4 Front Cover Drafts

task 8

Front cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Similar to my music magazine ideas

My very basic drafts of my music magazine

prezi of initial ideas

Initial Ideas on Prezi

Liiar analysis of NME

Liiar analysis of NME magazine.

Language
Front Cover - The masthead is ‘NME’ is in the top left corner like the normal conventional NME magazine but this is unique as it is not in its normal red colour, they have changed the house style with the masthead changing colour as well, they chosen a light blue which may relate to the main image of the magazine. The house style colour scheme is blue, white and black which are very effective colour which work well together to create a happy bright effect. NME magazine dateline is always located with the bar code and price which is normally in the bottom corners of the magazine. The barcode is very small in the corner. I don’t think they really try making the dateline a big thing as it’s a weekly magazine and it’s always updating the readers with new info. NME magazine does not have a selling line, I think this is because the magazine is already very successful and doesn’t need to promote itself even more as its already very well known by a lot of people, also I don’t think it would fit in on their front cover as they just give us lots of cover lines about new bands or interviews etc. The main image is the band ‘THE VACCINES’ and we know this by the main cover line which is covering right across the magazine in this house style blue and we also know this is the band credit. The main cover has a sort of selling line which is ‘BAND OF 2011’ this makes readers very intrigued about the band. The main cover line also relates with the main image the world ‘CLEAN UP!’ the main image is trying to show us the band are in a shower and are all wet and the band member has soap and bubbles on his face, this relates with clean up, the colour blue relates with water so that’s why they have gone for this style I think. NME have about 5 cover lines on the front cover and they are quite spread around they is one located in the top left corner, 3 in the bottom left and one in the middle bottom and they all have the same house style to keep this continuous colour scheme. The colours are BLUE for the main part what the reader’s first look at, BLACK for text which the readers will need to read to get a bit of info on the subject and white for background so it makes the blue and black stand out very well. NME have used a very smart technique for readers to read the main headline which is they have the masthead in the corner then having a path towards the main headline which reads out ‘NME ON THE BUS AND INTO ARENAS WITH THE BAND OF 2011 THE VACCINES’ they have these words going down to the main cover line. NME is the ident of the magazine which is a very well known logo or piece of text. The front cover tells us we get free posters of The Clash, Ramones and Sid Vicious and they include teasing contents along the bottom naming lots of bands and artists which the readers are interested in also its say win NYE gig tickets in one of the cover lines. They don’t have any thumbnail images on NME magazine they just have cover lines which insinuates that they just want you to focus on the main article which is a very big one as again The Vaccines are the BAND OF 2011. The layout is very wild they haven’t really keep to a style expect the colour scheme. There is a little skyline above the masthead about a new album revealed by LIBERTINES. There is no splash on the front cover of NME. They might not include this as the price isn’t really a cheap price nor expensive I just don’t think they want to boast about their price.
The front cover has a very positive accurate presentation.

Contents page – NME contents page masthead and headline says ‘INSIDE THIS WEEK’ where under this they have the dateline. The house style colour scheme is longer on the contents page which on this page they have gone for a newspaper look with black text on a white background.  Every image on the contents page has a caption which is either a quote or some information on the photo. NME don’t have any of these massive stand out exclusive stories they don’t even include the ident anywhere on the page nor anyway intertextuality. The layout is very wild as in normal magazines they would have articles in order by number well NME have gone for an importunacy arrangement as they have lots of articles including thumbnail images but the pages numbers are every on the image, in the centre of the page there is an article which is on page 18 while others to the side of it are on pages like 14, 48, 45.  NME try selling a subscription to the magazine in a puff in the bottom right corner.  The contents page also as a very positive accurate presentation. All articles include a strap line summing up the image. The contents page has a lot of change of font where as the front cover didn’t change their text as they stuck to the house style.

Double page spread – The double page spread has gone back to the front cover house style. The layout is half of the page with images of the bands mostly medium shots, or medium close ups and the other half with all texts. One of the images has a caption. This page there is no headlines, logos, banners anything, this page is an interview of the band. The text lets us find out certain information about the band; it’s like an exclusive interview. It’s all accurate positive text about the bands which will make the reader interested and want to read on. The text is very relevant to the images and the main article which is all connected.

