Sunday 28 October 2012

Initial plans


Publication Plan
Title:  Live
Positioning statement: The truth of indie
Frequency of publication: Monthly
Price: £2.90
Distribution:  Music shops, Supermarkets.

Rationale:  The approach of magazine is for the fans that enjoy indie music; the magazine includes interviews, gig /concert/album reviews and competitions. This will attract my target audience as this is what they would want to know when they read the magazine.
Style:  My magazine will be formal to a certain extent for example the news or a professional review. But however in aspects such as interviews and articles informality will take place. My magazine will include humour to attract target audience and use simple vocabulary along with short paragraphs and slang.

Regular Content:
·         One on one with special guests
·         Same questions different answers
·         Gig reviews
·         Hot spot the pressure is on
·          Most listened to artist/bands this month
·         Interviews
·         Concert reviews
·         News
·         Album reviews
·         Make some noise
·         Concert/gig/album reviews

Feature Content:
·         Bombay Bicycle Club riding their way to the UK
·         Behind the scenes with Arctic Monkeys
·         MGMT hit back with an electric feel
·         Check out all the amazing people attending Glastonbury  2013
·         Snow Patrol coming to an end?  
·         A brand new band grabbing the hearts of thousands
·         Gigs and immense artists/bands including a surprise celebrity guest coming to you soon
·         Radiohead reveals their latest album
·         The Killers, what goes on behind closed doors
·         Winners of the Music Video Aw555ards 2012 what went wrong
·         Coldplay let us in on their secret
·         Two Door Cinema Club wow V Festival crowd
·         Friendly Fires becoming not so friendly towards fans
·         Most talked about performance this year find out who
·         Florence takes on a mind blowing world tour

·         Bigger sound. Bigger crowd. Bigger buzz.
·         Kaiser chiefs shock the world with their new sound
·         Get the chance to meet your favourite band/artist
·         Red Hot Chilli Peppers rock London
·         Hippies On a Hill journey
·         Rolling Stones aren’t finished just yet

House Style
·         Cover lines: 
·         Headlines: Rockwell
·         Stand first: Rockwell 14pt. By-line to be included in stand first
·         News First paragraph: First two words in bold capitals
·         Body Text:  Rockwell 11pt
·         Red, white, black  




Planning Production

Front cover images
My main image will be a young girl standing in front of the Liverpool skyline. She will be wearing indie like clothes for example skinny jeans and a shirt. Her attitude in the images will be seen as very cool-like, or even chilled. It might include some images of bands and artists around the page. Giving the reader a sense about what is inside.
Cover-lines
·         Bombay Bicycle Club riding their way to the UK
·         Behind the scenes with Arctic Monkeys
·         MGMT hit back with an electric feel
·         Check out all the amazing people attending Glastonbury  2013
·         Radiohead reveals their latest album
·         The Killers, what goes on behind closed doors
·         Two Door Cinema Club wow V Festival crowd
·         Friendly Fires becoming not so friendly towards fans
·         Florence takes on a mind blowing world tour
·         Red Hot Chilli Peppers rock London
·         Hippies On a Hill journey



Text for contents page
·         Regular content
·         One on one with special guests
·         Same questions different answers
·         Gig reviews
·         Hot spot the pressure is on
·          Most listened to artist/bands this month
·         Interviews
·         Concert reviews
·         News
·         Album reviews
·         Make some noise
·         Concert/gig/album reviews





·         Bombay Bicycle Club riding their way to the UK
A must see for dedicated fans
·         Behind the scenes with Arctic Monkeys
The loved Arctic Monkeys Show us what it’s like to become one of them
·         MGMT hit back with an electric feel
No one can miss the insanity of MGMTs latest feel
·         Check out all the amazing people attending Glastonbury  2013
Your chance to win free tickets to this once in a lifetime experience
·         Snow Patrol coming to an end?
Heart dropping news but is it true, look inside to find out more
·         A brand new band grabbing the hearts of thousands
Find out who it is that could be one of the all time legends
·         Gigs and immense artists/bands including a surprise celebrity guest coming to you soon
Win VIP tickets to chill with the bands and artist backstage
·         Radiohead reveals their latest album
Exclusive competition to be the first one to have their brand new album
·         The Killers, what goes on behind closed doors
Finally The Killers let us in on their rollercoaster of lives
·         Winners of the Music Video Awards 2012 what went wrong
The Music Awards set up? Read more to see if you agree with the biggest mistake made in music history
·         Coldplay let us in on their secret
The story that will shock the world
·         Two Door Cinema Club wow V Festival crowd
Witness images and stories about the crazy crowds experience during Two Door Cinema Clubs performance. Known as their favourite crowd this year.
·         Friendly Fires becoming not so friendly towards fans
Friendly Fires finally snaps at crazy fans, but did he go too far?
·         Most talked about performance this year find out who
Greatest performance of 2012 read more to find out why it was so mind blowing
·         Florence takes on a mind blowing world tour
Florence fans should be ecstatic be the first to read the tour dates
·         Bigger sound. Bigger crowd. Bigger buzz.
Find out what this crazy event is all about, it’s un-missible
·         Kaiser chiefs shock the world with their new sound
Why they changed their whole look and music direction
·         Get the chance to meet your favourite band/artist
It could be you
·         Red Hot Chilli Peppers rock London
Crowd goes mental London has never seen such a sight
The Guardians
Find out how they got to where they are now.
·         Rolling Stones aren’t finished just yet
We haven’t seen the last of The Rolling Stones read more about their last world wide tour

