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EVALUATIONMusic Magazine Analysis
‘WORD UP’ MAGAZINE USED AS
INSPIRATIONAL GUIDE TO CREATING MY OWN 90’S MUSIC
MAGAZINE.
I N W H AT WAY S D O E S YO U R M E D I A P R O D U C T U S E , D E V E LO P O R C H A L L E N G E F O R M S A N D C O N V E N T I O N S O F R E A L M E D I A P R O D U C T S ?
What are the conventions of a magazine? There
are many conventions of a magazine these being :
Pull quotes , Sell Lines , Mastheads, Skyline, Pugs ,
Barcodes etc. with out these conventions you
would not achieve what a magazine is expected to
look like however these are the simplistic sides of
conventions for a magazine as many magazine
now cover many of their own conventions to make
their magazine seem different and unique in
comparison to other magazines of their genre in
the magazine market an example of this is the
idea of including todays most used social
networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook
on the Front cover and DPS of the magazine I
did this on my own magazine .
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I used the social networking sites Twitter and
Facebook as it was my idea of a different USP to gain
more readers making my magazine available online
as well as in your nearest convenient store ( G&M
magazine is only a click away) ; this convention the
usage of social networking
has been used by modern genre magazines
such as Hip Hop and Rock magazines although I
went that step further and decided to add in a
QR code in which Blackberry smart phones can
use to scan and watch the Chilli interview on
their phones on the go .
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Step 2 – Primary image
taken using the green screen .
Step 3 – Final magazine
front cover.
Step 1- first attempt using
secondary images.
A FEW WEEKS INTO THE COURSE JUST ADAPTING TO THE NEW SOFTWARE AND THE TOOLS IT HAS TO OFFER ALTHOUGH I
HAD USED MAIN SECONDARY IMAGES
WHICH NEEDED TO BE CHANGED AS SOON
POSSIBLE.
THIS IS AN EDIT OF AN ORIGINAL IMAGE I
HAD TAKEN USING THE GREEN SCREEN TO MAKE IT EASDIER
FOR ME TO EDIT WHEN TRYING TO
IMPLIMENT ONLY THE BODY SILOUTTES.
HERE IS MY FINAL COVER WITH ALL MY OWN
PRIMARY IMAGES AND EXCLUSIVE STORIES.
MUSIC MAGAZINE FRONT COVER
Masthead in a bold, burgandy font a very fashionable font worn during the 90’s era. I had chose to call my magazine ‘G&M’ for the simple fact of it not just being based on 90’s musical sensations but also the fashion trend set as this was just as important to the music during the 90’s .
I decided to put my main image on a neutral rose pink background to focus the readers attention to the image ; The casual jeans shirt , bandana and extension braids reflects the genre of the magazine.
Colour Scheme: Rose pink, Grey and burgundy quite and subtle colours.
CONVENTIONS USED IN MY MAGAZINE
Sell line-Readers are able to comment on all the issues of G&M magazine and give is future issue ideas.
FOUND ON THE BOTTOM LEFT OF MY FRONT COVER IT IS NOT VERY
BIG HOWEVER IS FOUND IN A SIMILAR AREA ON A LOT OF MAGAZINES ; THE BARCODE INDICATES THE PRICE PER
MONTHLY ISSUE £4.99.
MASTHEAD- 90’S GARMENTS AND
MUSIC , PRESENTING YOU
WITH THE BEST OF THE 90’S MUSIC AND FASHION.
A Selling Line is a meaning to an end meaning to an end this will give me benefits over time to a greater degree than my competition magazine covering the same genre.
• They link my magazine name to a benefit.
• They have the magic of people talk.
• They drive executions- they suggest visuals or situations that give continuity to the advertising.
• THE SELL LINE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!
I have placed my sub stories on the left hand and right had side of my magazine front cover telling the reader what page they will find each story on .
The name of the girl group featured on the front cover and main article.
CONTENTS PAGE
Step 1 – Contents page using secondary
images.
Step 2 – Final contents page with primary
images only.
HERE IS WHAT IS GOING TO BE WITHIN THE MAGAZINE (contents) ; PRIMARY IMAGES ACCOMPANIED WITH THE PAGE NUMBERS.
MASTHEAD
‘TLS EXCLUSIVE’ – MAKING THE READER AWARE ONCE AGAIN THAT THE TLS GROUP IS THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS MAGAZINE ISSUE.
