Evaluation: Question 7

Again the embeded code hasnt worked as here is the link as well
http://portal.sliderocket.com/BPNWQ/question-7

Evaluation: Question 7

Questionaire Market Research

This is the questionaire i made to give out to some of my target audience.

The results i got back were




These are just a few exaples of the questionaires i got...

Evauation: Question 6

Question 6: What have i learnt about technologies from the process of constructing a product?

Firstly for this question i have created a video that i have already blogged, this is is a breif out line of all the different types of technonloy i used. Secondly the video above it one of the first clips i wached about indesign this help me a lot just about the simple tools and the backround of indesign, and i would recomend anyone who hasnt used this program before to have a look.

Above is just a selection of programs that i have used to help me create the blog i have now. That have widen my knowledge of lots of technology's used at home and in the professional world of the magazine industry too. i have realised i didn't know much about all this and i didn't know about all the programs available. I don't often us apple mac expect when i go round my friend house this this was all new for me, but i like it its a new experience and i enjoined it and i think i would like to use this soft where again. Obviously i did have limited knowledge for example i already knew how to use photo shop as i do photography in college and i already knew from past experiences, word and excel i knew how to use as its quite basic programs. I knew what to do with you tube as well as i surf the net a lot, and its also something a lot of people know how to use these days.

Idesign i used this to layout my music magazine and college magazine too. I like this program for laying out photos and text, for me it took a while to get used to but its very similar to macro media fire work that i know how to use so i picked it up pretty quickly. you had to put everything on box's so that was normally the first things i did when creating the magazine layouts. then i just placed what i needed in there.a new website that i have never used before is prezi, unfortunately i could get the hang of it quickly enough for the time limit i had so i didn't use it for this project but i would like to use it for my next one as it seems like a good, different, and unique presenting soft where. I use flickr to present all my photos i took for my magazine as it just like a photo album and there all together which is very handy and useful. I have use slide share and slide rocket in my evaluation as i found they where the most easiest and reliable source of presenting PowerPoint there are also easy to read and they have embed well on this blog. i enjoyed using photo shop as like i said before i already knew what to do, i used the spot heal tool a lot on my model photos that i used on my music magazine this was because i knew they would look better as an end result and also for my research i knew that in the magazine industry they do that to to make there magazine look is good as they can possibly be. on my photos i also adjusted the brightness, contrast and shadows as this made them more brighter and vibrant which suits my magazine as its quite colourful. Scribd this i was a website that i used to upload documents, this was a nice and easy to use. i worked well with word documents, but when i tried to upload my excel spreed sheet it doesn't look good and its hard to understand, so i would use this again but only to upload word documents.

These photo are the before and after i edited them on photo shop.

Evaluation: Question 5

These are two videos that i have choosen because these are the type of artist, video and song that they would listen to.

Evaluation: Question 6

This is a video that i have filmed about all the technology that i have used in creating this blog.

Final

Evaluation: Question 5

Media Questionaire

Evaluation: Question 5

I have been having trouble embeading this so her is the link to slide rocket question 5.
http://portal.sliderocket.com/BPNWQ/Question-5

Evaluation: Question 4

This is carried on from the last blog past about evaluation question 4 who would be the audience for your media product? I have interviewed a male and female from my target audience.



Name: Emily White

Age: 16

What kind of music arte you in to?: Rock indie stuff

Where do you live? Leigh Park

Favourite band: You me at six

Favourite album: you me at six sinners never sleep and all time low nothing personal

Pin up: Jack Barakat or Josh Franshesci

Favourite clothing line: vans or probs criminal damage or just band tops

Favourite website: Twitter and tumblr ahah

Typical Outfit: legging or jeans probs, my red vans urm band top and hoodie

Hair style: Loving my bright red hair at the mo ahah and just straight or wavy and side fringe.

What do you study at college?: Sociology, Media, Business

Where do you hang out: friends houses mostly

Favourite instrument: electric guitar

Favourite colours: Red and blue and black

What magazines do you tend to read? Kerrang every week, subscribed! wooop! ahaha

Biggest music inspiration: ahh has to be Kurt Cobain, love that man!

