Media Evaluation

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Voice Magazine Final version (Front Cover, Contents Page and Double page spread)

(Front Cover)

(Contents Page)

Company Logo (Background Information)

Voice.

The above image shows my magazine company logo. It basically is the shape of a 'V' with the word Voice placed on it, i also made it red, this is a typical convention of music magazine (epesically of my genre).

Voice is a brand new magazine company, dedicated to genre we call 'Indie Music'.

First Draft (Drawings)

The pictures below show my first draft (drawing). This is what i wanted my magazine to look like at first, but since drawing this, some of the ideas have been changed or not been used.

On my front cover (Top Image) i got rid off the 'Inside' banner, as i realised it would take up too much space and would cover most of the front cover image. Also the side images weren't used as again, same as the banner, it would have taken up too much space and covered up the image. I did keep the name of my magazine the same, 'Voice', as i thought it was relevant to the type of magazine i was making.

Most of the 'double page spread' ideas were removed because it didn't look very professional when all put together, so i kept it simple in my final draft, which will be uploaded soon.

Mood Board

The picture above shows the mood board i created in pre-production of my magazine. It basically shows the colours and fonts i might have chosen for my magazines front cover, contents page and double-page spread. It gave me a clearer idea on what i should focus on when designing my magazine, like the colour, fonts, advertisements, puffs, plugs etc. It's ideal to create a mood board because its where you can put all your ideas together and then decide on what your going to do (Scheme wise).

Edited Images

First Draft of my magazine (Front Cover and Contents Page)

Pictures.

On this blog-post are the pictures i used in my magazine front cover, contents page and double-page spread. They include three models called Emily, Ryan and Liam. Here they are:

Company Name.

When in the creation of my magazine, my company name will be 'Voice'. When i was choosing my company name i wanted something which was similar to music, i picked out quite a few words, but i decided to go with 'Voice' because it was relevant to the artist and the music company.

Draft Article (Interview)

Interview: Alice S6x

Discovered at the club ‘Open Mics’, Alice S6x has recently released her first album, which as sold over 1,000,000 copies in its first week, and still growing. Alice has become so successful we just had to get an interview with this music star.

Q- Hello Alice S6x, tell me where did the inspiration for your name come from?

A-    Alice came from the book ‘Alice in Wonderland’; it shows the naturalistic side of life and people, so it really shows the fantasy of everything. S6x just sounded cool with Alice, so there your answer. Also S6x was my postcode when I was growing up, so it means something to me (personal)

Q- Interesting, I must say. Also where did the inspiration for the name of you   album come from?

A-Androgyny came from a lot of different things, but mostly coming from blurring the male and female lines. Represents the weirdness of afraid in being yourself and different to other people. It shows and tells people that they shouldn’t be afraid of who they actually want to be, just do it and you can accomplish anything, it’s the albums hidden meaning.

Q- Another interesting fact, I must say though, it’s unusual?

A-I don’t believe it’s unusual because its part of my reality, my reality is your fantasy; the truth is…I loathe reality.

Q-How was life growing up, did any memories have any inspirations to your album?

A-Life growing up was tough, I got bullied for being different. I was called lots and lots of names, some of which I don’t like to repeat). I believe the hurtful memories were my inspiration; I put my feelings down on paper, and to show I’m not afraid of being different and no one else should be!

Q-How does it feel to be in the spotlight and have so many people want to be you?

A-It feels really good, knowing I’ve been bullied all my life, and now people love me, it just shows that I’ve done something positive in my life. I love the reaction I get from people it makes me really happy that people understand the meaning of my songs. I’ve always wanted to perform with Lady G’, because she as the same view points as me on life and individuality, but, to be honest, I don’t think of myself as a superstar, not yet anyway, I still have a long way to go before I reach that status.

Q- Bet you’re very proud of yourself?

A-Yes, my parents are really proud of me, there glad I stood up for myself. So am I! I’m also proud of the stage I’ve created for my upcoming tour, I designed it all by myself. In my tour there’s going to be a lot of costumes changes, the lighting will also be over the top. I’ve recently worked with a lot of people like ‘Guopei’ to produce the costumes for my show as well as working with ‘Versace’ and ‘McQueen’ for my upcoming spread in Vogue, shot by renowned photographer ‘Nick Knight’.

Thank you for you spending your time with us Alice S6x, you have told us some interesting information, which has hopefully excited our audience and wanted some of them to buy your new album. Remember guys you can purchase Alice S6x’s album on I-tunes for £6.99. You don’t want to miss out on this amazing artist.

