Phil Pound: 2011

reader profile

01:32 | Labels: Music magazine reader profile

Magazine reader profile

He is a middle to lower class working C2,D,E male aged between 13-26. The research we found showed us that the lower teenagers (13-17) are earning from £0-£1500 depending how well the part time job is, the salary there earning most just under £5 an hour and then how long there working for. Whilst the old ranging from 18-26 earning about £8000-£13000 again depending on the work they do where some of the research showed us some 23 year olds aren't earning a salary due them being unemployed. The research showed us that this male is likely to spend around £4 a month on music magazines.

When he was 13 he started listening to music because his friends were talking about it and felt he should start listening to be able to understand and participate in the conversations, he started to listen to music and then by 15 he had a strong passion for music and loved reading magazines about the industry and what's happening inside it. He found this drive and passion in music due to him following others who also had found this passion in music from other people. He is now a person who everyone seems to talk to about what type of new songs are out and what's all the news within. He started looking into magazines at first but couldn't find one with the different types of music he liked because they were all to specialised on one specific gender, after finding this magazine he can now into several different genders due to the mixture or music inside the magazine.

He is now 17 within a very keen interest still with music he has started buying new speakers and DJ decks where he can now listen to his own music and start mixing some of his own tracks with a future career arising. He gets most of his music off of iTunes or CD's with sometimes a bit of illegal downloading to update on his iPod and then burn them onto vinyl disk or just uploads them onto a DJ mix software.

When not listening to music he does what most people this age group do he goes to parties and on is 18th has promised the first thing he'll do is hit the clubs. He likes to keep up to date with all the new fashion out and tries to always look his best to impress the girls with his unique and different dress style. He also likes to keep up to date with all the new sports scores mostly football which he watches sky sports to get this information, when he is not out as well he likes to stay communicated with his friends using social networking sites especially Facebook to talk and arrange things but also for people to listen to new songs he has found by reading this magazine. By accessing the internet or using the Facebook grow he can now get informed when the new released magazine is out which he gets straight away. Inside this magazine he can find everything he wants from his sport score to new fashion styles and new places where to shop as well as his constant update on all his music.

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Plan for 6th form magazine

01:28 | Labels: Plan for 6th form magazine

Plan for 6^th form magazine

Picture:
-mid shot of group of students by the school all talking and engaging in a conversation
- a student participating in a school sport.
-A few students looking directly at the camera with a backdrop of the school.

Results of questionnaire- Question 1- most people answered they wanted the sixth form magazine to contain school info, lots of images and news.
Question 2- the most popular answer was they read magazines for entertainment and information.
Question 3- The majority of people answered they wanted yes to colour and yes to images.
Question 4 everyone except one person wanted the magazine to have the magazine published once a month.
Question 5 There was a very mixed answer of how much they would be prepared to pay for the magazine ranging from nothing to £0.50 to £1.

What the front cover will contain. -Primary image
-Masthead
-Secondary images with secondary leads
-House colours

Contents page (not in order)-Photo shoot of results day
-Interview of someone
-Part time jobs, advice on CV’s and where to apply etc- pg 6
-Help on revision etc
-Latest sports scores with school and in professional leagues
-Advice on subjects to choose for A level, GCSE etc-
-Fashion tips including new clothes out and celebrity fashion
-Music charts
-Events coming up with school and in Brentwood
-Latest important news in the world and in school
-Competitions to win prizes e.g. vouchers for shops
-Gossip in celebrity world
-Information about the school e.g. average grades, lessons, new teachers etc.

Different texts-Calibri
-Algerian
-Bauhaus 93
- Edwardian script ITC
-Monotype corsiva
-Impact
-Times new roman. Ideas for name-The weekly mez
-The Meztropolitan news
-The meztroplitan intellect
-The potential
-The MEZ

Colours (only 3 can be chosen) -Blue (dark)
-White
-Black

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Research for 6th form magazine

01:26 | Labels: Research for 6th form magazine

Research sixth form magazines

· Go on internet and find sixth form magazines (e.g. www.kehs.org.uk)

· Has to be sixth form magazine! Could be college.

· Has to be aimed at sixth formers but also written by sixth formers.

· Looking for ideas to: -content & style.

Market research

· Short questionnaire given to sixth formers to find out about what they want from a sixth form magazine (e.g. lots of competitions, sport scores etc.)

· Colour schemes

· Price of magazine?? – if no price how will be funded e.g. advertising

· Magazine to inform or explain

Sixth form magazines

www.theroyalschool.co.uk - * has information on certain students and achievements.
                                                *Different topics about the school e.g. sport, music etc.
                                                *Lots of images about that topic.
                                                * News on certain events coming up e.g. charity fundraising.

www.twynam6thform.com - * Very bright attractive colours
                                                *includes some of the news which has happened
                                                *advertises mew products which have been released
                                                *some of the news around the school with images
                                                *has advise e.g. how to overcome A level exam stress.
                                                *Has up to date news on celebrities
                                                *A few entertaining questionnaires
                                                *Calendar with all latest events for that month.

www.oxfordhigh.gdst.net - *Introduction about the school
                                               *Information on school e.g. Different events- young enterprise
                                               *about all the different lesson and information on them.
                                               *Information on the sixth form

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Evaluation 7)-Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task (The School Magazine Task), What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To Full Product

14:46 | Labels: Evaluation 7)-Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task