Favourite channel: Kerrang, Q and mtv rock channels

Favourite artist live: You me at six!

how often do you listen to music? every day nearly all day ahah!



Name: Harvey Ryan

Age: 17

What kind of music are you in to?: heavy metal, rock

Where do you live?: Purbrook

Favourite band: Bullet for my valentine

Favourite album: asking Alexandra’s one, ohh i cant remember the name

Pin up: ahaha I don’t really have one

Favourite clothing line: converse and my band tops

Favourite website: I don’t really have one, ohhh ticket sell sites to see all the gigs coming up

Typical Outfit: skinny jeans, black top, black converses, hoodie

Hair style: long black, sweep fringe ahah

What do you study at college?: business, English lit, and film studies

Where do you hang out: local park or studio

Favourite instrument: drums

Favourite colours: black and white probs ohh and grey

What magazines do you tend to read? i dont often but when I do Kerrang

Biggest music inspiration: urm ohh i danno

Favourite channel: rock mtv I think it’s called

Favourite artist live: red hot chilli peppers

How often do you listen to music? Every day!

Evaluation: Question 4

Question 4

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Evaluation: Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute you media magazine and why?

I few reasons why I would want IPC to distribute may music magazine. They have published magazines to do with music before like men and music and NME, guitar and bass.  I would want IPC media to publish my magazine, this would be because looking at the music magazine they have produced in the future for example NME these are the target audience that also would be looking at my magazine. Also IPC is one of the most know distributers in the UK statistics say that 26million adults have read a magazine by IPC, which means by using them I know that they would publish my magazine well. There magazines vary in prices but a lot of the time they are pretty cheap this is because such a large company they are able to handle their money well, and advertise my magazine. They also sell over 350 million copies a year of their magazines each year. The methods of distribution I would want from IPC are firstly using the most common and normal way is in newsagents and supermarkets as this is where most people buy magazines, by having physical copies there makes it people to decide which magazine to buy as they can pick them up see what’s in the magazine have a flick through, I would put it lots of shops like local shops e.g. One Stop, Co-Op or WHSmith and then as well large supermarkets Asda, Morrison’s, Tesco and Sainsbury’s. This will be easier to reach all of my target audience. Shops full of large chains so by some shop distributing them means they could be all over the country this will make sure that many people will get a change or seeing and buying them. There is also a couple of other ways I would like to distribute my magazine is buy subscribing so they come through the post ever week with out having to go to the shop, as being a young person I know we are pretty lazy so by bring the magazine to them  this is a very effect way. Also I would like to put my magazine on the internet and iTunes this enables people to read it online and also be able to buy it and down load it to their phones, iPads, iPod ect ect. This suits the young generation very well, because there always on technology and want to know the most recent things going on as well a lot of people especially young people spend their time on the internet which makes it very modern and something my young audience would be interested in.  On the other hand by having it in shops  and on the internet could attract a wider audience, a different type of audience that maybe I would of originally guessed to like my magazine but in the end they do so I would be expanding my audience. I also think there is a gap in the market for a magazine like this its quite different to other magazine as Q is a little in to rock but a lot in to the mainstream stuff and NME is aimed at men, then there’s Kerrang which is very heavy metal and rock also Mojo which is about magazine that just seems to be aimed for men. My magazine is quite rocky but quite indie and acoustic folk, singer/songwriter too, and I haven’t see any other magazine which are like that that’s why I think there is a good gap in the market for my magazine. As research I also looked at other distribution companies if I wanted them to produce my magazine. Bauer publishes other music magazines such a Q, MoJo and Kerrang. All there are very popular magazines in the music industry. This is a large German publishing company, which has operated in 15 countries.  Here is the IPC website, it is just a link to where i found out some of my infomation http://www.ipcmedia.com/

