MY MUSIC MAGAZINE EVALUATION VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvEHHVK7AeA

This is my evaluation video the link above will take you to youtube.

MY SLIDES FROM MY POWERPOINT EVALUATION.

MY MUSIC MAGAZINE CONTENTS PAGE

MY MUSIC MAGAZINE CONTENTS

MY MUSIC MAGAZINE DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

WITHOUT CENTRE FOLD:

 WITH CENTRE FOLD:

Finished Music magazine

My student Magazine

Media Evaluation Script (go with powerpoint)

Media Script

Slide 1: My Media Evaluation

Slide 2: This is my music magazine compared to my first draft I realised how it looked too much like a Fashion magazine so I changed to my final version to look more like a music magazine with the title and words used,

Slide 3: This is my Media Evaluation for my coursework in making a Music Magazine,

(Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?)

As you can see here I’ve learnt how to analyse a magazine cover in order to make my magazine have all the key features a magazine needs. This here is the Masthead; the masthead is the Title of the magazine so the audience know what brand of magazine they’re choosing to read. Next here is the Cover Lines, these are important to a magazine as they’re the main headlines about what is in the magazine, giving the audience an insight into what is in the magazine so they can choose if that is what they want to read about. As you can see here we have the Tag/Lure this as the title suggests to lure in the audience into buying the magazine by using interesting words to incise the reader such as ‘Exclusive’ The strap line is the subheading of the magazine positioned under the title, with then comes the Plug this is the selling point of the magazine. Then the date line where that date and price is showed.

Slide 4: I experimented with these magazine features when making my Music magazine, as you can see I’ve used (show them all) showing I've used typical magazine styles to interest the reader and showing what I have learnt from my analysing process.

Slide 5: For my Music magazine, I've used influences from the only ‘pop’ magazines that are around because this is the genre I was looking at, these have inspired me to create a new magazine which isn’t out yet. The only pop magazines there are out at the moment, are old with not very well-known artists, such as ‘smash hits’ and magazines like ‘The rolling stones’ are also old and aren’t very bright and colourful, with the Rolling Stones also being more a male magazine, there are also magazines such as ‘We are Pop’ Which is for young audiences.  This is when I started to look at BillBoard this magazine is an All Genres magazine but also includes popular artists and is colourful and eye catching as well as being classy,which is how I wanted my magazine to be. Because of this I have brought out my own magazine which hasn’t been done before, as its classy, colourful and appears to a variety of audiences interested in Pop magazines. Looking at these influences I discovered how some magazines portray their selling points in different ways, such as billboard putting it across more subtle so it doesn’t look messy but more classy, showing they don’t need to bribe people into buying the magazine. As well as the magazine smash hits, no longer around anymore it ended in 2006 bringing more space for a different magazine to the market.

Slide 6: Double Page Spread

I discovered how here they use a dramatic image very big on the double pages with huge writing to take up the double page, The images are positioned as the writing fits around the image showing the importance of the artist, The colours also contrast perfectly together and in both double page spreads there is a clear statement, with the one on the left we see a very hipster, wild side of the artist with a deep quote ‘Girl, you’ll be a woman soon’  with the word girl positioned so the artist is a pause between the rest of the sentence, making the image look very dramatic, as well as the lighting making the image centred as the light hits the artist and a dark radius goes around the edge of the spread, also we can see the writing on the right must be to do with this artist. As you can see there also isn’t very much of the writing in the left picture compared to the right, as we can see in the right double page spread there is a rather big model positioned mostly on the right with her arm being on the left after the fold, the image is also very dramatic but more fun and unique as its very colourful and has a lot going on, giving a very careless vibe and showing how fun and vibrant the artist is, we’re also shown how the image is clearly edited onto the pink background as she’s stood out from the background. Once again the title is bold and we clearly know who the artist is, we’re also seeing how much writing covers the double page as it is positioned around the image. We can see how both of these double pages portray a pop magazine vibe

Slide 7: This is my magazine, as you can see I've used (The different techniques established in the first slide) while keeping it classy. I decided to create a Pop magazine because I felt there isn’t my certain sort of magazine on the market yet. For my image my model is positioned to illustrate a connection with the audience as she is looking directly to the camera also showing confidence and pride within being in the magazine, with her eyes being sharp. I also have her on the right-hand side so she’s being shown as a big part of the magazine but also having space for the cover lines and other typical features.

I’ve positioned her hair in a messy but volume way to create a dramatic look with attitude to the artist. Purposely I've dressed my model in up to date clothing with the pink bomber jacket to show the models style as being trendy and something a pop artist would wear. Also the pink bomber jacket also contrasted perfectly with the pink background showing a relation between her and the magazine and making her face stand out to the audience, I used the influence of billboard to help with styles of image positioning with the use of plain backgrounds to make the image stand out. To create the lighting, I had two lights set up either side of the model as well as using my camera flash to make her as bright as possible because my magazine is all about colour and using that to interest the audience. The title of my magazine is called ‘TOPHITS’ which I thought was a simple remembering name, I used a bold font, as the MastHead should be remembering so the audience recognise the brand, this is positioned at the top of the page to make the title clear, my name also shows the genre of magazine due to the name and the music disk this is important. The rest of the font in my magazine is classy and elegant with the artist’s name bold giving a highlight to what artist is presented, with a subtitle of ‘Queen of Pop’ to also show the reverence of the artist and once again it’s a pop magazine. In this issue, the colour is mainly pink, black and white with yellow showing a vibrant artist who is quite stereo typically girly.