Initial ideas:

My inital idea is to create a new music magazine, promoting a new artist and their new album. I will be keeping to the genre of Indie, and to the original codes and conventions of typical Indie music magazine  (Example: NME)

Props, make-up, setting etc.

At the moment i don't really need any props, but my model (Emily Mason) must have to wear one object which is red. Make-up might be essential, but i won't go over the top with the amount. The setting i'm trying to achieve is a white/black plain brick wall, this would help in editing.

Equipment:

In the creation of my photoshoot i shall need a digital camera (to take the pictures with). I may need a tripod, but at the moment it doesn't seem likely that i shall need one.

Photoshoot: Model

For the creation of my magazine, i will need to have a photoshoot taken.

The name of my model is: Emily Mason

My proposal:

My proposal is to create a new music magazine, promoting a new artist. It will include an interview, where he discusses his music career and promote his new album. It will include a new photoshoot (which is exclusive). It will also include advertisments and posters for concerts, keeping to its typical conventions and codes.

Indie Rock: Audience Expectations.

Indie Rock:

The audiences expactations for indie rock magazines is free-flowing and straight to the point. Natural and a stand out colour scheme and someone you can associate with the genre...Indie Rock (Artist/Band). Engaging headings which is friendly to the reader. Trying to keep to most of the coventions of a typical Indie rock magazine, like the main picture is usually placed on the right of the front cover, and starts to cover the mast-head. Special offers are placed in yellow shapes (stand out promotion colours), and the bar code must be placed on the right hand side at the bottom of the page, and must be small-medium sized. The mast-head is usually in Red, and in a bold font (makes company become familiar to the reader).

All these are expactations because it makes the reader become familiar to the magazine, so they understand what genre the magazine is promoting and become even more familiar with the concept and context of the mag.

Magazine production companies.

Magazine Production Companies:

Examples:

• Titan Magazines: Is a magazine publishing group, they own many Forbidden Planet specialist and collectors stores. They publish many magazines for television programmes and films, and are a well known organisation. Some of the magazines they create becoming very collectable and sell for good prices on websites such as Ebay e.t.c.
• EMAP: A british media company, specialising in the production of business to business magazines. There for mostly information and sell 20 types of magazines.
• Bauer Group (UK): They are probably the main and big publishing company in the UK, they sell magazines for any type of Genre. Example: Lifestyle to Music. A big company and earn lots of money for their publications.

Indie Rock magazine: Codes and Conventions.

Indie Rock magazine:

Front Cover

Conventions:

• Mast-head is usually in bold letters and in the colour red. Bright and dominating colour.
• Main-Heading are usually in Red or white, keeping to its front cover colour scheme. The headings are wrote in 'Sans Serif', showing a friendly feel to engage the reader to read this magazine.
• The main image is usually placed on the right hand side of the front cover, it starts to blend over the mast-head, this happens on most of NME front covers. They are also placed on a white background, making the image stand out more.
• Special offers or promotion are usually in yellow.
• They keep to them same, basic colour scheme: Red, Yellow, Black and White. But mostly use the colour red.
• The bar-code is placed at the bottom right hand corner, not much attention is put on the bar-code, so your attention goes on the main-image/headings first.

Codes:

           Symbolic Codes:

• The typical symbolic codes of a music magazine (NME) is the plugs are usually yellow and bold, and placed at either the top of the magazine or the bottom.
• Always include an image on the front cover of the artist, which will be the main point of the magazine.

Genre and Target Audience.

The Genre in which i want my magazine to be focused on is 'Indie Rock'.

The main target audience for this type of magazine is usually teenagers (16+) to young adults, they class this genre of music not to really be associated with young teenagers, as some of the songs contain young adult humour. Indie Rock though can be listened by everyone, as it sells itself to a wide-spread audience.

The Genre of Indie Rock is natural and straight to the point, you can identify this with some of the magazines associated with Indie (Example: NME), as they keep to the natural and stand out colours and their headings are straight to the main focus/main selling points of the magazine. They keep to what they want you to find out. Also Indie Rock comes from the word 'Independent', as the singers and artist promote and try to sell songs themselves, the same to magazines, as they are there own company.

Initial Idea.

My initial indea is to create a front cover, contents page and a 2 page cover spread for a new music magazine.. it will be centered around the genre we call today...Indie Rock. I will keep to the typical conventions and codes of this magazine, which is the colour scheme they use (Red, Black, White and Yellow) as well as the font and style of images. The main purpose of the magazine is to promote and interview a new artist.