WE R YOU !!!

What artist do you like ?...  What appeals to you ?... Whats your favourite music genre ?..  WE WANT TO APPEAL TO YOU YOUNG PEOPLE, AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT WE HAVE TO BECOME YOU !! share your interest and hobbies and views on life .. :)

I'VE JUMPED A STEP FURTHER IN OUR RESEARCH METHOD, AND DONE A PERSONAL QUESTIONAIRE, ASKING MY TARGETED AUDIENCE WHO THEIR FAVOURITE ARTIS WERE AND HERE ARE SOME THE MANY SUGGESTIONS THAT POPPED UP OVER AND OVER , THROUGHT OUT MY RESEARCHES.

IN AID TO MY RESEARCH I ALSO SEARCHED UP URBAN, HIP HOP , AFRICAN AND REGGEA CHARTS AND GOT SUGGESTED ARTISTS FOR MY MAG :

American artists in high demand;
Trey songz
Rihanna

Drake

Lilwayne

Nicki minaj

Chris brown

T I

Caribbean/Reggae artist in demand;

Mavado

Vybz kartel

Machel mantano

Gaza kim

Destra garcia

Black ryno

Bob marley

&& more

African artist on demand;                             

2face idibia

d'banj

9ice

koffi olimide

justine

magic system

&& more

Urban uk artist on demand;

Tinie tempah
Giggs
Professor green
Mz brat
Ndubz
Griminal
Scorcher
Tinchy strider
Donaeo
Chipmunk

                               

                 

Planning For Publication

Today in lesson we discussed analysis of music magzine front cover and how itz applys it design techiniques, colours schemes and mode of address, to suit its target audience.

This was neccesary to help use with the planning for our music magazine as, we needed to know ways in which to attract the audience wanted for our publication.

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This is plan for my media publication

In this task we used a mind map to plan idea about my own media product. this included what style genre my publication would be taking

                                   Mood map

Then using the ideas we gained for our own media publication we made mood board, a visual representation of our target audience for our music magazine publication. Containning pictures of  items, accesories and music icons that my targeted market audience would be interested in.

Prelim Task, Magazine Cover

My original photography

i had change the toning of my original image by brightening up the white tone, in the background, and givin it a daylight glow, this enable my cerius pink masthead to stand out amongst the rest of the freming for the mag.i also rescaled the image in order to make it look an aproriate size for a front cover.

The way in which i did this was;



i canged the level of emboss by 25% reduction, giving the image a faded washed out look.


i also rescaled the size of my image, this is how i adjust my imagery to fit with the magazine

Prelim Task, Contents Page

I think by using contrasting colours such as black, pinks ad white, it really accurately target my audience of 14-21 year old girls. Pink is almost always seen as a more femininne colour along twith the white gives it a passive, fresh tone. I have also kept my main layout font of the front cover as it gives the mag a real sense of consistancy. My page numbers and articles are clearly presented, so the reader understand what page goes with each article, and so they are aware of the content in my mag.

This image i took has bright colours and shows and side of excitement and fun inside acland burghely, it shows different elements of education, e,g through performing arts and ect. i think it is a good image to use on my contents page  for my school magazine as it is familiar surounding for students in the school.

this picture shows education and learning in aclandburghley as a bright, good experience, the vibrance and natural brightness shows the positivity that i am trying to portay through the curiculum in acland burghley, givin it a very good overview for the readers of the magazine.

This picture i put on my contents page for humour, to show the element of imaturity and school day, this shows a fun side to school life, and will heavily relate to my targeted audience.

This picture shows the sort of clubs and workshops acland burghley school take part in, and what they heavily believe in is recycling and taking care of the enviroment in which we live in. Its shows the passion and intensity of comittement the school has in this area.

This picture is mainly to show students that attend the school, and to show the enjoyment they have attending school.

Magazine comparison

i've annotated VIBE magazine; urban selection aimed at hip hop and RnB listeners. The generic music convention codes emploed by the magazine suggest the target audience are young people on the go and enjoy having fun.  The main image on the front cover is of a well known American rapper artist 'T.I', He is of african american decent, which tells me the mag is aimed at a multicultural target audience.  The main colour schemes used is black, red and white, which are usually seen as male colours, the colour red is also a very vibrant colour, this infers to the reader that it is a energetic males magazine.

The layout of the image Is shown to be the most important as it symbolises a sense of youth.

The typography and mode of address, is more of an informal (slang) type of address, e.g. " aint no such thing as a secret snitch" this is appealing to a certain group of people young people's of  african american decent.

The second magazine I chose to annotate in comparison with VIBE is 'KERRANG' magazine.
The particular front page i chose to study has a band named Machine head', i can tell that the magazine is aimed at an audience that prefer the genre of rock music because the artists on the front page look ruthless and out of control. The poses strike the eye of the reader the most because one member of the band is grabing the othere with his arm and they are all staring at the camera with madness and intensity. Also the artists are wearing gothic make-up which tells me as a reader that they follow a fashion trend that the stereotype would wear. Aswell as the band, there are many other images reflecting tasters of whats inside the mag, whereas, in Vibe magazone there is only the one main image used. 

COMPARISONS OF BLOGS

For my personal value i researched a wide variety of different blogs such as Film blogs, Music blogs and Scientific blogs, this could give me a better idea of the things contained on blogs:
Film blogs I looked at:
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/
- http://www.fadedglamour.co.uk/

Music blogs I looked at:
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog
- http://www.buzzinmusicblog.co.uk/
- http://www.livemusicblog.com/

Scientific blogs I looked at:
- http://scienceblog.com/
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog
- http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/

One thing i found common among all of these blogs was that the layout was very easy on the eye. I think his is a good quality to all of these blogs as they were easy to read and configure. I also found that the blogs had adapted to their genre of the blog. For example, the live music blog had theme colours of red and white to show the vibrant feel of live gigs, but white so that the text on the blog was easy to read.

By looking at these different blogs, I have learnt that the blogs that had more hits and were more interesting were fairly plain, with detail highly related to the purpose for the blog. Using this information I know that I should keep my blog simple and informative but with the information I need, laid out in different ways.

Uses And Gratification Theory

Uses and Gratifications is broken down in to four different parts. These justify why people feel a need for media and why it is consumed so much.

Diversion - A form of escape or release from everyday pressures (e.g. Movies (cinema), T.V, Consoles, Facebook, Radio)

Personal - Comparing your life with characters or situations on screen (e.g. Big Brother, Tabloid News, I'm a Celebrity get Me Out Of Here)

Personal identity - Looking at someon else's situation and comparing it to your own, looking at different outlooks on the world (e.g. celebrity lifestyle, chased by paparazzi)

Surveilance - Information about 'What's going on in the World' (e.g. e-mail's, Facebook, News, Gig guides)

All magazines use these to base their purpose on as these are the reason's for consumtion. When producing my magazine, I will consider all four of these and remember that reader's will consume my magazine for any of these four reasons and so to make a successful magazine, I will cover all four considering all possible reader's and their reason's for consuming my publication.