Institution
IPC Media are the institution of the NME Magazine as they’re the company which publishes the magazine, they are known to the media world to be one of the best publishing companies within the UK as they publish over 60 different magazines, and sell over 350 million magazines in a year. IPC Media don’t only focus on publishing magazines, they also focus on publishing different types of text such as, books, newspapers, printing (non-newspaper), trade and technical (specialist magazines) and many more. Also this business has three publishing divisions, mass market women, upmarket women and men. The NME team are the ones which write the articles, complete the design schemes and hold photo-shoots for each of the celebrities being shown in the magazine, before sending the information to the IPC Media for it to be published and ready to be sold in retail.

Ideology - NME aim is to spread information about new bands, artists, albums and song. They go behind the celebrities’ life and let the audience get an insight on their lives. They even include tour dates about these bands and artists which the readers would really like. This magazine gives the readers a really good insights on the vaccines and gives them a lot of information about touring, and been on stage. They want to gain an audience from these targeting people who enjoy these bands. There message is to spread the words of these really amazing bands.

Audience - The target audience for NME are people who are strongly interested in the indie rock genre type of music and finding out information about these bands of this type of music genre, e.g. tour dates, upcoming songs and album releases.  The magazine is strongly going for the 15-24 age group in the demographics scale, which relates to my magazine ideas, as these age groups are more likely to be interested in this type of music and are likely to want to keep updated by buying this magazine week in week out. As the target audience are the casual labourers, unemployed, state pensioners category from the demographics S.E.G chart, they are getting much income, therefore the magazine is the reasonable price of  £2.40.The company won’t really lose readers and buyers as the magazine price isn’t very high.

Representation – NME magazine present a very accurate, positive and stereotypical magazine which relates to its target audience very well. The bands are these indie rock bands which don’t care about how they act; they just want to have a good laugh which NME tries to put towards its audience. Throughout the magazine its full of these stereotypical indie rock n roll dressed artists, which influences the audience. 

My Price For My Magazine

My music magazine will cost two pound not too expensive and not to cheap, and it’s also cheaper than the magazine I’m placing myself up against which is NME, they magazine costs 2.20. I will publish my magazine weekly which will keep my audience up-to-date with the latest gossip, upcoming bands and events. I think 2.00 is a reasonable price for a music magazine which will be filled with all the audience’s wants and needs. My target audience would be able to afford my magazine as it’s a very reasonable price. Publishing it weekly would keep the audience interested week in week out. With the price as two pounds I’m going to include free CD’s, posters or even a band t-shirt which will really draw the audience in.

My Target Audience for My Music Magazine.

My target audience for my magazine will be for people interested in the genre of the music the magazine presents, doing this will get people intrigued into buying my magazine and interested in the news it sells. I think my magazine will mostly target sixteen to twenty-six but it could appear to the 15 and below group or even higher than 26. I will target both male and female my magazine will not be sexist. My music magazine will attract all different types of people as they all have different tastes and needs which my magazine will cover. My magazine will cover the A, B, C1, C2, D and E group, my magazine isn’t going to be very formal or informal. I want a very widespread audience to make my magazine very popular and worldwide spread. I want to target people driven by needs, which will hopefully them needing to read my magazine week in week out,All people with different lifestyles can enjoy my magazine as well; it’s going to be friendly to all these people. I will target the outer directed group; This group is filled with ‘belongers, emulators and achievers’. This is meaning they are more like to purchase my magazine as they want to fit in with the crowd. The emulating side of it is they may buy my magazine and want to read and see what their favourite artists and bands are up to and may want to copy them on what they are doing!
It’s more of a social magazine where they need to feel a part of a group in which they are the best.