Evaluation: Question 2

Evaluation: Question 1

Word Work File L_1 Media Question 1

28/02/12

Final Double Page Spread

This is my final double page music magazine spread. Firstly i chose this image because it had a nice about of space at the top for a title to fit in there so i have more room for the writing, i again used the the same font and i used the same colour too now as well so it all mached i wanted it all to look like it came from the same magazine because that is what makes it look very proffetioal. I put in two quotes one in orange the same colour as the writing under her name in the fron cover, and the other one i a bright pink so that it goes with her lip stick that she is wearing. I choose thses quote because they sounded good, and worked well on there own and they dont need the rest of the writing to make sence. I edited the photo a little bit on photo shop just to make it brighter and the colours more vibrant by increasing the contrast. At first i had the page with the writing on white but it didnt look like it fit and looked very odd and i needed it to work, i tried many different colours, but in the i went for the same coulor as the photo but even still this is was hard because the photo as a gradent in so the botom is lighter than the top, but i have kind of found it its not perfect but its look okay. Once i put all my writing in iit didnt all fit so  ihave to go through it and take parts aways that i didnt think i needed then i put it in the coloums, added the bold parts for the questions and added a drop cap. i chose the image because its fun and she look like she is enjoying her self and thats what i want to give off with my magazine. A page number was put in at the end, i chose the the black red and white colour sheame of the magagzine and the same font and style as the contents anf front page of the magaizne.

14/2/12

Second week on double page spread

This is the second week that i am working on my double page spread, during the week i wrote my articale what i was going to put in it, i wrote about her back round informations and then i moved on to a question and answer there is a number of questions that i have wrote and will compleate during the week. afyter that i am going to make sure there is no spelling mistakes and that it all fits on the page. i didnt do much more on my articale except deciding that i didnt want to use that photo any more anfd i have edited a few to come to a desicion on what one to use.

7/2/12

Start Of Double Page Spread

I have now finished both my front cover and my contents page so all i have left to do now is this my double page spread. I started by chooseing a photo i think would good taking over a whole page, i tryed a few but at the moment i think this one looks best. secondly i put the title in i have used the same font on the front page and the contents, i did this because its like her trade mark something that you can reconise its her throughout the magazine. I am still creating my magazine on iDesign as i think its the best program to do it on and which will produce the best results. In the past i have looked through music magazines, but mostly Q magazines and some of the articals in there was a bold like paragraph at the begging as a little introduction so i did that. there was also a drop captial, colloms to put the writing in, quotes, different coloured text boxes, question and aswers in bold and badge like text boxes so i think i will try so of them on my magaizne artical next.

31/01/12

Contents Page Finished

I have finished my contents page now on week four, this week i placed all the content of the contents page on there i i used 12 sections because i had more i though it looked too over crowded and messy and i didn't really want that look i wanted it clear and easy to read. then i put all the numbers beside it, and i like the idea where you can see a photo and if you like the look of it there is the page number on it so you can go straight to that page. so the numbers for the photos i did white a quite small as i do not want them to stand out as much as the other numbers that i decided to make bolder, i had them in black first then they didn't stand out enough so i went for red in the end because it was carrying on with the red black and white theme that i wanted to go through my magazine. i then was indecisive to make each alternative writing black and red, i asked my peers what they though look best and it was a group decision that just the red numbers looked better. though out the magazine i have used the same font and again to keep the same theme the fonts i used were news gothic mt, traveling typewriter, sathu, and then for the female artist thats stars all over the magazine i wanted her to have her own signature style that went with her personality so i used Apple Chancery. 

24/01/12 - Contents Page

Creating My Contents Page

 

This is the third week of creating my music magazine, i finished my front cover last week so i though i would carry on with my contents page, i have put 11 original photos that i have taken myself at different occasions. to the left side there  is all the titles that is going to go on there, and to the right side of the page is the number that is going to go on there next to my subheading of what is in the magazine. I wanted to put unplugged on the to make sure that my front cover and contents page look this they match that my i want for the colours black with and red as well as there the colours i used i want to keep the theme through out my whole magazine. i wanted the word 'contents' to stand out. i put the tag line in there too to keep it related to my magazine. i decided to but numbers in the pictures because when i  read magazines i like that because when you see a picture that you like you want to o to the article and read it so that i way i did it, all  so i saw that Q magazine did it too, and with my magazine being partly based on these i thought it was a good idea.