Slide 8: These are a handful of pictures I had taken to be my artist in my magazine. I tried to portray a stylist artist with attitude and colourful clothing to represent someone the audience would see as a popular music artist. (first image) As you can see in this image the artist is modelling emotionless which could be a front cover image because it’s very dramatic. (Second image) Just like the first image this I would have done as a front cover (Third Image) This image is a perfect for a double page spread because it’s a very chill image and is a wider image to spread across a double page. (Forth) These images are good for a contents page.

Slide 9: Here you can see how I’ve used a clear title to show what brand of magazine it is, I’ve also got the same model look to the artists, as well as having the outfit of the artist matching to the background.

(say about stereotypes) You can see how the artists of real covers all do the same drama pose, with the costume matching the back ground, they're represented as being powerful

Slide 10: Stereotypically Pink for girls

Slide 11: Evaluation 3 (What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

(Say About Rolling stones)

Might want to publish because it’s a new magazine as they do general magazines not just pop.

 I think they will want to publish my magazine because mine is very similar to billboards except it’s a just pop magazine which means it will suit their magazines but with a different genre, which might appeal to their audiences which are interested in Pop Music, they also publish(Backstage Billboard The Hollywood Reporter Spin Stereogum Vibe Film Journal International Clio Awards) So they publish other Music magazines too which have different genres.

Slide 12: Their aim is to attract good authors and publish books that achieve commercial success. Depending on the size of the publishing company, the book publisher may carry out all aspects of publication, or may delegate part of the work to editors, designers and marketing specialists.

Slide 13: I have Three types of revenue making ideas for publication, is subscriptions, people buying my magazine through subscriptions so very month they’re paying for the magazine to be delivered to their house, these assure reliable customers. Revenue gained by marketing or selling products or services associated with a magazine title. An example would be t-shirts with the magazine's logo. Or advertising, by advertising well known brands in my magazine I will earn more money by every issue sold.

Although by doing this I must be considering regulations such as copy right,making sure none of my pictures in my magazine are copy righted  as well as my text and songs inside must have permission from artists to publicise them.

Slide 15: (Just People interests)

Slide 16: You Gov) I took to yougov to see what my audience would like and looked under MTV Hits and got a positive feed back

Slide 17: As you can see My magazine already fits the type of people that like pop music, as my magazine is more female and for younger people.

Slide 18:

1.Here are the types of artists people who like Pop Music and what type of artists they like

2.As you can see they like  quite stereo typically girls shows, such as Firs Dates, Sex and the city and Geordie Shore

3.You can see how they like very well known brands showing how my model in my magazine is up to date with the fashion my audience are into, Also this gives good ideas into my publishing my magazine as to what brands I advertise. Calvin Klein, Dior etc.

4.In General interests to people who like Pop music, as you can see are interested in Dance, people and celebrities, beauty etc. As you can see form the YouGov statics i've made my magazine fitting for my audience likes.

Slide 19: My magazine attracts a teenage audience because its very social media orientated which fits to there generation, they have trendy fashion and want to follow their idols they see in the magazine, they like pop music, festivals and music tours, I've used a very pink stereotypical colour for girls to the magazine focuses on teenage girls as they also like the pop music younger teenage about 15 to 18 year old, due to the magazine Billboard being a very modernised magazine I took inspiration from this magazine due to other pop magazines such as “we love pop” are for a younger audience and I wanted to produce a magazine that isn’t on the market yet being a older magazine for the older teenagers with up to date trends and music likes for pop lovers. As you can see colour is mostly pink trying to appeal to the feminine audience but other issues could be other colours just this colour fitted well with the girly artist in the front who also is styling the lasted trending clothing being from topshop a bomber jacket, I believe my magazine has a Unique selling point due to it being the only one like it out at the moment with the older teens with the music and artists.

Slide 20:

Firstly to create my front cover I decided on a plan I wanted to make my model be on a different coloured background, in order to this I took the original image and cropped it down at a A4 size like a magazine cover.

Slide 21: After I cropped the image I went onto making the background the colour I wanted, to do this I had to use the refine edge tool, I had to use this tool in order to select the image accurately with picking up the models hair so it looks like the background the picture was taken on was really pink, and so the picture looks more professional.   I then used the filter tool to give the background a light to dark spectrum to then make it look like the model is the star of the magazine and so the attention is on her.

Slide 22: I then started to add text and using different fonts with different colours to have everything standing out.

Slide 23: I then finished my magazine and got people’s opinions on it, to come to the confusion it didn't look very much like a Music Magazine but more of a Fashion magazine, so I changed some things to show it’s a Pop music magazine

Slide 24: I did this by adding a Music Disk to the O in TOPHITS and I changed out my Cover lines to representing titles such as ‘This year’s hottest albums’ and ‘The history of HIP HOP’ I also then added more bright colours like the yellow to break up the pink a bit more.

Slide 25: I also used google to research other magazines to get ideas for my own magazine and looked in shops to real magazines to see the different styles that were on the market at the moment because the ones I mostly got inspiration from were magazines in a different country so I got to see what magazines in my own country were like in comparison to ones abroad.

Slide 26: Looking back on my Preliminary task I can notice how much I've learnt in comparison to the newest task, I've seem to of kept to the same position of the image but haven't left much space for text without it blending into the picture and not being very noticeable also the picture doesn't look very professional. Also my Font is slightly all over the place looking quite a messy and not very standing out, whereas my music magazine the background is clear and the wording is standing out on the clear background.

Slide 27: (Showing Comparison)

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