My music genre

Music genre on Prezi

liiar of brief

Liiar analysis

L - My music magazine will contain which will be short and will stick in the audiences head. It will try having a dominant logo or icon to be noticed when seen. The main image will be full page, and will be an MCU SHOT, so pretty much face and shoulders in the image. The models face must be seen clearly to make eye contact with the viewers and also show some facial expression. My magazine will have a bright colour scheme, with a good continuous house style with two or three colours. I will include thumbnail images, which will move onto other articles in magazine. I will include anchorage in magazine, so my audience will know who the artists are in my magazine. Price & barcode will be on my magazine to give it that professional look and to show the magazine is been sold. The teasing contents will be on front cover so the reader will be really intrigued to read on in my magazine. These will be things such as short snappy titles, with these teasing contents I will use competitions and free gifts to draw an audience. My main image is obviously going to have a main article which will both be related to each other.

I – If I was publishing for another magazine I’d go for NME, Q or XXL. I like their magazine style, how they places thing, there photos etc. I would have something similar to them. I’d have the complete opposite to maybe pacha magazine or DJMAG. The reason why I’m choosing them magazine is because I want my magazine to be the same type of music genre as them magazines also there house styles are what I want mine to look like. I’m going to cover about 2 or 3 genres so I’m hoping to produce a good masthead for my magazine, which will be something to do with music. For my double page spread I will have a large main article, with will either be about a new band, maybe like an interview with the band. It will include pictures, maybe link towards a new song etc.

I - I went to send the message of new music, news and upcoming events. I went to meet the audience’s values, so make them enjoy the magazine. I’m going to send the message that this genre of music is the only genre of music you should listen to, none else. My target audience will be teens and up so like 16-26, so I’m going to go for different types of people; students, working males/females, parents etc. I’m going to keep my music magazine up-to-date always, so readers won’t get disinterested in my magazine and genre of music.

A – The audience for my magazine would be the people interested in the magazines type of music genres and this is how I would attract them into purchasing the magazine, again the age range is like 16 – 26 which will go across all different types of people. These people are all going to have different tastes and concerns so my magazine will cover this, all the different types and doing this will make my magazine more popular and have more of an audience fan base. The Socio-economic groups will be for all the types of people, my magazine isn’t going to be really informal but also not too formal. All people with different lifestyles can enjoy my magazine as well; it’s going to be friendly to all these people.

R – My magazine is going to be very positive and accurate for my audience so they will enjoy it more than instead of reading how something tragic has happened or some celebrities doing drugs again. My magazine is going to send an image to all its readers and send a message to them saying this is good music and all the other genres are not. It’s going to make readers feel more involved with artists learning about their lives. Readers are going to learn every week something new either about a new song, some gossip, or in an interview.

brief

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).

My liiar analyse

My Liaar analyse

On my contents page I’ve included a banner headline to draw the audience in to read that certain part straight away. My layout format is a main image in the middle with captions or writing around the main image while I’ve put other smaller images towards the bottom. My masthead is located on the side of magazine as there is text and info at the top which I think goes quite well together. I’ve tried doing 3 short snappy strap lines across the top of my front cover which my intrigue readers to want to read on. My front page and contents page I’ve kept a house style throughout using the same text fonts and keeping to a two or three colour scheme. I’ve included thumbnail images on both of my front cover and contents page to show the life and what goes on at my college. Wyke College would distribute my magazine and the reason why they would distribute it would be because it would promote the college and people of the college would be able to gain information from the magazine. My college magazine purpose is to give out Info to College students may not know about or refresh the student’s memory. My magazine wouldn’t focus on one certain type of audience, it would try being for all of the Wyke College student’s to the college magazine would get a lot more fans and be spread throughout the college more. I would try attracting them with things which all students would be interested in. I would try stick to a certain taste which all stereotypes of people would be interested in so again to widen my fan base of my magazine. The SEG would be for D/E group which is obviously for college students. My magazine representation is very positive and correct, it will send out a positive vibe for the students. I wouldn’t have a stereotypical magazine as I wouldn’t want to be bias to certain people or groups.

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Online Version of My Magazine.

I would include my website URL all over my magazine, Id maybe have a radio advert including the website etc.
I’d have billboards with the website URL on it, picture on sides of buses etc.

