Wednesday 31 October 2012

Initial Plans

Type Of Magazine:
Rap/R&B/Hip Hop

Target Audience:
16-25

Price:
£2.75

Frequency of Publication:
Every Month

Issue Size:
95

Typical Content:
Interviews With Current Artists
Advertisements
Latest Fashion Trends (Who's Been Spotted Wearing What)
Posters
Upcoming Gigs


The Music Magazine Market

Types Of Music Magazines
  • Popular Music Magazines
  • Specialist Types on different kinds of music
  • Specialist Instrument magazines
  • Other

Artrocker - Classic and Modern - 16-35
Big Cheese - Rock, Punk and Metal - 16-25
Black Velvet - Rock and Punk - 16-40
Clash - Alternative - 18-25
DJ Mag - Dance and Electric - 18-30
The Fly - Young upcoming bands - 18-30
Hip Hop Connection - Hip hop - 16-25
Kerrang - Rock and Heavy metal - 16-25
K Mag - Dubstep and Electronic - 16-25
Metal Hammer - Heavy metal - 16-35
Mixmag - Dance and Clubbing - 18-30
Mojo - Rock and Alternative - 30+
NME - Indie and Electric - 16-30
Q - Rock and Indie - 16-30
Rock-A-Roller - Rock and Metal - 18-30
Rock Sound - Rock - 16-25
Stool Pigeon - Indie and Alternative - 20+
Terrorizer - Metal - 16-35+
Top Of The Pops - Pop music - 12-18 Girls
Uncut - Rock and Indie - 25-45

Magazines published by:

IPC:
NME and Uncut

Bauer:
Mojo, Kerrang and Q

Future Publishing:
Metal Hammer, Total guitar and Rhythm

Magazine Circulations

According to the magazine circulations website, it is evident from the figures they give you that the free magazines have a higher viewing rate than the other magazines in which you pay for. This market research clearly shows that the public are more likely to pick up a free magazine instead of buying one.

Ideas For New Music Magazines

Chart Music
Rap Music

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Front Cover and Contents Page

Evaluation

1) How do your magazine pages conform to (or depart from) the typical conventions of magazine design?
  
Like all other magazines, my magazine front cover has a masthead, coverlines and taglines. It also has a cover image and the text around the cover image does not cover the face. The number of colours that i used on my magazine are less than 5 as that is like all other magazines

2) How are young people represented in your magazine?

In my magazine, young people are represented as talented, opinionative and clever people. The main stories include latest achievements of the students and it gives the college a good name.

3) What have you learned about technologies in the process of producing these pages?

I have learned how to use very useful programmes such as Photoshop and Quark, I also learnt how to create professional looking magazine pages using both programmes. Another thing I learnt was how to use a camera properly and how to take good pictures using a camera

Quark screenshots showing the editing of the contents page

Monday 15 October 2012

Photoshop screenshots showing the editing of cover page

Notes on conducting a photoshoot

  • Use a good quality camera

  • Make a rapport with your subject - talking to them

  • Take photos in a well-lit place

  • Frame the subject to fill the screen

  • Try to make background unfocused or not distracting

  • Take loads of pictures

  • Take shots of subject moving

  • Be playful and have fun