Planning Production

Front Cover Plans

Contents Page Plans

Double Page Spread Plans

Planning Production

Front Cover
Magazine to be called SNARE
Positioning Statement: "Your Ultimate Review Guide"
POSITIONED UNDERNEATH TITLE
Bottom Right will have barcode, Issue Date, Issue Number, Price etc.
Main Coverline across centre of Page
Use of Buzz Words!

Main Colours: Red, Yellow, Black, White

Coverline Ideas:      Lost Prophets - Our Story
                             My Chemical Romance - What Turned our Lives Around
                             Paramore Rocks Scouse Style!
                             Motorhead 35 Years On - Key to Our Success
                             Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish 10 Years on
                             POSTERS INSIDE!!
                             Plus: Good Charlotte, BMFV, 30 Seconds to Mars, YM@6, Feeder

Main Image: Of Person, Medium Long Shot

WHITE BACKGROUND
TITLE IN BLACK
COVERLINES IN BLACK/RED - YELLOW OUTLINE

Contents Page
3/4 Images to be used
Issue number and Date included
Black background Text colour - White
4/5 Different Ideas wrote down for other sections (Just Text)
Album Review - Take Photo?
Gig Review - Photo at Paramore Concert, November 10th?

Double Page Spread
Big Main Image
Dark Background, White Text?
Band Name to be clearly shown
Drop Cap used
Summary of Article underneath Band Name/Title
Words/Photo/Thanks to - Left hand side (Verticle)
Magazine Title + Page number in both Corners
Section of Text taken out and placed in Middle of Article - Key Phrase/Information!

Publication Plan

Title:

Positioning Statement: Your Ultimate Rock Guide!

Frequency of Publication: Monthly

Price: £3.00

Distribution: Newsagents, Supermarkets, Media Stores (HMV, GAME etc.)

Arenas (M.E.N, Liverpool Echo etc.)

Rationale: This magazine is to inform people about the latest music in the pop/rock

genre. Including Interviews with big bands, Upcoming Bands, Information to do with

tour dates, gig reviews and album reviews.

Style: Informal, friendly to the readers. Relates back to the audience and has plenty of

feedback from the with regards to what they want to see in the magazine and their views

of what they think of things (such as gigs in local area and new albums)

LAYOUT WILL BE DETERMINED BY PLACEMENT OF IMAGES

      Regular Content

• Editors Letter
• Album Reviews
• New Releases
• Gigs in Each area of Country
• Gig Reviews
• Free Posters
• Competitions!
• Preview of Next Issues front cover
• Promotional Details for Magazine (e.g T-Shirts, Accessories etc.)

Feature Content

Some of the Content that could appear in the Magazine as a one off

• Exclusive Interview with big band
• Lost Prophets - Our Story
• My Chemical Romance - What turned their lives around
• Paramore - The Best Gig - Ever!
• Interview with one of the worlds leading  Rockstars
• Motorhead - 35 Years and still going Strong!

House Style

Cover Lines: Arial Black and Arial

Headlines: Rockwell

Standfirst: Rockwell

Captions: Rockwell 14pt. Byline to be included in Standfirst 

Features First Paragraph: drop capital Times New Roman, 5 lines deep,
only drop cap in Capital.

News First Paragraph: First sentence in Bold Capitals

Body Text: Times New Roman 10pt

Colour Scheme: Red, Black, Yellow, White

Magazine Questionnaire - Results

Male - 11           Female - 9

Prices; £1.50 - £2.00 - 3

           £2.00 - £2.50 - 5

           £2.50 - £3.00 - 5

                          £3+ - 7

Most Popular Words Associated with Pop/Rock - Guitar (10)          Drum (3)

                                                                             Mosher (4)          Instruments (3)

                                                                             Concert (4)

Top 3 Colours Associated with Pop/Rock - Red (12)      Black (12)      Yellow + Dark ones (4)

Regularity of Buying Magazines; Weekly - 1
                                                 Fortnightly - 2
                                                 Monthly - 12
                                                 Other - 5

Most Popular Magazines; NME (10)   Kerrang (7)   Q (6)

Likes of Music Magazines; Interviews (7)   Articles on Bands (6)   Band Info (4)  Posters (4) 
                                                        Whats New? (3)       Reviews (3)

