Inspiration for Photoshoot

 

These are images of the girlgroups Little Mix, Stooshe and The Saturdays and it's who Failing Chemistry get their inspiration from. I would like my photoshoot to be high key, if possible and I will use a photography studio to take the images to get the proper high key lighting. I like the one of Stooshe where it looks like a cartoon, I think that would look quite cool if I tried it. I also like the desaturated ones of Little Mix and The Saturdays, I like how they look sort of black and white, but certain parts are coloured. I will use these for inspiration for my photoshoot.

Questions for Music Magazine Interview

These are the questions I would ask the band for the double page spread, although they are not in order. I have decided to make it a Valentine's Day special, so I will ask them questions about their music and some related to the theme of the issue.

How did you become a band?

You're aYouTube band, but will you ever do live gigs?

(Interlinking question with answer)

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be?

You mainly sing covers, do you write your own material too?

You are more acoustic than other girlbands, but what makes you more different?

(Interlinking question with answer)

How long have you wanted to be musicians?

How long have you girls been together?

What are your roles in the band? Who is the most organised, laziest, craziest, loudest etc?

Do you have nicknames for each other?

Do any of you have other talents or hobbies?

Who has the worst habbits?

What  is your favourite love song and romantic movie?

Who are your celebrity crushes?

What would be the pefrect date?

What would be the ideal Valentine's gift?

What is your worst romantic memory?

Who would you most like to collaborate with?

Where do you hope to be in the future?

Music magazine analysis

Q magazine has already reached it's 200th edition since it was first published in October 1986. It is published monthly in the UK. It is known for its red and white logo that is always in the top left-hand corner. It makes it easier to find in a news agents and is easily identifiable.

NME stands for 'New Musical Express' as it was originally a newspaper dedicated to music when it was first published in March 1952. It slowly started to become a music magazine in 1998. It mainly uses the same layout in each issue, but the masthead colour sometimes changes to match the cover image. NME magazine is easily identified from the masthead, so it stands out and is easy to find in a news agents.

Vibe is more of a R&B and hip-hop magazine. It stopped publishing in 2009, but was re-purchased and is now issued online every other month online. It uses the same masthead and bold colours so its easily recognized and the sell lines match the colours and fonts on the cover.

  

Billboard is an internationsal magazine devoted to music and the music industry. It was first published in November 1894, when it was originally for advertisements. In the 1930's it started publishing music charts and that is how it became a music magazine. The masthead is easily recognized for its black and white writing with the filled in colours red, yellow, blue and green. It has the same layout most of the time, with a central image that overlaps the masthead and the sell lines and other writing on the cover.

Kerrang! magazine was first published in June 1981 as a one-off supplement to 'Sounds' newspaper. It is  a rock music magazine and the design/font of the masthead goes with the them, as does the colours they use for that black, white and red. The masthead makes it recognizable.

Template for my music magazine

 These are photos of my drawn up templates for my music magazine front cover and double page spread. 

 These are the plans for my music magazine front cover. I think I prefer the second one to the first as there will be a lot of things to persuade potential readers into buying it. The first one is a bit plain compared to the second, so the cover image would need to be very eye catching to grab the readers attention.  

These are plans for the layout of my double page spread. I quite like both of them, though I'm not sure which one I prefer yet. The first one gives the reader a a little bit of text but half of the double page spread is taken up by the main image (poster). I think it looks more like a newspaper article and not a teenage music magazine article. I think it's because I used a standfirst and a byline. I like having the two smaller images between the body text, it would give the reader something to look at. The second one I think is a bit more balanced, there is a lot more text and there are two images.  I like having a quote in the middle of the text body, so it stands out and would make the reader want to read more. One thing I did forget to do is put in page numbers, so I would need to do that when I actually make the double page spread.

Moving on!

 I am now moving on to the main part of my media course, which is making a front cover, content page and a double page spread for a music magazine.

I have decided that my magazine is targeted at teenagers, maybe teenage girls like We love Pop magazine or Bliss etc.

Names I am considering:
Parade
Standing Ovation
Encore
Bass line
Plectrum 
Unsigned

The main feature will be an exclusive interview with local four piece girl band Failing Chemistry.
I have to use at least four of my very own images. The photo shoot will hopefully be in a library or something, I want the theme to be very British heritage.

My college magazine

This is my college magazine front cover.

This is my cover for the college magazine I created as a piece of coursework. I have used one image for the background and the main image.The image used is of a friend and fellow student from college holding her work folder. I chose this image, because it links with the main feature of the issue and it is of a college student which is who the magazine is targeted for. It is also portrait, making it easier to fit to the cover of the magazine.

I called my magazine 'College term', because I wanted it to relate to what the magazine is about. Next to that I have put the college logo, so the readers know what college it is about.
The colour scheme matches the college logo, although this wasn't intentional.

I have used two smaller images on the front cover, they both are of students from the college and link to the stories listed in the contents page. I put anchorage text underneath that links to the image,to let the readers know what is in the issue.
I put the issue number and date in the bottom left hand corner, so the readers know they are up to date. 
I didn't use a barcode or put a price on it, because after my survey results I discovered that people would rather not pay for a college magazine.

This is my college magazine contents page.

I didn't want the contents page to look too busy and have lots on it, so like the cover I used one image for the main image and background and used two smaller images. This time I didn't put text around the images. I kept the colour scheme from the cover so it matched the college logo.

To improve, I would use more text on the cover because it is a bit plain for a college magazine. I maybe wouldn't use the colours to match the logo because it looks a bit dull and boring. I'd maybe also use images from around the college and not use the same people in my images. Also, I'd use more images relating to the stories in my contents page.

Survey Results

From the research gathered from my survey, I found that 92.3% were 16-18 years of age.

I found that 69.2% were female.

42.3% of people read magazines moderatly often.

The two most popular genres were Music and Fashion.

When I asked what courses the take in college, the majority said A levels.

I also asked if anyone had any worries about college the majority said no, with a few exceptions.

Most people said they wanted the college magazine to contain information about upcoming events in the local area, music, fashion, student opinions, term dates, advice and gossip.

42.3% want the college magazine to be issued once a month.

People want the magazine to use bold print and colours, easy to read text and lots of images.

Most people said that they would pay up to £2 for an issue of the college magazine.


The pros of using SurveyMonkey to carry out my survey, is that it's much quicker way of collecting data and totaling up the percentage that answered. It also makes it easier to explain as you don't have to calculate the numbers yourswelf so it saves time.

The cons of using SurveyMonkey to carry out my survey, is that I can't really tell wether or not a person is serious about the answers they give. This means I can't tell if the answers are truthful or not and it effects the results of the survey.