The Link between the magazine and the website online version as they would both be up-to-date together, the stories you read in the following magazine will be on the website. The website would have certain features like codes in the magazine which you can use on the website to obtain certain features, enter competitions to win great items.
I think people would prefer an online version as not a lot of people like reading books/magazines.
Having an online audience would also draw so many more people in.
Just simply the fact having it online in case someone misses the magazine versions they can find all the info on the website, and include all the contact details.

Website finished&feedback

I asked my brother about it and asked what he thought and he said ' i like the fact I've stuck to a persistent colour scheme its very simple and could have more but still looks helpful for a magazine website.

final contents

My final product was analysed by both Callum Harrison and Jason Skipworth, they both said 'the colours were much clearer then the first attempt, and the borders for the pictures are more eye- catching and make the pictures look well presented. and Jason said 'Its too over crowded with too much writing so the background cant be seen, the colours used could be better too.'

contents draft 2

I asked Jason Skipworth about my 2nd attempt and he said'It is a fairly good set out but there isnt much detail and the writing used could be better.'

contents draft

I asked Callum Harrison about my first attempt and he said' its boring beacuse the writing at the side doesn't stand out and is hard to see, but the pictures are clear and the title is bold and read-able.' 

FINAL MAGAZINE

draft 2

I asked Han McConnon what she thought and she said 'it is a very good and artistic magazine front cover, the colour scheme is a bit random and instead of using purple, maybe a different colour would be appropriate well done'

MY FIRST DRAFT AND FEEDBACK

Connor thorpe give me feedback on my first draft he said ' i think jay could make the cover more eye popping by using more stand out colours, he could also include more information on the front page about articles inside the magzine."

my prezi on my initials ideas(target audience and price)

My College Magazine. on Prezi

Few images i may use

I think this would be a good thumbnail image, but i maybe wouldnt use it as it doesn't have a link to any article.

Same again, its a very good image but not a very productive and article worthy.

This image is way to dark for any article, I wouldnt ever use this on anything.
This picture looks quite educational in a way and I think would fit in a magazine article.

This could be a potentional thumbnail and could go onto a little article about been social at college etc.

This is more a jokey image, maybe for a bit of humor in my magazine.

I personally think this is a really good mcu shot for my front cover, its very nice and appealing. Hes looking straight into the camera, intre

very quick draft

Inspiration for my magazine.

Both these magazine front covers are going to be like my design, where they are doing some interesting activity or holding there colleges book.
Obviously I'm going to have mine in a MCU shot, but i like the fact it like a real magazine, with the masthead at the top, the main image in the center, and contents all around the outsides.
On mine I will include thumbnail images and so on.

http://prezi.com/vxtdmtmg-wcy/my-college-magazine/

Pricing

Pricing for my magazine, since it’s for student of my college I will make it for free.
Most college magazine are free, so I’m going to do this myself as I believe more students will pick a copy up as they wouldn’t even think of bothering if it cost money. It’s going to be a seasonal magazine, so people won’t get bored of some nonsense every week, the ratings would just go so far down.

My Target Audience

My target audience will be mostly for the teenage era, around 16-19. They will be stuff in there for teacher’s information, parents or carers to take interest to.
I mostly want to aim at the C2/D/E of the demographics groups. So the age group maybe from about 15 to 24. I want to appeal to even secondary school children, like year 10’s and 11’s to help make them choose my college.  This would make my audience range a very wide vast one, and appeal to so many people.

My choice of college for my preliminary task!

I'm going to use wyke college as I can use the facillities of wyke college.
I would rather use wyke as I'd have more time on my on drafts of my magazines, could maybe modify my the wyke logo etc.
I could play around with a whole new look.

East Riding College Magazine

Language

The Masthead is directly at the top, in a plain white text. It stands out because theres nothing else around it. The main image is dominant but doesnt show much about a college as it looks like its taken aboard somewhere, it not in a MCU shot.Its in a long shot where everyone backs turned to the audience.
Theres no thumbnail images, they have a clear house-style but of two very boring colours. No price or barcode, no teasing contents, competitions or gifts. Not even a main article, this is a very poor front cover.

Institution
East riding college, the student may have made this as it lacks a lot in quality.