From making my school magazine to making my music magazine my knowledge grew hugely. Whilst creating the school magazine I wasn't that great on the software, I only knew the most basic options to use which is why I felt my school magazine came out quite badly. However my knowledge grew and I learnt new tips and different things you could do on to create effects etc which is what made my music magazine look so much better. I learnt that how to make my magazine stand out and grab the readers attention by using special effects on fireworks e.g. drop shadow, inner glow to make it more striking. I didn't feel I learnt that much about layout in the contents page, however I did learn some things like to not make the editor letter to long, to add a few more photos and generally make it easier for the reader. Though the layout of my front page I learnt a lot like where to put that secondary leads and images, and where also put the primary images and leads to make it look most effective. My knowledge on taking photos vastly improved to I learnt how to not make them pixelated and how to use effects to make it look better, more attractive and more appealing for example changing colours, brightness and other different effects. As well as this I learnt that different, more interesting fonts, colours and effects like 3D make the magazine much more appealing and eye catching to the reader. Also picnik I had never used now I can edit photos easily being able to change colours, lighting, frames, sharpen the photo and lots of other amazing effects.
Overall my knowledge of the whole software and technology involved has improved massively, before I had a very amateur looking magazine, now I have a much more professional looking one which even starts to look like some real magazines.

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Evaluation 6)-What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process of Constructing This Product

14:19 | Labels: Evaluation 6)-What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process of Constructing This Product

Evaluation 6

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Evaluation 5)-How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience ?

11:38 | Labels: Evaluation 5)-How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience ?

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Feedback

What do you think of the magazine?
“I think it looks really professional almost like a real magazine!”
“I felt the magazine was really easy to understand, read and also looked brilliant”
“I loved the magazine especially the front page and contents page”.What do you think of the front cover, contents page and double page spread layout?“I loved the layout of the front cover and double page spread, made the magazine really easy to read.”
“I felt the contents layout was not as good as the rest of the magazine.”
“I especially like the layout of the front page with the single photo on the front, looked really effective, maybe some adjustments to be made on the contents as it looks quite basic.”

Do you feel the colours used are appropriate for the magazine?“The colours are great throughout the magazine to be kept consistent.”
“The three colours used on the magazine red, black and white work really well together and look very effective.”

How do you feel about the different fonts I used throughout the magazine?“The font used on the masthead looks really effective and catches the reader’s attention”
“All the fonts work really well together, the only one I don’t like that much is the one of the contents which looks a bit dull and basic.”
“The font makes the magazine look very professional.”

Do you think the language on the double page spread is appropriate for the type of magazine it is?“I especially like the interview in the magazine, I like the way the language is very friendly and easy to read.”
“Really like the consistent use of the same type of language throughout the magazine.”
“The language is really effective and helps the reader to understand the type of great magazine it is”

What do you think about the images I have used through the magazine?“I loved the effects used on the images”
“Photo’s looked really good, only bad thing is there should be a wider variety of people in them.”
“The images taken for the magazine look amazing! They really grab the readers attention.”

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Evaluation 4)- Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product.

11:07 | Labels: Evaluation 4)- Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product.

These would be the typical readers for my magazine they are both aged between 13-17 and attend sixth form/college. The magazine is for both sex’s male and female however there are slight hints of bias with more male photos being shown in the magazine. The target audience for my magazine love listening to music and hearing stories about there favourite stars on new coming talent. The target audience don’t just have one favourite genre of music but like a mixture of different types. They are usually found with the newest songs out and constantly downloading and searching for new music. They occasionally attend performances by there most admired artist but 9/10 are usually seen at gigs and festivals e.g. V and Reading so they can several different acts e.g. Swedish House Mafia, Prodigy, Tinie Tempah, David Guetta instead of just one. Due to them still being in school some only have part time jobs which earns them a bit of money which they spend in their most liked shops e.g. Top Man/ Top Shop, All Saints etc, but also on music like new instruments or technology like iPods, or even on downloads. They always like to go out and be seen well dressed and fashionable by other people so when attending festivals they will always pack there favourite clothes to go in.

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Evaluation 3)-What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?

13:41 | Labels: Evaluation 3)-What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?

To distribute my magazine I have decided the best company would be IPC media, I have chose this company because they are the distributor of huge magazines like NME. Even though both of the magazines are completely different I feel this is why it would be best to be distributed here because there is a potential gap in the market for a new magazine. The company is located in London which again is useful so they can all be distributed easily around the UK. I was going to use Harris Publications because they distributed a magazine called “XXL” this was very similar type of magazine to mine with the same music and stories etc. However I decided against it because I felt that there would be to much competition and it possibly wouldn’t work that well, as well as this the company was based in America and only distributed around America.

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Evaluation 2)-How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups

13:39 | Labels: Evaluation 2)-How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups

When taking my photos for my magazine I used vibe slightly to help me, both are posing in the same way. However the different shots I have taken are different where vibe has used a much closer shot and has focused a lot on the face I decided to taken the photo further away so I can add props and give it a better effect. The musician in my magazine has a much more serious/posing expression where the vibe magazine have used a much more cheerful expression. Both of the musicians are wearing very smart clothes in the photos, TI wearing a tuxedo open to look more casual but still smart and then my musician is wearing very formal clothes to make him look smart. As you can see in both of the photos they are similar background both very plain and neutral which allowed me to fit all the text round it easier. Overall I think that both of the photos are quite similar but there are noticeable changes that make my magazine suit the audience more appropriately , they are all normal people in my magazine which represents a normal young social group which like an enjoy music magazines and reading about everything happening in the music industry.