Monday 31 January 2011
Lesson 5
In this lesson, I began designing my contents page and finishing off my front cover of my music magazine. For both the front cover and the contents, I needed to think of ideas that will appeal to the target audience of rock. In the magazine, I use competitions to award shows and backstage news at a latest rock festival to grab the audiences attention and make them want to buy the magazine. Also I use language like 'Wanna' and 'Cool' to show that my magazine is down to earth and is not like any other stereotypical serious magazine.
Monday 24 January 2011
Lesson 4
This weeks lesson was again doing the layout of our music magazine. I used popular music magazine Kerrang as a guideline to help me make the magazine a lot more rock and roll. As well as this, I used photoshop on my photos in order to make them look more realistic and not average looking. I also changed my font styles and colours so that they were suitable for the genre rock, as well as make the magazine more appealing.
Monday 17 January 2011
Lesson 3
This weeks lesson was doing our layout for the music magazine. I had to pick out the fonts to use as well as show where I was going to put my cover lines and my chosen pictures. For next lesson, I am going to take more pictures as they were too up close, as well s buy more music magazines so I can see how to make my magazine more believable.
Friday 14 January 2011
Lesson 2
In this lesson, our lecturer Emma gave us a deadline for us to design our music magazine as well as tidying up any loose ends that we might have; e.g. type up unfinished essays, download photo's for our magazine etc.
Monday 10 January 2011
Rock Music
The chosen genre for my music magazine is Rock. Rock is very popular in todays society with both adults and teenagers, often rockstars are seen as aggressive and mean, e.g Black Sabbath Band Mate Ozzy Osbourne famously ate a bats head live on stage and The Pretty Reckless Lead singer Taylor Momsen is known for her outrageously flamboyant and skimpy outfits, despite the fact that she is only 16 years old, many parents do not see rock stars as appropriate role models for their children for these reasons. Also, The Who were infamous for destroying their instruments live on stage, which not only looks bad on themselves, but it makes our view of rock stars being childish and violent.
Fitting in with the care free attitude, places you would generally associate rock and roll with are sleazy night clubs as they are not seen as a nice, clean cut type of people so when we think about where you may find a rock star, it is most likely going to be at a night club that hasn't got a good representation, rather than a library!
Fitting in with the care free attitude, places you would generally associate rock and roll with are sleazy night clubs as they are not seen as a nice, clean cut type of people so when we think about where you may find a rock star, it is most likely going to be at a night club that hasn't got a good representation, rather than a library!
Sale Figures for Rock Magazines
NME Magazine Sales Of 2009- 33,875 - 53% down.
Kerrang Magazine Sales of 2009- 41,125- 21.3% down.
Mojo Magazine Sales of 2009- 98,484- 0.8% up.
IPC Magazine Sales of 2009- 75,518- 13.3% down.
The reason maybe why there is such a huge figure drop is because you can now access your rock magazine on the internet. They use the internet as it is updated daily and so the news is happening right now so the consumer gets all the information they need. It's also quicker and more convenient for customers to use, rather then them going out in all sorts of weather just to get a magazine that is filled with old news.
Kerrang Magazine Sales of 2009- 41,125- 21.3% down.
Mojo Magazine Sales of 2009- 98,484- 0.8% up.
IPC Magazine Sales of 2009- 75,518- 13.3% down.
The reason maybe why there is such a huge figure drop is because you can now access your rock magazine on the internet. They use the internet as it is updated daily and so the news is happening right now so the consumer gets all the information they need. It's also quicker and more convenient for customers to use, rather then them going out in all sorts of weather just to get a magazine that is filled with old news.
Student magazine reflection
The main advantages of my student magazine is that I made sure that it appealed to both genders by the use of colour (red and blue) as well as the pictures being of both boys and girls, so this way my audience wasn't limited. As well as this, the things used on my magazine appeal to the target audience of teenagers e.g. exam tips, tickets to a band and interview with a celebrity. All these factors benefit a teenage market so it will make them want to buy it and I am following the rules of the tasks.
However, the disadvantages of the student magazine, is that some of the stuff that I used may have been inappropriate for a student magazine, an interview with Taylor Momsen may not be what a teenager looks for in a student magazine, but instead be more focused on revision and exams. Also, I found using indesign very difficult and often had to rely on the teacher to help me out. when I am next designing a magazine cover, I will need to be ticking to what students look for in a student magazine, as well as learn more about the software that I am using.
However, the disadvantages of the student magazine, is that some of the stuff that I used may have been inappropriate for a student magazine, an interview with Taylor Momsen may not be what a teenager looks for in a student magazine, but instead be more focused on revision and exams. Also, I found using indesign very difficult and often had to rely on the teacher to help me out. when I am next designing a magazine cover, I will need to be ticking to what students look for in a student magazine, as well as learn more about the software that I am using.
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