Dislikes of Music Magazines;  Adverts (14)   Artists People Dont Like (3)  

Interview With Whole Band      Whole Band (19)        Rest of Band (1)

 or just lead singer?                          Just Lead Singer (0)

Most Popular Pop/Rock bands;   Paramore (7)    Lost Prophets (4)    Kings of Leon (2)  

                                                           Ellie Goulding (3)      Linkin Park (3)

From these results, i can see that most of the people i questioned were male, which means i will focus my attention mostly on the male audience, but still make it appealing too women. From the second graph, i can see that the most popular artist is Paramore, followed by Lost Prophets. Too appeal to my target audience, i will focus my attention of my front cover on one of these two artists, and possibly my Double Page spread aswell.

From the first graph (blue bars), i can see that people tend to buy Magazines on a monthly basis. To help the sales of my magazine, i will focus my attention on selling my magazine on a monthly basis only. From the final graph, i can see that most people are willing to pay over £3.00 for a music magazine. This can increase the profit of my magazine, as it means i can increase the price it can be sold as.

Front Cover Analysis - Video

Analysis of KERRANG Magainze Front Cover

Questionnaire

1, Are you;   Male                    Female          

2. How much would you be willing to pay for a Pop/Rock magazine? (Please circle)

£1.50-£2.00                             £2.00-£2.50                    £2.50-£3.00

£3.00+ (Please Specify)  _________

3. When you hear the genre Pop/Rock, what 3 words do you think of?

4. What Colour(s) do you most associate with Pop/Rock?

5. How often do you buy a music magazine? (Please Circle)

Daily                       Weekly                         Monthly

Other (Please Specify) ___________________

6.  Which music magazine(s) do you tend to buy?

7. What do you like to see in music magazines?

8. What don’t you like to see in music magazines?

9.Would you rather an interview with a whole band or just the lead singer?

10. Who are your favourite Pop/Rock artists?

Codes and Convetions of a Magazine Double Page Spread

• Heading
• Font Size
• Drop Cap
• Drop Quote
• Strap Line
• ByLine
• Main Image
• Name Of Magazine In Corner
• Stand First
• Columns

Heading - This usually stretches across both pages. Biggest Font used on the Page.

Font Size - Usually between 9-12 for the text. Heading much larger.

Drop Cap - First letter of main article text. Produced using Quark

Drop Quote - Qoute in the middle of the article taken from the article itself. Large font.

Strap Line - At top of page

ByLine - Almost like Credits from a film. Names of Interviewer and Photographer

Main Image - This links directly to text on that page. Can be Background/On Background

Name Of Magazine In Corner - Next to page number, Magazine title also there

Stand Firsts - Stands alone underneath title and sums up whole article. Larger Font and Darker Background

Columns - Text written in columns

Initial Plans

Frequency of Publication; Every 2 weeks, making up 24 a year

Price; between £2-£3

Genre; Pop/Rock, Rock,

Issue Size; About 50-80 pages depending on Content

Feature Articles; Main Double Page Spread, possibly Paramore!

• Lost Prophets - Our story.  COVER LINE FOR FRONT COVER ONLY!
• Linkin Park report on their latest tour and reveal some secrets we never knew! COVER LINE FOR FRONT COVER ONLY!
• Kings of Leon on what took them so long to bring a new album out! COVER LINE FOR FRONT COVER ONLY!

Regular Content;  Latest News in the Music Business

                            Reviews

                            New Albums Released/In Production

                            Free Poster

                            New tour dates and latest tour news

                            Top 20 UK albums and Top 40 tracks! With a seasonal review every 3 months

                           

Researching the Marketplace

• Price ; £2.30
• Frequency of Publication; Weekly.
• Average Issue Size;  Roughly about 80 Pages
• Regular Content; 'First Night, On The Road' and 'In the Studio' which report on major tours and upcoming albums.
• Feature Articles; On this issue – Magnetic Man, GIGGS, Klaxons, Crocodiles, Noah and the Whale, Interpol

http://www.nme.com/

• Price;  £1.99
• Frequency of Publication;  Weekly
• Issue Size; 220 pages, Average
• Regular Content; gig dates section and album reviews, the news
parts will keep you up to date
• Feature Articles; Paramore, List at bottom of front cover

