Fonts

To pick the fonts that I have used in my magazine I went over to Dafont http://www.dafont.com/ 
This is were you can download fonts for free. There is a wide selections of fonts to choose from to fit any genera. 

I ended up using Orange Juice and Opificio. I used these fonts as I believe they fit my idea for magazine and appeal to my target audience.

The reason I picked these fonts was that I feel that they look youthful which will appeal to my target audience. Having the orange juice as the mast head and cover lines font and the other writing to be in opificio. This being as the orange juice will attract the audience being that its an unusual font and the opificio font looks pop but easy to read for block texts. 

mood board research

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Here is the my research were I look on printerest to look at music magazine front covers. this allowed me to see what was already out there and to look at the different ways in which the magazine are made up of. especially with the way that the masthead sometimes goes over the main image or the main image goes over the masthead. This shifts the focus of the magazine to main image or the masthead dependent on which is put forward first.

My main focus with this is to see which artist are on the front cover to include into my articles for my magazine to include into my contents. plus to look at the way the masthead and sell lines are used to make them stand out on the page. 

Primary Audience Research

Here is what I have learnt from my questionnaire 

My target audience are 11-21 year old females as they were the most to fill out the questionnaire. Rock came out as the preferred genre for a music mag however 77.78% did not read music magazine. Q, NME and Rolling stones came out as the top music magazine which shows that people have a high demand for rock magazines and the fact that NME has a free gift when you buy a magazine. I found out that people are willing to pay up till £1-£2 with 73.43

Here are some comments on what would attract people to a magazine front cover

• Bright colours that contrast well with each other, glossy cover, famous musician/celebrity on the cover page, interesting stories and articles to do with music

• colours with attractive clear headlines and relevent images but not overly crouded front cover

• Exclusive stuff Big music from each region Get readers involved

• Simplistic design (like the magazine Edge) and a variation in content from just reviews etc

• the posters avaliable and the content of the magazine
• Variation of bands each week. Stand out colours. Full band pictures/interviews (not just the lead singer).

• Well, the most of the time it's the colors, picturea and the context in the magazine.

magazine research (social grading and demographics)

To see what popular magazine target audience was like I decided to do some research. Here what I found.

This is called the social grading table and from this I can use this to help me find my target market and see what I can advertise to them. For example my magazine will be based for the target audience of C1/C2 as my target audience are teenagers and college students so this audience stereotypically don't have money. Which is why my magazine price is £3.99. 

I decided to go onto Baue media magazine to look at the statistics of magazine sales on popular music magazines. 

 NME again is male ornate with 24 % being 15-21 year old. this shows that this magazine  is more aimed at a older audience which shows through the artist they use in there magazine. 

Kerrang is male ornate with 56.1% of its readers being 15-21 year olds which is were my target audience ages is around. 










Q is also male dominate with 35.5%  of readers being 15-21 year olds.





From seeing this I see that most of the music magazine that are out in the media today are more aimed at the male audience which is why I want to make a magazine which is aimed for the female audience as there is a gap in the market for it. 

Analysis of Pop of the Tops magazine

Name: Top of the pops
Price: £2.99
every month
http://www.totpmag.com/

From the style of this magazine we can see that the target audience is aimed at young teens girls with all the picture of the new artist and boy-bands. now that we know who the target audience is we can gather that the magazine is mostly going to be about ''gossip,the cutest boys and the best freebies'' 

Design

The design of this magazine is very busy which is going back to the target audience to help catch the attention of the small children as they will be attracted by the pretty colors. 

Masthead

This magazine masthead gives off an impression that the magazine is going to be about a pop magazine with the stars going around the border which links to the idea of the pop stars. With the pink on white background the founts stands out and the found used is kinda girly which proves that the magazine is aimed at girls rather than boys. to the top left hand corner of the magazine just above the masthead is a pug with the BBC logo so we know how is sponsoring the magazine.just next to this we have a sell line which says ''revealed All-new celebs without makeup'' this again shows us our target audience with the word new and the way they have shorten celebrates to celebs were looking at the younger generation. plus its show us what going to be inside the mag which with this sell line is about gossip. 

main image-Cher Lloyd

The main image is of 'her Lloyd' who was 4 in the 2010 'x-factor' finals'. with a median close up she takes up most of the magazine front cover along with a headline which acts as the anchorage text due to the text box its in. its kind of like an upside down triangle, cut into 3 sections; one being black, the second pink and the last section white. ''gasp! has straight-talking CHER lost her swagger?'' embedded with this gossip starter is a quote which I presume should be from Cher herself ''I've got major confidence issues'' with the words ''exclusive'' under it to make people buy the magazine.

