Initial Plans for my Magazine

Price for my magazine will be £2.60.
Audience will be from the ages 18-26, both female and male.
Frequancy of publication will be on a monthly bases.
Issue size for my magazine will be on average 68 pages (17 full pages)
My regular content will be:

• Reviews
• Interviews with bands/singers
• Gig dates
• Crosswords
• Tickets to be won
• Album of the month
• Win a call from your favourite band/singer
• Questions and answers
• Facts you didnt know

Research the marketing place

Initial ideas

what is the type of music magazine you are going to produce?
The type of music magazine that i will be going for is an indie magazine.


Who is your target audience?
My target audience for my magazine will be for both female and male, between the ages of 18+.

Evaluation of school magazine

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challange forms and conventions of real media products?





How did you use new media technologies in the construction of your media product?
Firstly, for my front cover i used photoshop, which was good because i was quite confident with photoshop, as i have used it before, so that was an advantage i had which was alot better then using something i had never used before. I followed the requirements of the codes of conventions for the colours which was to only use 2-3 colours. I saved it as a JPEG.

Secondly, for my content page  I used QuarkXpress, which i had never used before so i wasnt very confident with this software, but after a while i understood how it worked and it was very good for the content page as it was able to produce column lines which for how content pages are set out it was very useful. The pictures were easy to uploads aswell although i did come to some difficulties trying to delete things. But overall was no problem.


What are the strengths and weakenesses of both the product and your use of new media technologies?
Strengths:

• I used a consistent colour scheme on my front cover and on my contents page. I only used up to 2-3 colours to make my magazine look attractive and not look over packed.
• I used most of the codes of conventions.
• I learnt how to use QuarkXpress for my content page, so i am able to continue with that for my music magazine without any troubles.
• I explored more of Photoshop, so i know understand a lot more about it.

Weaknesses:

• I did not do all the codes and conventions of a magazine front cover or contents page so I need to make sure that I include all the codes and conventions for next time.
• remember to put in the price, as i forgot to do small things to my front cover and my content page, so i know now to add it into my music magazine.
• It took me a while to learn how to use QuarkXpress.

School magazine contents page

School magazine front cover

Final images for school magazine

These are my final images which i used on my magazine:

Photographs for school magazine

Rough layout of content page

Rough layout of front cover

Plans for the front cover of my school magazine

To think of ideas for the title of my school magazine i had to produce a brainstorm with words which relate to school, these were my words:

• Gossip
• Students
• Education
• Teachers
• Books
• Classwork
• Homework
• Education
• Subjects

Out of these words i chose my title to be "Schossip" which is a combination of 'School' and 'Gossip'.

Details of the mise-en-scence of your front cover image

• I want it to be a medium close up.
• I want my model to wear casual clothing.
• I want my model to follow directions.
• I want my model to be a female.
• I want my model to smile and stand casual.

Coverlines for the front cover of my magazine

• "The best GCSE results since 2001"
• "Volenterring work for the year 10's kick off 'i loved it, it allowed me to be independant and too also meet new people' "
• "Outragers hair colouring takes over the school"
• "School fashion that teachers hate"
• "stolen cameras from the media room, last seen with year 8's"
• "deodrant band from the common room"
• "6th formers enjoy the library"
• "School fashion tips!"
• "The new and improved library"
• "asmatic girl falls to the floor due to the use of deodrant"

Photo used in photography exercise

Photography exercise

Our task was to work in pairs and take different photo angles to allow us to understand the different angles for ourselves. We had to take photos of a low angle medium close up, a high angle long show, an extreme close up of the time, a big close up of someone using a mobile phone, a close up of someone in nature, a two shot in medium long shot, an over the shoulder shot of someone writing, a very long shot conveying isolation, a medium close up, a long shot, a photograph which has connotations of friendship, a photograph which has connotations of stress. I have then presented as a powerpoint.

Codes and conventions of a magazine contents page

Codes and conventions of a magazine front cover

Brief

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/collage magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in a medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of four images per candidate.