http://www.kerrang.com/

Quark Express Screenshots - Preliminary Contents Page

Image Titles Added

Features and Regulars Added under Respective Title

Normal Features and Other Features Titles



Images for Contents Page - 3 Featured Pages

Page Title Added To Background



Background Colour



Starting Grid



Evaluation of Preliminary Work

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

To capture the images I used for my contents and front page, I used a digital camera that the school provided for us. After collecting the images I required I used Photoshop to put them onto my front cover, and Quark Express for my contents page. To deviate from the normal conventions, my banner on my front page goes diagonally across the page. This is something I will change when it comes to my music magazine because it does not follow the codes and conventions and does not look good. Also, my masthead changes colour which also deviates from the codes and conventions, this will also have to be changed. My central image on my front cover is looking at the buyer of the magazine which is known as Direct Mode of Address. This is a technique used as it makes the customer feel that the person in the main image is looking at them and telling them to buy the product. This is a good technique to use when creating my music magazine front cover.

How did you use new media technologies in the constriction of your media product?

To create my front cover and contents page, I used Quark Express and Adobe Photoshop.  In my opinion, Quark express is easier to use as it allows easier movement around the page rather than Photoshop. Although Photoshop does have some advantages i.e. colour schemes, styles of text and photo editing software, it is a lot more complicated to understand rather than Quark which is more simple and easy. Quark express is the software I will use for both my music magazine Contents page and Double Page Spread.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of both the product and your use of new media technologies?

One of the strengths of my product is that my main image on my front cover is direct mode of address which is a good technique to use as it captures the audience’s attention and almost speaks to them telling them to buy the product. A weakness is my banner on my contents page and the colour scheme. The colour scheme on my home page is light colours i.e. blue yellow and red, whereas on my contents it is a black background. This completely contrasts as the homepage is saying it’s a bright colourful magazine, whereas the contents page is much darker and perhaps is saying it’s not as a friendly magazine as the homepage may think. I also learnt how to use Photoshop and Quark as I have never used the software’s before. I felt I picked up how to use them quickly and easily enough and I am confident I will be able to use them for my music magazine easily enough. A strength I gained was the organisation of quark express and where to place things so they are all spaced out well and easy enough to read at a good size. A weakness I have is manoeuvring things round on Photoshop as I struggled to get some things in the right place that I wanted to.  

Preliminary Work Details

Over the last two weeks, we have been creating are Front Cover and Contents page for our school magazines. To do this, we used Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXpress. I used plans previously made to base it on, but made some adjustments as i went through. Most of the images uploaded earlier were used on either my front cover or contents page. Other regular features were also added to my contents page to fill up some space and i thought they would be appropriate to a school magazine.

My Camera Shots for Magazine

Today we were told to get some ideas for the images we were going to use for our Magazine Cover and Contents Page. These are the Images i took and may or may not use for my Cover and Contents Page.



Image of the New Uniform in Medium Close up
Could use for Contents Page

Medium Long shot of new Uniform
Could be used for Contents Page

Image of Somebody working in Ice Radio
The Local School Radio Station

Main Image for Front Cover!
Medium Close Up of a pupil in the New School Uniform

Another Image of the student but this time a Medium Long shot
Could be used for Contents Page

The Ice Radio Equipment

This image of an Apple can be used on my Contents page
for my Featured Article about Healthy Eating

All of these images will be considered for use in my Contents and Front Cover pages. Some may be edited so that the background is different, but due to the small amount of time allocated for the Preliminary work to be done, this might not be done.

Preliminary Work

For our Preliminary Work, we have been asked to create a School Magazine. This school magazine will include a Front Cover and a Contents page. Both pages must follow the Codes and Conventions of a Magazine Article.

Front Cover




Plan #1 For Front Cover





Plan #2 For Front cover


Title: WeatherCap

Slogan: That's What i Go To School For (Taken from the Song by Busted) (Placed Underneath title)

Main Image and Story: A Medium Close Up Image of a student presenting the new Uniform introduced this year (Main Story) Image will be of a student standing against a plain background slightly turned to the right representing how the uniform has changed. Main story would include what older students (Such as year 11's and 10's) think about the new uniform. Other images that can easily be taken around the school will be used for the other features.