EDITORS IMAGE- THE EDITORS IMAGE IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE TEXT THIS BEING IT IS NICE TO SEE THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORDS . THE READERS BEHIND THE MAGAZINE MAY FEEL THEY HAVE THINGS IN COMMON WITH THE EDITOR AND CREATE A READER/WRITERS RELATIONSHIP AND BECOME FREQUENT BUYERS OF THE G&M MAGAZINE.
Editors Address
MY EDITORS ADDRESS IS MORE SO INFORMAL THAN THIS BEING BECAUSE MY GENRE IS THE 90’S THEREFORE I DECIDED TO INPUT THE 90’S SLANG INTO MY FOR IT TO APPEAL TO A 90’S MUSIC LOVER AUDIENCE AND ALSO APPEAR MORE REALISTIC TO MY CHOSDN GENRE.
I HAD ORIGINALLY CREATED MY DOUBE PAGE SPREAD ON MICROSOFT WORD HOWEVER UNFORTUENTLY FINIDNG OUT I COULD IMPLICATE MY PROTOTYPE THE SAME WAY I HAD ON MICROSOFT WORD AS I HAD TO MAKE SURE MY MAIN ARTICLE STRETCHED ACROSS BOTH SIDES OF THE DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD I THEREFORE HAD TO LOSE TWO OF MY ADVERTISEMENTS AND INSTEAD ONLY INCLUDE ONE WITH A PRIMARY IMAGE OF MYSELF POSED AS AN PROFFESSIONAL 90’S HAIR STYLIST.
DOUBLE PAGE SPREADStep 3- final double
page spread.
Step 1 – Primary image taken with
green screen.
Step 2 – before finalising my double
page spread .
HERE I HAVE TAKEN A PRIMARY IMAGE WITH MY CAMERA USING THE GREEN SCREEN TO GET A PROFFESSIONAL IMAGE THAT I COULD LATER ON EDIT AND IMPLIMENT ONTO MY FINAL
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD.
HERE IS A DRAFT OF MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD WHEN CREATING MY DRAFT I WAS
NOT INTENDING ON LEAVING MY BACKGROUND GREY AS IT
IS NOT A VERY EYE ATTRACTIVE COLOUR
HOWEVER I WAS STILL UNSURE OF MY LAYOUT.
HERE IS MY FINAL DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD I HAD USED THE PHOOTOSHOP TOOL
BARS TO CHANGE MY BACKGROUND TO AN
APPETISING POMEFGRANATE RED WITH THE SUN
BRIGHTENED TEXT AND MY MAIN IMAGE CENTERED ON MY DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD.
DISSECTED DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
MASTHEAD
MAIN ARTICLE
MAIN IMAGE
90’S FASHION EDITS
ORIGINAL IMAGE TAKEN WITH MY OWN CAMERA
(90’S FASHION).
PRIMARTY IMAGE LATER ON EDITED I CHANGED THE
CONTRAST TO CREATE A GLOW AROUND THE GIRLS IN THE
IMAGE I ALSO CHANGED THE BACKGROUND TO A PLUM PINK
AND DARKENED THE BRIGHTENED THE IMAGE
USING THE TOOLS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE .
EDITORS IMAGE
ORIGINAL PRIMARY IMAGE
EDITED IMAGE
H O W D O E S YO U R M E D I A P R O D U C T R E P R E S E N T PA RT I C U L A R S O C I A L G R O U P S ?
My Magazine has a target audience of the teenage
youth and young adults age 16-25 years old I had
chose to use this age group from looking on my
questionnaire results being their age group was more
interested in the 90’s R&B genre music in comparison
to adults 25+ I implicated this by using two 17 year
old sixth from students on my front cover also
with the background contrast being of quite a youthful
colour (rose pink) as this colour would not necessarily be
seen on a magazine with a audience of 25 + . I chose to
not just focus on the music aspect of the 90’s but also
the fashion as most young women share a keen interest
in it by adding a fashion aspect I thought this could open
up more doors for my magazine as I can then appeal to a
wider audience
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W H AT K I N D O F M E D I A I N S T I T U T I O N M I G H T D I S T R I B U T E YO U R M E D I A P R O D U C T A N D W H Y ?
