Survey Results

Survey Results

Survey

I have created a survey to help me on what I should include in my own magazine. Please click the link below to fill in my survey:

Target Audience

Target Audience

This presentation shows the audience I am targetting. I have mentioned the age group, gender division, social class, the interests and social habits they would have, the consumption habits and how and why they would consume my magazine.

FeedbackIt is clear and easy to understand who the target audience is. It is a suitable age group and a wide variety of people are able to read the magazine. The social class is also suitable for the magazine and fits in well with the proposal.

Proposal

Proposal

Above is a proposal which includes a detailed view of my magazine which states what I want my magazine to look like and what each page includes. I have included information on the type of magazine, the frequency, possible stories, the mood, unique features, marketing methods, key images and the main feature.

Feedback
I see a good magazine coming along with all the right features of a successful magazine despite of not having created anything physically. The ideas are really innovative and not too complicated. The marketing methods are good and will allow potential readers to engage with the magazine.

Wordle: Words to do with Pop Music

Model Release Form

Below is my model release form. This is a confirmation that my two models allow me to use their images in my music magazine.

Production Log: Monday 15th October 2012

Today I didn't do anything new. I just improved all my production logs and made them as detailed as possible. I couldn't really do much new as my photoshoot is on Wednesday and most of the tasks are to do with the photoshoot. I however did some research of different types of shot that would look nice on the front cover. The image in my head for the front cover's main image was a close up of the model with a fan blowing their hair. I think it would be really effective.

The idea for my front cover

Existing Names and Mastheads

Above is an analysis of different names and mastheads of existing magazines and how they are successful in their way. This got me thinking about my name of my magazine and the appearance of it.

Creative Post

I was set a homework where I had to create a post which is to do with my course but it is not on the list for the tasks that need to be done. So, for example some ideas I had come up with was to create my own 'pretend' app. However I didn't feel it was that creative so instead I designed my own website for my magazine. See below a print screen of my website.

Institution of Music Magazines

Institution of Music Magazines on Prezi

This task allowed me to research into the publishing side of music magazines. I answered the following questions:
- What is an institution?
- The main publishers of music magazines
- How do magazines get published?

This allowed me to think about who would be interested in distrubuting my magazine.

Representation of Pop Music

Representation of Music Magazines on Prezi

This task allowed me to look more into my chosen genre of music which is pop music. I researched all the key things of pop music and pop music magazines. I answered the following questions:
- How pop music is represented?
- What is pop music?
- When did pop music start?
- The structure of pop music
- Pop music today
- Pop music artists
I also listed other types of genres.

Production Log: Friday 12th October 2012

I felt my production logs were becoming less detailed each time so I thought I'd go back on each one and added more detail on them. I spent about 15 minutes on that. I also hadn't made an explanation for each of my analysis on the front covers, contents pages and double page spreads. So I also went back and added a small paragraph, briefly explaining what each Prezi is showing. As the 15 minutes ended I decided to the improvements some other time as too much time was taking and I needed to be on track with the current tasks. I carried on doing the key concepts of music magazines and I managed to finish the representation of music magazines and pop music. I made sure I finished institution of music magazines over the weekend as I didn't want to fall behind. Additionally I set myself extra work that I should do the existing names an mastheads task as well as it didn't seem long. 

Production Log: Monday 8th October 2012

As to what I said previously, I started the key concepts task; codes and conventions, audience, representation and institution. I had done the codes and convention presentation over the weekend so thats one out of four done. Today I started doing further research on audience of music magazines like who reads them and why they read them. I found some key information and saved it. Some of the research I found was a few pie charts with helpful information to support other information such as: which music magazine is read the most, what price is people willing to pay for a music magazine, which feature do most readers look forward to when they pick up a magazine and the number of magazines bought per month by one person. The researching took up a lot of my time so I didn't get round in actually starting the presentation itself. Also I decided to make my blog page more appealing so I added a background and changed the home colour from blue to purple. I also re-did my labels as they were wrong. 

My Blog Page before

My Blog Page after

Masthead and Colour Ideas

While I was researching I kept thinking of  mastheads for my magazine and how I will place it on the front cover. I have decided that I will base my magazine on pop music. I've realised that most magazines have their masthead on the top so I want mine to go down vertically but for that I will need a long name which is at least more than 5 letters so I will think further on that. I don't know what colours I want my masthead to be. I want to go for bright colours like grass green, sky blue. Or the colours that appear when the sun sets.



Something like above. But I will think further and gather more ideas. 

Audience of Music Magazines

This Prezi indicates the audience of a music magazine answering the following questions:
- Who is music magazines aimed at?
- Who reads music magazines?
- Why are magazines successful?
- Which gender and age group read magazines?
- Why would anyone read a music magazine?

I also included some data and numbers about music magazines and its audience.
This task allowed me to think about my target audience.

Codes and Convention of a Music Magazine

Codes and Conventions of a Music Magazine on Prezi

This Prezi illustrates all the codes and conventions of a music magazine. Codes and conventions is all the details that create a successful magazine. I have included an example of each code and convention. During this task I learnt a lot of new things about magazines which allowed me to think further about mine.

Production Log: Friday 5th October 2012

Today, I started to gather ideas for my next task, key concepts of music magazines by brainstorming each topic in it. There are four topics: codes and conventions, audience, institution and representation. For each topic I did a bit of research for me to get a better understanding for what each of them are about. During my research I found out that codes and conventions is basically what ingredients/elements in needed to create a successful magazine. The audience is about who reads magazines and why. The representation topic explains how music magazines and its genre of music are represented; colours, fonts, layout, images etc. Finally the institution is about who/which big companies produce and publish each magazines. One of the publishers I found is 'Bauer'. For each of these topics I had to create a presentation to show my findings. For this I chose Prezi as my presenting programme.  

One of the publishers 

Mood-board

This is my mood-board which contains a collection of images such as artists, album covers, magazines, etc from Pop Music as that is the genre I want my music magazine to be based on. I have also included a pop music soundtrack which allows readers know what genre of music I am trying to aim to. (please put sound on)