Ideology
I think that the ideology of the magazine is to try make students enjoy college life but it just lacks in everything, its doesnt draw you in the slightest or even tell you anything about the college plus it's very boring and especially not new students or teenagers.

Audience
Obviously its for students, but again lacks in everything, no effort whatsoever, so it wouldnt draw in much attention to students/teachers or people who want to join the college.

Representation
Not very modern, wouldnt appeal to any student i think, i think you’d have to pay student to take a copy

LIIAR GX

Langauge
The grimsby instition mastheads is ‘GX’ is which very stand out and bold, it’s very smart and effective. Its effective because straight away you know the name/logo of the college. The main image looks like a long shot, under the models to make them look larger and more dominant, you cant see their faces clears as they are in this block colour style. Throughout there is a clear house-style of three persistant colours, blue,black and white. Just there is grey behind the masthead, which does blend pretty well. The front cover also has a couple of thumbnail images, but have no infomation with them. They dont include a bardcode or price on there front cover. No teasing contents along the bottom, or competitions. There isnt no main article on their front cover either,

Ideology
the front cover of this magazine is made to draw in students to join the college, and obviously colleges aged teens. ‘The word on the street’  connotes this as its a slangy teenage term.

Institution
Grimsby Institute. The students of grimsby instituion have made this front cover.

Audience
This is made for students, teacher or people interested in the college and thinking of joining.

Representation
This magazine is very modern and teenage friendly. Its very appealing for students.

liiar analyse

Liiar Analysis

My front cover will include a masthead, with a college icon.  A Bright colour scheme with clear house-style of two or three main colours.
A Thumbnail images that illustrate other articles
Anchorage
Price & barcode
Teasing contents along the bottom
Competitions and free gifts
Main article / feature advertised must relate to the the main image.
Also has to be a medium close up of my image, others images can be different sizes and angles.

A publisher wouldn’t be responsible for the college magazine; it would be an in house publication by the college for the college.
My college magazine will try send out a nice positive vibe and message.
It will try and get student to work harder and more, it would also have this fun enjoying feeling to it. They will be a few students inputting to the magazine so it’s not going to be the same through and have different people personalities.
The target audience will be for all the students of the college, it will cover everything for everyone, it won’t leave anyone and make them feel unwanted or left out by the college.

The masthead will be a large stand out title, it will be nice and appealing for the college student, closer near the masthead will be the college logo. This will let the students know it’s there college, as there used to their own college logo.
Throughout my college booklet it will have a bright colour scheme, with a clear house-style, this will be persistent, and not cause any confusion of different colours everywhere. It will include images on the content page/front cover; these images will have page number with them to show the contents and meaning of these images. The font throughout my college magazine will be century gothic.

My front cover image will be a student attending the college, in a medium close up shot, showing only the shoulders and head. This is to show the model emotions which will be a happy expression, so it’s nice and appealing to the viewer. My student will be stood holding his folders, smiling at the camera or maybe even stood looking directly at the camera with lots of things happening around in the background to make him/her the centre of attention; this will link with the college image and representation of the goings on in the college. The student looking into the camera makes you look like your involved in the image and your right there with them; it could make you think this could be you in the same spot as the model. This creates a happy vibe and atmosphere around the college grounds.

The contents pages will have the page numbers spread around to have this fun vibe to it, but it will also include these thumbnail images to show other articles, like main stories or appealing stories. They will also have captions to read a short brief of these stories; hopefully they would appeal to people who don’t attend the college as well, which may bring them more drawn in to this college.

I would use a barcode maybe if I was going to sell this to people outside the college to bring some profit in for the college, but if I was only going to use it in the college then I would maybe do it for free as it would maybe get out to more student cause it wouldn’t really appeal to student to buy a college magazine.
A big factor I would like to use to bring in student is do a big competition on the front cover, I think this would really appeal, a chance to win something special.

My target audience would be college ages really, 16-19. I would try including in my magazine, things like home help, or like a smoking/drinking problems. Even sexual help if needed, someone to help the students of the college. I’d try include common teenage info like gigs, nights out and local festivals.

Preliminary Excercise

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