17/01/2012

Continuing On With My Music Magazine

This is my second week on creating my music magazine, i have finally finished my front cover which i am pleased on. i think it look good and pretty professional. i have added a spot colour circle which has the issue number and the price i want to make this noticeable so i put it in a bold colour. i then added another heading to the left this wasn't as important as some others so i used the same font as the title and choose the same colour as her cardigan as i wanted the whole front cover to match and join together. at the bottom all magazine have a bar so i put that it trying to make it as realistic as possible. the last bit i did to the magazine cover was her name, i had a little trouble with this as i didn't know what colour to put is as that wont look tacky but will go with the colour theme, i went for a pale yellow because its bright easy to see, stands out and looks good and contrasts against her cardigan, and the heading i put as Orange as its not as as bright but you can still tell its goes with it.

Proposal for My Music Magazine

Magazine Proposal

This is what i'm going to defiantly do for my music magazine, this is going to explain how and what i want my magazine to look like and contain.

• Aim, genre: I am going to aim my magazine at young people so between the ages of 15-30 so yeah its a quite a wide age range but the music thats in my magazine Indie, Pop, Rock, Modern in the charts music too. But this type of music all ages listen to so why no have a magazine that those people can listen too. I dont think there is any specific gender i want it to be for men and women. 
• Title: The titles i was looking at are indiesider, ICON, unplugged, definition, M:BS (Music:Band&Singers), RockVibes, PockMag, Break Away.
• Font: I have looked at a selection of font that i think would be suitable for my magazine.
• Tage line: not your everyday music...
• Images: The images that i have thought about taking are 1) Of one medium close up of a female singer. 2) A boy rock band with there interments 3) A small girl band 4)  Female pop group 5) Full body shot of a male with a guitar. And for my article i want to take a selection of images some from the front cover shoot, and some others from gigs and friends for my contents page, finally i have choosen a median close up of a female that is going to be a singer.

10/1/11 Front Cover Continued

Front Cover, Making My Front Cover Of My Music Magazine 

This is my first week on creating my music magazine, i choose my title and went through all the different font to see what one i liked the most i came to this one and i thought it fit it perfectly, but it still felt like something was missing so i looked on the internet and found a image of a plug and some writing, so i cropped it and changed it to black and added it to the 'U' on unplugged as i thought thats where it looked best. i needed a tag line to go with it and i'm not in to mainstream music so '... not you everyday music' would go well with the whole indie/rock music of the magazine. i decided to choose this photo of my friend because it fits a magazine it has a large space at the top for the title, her head is in the middle which saves space for all the sub headings to go around it, i had edit the photo on photo shop as i already knew how to do i increased the contract to make the colours stronger, touched up her face to make it flawles like all the magazines have it. 

Music Magazine: Contents Photos

Contents Page Photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73448441@N06/sets/ These are a set of photos that i have collected from a selection of gigs i have been to, as well there is a couple of photos that i have taken of my friend a while ago i choose these because they are very related to music because she has head phones on which she that she is listen and likes music, it could advertise a silent disco too which is very popular these day at festivals ect. There is also more where she is posing with rock fingers that gives it a very rock gig vibe to it. The photo above is just one of the photo i have taken that i want to use for my magazine in the contents page, its of Kids In Glass Houses at southampton hall. 

Music Magazine Cover Ideas

Research: Photos in the front cover

 

These are covers from the internet, they are all types of magazine that mine is based on. i have chosen one that have a single girls on them in different types of positions to help my 'model' that i'm using for the front cover of my magazine. some of them are full face shoots other that are there whole body, but i have decided that i didn't what to use that shoot because because most rock/indie magazines the look that i'm going for doesn't have many full body shots, also i have decided not to use because it looks to main stream and pop to be in a rock magazine. All the other positions and styles that i wanted to got for because for a indie/rock female artist look quite good because they look mysterious that there is more to a person that what you see on the out side and in this case it is the photo. for this 'photo shoot'  i did to get the photos for my music magazine, i asked her to pose in lots of different ways i tried using air to blow the hair like the top middle one like adele, trying to lots of movements with her hands because from my research, that what most of the female artists are doing. When i was taking the photo i had to take in to consideration that it was a front cover image, so them it had to have a space at the top and enough space round the edge for all the sub-headings. I asked my friend to were make but very natural as the artist i wanted her to be like is a indie rock guitarist singer that has attitude but also has a soft style to her too. I like the middle photo of 'Mia' but thats not the kind of artist that i wanted so i didn't to energetic.