in the magazine
• Sort of background
• Information about each article
• Columns to organise space 
• Variety of font sizes for emphasis

Rule of thirds

Rule of Thirds:

The rule of thirds is a common rule for photography and composing images. The idea behind the rule of thirds is to imagine an image broken down into thirds like a noughts and crosses board game so that you have 9 parts.  It identifies four important parts of the image that people should consider placing points of interest while framing a chosen image. 

 It is best to compose the photograph in the camera because a person can avoid cropping later to retain as much of the image as possible and avoid reducing the quality of chosen photos. Above this text is an example of the rule of thirds. 

School Content Page

School Contents Sketches

School Mood Board

Target Audience for School Magazine

For the target audience of a school magazine I have thought about who will be reading it.The articles featured have to be appropriate because not only will students be reading it, but governors teachers and parents will be too.
Students-  Need to have articles that engage the pupils. That is why there will be things like film reviews, and where nice things are to eat that is not too expensive. Also, if a pupil is struggling for revision there will be top tips to help them out.
Parents- The parents can also read the revision tip and help out their child in their educational journey. They can also read about upcoming trips available to their child/ children.
Teachers- The teachers will be reading it to check the appropriate content and check up with what is going on with in the school.
Governors- The governors will want to see it as it is an asset to the school. By putting achievements in there, they will be proud of the school.

What to Expect in School Magazines

• Revision tips
• Updates on student activities available
• Trips available
• Cheap places to eat or have fun
• Film reviews
• Music reviews
• Quizzes 
• Word Searches and cross words
• Stationary discounts
• Available Resources
• Achievement mentions

Plans for main image and other images in school magazine

  Front cover ideas:

In my front cover I plan to have a sixth former as the main image. This is because I am in sixth form and they are the oldest students learning within the school. All images for the magazine will be taken at the school whether they are the main image on the front cover or just in the magazine itself. For the front cover I plan to have an image of the the sixth former just working on a computer, in a computer room of the school wearing their own clothes looking engaged with the computer. They will be smiling and look like they are comfortable there. I will most likely take a medium long shot to make sure everything fits within my image that I want, for example the student and part of the background. The photo most likely needs to be portrait as that is most suitable for a magazine cover. This means I will need to ensure enough space so I am able to crop the image.

Other image ideas

The photos for the magazine, will be taken with  a phone camera that has decent quality for the images. They will probably be took closer to making the magazine but needs to be before making the cover as I would put the image on first and then arrange the rest in front and on top of the main image. I would need to organise the people who are going to be in the photos as well. I will just get sixth formers who are working in the common room as it will show them making most of their free time in order to get work done. This will appeal to teachers, parents and governors as it will show the students care about their work and that they have a positive, dedicated attitude to learning.

School Contents Analysis

A few school Images

Final Front Cover

Front Cover Draft

Front cover layout for school magazine

Masthead

Magazine names

10 school magazine names:

• Pb 7-13
• Plants and the brook 
• Bigger than a stream, Smaller than a river 
• Sutton Central 
• PBrook Mag 
• Plantsbrook only content 
• The School down the road 
• Pb Issued
• Pb Covered
•  Pb School Weekly

School Magazine Covers

Music Magazine Analysis

Masthead research and analysis

This is a masthead for NME magazine. The font is bold as it is in capital letters and the red makes it stand out more as the stroke of the masthead is just black and white. The text is sans-serif; the text makes it look more modern. Also the drop shadow makes the masthead extra bold.

This is the masthead is for Vibe magazine. It has no drop shadow or colour. The font is sans-serif showing that the magazine is neither elegant nor classic yet it is fresh and edgy. The letters are quite thick which makes a statement; the letters are capitals apart from the "e" at the end showing a unique angle to the magazine. 

This is the masthead for Q magazine. There is a massive white, capital Q within a red square. A connotation of the color red can represent danger and passion which shows Q magazine are quite a fierce magazine and care about what they are saying in the magazine.

This is the masthead for Clash magazine. This masthead is extremely similar to the Vibe logo. It is black, bold writing on a white background. The font is again sans-serif showing it is a current type of magazine aiming it at perhaps a younger audience. The word "clash" is in capital letters which shows that they are a confident magazine that wants to get out there. Clash magazine also looks as if the letters are different sizes. 

This is the masthead for Billboard magazine. The font is thinner, black, sans-serif writing with different colours in four of the letters from "board". The colour yellow appears twice, the connotation of yellow can be seen as Billboard trying to create an effect of happiness. Billboard also used blue and red which are the other two primary colours therefore Billboard are trying to show that it quite a simple, bright, yet main (popular) magazine their audience can relate to.                    

I chose Media Studies because I am intrigued as to what we will learn during the course. This is because media is everywhere in everyone’s lives, inflicting certain opinions onto the public. I love to watch new films as well and I like to read reviews to see the public’s opinions on what they liked and disliked about a film. After that I watch trailers for new films that can be viewed at the cinema to see if it is something that appeals. From this qualification I hope to gain an insight on how they can influence people and see how certain changes can target different types/ groups of people. I will look at analysing imagery as well. If I were to work in the media when I’m older, this would help me in developing certain skills that would help me in my career. I do have an interest in the media as everyone is involved in the media whether we read newspapers and magazines or whether we listen to the radio and watch TV. I use the media on a daily basis by mainly using social networks such as Instagram and Snapchat. I do this to see what other people are doing and to engage with my friends. Most of my friends have Twitter and Facebook too. I don’t watch the news or read the paper much but I hear about some major things that I need to know about on Twitter and Facebook as the stories from there get shared and retweeted and can become viral.