 

Coverlines

There are lots of mini cover lines all of them are gossips story's all about boy bands. most of them however are on the left hand side of the magazine which indicates were in the country this magazine would be sold at as most people from the UK read from left to right. however there is one that is on the right''conor's confessions, come out in the wash!'' this is also embedded with a quote from corner put in a speck bubble ''I've got my smalls in a spin!'' 

In another corner we have a puff  used ''are you ready for summer love? '' this engages the audience by using the word 'you' in a rhetorical question it then transfers you to a page with in the magazine with the '' get help from Alex on p16'' 

near the top of the mag in the left hand corner there is a bit of a what to buy for summer with the slogan ''seriously clever shopping with A* advice!'' all in capital letters. using a yellow back ground grabs people attention as people associate yellow with a warning sign. the stuff they are promoting are quite cheap so again looking upon  the younger people as they don't have much money. also its aimed at girls as boys don't normally go round wearing pink nail varnish.

We have free posters :3 which will attract young girls who like putting posters on there walls. 

Mood board of front covers/ content pages and double page spreads

I decided to use photobucket to make a mood board to look at music magazine front covers, DPS and contence pages. http://s793.photobucket.com/

From doing this I was able to see whats already out there in terms of design and what artists are being used and how the front cover images look.

Top of the Pop Double page analysis

Name: Top of the pops Double page spread
http://www.totpmag.com/
 
 

 

Main Image

The first thing you see when you open to this double page spread is Selena Gomez; so we can saftly say that she is being used as the main vocal point of this articel. This identifies the targert audience of the magazine, being young teenage girls- hence the pink colors and fans of the artist. The fact that the main image is over two pages is that the its challenging convtions

Design

The way that this double page spread stands out from all the rest is the way that the layout is set with the main image being over two pages instead of one. With this the text are all in strange shape boxes to go around the main image which make the page more interesting to look at the generic magazine page. The colors all work well against the white background as putting any bright color on a white background ensures you a stand out effect. however with the added boldness to the main headline we get a jump out effect which will attract the attention of the reader to ''how to get my life!'' with some of the text being in boxes which highlights the important articles on the double page spread. 

 

Extra Bits

Its quite ironic that this page is marked with ''all about you'' when really it got nothing to do with you due to the fact that its on about how to be somebody else; with the main header in bold, captial letters ''how to get my life''
There not alot of text on both these pages, with the main image dominatening the whole of both pages, this makes the page look easy on the eyes but also its contradict itself with not really imformative.

Double page spread analysis from we love pop

Name: we love pop-double page spread

 

 

Main Headline

Double page spread from ''we love pop'' opening with an pun with ''Merry Christmurs!'' being the main headline which is on a kinda of ribbon effect like a present to the audience. The fact that ''Murs'' is in a different fount color shows that Olly Murs is the more dominate figure on this double page spread. it also acts as like an Easter egg to fans of olly murs to see if they sport it.

 

Main image

The main image of Olly Murs which is a median close up can be taken out as a poster for the young teen girls/ fans to stick on there wall. along side with the main image we have a secondary image of Olly Murs wearing a Christmas hat which goes with the Christmas theme of this article which goes with the background of the snowflakes.

Design

The paragraph starts with a drop capital highlighted with yellow to grab the attention of readers. also due to it being highlighted it could show that it is more important then the rest/ the main points in the text. With the secondary image we have a speech bubble which uses direct adress to the audience with the wourd ''you''; this makes the artical more essential to the reader.

 

Going with the theme of christmas just in the middle of Olly there is a pull qoute with the heading ''hohoho'' which catches your attention to draw you into the story, to furder your chances of reading the main artical.

 

 

The way that the text is set up with the three collums makes it easyer for the reader to read whats on the page. this double page spread has oppeted for the question and answers with the question being in red fount and the answers in black this goes with the christmass theme and kind of helps the idea of the theme to come across to the reader.

 

Contents page analysis form Top of the Pops

Contence page for ''Top of the pop''

Design

This contents page is a little bit difference from other contents pages as they have the front page inside the which allows the readers to refer to the front page to find the main headline story's. Has the header inside the mag instead of the word contents.