·    Text underneath images, for example if it’s an image from one of my feature article a quote from the article will be underneath. Or a sub heading will be underneath certain images giving a little more about the image to make it look more interesting and make the audience want to know more.

   Date, an issue number, maybe title of magazine.

·         An introduction, E.g. Inside this week.

Images for contents page

·         Instruments- a band playing them
·         Bands – The one I am interviewing.
·         A crowd at a concert

Article for double page spread
·         One main image of the band I’m interviewing.
·         Title bleeds onto both pages.
·         A quote from the article in the middle of page bigger and bolder than the rest of the text.
·         Drop capital on every new paragraph so it makes it look more inviting.





Friday 12 October 2012

Wednesday 10 October 2012

Planning Contents

Planning Content

Evaluation of school magazine


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



    
To create my front cover I used Photoshop this was not that difficult to do as I have used it before during my GCSE in year 10. While I was on photoshop I had to use only a few amount of tools as my plan for my front cover was quite simple.This limited my chance to refresh on all the other use of tools photoshop had to offer that I could of used.But as I only had a little while to create this task it shown that I was fairly creative under pressure with the little time that I had to create.I had to use a digital camera to take photos of what I wanted to include in my school magazine such as a student, school equipment and so on. For this task I also had little time to do this, it shown my creativity under pressure and what I could do in little time as with how,where and who im taking the pictures of.Overall in this process of using photoshop I could have took more advantage but I am fairly happy with how my school magazine turned out in the end.
         To create my contents page had to use Quark.For me this was quite difficult to do as I am not familiar with Quark and have never used it before, so it was a bit of a challenge for me.But I had to use Quark as it was very helpful for my contents page and guided me were things I wanted to add should go. I had to do this task in a short amount of time so what I produced in the end I was pleased with as I found Quark quite confusing. I also had to use a digital camera for this to add images which was fairly easy as I am familiar with using cameras.
                                 To conclude I am pleased that I have experimented with different uses of media technologies and hope that in time I will become a lot more confident with them and take a lot more advantage.

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Production of school magazine front cover and contents page

 
This is my front cover for my magazine compared to my sketch there has been a few little changes,for example the price has been changed from free to £1.50,and the issue number and date have changed the position on the magazine.

 
 
This is my contents page and compared to my sketch that I planned its is the same.I did not make any changes to my contents page.
 
 
 
 
 

Final images for school magazine


These are the images I finally chose for my school magazine


For all of these images I did not change them in anyway for my magazine.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    

Photographs for school magazine

These are all the photos I taken for my new school magazine
 
 
I used this photo for my school magazine it well represented one of my articles.
 
 
I used this image for my magazine as it went well with the article. 



 
I decided not to use this image on my magazine as I thought it was too random and had no message to it. 

This is one of my images I took for my front cover, and the one I chose to use as it has plenty of space around it for my coverlines ect.

This was the other image I took for my front cover but chose not use it as I preferd the other image above.

Photograpghy Exercise

Rough layout of Contents page




This is a rough sketch of my contents page for my new school magazine.

Rough layout of front cover







This is a rough sketch of my front cover for my new school magazine.

Friday 5 October 2012

Prelminary Excercise

Plans for front cover

Title for new school magazine:

Knowledge

Mise-en-scene:

Bold text
Medium close up image
Simple blue and black colour scheme
Coverlines
Plain background

Coverlines:

100 ways to style your uniform
Food fight gone wrong
Headmasters secrets revealed
Win a trip to rome
Party in the common room
Mean teacher ban
Take a stand for better dinners
Pass your exam
Recognition for students hard work
Exclusive secret event




Codes and conventions of a contents page

Codes and conventions of a magazine front cover