I am currently in the process of creating my music magazine front cover with Danielle Oliver as my cover model. I am changing some small features of the image on photoshop.

This is a reader profile for my target audience.

media groups(henley)

Henley Media Group is a diversified media business with an extensive portfolio of international publications, websites and events.
From technological publications to the UK's largest celebration of family life, Henley Media Group's portfolio is produced in partnership with some of the world's most respected organisations and we strive to exceed the expectations of over 2,000 clients globally.

Media buisness (bauer)

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Media Buisness

For the next part in my media project I am going to start to experiment with a range of ideas for my article and its topic. I am thinking of more of a teen gossip theme which would attract my target audience.

So far I have uploaded a few samples of my design ideas for my front cover, contents page and my article. I will be uploading more so I have a lot of different ideas and choice for my final design ideas and my final piece.

This is a design idea for my artle for my music magazine. I like the layout of the writing  and image but I think it looks too bare and could be more detailed. But as this is just a rough draft, I can take the pros and cons and convert them into a better design idea to go toward my final design idea and my final piece.

This is another idea for what my front cover for my music magazine could possible look like. Again this is just a rough draft and i will only be using the sections I like out of this design idea, this will all go towards my final design idea for the front cover of my magazine.

This is an idea for how to present my contents page. This is only a rough draft to show what it could possibly look like andIi could take this and add more detailed sections to it to improve it to lead up to my final design idea.

This is a design idea for my music magazines front cover. This is only a rough draft and will be altered variious times before i come up with my fibnal design idea for my comtemporary rock magazines front cover.

Coming up soon in my blog: I am current designing my flat plans for my front cover and contents page for my magazine.

Pitch

I have decisded the theme that I am going to use for my magazine. My theme is going to be rock/pop. I have chosen this theme as it appeals to a larger percentage of my target audience and is something that I have a personal interest in. My target audience is going to be for mainly females between the ages of 16-18. I have choses this as my target audience as i could relate to that age as I am 17 myself and create something that would appeal to my age group.

My plan for my next step in my media studies project is to create a pitch to show everyone my plans for what I am going to do next and to show the final ideas I have put together for my music magazine, this will involve the target audience, genre and when it will be released.

article analysis - slideshows

So far in my media studies project I have started to compose ideas as to what my magazine is going to be, what genre it will be, what target audience it will be projected for, and when/ how many times it will be released for sale to the general public.

I have composed a questionnaire and created pie charts showing the results I have collected from the general public.

These are my collected results from my questionaire, and I have out them into a pie chart to present them clearly.

This is my questionaire, used to collect results to help me deside, what genre, target audience and theme I should have in my magazine.

Contents page analysis - slideshow

Magazine analysis: front covers

Now that I have finished my school magazine, and analysed it, I am now analysing and comparing different music magazine styles in preparation for designing and creating my own music magazine. I am looking at genre, colours, target audience and overall style.

School Magazine Front Cover

 

 

This is My Heworth Grange school magazine front cover for my media studies blog.

I have used a picture of the the front and main entrance of Heworth Grange Scool as my background to my front cover. I have annotated the contrast to make the light blue sky stand out against the dark blue banner at the bottom. This is effective as it helps the front cover stand out and catch the readers eye. I have created my mazagine as a practice to my main music mazagine that I am doing in media for my blog.

School Contents Page

I was told to create a Heworth Grange magazine in preparation for creating my music magazine further on in my media studies course. This is the contents page for my magazine and as you can see Ihave kept the colouer scene plain and simple with conplimentory colours that help make the images and the text stand out to catch the readers eye.

The background image I have used is from a perspectory angle highlighting the sign and showing the length of the image and depth of the coridoor. I also have used a extreme long shot of my friend David Conelly to represent the average 6th form student and how smart they are expected to dress and to show how the 6th form student have exceeded that expectation.

I have picked out some of the imporant key point of Heworth to present as a possible talking point on my copntents page, useing simple, bold text to make the writing stand out but not take centre stage in this page. I have chosen some key images to represent the poiunts put across in my contents page, such as the "heworth grange ofsted report" and the new "rebuild" of the school and how far it has come. I have chosen bright and colourful images to stand out from the quite simple but effective backgroud so it is noticable that they are the feature ojn this pafge and to always show what would be featuring in the rest of the magazine.

To keep the flow of the colour scene constant, I ave purposefully chosen the exact same colour as the paint on the wallsd dfrom where thgis imagewasd taken to match with the colour on the bottom of the contents page. I believe this is very effective in the ways of tying this poage all together and mating everything match and look like it all belongs and look right together.

To improve I believe I could have added some more information about what was coming up next in the magazine and possibly make the writing stand out more so it would be easier for the reader to understand. Also to add more different photos that tie in with the theme of the magazine.