Before taking my photos

Before I could even take my photo's I had to plan out what poses that I wanted my models to do and what clothes I actually wanted them to wear. As 'Kai Turner' is an indie artist I wanted him to wear popular indie clothing from lines such as Pretty Green and Fred Perry. I wanted him to look casual and cool.
I took my photographs for the front cover in the schools studio, where we had a green screen set up with professional lighting for us to use. The lighting took quite a lot of fiddling to make sure that there was not going to be any green reflecting onto my models and that the photos weren't blurry or too dark for me to edit.

Model

Yesterday I started to take photos for my music magazine. I used the school studio to take a few photos, the photo for my front page will be from here.

 

I used one of my friends for the main story of my magazine. He will star on the front page and double page article.

Photo Analysis

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Photo Analysis

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Masthead Final Design

 

 This is the chosen masthead for my magazine. This was decided from a survey including 40 people. This was the most popular design out of the 5 in the previous post. 20 of the 40 people decided they liked this more than the others.

Masthead Designs

This is my first design for my magazine masthead.

This is my second design for my magazine masthead.

 

 This is the third design for my magazine masthead.

This is the fourth design for my masthead.

 

 This is the fifth design for my magazine.

 

I have decided to make the masthead colour red as it will link in with my colour scheme and red will stand out on the page to make it jump out to the reader. I will ask 40 people for my survey and then the most popular design will be chosen for my masthead. 

Title of Magazine

I asked the people that I used for my questionnaire an asked them which magazine name they preferred. The results show that Vibe is the most popular name therefore I will use tis for my magazine. 

Possible Magazine Titles

After a few weeks of gathering data I have finally decided on my top 3 names for my magazine. These include;

Weekender
Vibe
Takeover
Horizon

To decide I will ask the people who took part in my questionnaire and will then start to create the masthead for my magazine.

Double Page - Flat Plan

This is the flat plan of my double page spread. It will be an interview and will include 3 different pictures of the interviewee. This is the main story of my magazine therefore has to be interesting for the audience. The 3 pictures will be of the same person and artist but different poses.

Style Model - Double Page

This is the style model for my double page spread. This will be the main story of my magazine and will include 3 different photos of the artist I am interviewing. The main body of text will be an interview between the artist and the interviewer.

Front Page - Flat Plan

This is the flat plan for my front page. This also has similarities with my style model front page. The main image will be of my artist and will take up the majority of my magazine front page.

Style Model - Front Page

This is the style model for my front page of my magazine. I have chosen to do this as I like the idea of having the main artist in the centre of the page to make them stand out.

Contents page - Flat plan

This is a flat plan for my magazine contents page. As you can see from the previous post the plan has some similarities compared with my style model.

Style Model - Contents Page

 

This is the style model for my contents page, as you can see it will include lots of different images, with the main story as the main image. The contents page will be double spread.

Reader Profile

This is the reader profile for my magazine. This is what would I would expect my 'typical' reader to look like and like. This links with the genre of my magazine.

Research - Q Magazine

The magazine usually includes an extensive review section, new releases, music compilations, film and live concert, radio and television reviews. Sometimes promotional gifts are given away in the magazine. Every issue of Q has a different message on the spine. Readers then try to work out what the message has to do with the contents of the magazine. The magazine has a close relationship with the Glastonbury festival. As well as being published as a magazine, Q is now online and has their own website which has similar things that the magazine includes. They can also be found on social network sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube. 

Magazine Pitch

Magazine Questionnaire Results

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Music Magazine Questionnaire

Questionnaire for a music magazine

Please put a tick in the boxes displayed below

1.       How much would you be willing to pay for the magazine?

£1 – £2	£3 - £4	£5 +

 

2.       How often should the next magazine be released?

Every week	Fortnightly	Monthly

 

3.       Are you male or female?

Male	Female

 

4.       Who would you like to see featured in the magazine?

Jake Bugg	John Newman	Jess Glynne	Beyonce

 

5.       What colour scheme should the magazine be?

Dark Colours	Bright colours	Red and White	Black and Red

 

6.       What kind of advertisements would you prefer to see?

Food or drink	Upcoming music events	Fashion

 

7.       Are you interested in an exclusive interview?

Yes	No	No preference

 

8.       Would you prefer to see a male or female on the front page?

Male	Female

 

9.       What attracts you to a music magazine?

Interviews	Celebrity news	Music updates	Chart updates

 

10.   How old are you?

17 or under	18 – 30	30 +

 

11.   What music genre magazine would you prefer?

Rap	Country	Pop	Alternative

This is the questionnaire for my music magazine. I made this to help me decide what my magazine should look like.