This magazine promotes 3D Posters which will be available within the magazine with the page numbers so you can see the posters. 

There are 5 sections which this contents page is split into which helps the reader find the article that they might be looking for more easily as it highlight the more important articles. By doing this, it helps organize the content page to make the whole thing look more professional.  

Articles

In the bottom corner we have so pictures of some of the fashion which will be shown in the magazine.  this gets the audience who might like that fashion want to find out more.

 One of the heading is called ''we love boys'' this defendant confirmed that the target market of the magazine is for teenage girls. as one of the secondary images we have one direction which will send ID fans going crazy (sigh :/) the image relates to a competitions that the magazine is having. 

I like how this contence page incorpurates the frount cover into the this page haveing the page numbers comeing from the main headline storys. This page number are big and easy to read and use the colours of the front cover.

Contents page analysis of we love pop magazine

We love pop contence page

Design

Here we have a contents page by the pop magazine 'we <3 pop' Its starts with an opening statement ''we love this'' this grab the attention of the audience as it makes it sound like the magazine has created its own community with the ''we'' used in the statement. This is also dircted at the audience as it invites the reader to become part of there community; thus makeing the reader buy the magazine every week. This also gives an effect that the reader want to challange the magazine and find out if really the artical featured here are what we love. Just above the main header we have the logo of we <3 pop in a speech bubble which refects the mood and identity of the magazine being about gossip. The ellipsis used also in the heading kind of illudes the idea that the magazine is handing over it context to the reader; like the reader is the one who decide what should be in the magazine.

Further down we see the ''inside this month'' part with all the articles which are inside the magazine with big page numbers so that the people can see. 

At the bottom we are reminded that we have free posters within the magazine with a bright background to catch the readers attention. 

 

There is a paragraph to start of the magazine which gives us some information and background to the magazine. its also give the editor a chance to give some information about herself which give the magazine a personal touch; and what they plan to achieve with this magazine. 










Images

All the articles with the pictures and numbers we have left are the main articles in the magazine. the images are of  boy bands which are relevance to the article and they will attract the young teenagers as they will see this this and be interested to find out more.

Anaysis of ''Classic pop'' magazine front cover OCT/NOV edition.

Name: Classic Pop
Price: £4.99
Every 2 months.
http://www.classicpopmag.com/

 
This magazine is aimed at people age 40+ which can be seen through the style of the magazine being/having a retro feel to it; but also to the content of the magazine with bands and artist form the 70s/80s. Having only been out for about a year it sold 50,000 copies in the UK. To have an target audience of 40+ this magazine is limiting on who might be interested to buy this magazine; but the purpose of this magazine is for the older reader, to bring back the ‘’nostalgia for their youth and an eye on what the classic artists and their progeny are up to today’’

Design
  To make this magazine have a retro look is with the fount and main image used. The fount in the masthead looks very classy and something you might see in an old night club behind the bar or out front on the opening sign. With all the over fount we have 4 different kinds of fount. The design of the magazine is organised, set in the 3 columns layout. This gives an indemnity to the magazine which will go throughout the magazine.

Masthead
This magazine also has used the colour red and black in the masthead which helps with the retro theme. In the ‘’O’’ of the pop there is the slogan ‘’eighties, electronic and electric’’ all going down in a line; maybe this is there to show off that there is an alliteration with the ‘’E’’ there.

 Main image-Boy George
The main image is of ‘’Boy George’’ in a median close up with her looking straight at the camera- (this can ever attract people attention to the magazine) who is defiantly got a retro look to her with the make-up she wearing. With the headline going across here set to the front so we can see her behind. There is some anchorage text near the bottom of the image saying ‘’madness, prison and pop resurrection’’ these words are all portrayed in the main image of the magazine of Boy George.

  Extra bits
  There is a sell line in an yellow box which means caution to people so they will look at it and see there is an ‘’exclusive interview’’ in the magazine. To use this allows there to be a possibility that this may help sell the magazine, as people will look at that and want to read about it. On either sides of the magazine there is the barcode with the price and date in and on the other there is a puff there seems to be a competitions about winning a vintage TV. The cover lines seem to go around the main image and act like an anchorage to support and hold the main image in place. With the cover lines we get an insight into the magazine and see that they’re going to be interview and reviews and also new bands/artist but mostly old bands and artist.