Cover Lines for Front Page: "How To Keep Fit and Healthy" "Exam Results!" "U-New-Form" "Year 7's Settling in"

Contents Page

Plan #1 For Contents Page

Regular Content: Advice Column, Film Reviews, Newest Music (i.e. Top 40 Singles Charts and Top 20 Albums), General Weekly News, Preview of Tv that week, Sports Pages

10 Features of magazine for Issue #1:

1. New Uniform
2. Eating Healthy
3. Year 7's settling in to their new environment,
4. Year 12's from different school's settling in,
5. Exam Results and Where Year 13's went
6. Exclusive interview with Mr.Dyment
7. Introduction to New staff
8. The New Layout of the School - Whats Changed?
9. 20 questions with Your Head of Year!
10. Farewells to Staff who Left over the Summer

Images:

• Picture of uniform in Main Reception for Main Article
• Take image of Mr.Dyment from school website for his article
• Poster of latest film for film reviews
• Map of the School
• Image of an Apple

Camera Angle Images

Extreme Close Up of Someone in Nature

Mid Long 2 Shot



Low Angle Mid Shot Titled Frame



Extreme Long Shot connoting Friendship

Medium Close Over the Shoulder Shot

Close Up Connoting Stress

Big Close Up of Somebody using a Mobile Phone

Different Camera Angles

Today we were taught about all different Camera angles available too a Photographer. The angles include:

• Extreme Close Up
• Big Close Up
• Close Up
• Medium Close up
• Mid Shot
• Medium Long Shot
• Long Shot
• Very Long Shot
• Low Angle
• High Angle
• Two Shot
• Tilted Frame
• Over The Shoulder Shot

Extreme Close Up - This tend to focus on one particular feature of the face (mainly the Eye/s)

Close Up - This shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a specific detail of mise en scène

Mid Shot - Contains a figure from the knees/waist up and is normally used for dialogue scenes, or to show some detail of action

Two/Three Shot - Usually a Mid Shot containing 2/3 people. Anymore and the shot normally becomes a Long Shot

Over The Shoulder - A Mid Shot positions the camera behind one figure, revealing the other figure, and part of the first figure's back, head and shoulder

Long Shot - includes the FULL SHOT showing the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom

Very Long Shot - Shot from a very far distance! Little detail is visible, usually used as a scene opener or to show a large crowd of people at a concert (Could be used for Magazine double spread?)

Low Angle - The Camera is positioned towards the floor looking up at person, tends to give people more height, and give a sense of speeded motion to a picture

High Angle - Camera positioned above image to make it seem smaller and perhaps less important

Tilt Angle - Camera is positioned at a slight angle for some desired effect

When thinking which camera angle to use for my photography, I must also consider Mis en Scéne (everything in the shot). This is very important when considering which shot to use for my front cover and double page spread of my final magazine article. If i chose the wrong type of image, it could reflect the wrong sense of what i wanted to put across as a point.

Codes and Conventions of Magazine's

Codes and Conventions of a Front Page

All Magazine Covers must have:

• Masthead
• Central Image
• Bar Code/Price
• Sub Headings
• Buzz Words
• Slogans
• Issue Number & Date
• Cover Lines
• Tag Lines - Usually placed Above Title

Masthead
Big bold writing - New typography used. Must be Eye Catching to get customers attention. Unique brand name never seen before

Price
The price of the magazine can reflect the content inside i.e. big unique content = higher price, Normal less important content - lower price. Can also be based upon Production value, high class Magazines such as OK, Heat etc. tend to be higher priced as their top brand magazines.

Central Image
Largest image on front screen (If image is looking at Audience, this is known as Direct Mode of Address.) This image is usually a medium close up depending on style of magazine. Main image can conote some of the content inside. Can also be male or female but Indie magazines tend to feature more Male stars.

Cover Lines
Lines of text usually used too preview some of features inside magazine

Issue Number
Shows how many have been sold and how successful the magazine is - Popularity factor

Bar Code
Technical way of selling

Price
Usually small insight to how explicit some of the content inside is

Colour
Colour of masthead stays constant throughout, shows attitude and possibly style of some content inside

Codes and Conventions of Contents Page of a Magazine

Codes and Conventions of a Contents Page:

• Main Image - Usually related too Main Story (Double page spread)
• Cover Lines
• Small Text
• Page numbers on illustrations
• Subheadings with page numbers
• Numbers not usually shown in Chronological Order
• Split into Coloumns
• Typography usually no bigger than 11 point