Double page spread

This is the draft econd of my double page spread. It was meant to be the first but then i asked some of my people who are doing media and they told me it would be better if it was the second part of my double page spread

BEFORE

and this is the final product

AFTER

Final

This is my final front cover, i went along with the clash magazine and took some pointers from it

I asked people what they thought about  it and they had said that more writing needed to be on the front cover, i added some more writing and had come up with this.

Some females had said that they think the blue was to "noisy" and they think that i should change the colour. Some said that i should have kept the colour of my image instead of changing it black and white.

I later on went to do my contents page...

Homework.. Research

I have decided to read the double page spread interview/article on dizzie rascal from the the "lash" magazine. The language used in this is quite formal and has a mixture of sometimes inappropriate langaue. I think that is quite good to keep the reader sucked into the article. 2 examples of language is "i wanted to make music that would make people get up, move and jump about instead of standing around and wanting to f*%^ing kill each other" & another example of more formal is "it would be easy to forget mills' myriad brushes.."
In terms of this article appealing to the target audience i think it is quite good because the way they have portrayed Dizzie on the front page was mind blowing because a person that listened to his music would pick it up. The way the whole interview has been presented was good because it added humour and on the other hand it was quite serious. The article discusses how Dizze got to where he is and what he has got planned for the future etc. The pictures in the article that i think are quite significant are the fact that it shows Dizzies discography and how much work he has put in and the article also mentions his number 1 singles etc.

Gratification

I have thought about questions that would be effective and what would be required top gratify the reader. i have added a link about what uses and gratification theory means...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_and_gratifications_theory


1. What information is provided about the music magazine?
On the front page of my music magazine, i have made sure that i have added a catchy title and in the title, something smart that will make my target audience know that it is a music magazine, i have made sure that the main image of the band is very clear that we are talking about.

2. How does your school mag promote a sense of belonging as a part of a community of readers?

In  my school magazine it promotes a sense of belonging to a person that would be interested in art and media and would be interested in going into a media based subject in University etc.
In my magazine it promotes news band called "3" and their new anticipated album.

3. What sort of entertainment does the mag provide for the reader?
In my magazine, there will be different entertainment and information from different artists and competitions and also some juicy gossip.

Picture

Last week i went out and took some pictures of my fictional band "3", i had to set it up and set dates that we could take pictures.

ideal reader

This is Princess, she is a 17year old model from Essex. Her parents are quite urban as apposed to the typical essex femal who is spoilt etc. The way she dresses is quite casual but she likes to stand out. she is a very straight forward girl and likes to have fun with her friends. She goes shopping in causal places like Primarni etc. in her spare time she listens to all types of music and sings but her 2 passions are hip hop and pop. Se is open minded with her music.

i think my music magazine "hip-pop" would appeal to her because it is based on both hip hop and pop and yet there is a wide range variety of different music.

Research

I have thought about the reasearch of who my target audience is for my music magazine. I have had to consider many things for my target audience. This is:

Age: 15-18
Gender : Male & Female
Ethnicity: All Types
Social Class: Middle Class
Religion: All types

These are the types of things that i have to consider when i am designing my music magazine.

Reasearch and planning

Today after Church i went to Sainsburys to go and check some different magazines for my planning and reasearch.

What magazines are placed where?

Gossip magazines where placed in the middle.
Camera and gadget magazines where on the right hand side
Fasion was on the left

I asked myself why was it arranged like this and i aslo asked myself, where the hell are the mens stuff then i turnt around and it instantly hit me.
They had seperated the mens mags and i also noticed a subheadings such as "womens intrests" where i saw fasion and gossip magazines.

i listed some names of magazines

Hobby/Intrests: SLR
                         iPhone App Directory

Celeb/Gossip: Love It!
                      Now
                      Pick Me Up

Sports: AutoTrader

            What car?

i found it quite hard to find sports magazines so i listed cars

Music: X Factor
           XXL World Wide

And so i left Sainsbury and went to a news agent to investigate music magazines as sainsburys where sold out and i took some pictures of them and looked who was on the front cover

Chek

i was messing about today and look what i came up with, this is FAR from my final but this is suttin i have in mind and dont in 2 mins

Planning and research

In the last couple of lessons, we had started to do a flat plan for our magazines. a flat plan for the front page, contents and te double page spread to help give us a faint idea of what we wanted our final product to resemble or look like.


Aslo what we done was that we took a look at other music magazines and got peices of information from them. i looked at Classic rock. We wrote our findings down on paper:

Titile - Classic Rock
Price - 4.50
Publisher - Future
Frequency of publication - Monthly

What mode of adress was used on front cover - the whole front cover was quite striking and caught my eye.

We then looked through the magazine to tally how much music promotion, lifestyle adverts & classified adverts there was and i came to a conclusion that there was more music adverts than anything else and that made sense.

Lastly we focused on the amount of text and images there was so it could help us get an idea of what to add to our product. Focusing on the text part we checked the used of slang and the way it was written, wether it was informal of formal. this would be vital for when we started our double page spreads etc, becuase we would have to write in a way that it would be intresting and trap our target audience. So this meant the quality of writing, if it was humouruos or serious etc. We then focused on the artist that was on the front page, wehter the artist was being promoted etc.

We had been asked at the end of the lesson, who would buy the magazine that we focused on and i decided that a rock frantic or someone that throughly enjoyed rock music would.

We also done flat plans of what our magazines would look like or at least an idea:

Magazines i like

Compare

In this hip hop magazine, the predominant picture is 50 Cent as he is the major feature in this magazine. The text  is quite bold, and stands out and there is clear text and most of the text is white apart from others. Some of the mast head is hidden by 50 Cents head but the mast head is quite big etc.

The predominant picture in this pop magazine is Britney spears as she was quite huge in her time, the colours used in this picture is quite girly and she is dressed quite childishly to appeal to her younger fans. The text is quite fun colours and they all match with what she is wearing. The mast head is quite childish like with symbols etc.