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Kerrang Media Pack

http://magazines.bauermediaadvertising.com/magazines/detail/kerrang

The link above is a media package which will help me with my own music magazine, the link shows a selection of magazine images and front covers.

Research in the market place.

Price- £2.20
Frequency of publication - monthly
Issue size number of pages- 130
Regular content - gig reviews
Feature articles- slipknot
Positioning statement- 'none
Web- metalhammer.co.uk 

Price- £3.99
Frequency of publication - monthly
Issue size number of pages- 115
Regular content - gig reviews/ album reviews 
Feature articles- 150th Birthday
Positioning statement- 'none
Web- rocksound.tv. 

Price- £ 2.20
Frequency of publication - weekly
Issue size number of pages- 63
Regular content - gig reviews/ album reviews 
Feature articles- enter shikari
Positioning statement- 'life is loud'
Web- http://www.kerrang.com/ 

Initial Design

In todays lesson, we decided what our intial Design for our music magazines are going to look and include here is what i came up with...

• Price:£1.99
• Frequency of publication: weekly
• Average issue size: 70
• Regular Content:
• Gig reviews
• Introducing new acts
• Album reviews
• Latest news
• Inside the mind of
• Feature Articles :
• Bring me to the horizion on tour!
• Jared Leto speaks out...
• Win a meet and greet with Biffy Clyro!
• Madina Lake splitting up?
• The Best Rock band over the last 30 years!

Evaluation

My front page follows the forms and conventions of a real magazine, using methods such as including a barcode, a main image , a mast head which was spread across the top of the page in bold text, i made sure that the eyes on my main image were not covered by any text to gain a captive audience. Also my contents page contains the codes and conventions of a real magazine by using methods such as i organised the page into coloums with headings and page numbers, i then added a few smaller images and kept the bold masthead which spread across the page.
Throughout my front page and my contents i kept the same colour scheme and font. However i have challenged these forms and conventions as i did not use a proper background as i was not very familiar with the software we were using.

For creating my front cover we used adobe photoshop, which was a easy software to use however for my contents page we used quark Xpress which i wasnt very confident with because i had only used it twice before so it was all new too me. So i decided to experiment a bit with the software to gain more knowledge .

I found that i was more confident on photoshop than i was on quark Xpress as i had used it many times before and knew exactly what tools to use for certain aspects of my magazine cover. My other strengths in terms of forms and conventions were i was able to follow most of them using my own ideas and designs to create a good school magazine cover. Although i was confident in my front cover i was not so confident with the designs of my contents page as the software i was using was challenging and diffcult to use.

Final images for school magazine

For our lesson task we had to create a version of our school magazine on photoshop and our contents page on quark express these screenshot images are a step by step guide to how i created my contents and cover for my school magazine...

After i created my background image and title i added extra images which are featured in the magazine and a barcode.

Firstly i created my title and my main image which i took myself.

This is my final outcome for my school magazine task.

Once i completed my magazine task i then moved onto creating my contents page on quark below are the examples of my work being put together....

Firstly i picked my background colour and heading and split my page into two coloums.

The i added two larger images that i took myself

And above is the final outcome for my contents page containg text and images aswell.

School Magazine and Contents Page

In todays lesson our task was to create a school magazine of our choice , in a style of a music magazine, firstly i drew out my contents and magazine cover on paper to make sure it was correct and then created my magazine cover on adobe photoshop using my own images and created my contents on Quark express. Below are the outcomes of this task ...

My design for my cover and contents page.

Adobe photoshop version of my magazine cover.

Quark Express version of my magazine contents page.

Photographs For School Magazine

Today in our media lesson we went out and photographed our images for our School magazine here are our images we managed to capture...

Medium Close up which will be used as a additional image.

Over the shoulder shot which will be used as a additional image.

Long shot  which will be my main front cover image.

Medium close up.

Over the shoulder shot.

Long shot

Very long shot

Medium close up

Long shot

Long shot.

Over the shoulder shot

Medium close up which i will use as my main contents image.

Plans for School Magazine

For this lesson we were asked to plan out our ideas for our school magazine below is what we came up with...