I will distribute my magazine in many ways in order
to get a continuous growing number of an audience ;
firstly I will put magazines in various retail shops such
as Newsagents,Conveniant Stores, HMV this is quite
commonly with most magazines as most people if
they want a magazine they would go to the nearest
shop with in their captivated
area however today the big chains such as Tesco ,
Asda , Sainsbury's etc. are now becoming the popular
sellers of magazines. Distributing my magazine in
supermarkets means I will be able to reach more
people who fit into my audience however considering
the audience my magazine is aimed
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16-24 year olds most 16-24 year olds are either
working in college or university and are familiar with
the new and latest technology and spend most of
their time on the internet doing research and other
things therefore I would also like to make visual
copies of my magazine accessible over the internet
for my audience by doing this I will most defiantly be
keeping up with the competition of other magazines
as other magazines have also decided to do this
although not so much with in the UK which means I
will be the first to make a difference in the UK
magazine industry.
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In the UK there are major magazine publishing
companies such as Emap, IPC media , National
magazine company , Conde and Dennie . I will also
appeal to these magazine publishing companies and
ask them to help me in becoming one of the next
popular magazines in the UK.
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W H O W O U L D B E T H E A U D I E N C E F O R YO U R M E D I A P R O D U C T ?
My demographic age for my magazine is 16-24 years
decided from doing survey research on different age
demographics to see which age demographic best
suits my genre being 90’s music and fashion.
Having a young age demographic such as this means I
am able to reach my audience using different types of
media and communication such as social networking
as well as the obvious of local news agents and
supermarket stores this gives me a great advantage of
gaining a wide audience as well as buyers ; I have also
decided to make my magazine available online to read
payments made using credit/debit visa cards.
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H O W D I D YO U AT T RA C T / A D D R E S S YO U R A U D I E N C E ?
The Sub-Stories- The sub stories which my readers
will find most interesting is those which were not
published during the 90’s due to confidentiality
however from doing interviews /getting in touch
with the 90’s sensational artists we were able to
get hold of stories which have never been told
before .
Despite my audience being of a young age 16- 25 , most
females at this age tend to be very mature and prone to
the adult world, to show this I have used a simplistic but
yet sophisticated font with a calm mood colour of
burgundy I chose however not to cover some of my main
image with the Mast head as some magazines do as I
want my main image to remain the MAIN focus as part of
being the exclusive of the magazine.
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Main image – The main image is a mid shot of the
duet group TLS they are looking directly at the reader
screaming ‘BUY ME!’, many magazines do this as it is
eye catching also the attire which they are wearing
most definitely connotes to the 90’s R&B casual
clothing.
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W H AT H AV E Y O U L E A R N T A B O U T T E C H N O L O G I E S F R O M T H E P R O C E S S O F C O N S T R U C T I N G T H I S
P R O D U C T ?
I have learnt to use different types of creative media
software's to help with the process of creating my
final music magazine ; such as Photoshop and blog
spot I used Photoshop to help edit my final images
and text for my Front Cover, Contents Page and
Double page spread images and make creative text
to fit my own house style magazine genre
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. I had found using Photoshop very difficult at first as I
had never used this software before however it was
worthwhile using as it helped provide and create an
professional look in appose to my prototype which
was created on Microsoft publisher and Microsoft
word.
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When using blogger.com for the first time I had a
little experience before hand embedding images links
and music as I did this when creating my own website
In GCSE I.T which I thought would give me a great
advantage when coming to make my own blog
however this was not so simple as making
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the blog was not all about embedding images and
texts onto my blog but instead
understanding/developing my understanding of
media and being able to meet all task deadlines
which I did in fact have problems with as I struggled
with some of the tasks set however the outcome was
worth it as
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I am now familiar with different software's and
different approaches such as ‘Blogger’ to put across
ideas and information for others to read .
L O O K I N G B A C K AT Y O U R P R E L I M I N A R Y TA S K , W H AT D O Y O U F E E L Y O U H A V E L E A R N T I N T H E
P R O G R E S S I O N F R O M I T T O T H E F U L L P R O D U C T ?
When doing my preliminary task I was very clueless as to
what software would best suit the creating of a magazine
and as to what content needs to be included in order to
make it seem and look like a well presented and thought
about magazine. For my preliminary task I indeed decided to
use the software's which I have had previously used in other
courses and subjects as I was very familiar with these ;
these software's being Microsoft word, power point ,
publisher .
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I also used Microsoft excel to collate together my results
from my age demographic survey this helped me by giving
me ideas of what 90’s music and fashion lovers would like to
see in a magazine orientated only around the 90’s era.