Magazine Draft

 



Having a magazine draft helped me see if I liked the way my magazine would look as a magazine. I was able to see what aspects I liked and what aspects I didn’t; I was able to make improvements and with my next draft I would go through the same process (looking at what does or doesn’t look good).

Proposal Feedback

 

Having a proposal feedback allowed me to see whether or not people liked the ideas I put forth for my Foundation Portfolio magazine. With the feedback they gave me I was able to make some changes to how I was going to go about making magazine in terms of colour schemes and what content I would put in the magazine.



Question one

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My magazine is unconventional in the fact that it offers all types of media that not all magazines offer. My magazine uses twitter, Facebook, sound cloud, spotify, YouTube, Instagram and has it's own TV channel; this means that my audience won't have to resort to any other social medias to find out about music or keep in the loop about alternative music, in the long term this keeps my readers loyal.

My sells line are provocative, and have swear words which might be unusual for normal media magazine users. This makes magazine stand out from other genres as swear words aren’t seen in music magazine genres such as pop and indie. The masthead doesn’t look conventional as is the writing is jagged. The masthead will be eye catching so it’s recognisable. The interesting sell lines will entice the audience to buy the magazine. The main image will take over the majority of the page allowing the audience to see the artist’s expression and pose as I’m using a long shot image. This also allows the audience to be enticed to what the artist is wearing and would want to buy what she’s wearing/look like her. The main image shows a guitar allowing the audience to notice that it’s a music magazine.

Other information such as price and date, barcode, issue number allows the reader to acknowledge the general information that is needed to be known e.g. price. The plug will probably be a competition to interest the reader into getting to know more about the prize leading them to buy the magazine as they think they have a chance in winning. The plug will be something about winning tickets to their favourite artist’s show which would be a good opportunity for the readers.

The double page spread includes articles on the well-known artists allowing the audience to learn more information about that artist. This is one of the reasons people buy magazines; to read more about the artists. Posters will be included in the magazine to entice people in buying the magazine, as my target audience will be interested in putting posters up on their wall of their favourite artists.

Features such as reviews are informative to the reader and it would be something the reader would want to know. Albums allow the reader to know what’s new with the music scene; this keeps the magazine’s readers on trend.

The colours I’m using; red, black and grey are somewhat conventional colours for a rock magazine; I chose this house style because alternative music also incorporates rock.

Audience Profile

Age and gender

The audience for my music magazine is both male and female teens. The age of the buyer will be 16 – 21; this genre is quite recent to the music scene therefore not many of the older population would appreciate this type of genre, whereas it will appeal to the majority of the younger ages. At the ages of 16 – 21 you’d be able to read swear words in magazines without thinking anything of it as you’re going through the grown up stages. I intend on writing provocative content which is why I chose this age range; the magazine will also consist of controversial images. The audience for the magazine will be preferably read by a percentage of 58% males and 42% females. This is the chosen percentage because females tend to listen to various amounts of music genres e.g. pop, alternative, R&B and indie, whereas males tend to listen to one or maybe even two specific music genres. Although this is my specified percentage, the magazine is premeditated for both genres; this allows my magazine to have a wider target audience allowing there to be a larger readership resulting in more revenue and more profit coming in from the magazine. Although when it comes to music magazines with this genre the percentage of males is vastly more than females. The male readerships are usually around 72% and females 28%; I didn’t go for this percentage as I wanted to individualise my magazine; making is a more neutral based magazine for both genres.

Social class

The social class is an aspect of my magazine that will be miscellaneous. Alternative music doesn’t tend to have a specific social class; anyone from any part of the world, from any background can listen to this genre…there are no restrictions. I chose the social class ABC1 as the main target audience due to its wide variety of classes and how high priced the magazine is. A is upper middle class and includes: doctors, solicitors, barristers, accountants, company directors etc. B is middle class and includes: teacher, nurses, police officers, probation officers, librarians, middle managers etc. C1 is lower middle class and includes: junior manager, student, clerical/office workers, and supervisors. I chose ABC1 because they would be able to afford the magazine monthly.

 

Interests and hobbies

Skateboarding

job

Going on the internet – social media: facebook, twitter, vine, tumblr – creative

Into clothes – urban outfitters, topshop/topman

BMX

Playing music

Listening to music

 



 

 

The audience profile I had created allowed me to focus my magazine based on what I thought my target audience would be interested in and would find visually interesting. Having an audience profile helped me think about what clothes I would make my model wear based on where my target audience is likely to shop. The audience profile goes in depth in terms of how much my target audience would be willing to spend on a magazine. This helped me in choosing the price for my magazine.

Camera

Camera

To take the pictures for the magazine I'm creating I used a Canon SLR to take good quality images that would look vastly professional and as though it were taken by real photographers who do magazine shoots. I took the images in one of the media rooms at My school. In the room there was already a camera that was set up with the lights so whenever a picture was taken the lights flashed. There was a white screen making the photoshoot look more realistic and professional as the tend to use white screens in the magazine industry and whenever there is a photoshoot being done. The lights in the room ensured that my photos wouldn't be dark which would make it easier when it came to editing the images on Photoshop. If my model was sat on the floor I would have to adjust the lights to face the ground to ensure the image was lighted up well.

Software

The computer software I’m using to create my magazine is Indesign. When making my magazine in year 11 I used Photoshop; I found Indesign to be much easier to use for creating a magazine and it was recommended. Indesign is more designed for magazines as it presents your magazine in a magazine format; whereas Photoshop is better for editing pictures which is why I am using Photoshop to edit my model and edit out blemishes. Photoshop allows me to make the images lighter that turned out darker than expected.