Music magazine survey

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I have learnt in this task what my target audience want in a music magazine e.g. what on the front cover and also where people read music magazines and where they but them and what my target audience's favourite magazine genre is.

Audience Research

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In this task I have had feed back from people on what they think about different music magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads, this has helped me to understand and learn about what my target audience, like to see and what they don't like to see in a music magazines.

How magazines attract an audience

I have learnt in this task how music magazines attract their audience and what key features of a major magazine like the way they put the persons eyes looking out of the magazine making eye contact with the person looking at the magazine front cover to persuade them to buy the magazine, also using big names artists persuading people to buy the magazine.

Music Magazines in a Shop

Music magazines in a shop on PhotoPeach

·         How many music magazines are on sale?

·         There are 3 different music magazines on sale and there are about 10 of each on the shelves.

·         How many different genres of magazines are on sale?

·         There a 2 different genres of magazine on sale, two rock (Kerrang! And NME) and Top Of the pops.

·         What is the positioning of the music magazines in the store?

·         The magazines are mostly positioned at the front of the shelves especially the top of the pops magazine, whereas the Kerrang! And NME sometimes have rude language or imagery on them so we keep them nearer the back and reasonably high up on the shelves so young children can’t see them.

·         Which magazines are at the front of the stand and at the back?

·          As I said we keep the Kerrang! And NME magazines high up and near the back of the shelves out of young children’s reach and view.

·         What parts of the magazine are on show the most and which part is shown the least?

·         Mostly the top of the magazine is on show because It has the title of the magazine on the top, the bit at the bottom hardly has any information on any way so it would be pointless to put that on view, all you need the is the top half really.

·         How clear is the name of the magazine? Is the price clear?

·         The magazine title is very clear as it is at the top of most magazines in big bold and clear text so it is hard to miss, but the price is not very clear on any of the magazines as it is in small text on the bar code usually at the bottom of the magazine so no one sees it.

·         What do you notice about the positioning of the major artists? Can you discuss the eyes and why these are important?

·         Normally the major artists are in the middle of the page and they are generally the main person for that issue of magazine, they mostly look out of the page to catch people’s eyes and influence them and urge people who glance at the magazine to buy.

In this task I have learnt what magazines a certain shop sell and how they present them in their shop on the shelves, and also what the shop keeper thinks of the magazines. 

NME and Kerrang! music magazine rate cards

This Rate card is helpful because it is surprising that they know who reads their magazines for example Kerrang! Know that 54.7%of males read the magazine which is nearly 10% more the female readers also the know roughly how old their readers are for example 56.1% of people between 15-24 read Kerrang! I didn’t know this before. 

This rate card is interesting because it show that the magazine know who the readers are, there are also key stats about the magazine. Also there are magazine front covers so you know what they look like. I didn’t know any of this before but now I do so this is helpful for loads of different people because there is a contacts section, key stats about the social media and how many people read it.

I have learnt in this task how much major magazines know who there customers and buyers are and how they lay out their rate cards and what they include in them.

NME Magazine Analysis

Magazine Analysis on PhotoPeach
I have learnt in this task the way NME layout there magazines front covers, contents page and double page spread and what special features they include in them for example the different fonts and different pictures.

History of Music Magazines

I have learnt from this task the history of some major magazine titles for example when they were first made and first introduced, what has happened to the different magazines

Institutional Video

I have learnt in this task what some of the major magazine institution are e.g. Bauer Media, IPC Media and the history behind the companies and how they became so big, also I learnt what magazine they publish.

Institutional Grid

I have learnt from this task the history of some major magazine titles including when they were first published, the county they originated from, the genre, the institution the use e.g. Bauer or IPC media and also the cost of the magazine.

Magazine Front Cover Analysis

 

I have leant in this task how major magazine covers layout their magazines so people will buy them, including what they put on the front cover like the image (camera angles, lighting), the magazine name, the target audience, the colours that blend with each other on the front cover which makes it stand out.

Evaluation

Evaluation

I think this task went well in quite a few ways, By doing research on what different magazine front covers and contents pages have helped me a lot to show how to lay the magazine out and what fonts and colours go with different background colours to see whether they contrast and blend with each other so it looks professional, also doing the plan of the front cover and contents page helped me because it was easier to set up the pages and know what goes where on the page this makes it quicker as well as I can look at the plan and place the text/image where I have originally placed it. I could improve the quality of my magazine by taking a bit more time on it.

I have learnt in this process that doing a plan make it quicker and easier to make the magazine and also what colours, fonts and backgrounds go together.   

Image (Mid-Shot) adjustments

 

 

This is my original image 

 

Here I have changed the image to black and white

Here I have selected a colour which is red to make it go that colour. 

Here I have changed the offset, exposure and gamma correction

School Magazine Front Cover + Contents

School Magazine plans

Front Cover

Contents Page

School Magazine Research

This school magazine is quite boring and bland as there is not much colour, but I like the font as it is different and it stands out but there is a lack of colour in the font which I think would make it stand out more, is also tell you what is in the magazine.

I like this school magazine front cover because it is simple but effective as the magazine title stands out as it has a large font and the colour is bright, it also tells you what is in the magazine which is useful, also the font in the background is well chosen as it looks like it has been written on paper so it makes the magazine linked with school.

I like this school magazine front cover because its tells you what is in it and also the font and the colours blend together to make it stand out, for instance the white and yellow font colour doesn’t clash with the dark background, also I like the use of a mid-shot.

I like this School magazine contents page because it clearly tells you what is in the magazine, it is well layed out and the colours match, also it is quite easy to read because the font is quite big which makes it stand out more.

This School magazine contents page is not very easy to read because the yellow font clashes with the white background also it is not very well layed out because the writing goes over the images on the page also it is a bit plain.

What i learnt

I learnt how to lay out a magazine front cover and contents appropriately, with colours that go well together and stand out using big font to make it easier and clearer to read.