Ttile of the magazine: Schools out
Main image & Headlines : Meduim close up of a person holding exam results
Main colours: Red
Regulars:
- Revison Tips
- Competitions
-Day in the life of ...
- Freebees
Features:
- Ways to excell in education
- Quiz
-Help Letters
-Interveiws
- Revision Tips
- Exam Success
- Organisation

Camera Shots

Todays lesson task was to produce our own photographs of different shots in twenty minutes sticking to the instructions and to allow us to be creative, below are the photographs we managed to create.

• A low angle medium close up,( Looking up , half of body)
• A high angle log shot,(Looking down, Whole person)
• An extreme close up of the time,(One number or hand on a clock)
• A big close up of someone using a mobile phone,(face and phone)
• A close up of someone in nature,(Persons head and shoulders)
• A two shot in medium long shot,( two people in photograph , head and shoulder)
• An over the shoulder shot of someone writing,(shoulder and hand writing on a peice of paper)
• A very long shot of conveying isolation,( very far image of a picture or person)
• A medium close up,( above the waist of a person, upper body and shoulders)
• A longshot,(whole body)
• A photograph which has connotations of friendship,(situation or object which could indicate friendship)
• A photograph which has connotations of stress,(situation or object which could indicate stress)

A very long shot of conveying isolation, (very far image of a picture or person)

   A photograph which has connotations of friendship,(situation or object which could indicate friendship)

     A two shot in medium long shot, (two people in photograph, head and shoulder)

A high angle log shot, (Looking down, Whole person)

A low angle medium close up, (Looking up, half of body)

A high angle log shot, (Looking down, Whole person)

                                A close up of someone in nature,(Persons head and shoulders)

A medium close up, (above the waist of a person, upper body and shoulders)

A photograph which has connotations of stress, (situation or object which could indicate stress)

An extreme close up of the time, (One number or hand on a clock)

 A big close up of someone using a mobile phone, (face and phone)









Codes and Conventions of a Contents page.

Today in our lesson we discussed as a group the codes and conventions of a music magazines contents page here is what we discovered...

• Font size 11 point.
• Contents top of page.
• Date is at the top of the page.
• The main image dominates the page.
• Can be a double page spread.
• Smaller images.
• In colums split either into one or two.
• Large font.
• Sub headings.
• Issue numbers.
• Page numbers - anchor the story to the image.
• Editors letter.
• Credits.
• Bold titles.
• Website.
• "Contents "have the biggest font.
• Titles of the credits are bolder.
• Mini article on some of the contents page.
• Font is always clear and consistant.
• Images are all different sizes.
• Sticks to the same colour scheme.
• Article must be about music.
• Descriptions on soem of the page.
• Coverlines in font 12 or 13.
• Plain backgrounds and two main colours.
• Main image has the page number.
• In popular articles the page number is bigger.
• Most of the information is either boxed or in a box shape.
• Short coverlines.
• Page numbers for each story.
• Contact details and Address.
• All layed out in colums.
• Headings-"Features, Regulars".
• Line breaking between each point.

Codes & Conventions of a Music Magazine

In our Media lesson today we worked in groups of four and viewed a couple of different music magazine covers and then disscussed the codes and conventions , here is what we came up with...

Masthead

• Title
•  Postitioning statement-sets out the magazines ethos e.g kerrang '' life is loud''.
•  Title is kept clear and seperate from the image unless the magazine is established.
• Title has unique font which is large and bold.

Barcode

• Generally bottom right hand side of the page.
• Contains the issue date , price and the website.

Buzz Words

• "Plus exclusive" makes the read want to read on and makes them think there getting extra for there money.

Images

• One main image
• Sometimes subsiduary images which are smaller.
• Close up or mid shot image.
• No text onthe face of the image.
• "Direct Address" - Looking straight at the camera.
• Images usually are relevant to what inside.

Colours

• Colour scheme is consistant.
• Usually simple colours that dont clash.
• 3/4 colours.
• Colours reinforce the brand.

Coverlines

• Smaller  than main image coverline.
• Is in the same style of font.
• Always relates to stories inside the magazine.
• Relates to genre of magazine.
• Limited range of font , Serif , Times new Roman and sans serif.
• Font smaller for bigger price.
• Plain background.

Main Image

• Band - Long shot/ Medium longshot.
• Person close up.
• Direct Adress , look at the camera.
• Body Language of the person in the image must fir genre of magazine.