Secondary image
In the top right hand corner there is a secondary image of ‘’Kim Wild and Gary Numen’’ Kim being in a bright spotlight which makes her look unhuman and pure in a way, but this may be to fit in with the style of magazine that we have here which is retro. Kim is also not looking at the camera which could surest that she looking and thinking of something but when you read the caption underneath ‘’tours, tulips and….tipsy’’ which explains the look that she has and colours used in this image. However Gary in darkness and a instead of a close up we get a median close up so we see more of him in the image than Kim which gives of a sense of dominance and threatening feel in the image as he sitting down staring at you in the dark. Putting these images together gives a sense of juxtaposition. Over the secondary images there is a pug ‘’Eaasure new album first review’’ this is promoting a new music band and that this magazine has got the first review on them; again another reason why you should buy this magazine.

Analysis of Music Magazine 2

Analysis of Music Magazine

My Questionaire results

https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/EE_2FvdaqLpNw54_2Bd1T9q_2FSnjsi89aGoZMOt8kond3hT8_3D

Here is the results for some of the written questions. :3
The wesight i used to display my results is infrogr.am

my results for my survey. :3 | Infographics

Results for my Music survey and second survey

Here are the results for my survey, I have noticed that many people seem to like rock music more than pop; which shows why there isn't a pop magazine as there not really a market for it. This may mean that i have to change my idea of making a pop magazine to a rock magazine.

• I also found out that people wanted to know about local bands and about famous artist in a music magazine.
• tracked out got the most votes for the best title for a magazine closely followed by music library collection and tune in. (i shall look into these titles and see if they fit with my front cover designs)
• Red seem to be the predominatly colour that people would like to see on a magazine. which shows why the music magazine today all use in some way the colour red. 
• People seem to want to only pay up to a £1-£2.
• They audience want a magazine which is not cramed with info on the front cover but don't want a mag with nothing on the front
• The audience would be more likely to buy a magazine with freebies but it would also have to have good articles for people to part with there money.
• The audience want to have competitions like : gig tickets, bands/artist merchandise, back stage passes, ect which i can advertise on the front cover.

Here is a link to my results which has a detail analyse of my survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/cCnDrpZrAT4L3xKpdpOvOxJWUxbxpilXHTmEBR_2F9EBQ_3D

I have decided as i missed two very important questions in my last survey to make a new survey to ask for the age and gender to find out more information about my target market so i can start making a proposal for my magazine.

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Music Magazine Questionaire (Research)

To find out what people want in a music magazine, I have decided to create an online survey on Survey Monkey (https://www.surveymonkey.com) which will allow me to gain information in a way that is easiest for the people; as they can access it on the internet. This will gives me an advantage as I can distribute my questionare on the social media IE: Twitter/ Facebook. From using Survey Monkey I can get an analysis of  the results straight away quick and easy without having to enter lots of codes and numbers on Excel.

I am hoping that from my research I might found out what people would prefer in a pop magazine as there are not many pop magazines in the market at the moment.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N3C6YM9
Here is a link to my Survey :)

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Preliminary task: Front cover/Contents page

For our Preliminary task we had to create a student based music magazine I have decided to use this image as she fits the genera of the magazine i am going to make.  

I thought overall the layout and the colors of the font work well together not being too hard on the eyes yet standing out to the audience. 

Here is my contents page were I have used the same image from my front cover as this will help reader find the page number for the article which is linked to this image. 

For my con image I decided to use Adobe Photoshop to darken this image. This is because when I took this image I had forgotten to turn down the iso which meant that all the images came out to overexposed and bright.

First attempt useing InDesign

 

Here is my first attempt using Adobe InDesign. For the font I used Quiff on font size 30 for the mastheads and coverlines. For the names of the bands under the coverlines I used size 18. The colour of the font is pink with a blue border; due to the founts see-through effect it doesn’t really stand out with the image I used or the background.

The actual program of Adobe InDesign was a little tricky to use at first, getting to know all of the controls of all the functions that are on the program. However after been shown all the functions, the program became easier to use. From using this I can see the potential of making better magazine covers being more comfortable with the program.

In my opinion I think the text doesn’t really contrast well with the background as the font has a see- through effect on a white background. There’s not much on the front cover and the stuff on the front cover looks like it’s been thrown together, as it doesn’t really work well together.