Task 12

Below are examples of the questions i asked when interviewing Twenty Twenty;


Firstly please briefly introduce (Band name); members, instruments etc.


band name)? Any story behind naming the band?



Any interesting stories at all, of how you all came to favour your instruments? Any particular loyalty to a brand?



How long have you been making music together? Talk me through the formation



If any… What are the main guidelines/theme or sound you stick to when making a new song? Will this change in the future?



Who are you major influences?


What has been the biggest challenge as a whole for the band so far, and have you overcome this?


Any strange fan encounters a tall?


When on the road have any band members been, “misplaced”?

Any other interesting stories?


Plans for the future?


What advice do you give for young teens hoping to pursue a music career?



I have also done some research on each band so i can easily put my answers together and add more detail if i need to.

Task 11

These are the rough sketches of my front cover contents page and double page spread that had to be completed as part of our planning.

Task 10

Publication Plan
Title: AMP
Positioning statement: Live Loud, grab AMP! (01/03/10- since this plan i have changes this too "Plug in Live Loud")
Frequency of publication: Monthly
Price: £2.30

Distribution: Newsagents, music shops, Supermarkets, online subscription

Rationale: To appeal to the target audience directly using involvement like pages where the audience write in to what they want to read. We will include interviews and overall focus on what the audience will want to know and see.

Style: Informal, humorous with simple vocabulary and following the regular style magazine commonly conform to.

Regular content: Forum for readers, AMP AT... (Exclusive reports from the hottest gigs) use someone to include a column in the magazine,



Feature content: Interviews, investigations, gossip from the industry (my genre), do’s and don’ts, Competitions

Task 9

Conclusion

Following my survey, i have decided to use the most popular answers as pointers to the contents of my magazine. I have decided to do an Alternative magazine, and use NME as a model magazine while doing my own. Overall doing a questionnaire has been useful as i now have rough guidlines in what to include in my magazine e.g. bands/artists, topics etc.

Task 8

Questionnaire Tally of answers
Question
1. males: 8 Females: 12

2. never: 7 sometimes:6 Frequently: 6 all the time: 1

3. Electronic
rock
alternative
Dance
Rock
Rock
Pop
Pop
Indie
Indie
Rock
Alternative
Alternative
Pop
Alternative
Rock
Rock
Rock
Indie
Alternative, pop
Alternative
Rock

4. Rock sound
NME
NME
Q
NME
NME
Q
NME
NME
NME
NME
Q
Q
KERRANG
Rocksound/RWD
KERRANG
KERRANG
KERRANG/Rocksound
NME
KERRANG

5. Reasons for magazine choice where such as; good quality posters included, Reliable contents, lots of content, like the music inside, has a bit of everything, appeals to interests, covers a range of music, includes favourite groups, genres covered, suits interests, likeability factor.

6. Favourite bands: Breaking Benjamin, Libertines, Paramore, Pink, Little Boots, La Roux, Taylor Swift, Enter Shakari, Rusko, Paramore, Rise Against, Taylor Swift, Kings of Leon, Beyonce, Beyonce, Kings of Leon, Three Days Grace

7. Individuality, Clothing style, mixture, guitars, new, uniqueness, skinny jeans, hats, stretched ears, frogs, colours, fun, films, drums, randomness.

8. Good bands featured, good artists, pictures, colours, cover, images, layouts, exclusive headline, colours and known bands, posters, if its different, cover stories, bright colours, boldness

9. too expensive, too much un-necessary gossip, Celebrity gossip, too similar, boring, too much writing, Stories that drag, focused on one main genre, too many adverts*

10. different genres, interviews*, fashion side of music, more band articles, gig dates and reviews, gifts, more pictures/posters, Bands, latest news, gigs, clothing lines, competitions/offers, more on favourite artists, more on unsigned acts.

11. £1-2: 3 £2-3: 9 £3+: 8

12. gigs, what’s new, what’s new, gigs, clothing, bands, latest news, interviews, gossip, gossip, interviews, stories, behind the scenes, movie/music gossip, gig information, bands, bands, interviews, up and coming albums, lyrics.

13. all 20 people where ages between 16-19

As a whole the results that were consistent throughout the survey, I have decided to adopt to suit my target audience. E.g. the price and what I will include, also the genre alternative seemed to be popular and to use NME as a model to my magazine as this is a popular magazine according to my survey.

Task 7

Questionnaire

Task 4 5 and 6

Here the tasks were to analyse the front cover, contents page and double page spread of music magazines and note the codes and conventions.

Task 4
Front cover
Original masthead
Central Image
Anchorage text
Anchoring (supporting) images
barcode
price
states frequency of magazine
issue number
Date
key contents in bold writing
Central image most commonly having direct mode of address
tagline
colourful
Always has an independent colour scheme
puffs
buzzword e.g. Exclusive!
Image doesn't cover the masthead (some exceptions mostly in popular magazine e.g. Kerrang)
mast head in UPPERCASE

Task 5
Contents page:
A pictures dominates – linking to central image on front
Set out in columns.
Split into two or three columns
normally includes an editor’s letter.
Have little images to display content
Page number before the story.
Includes web address
Titles are normally in bold.
Page numbers are a different colour to the stories.
Have contact details and address.
Always have an ‘every week’ column.
Usually two pages
Line gap between each section.
Subscription details
Type size 11pt.
Credits for front picture
Pictures are different sizes and have numbers on them which anchor them to be written in contents
Regular contents have a page number
Pages are not in specific order and are normally in sections for example; Bands
One main picture in some magazines.

Task 6
Double Page spread:
Drop quotes
small font
Substantial amounts of writing
one main image
strapline
limited use of colour
short summary at the beginning
first letter is always bigger
Eye catching headline
artist's name are always big and highlighted
picture of the journalist (sometimes)
always have a by line ( who wrote it)
text is once again in columns
page number
title of article and Magazine
Sections of the article in bold and a larger font before the sentence appears in the column

Task Three

My magazine
Alternative Music magazine
Price £2.20
Name: AMP
Monthly issues
average in size, not large

regular
"AMP gives volume" our gig guide-which gigs are must see which are wanabe's?
flamin' or freezin' - gossip in the industry
advertisements
"AMP please turn me up" from the message board one reader is picked to be our reporter at a gig

feature
exclusives depending on whos touring
new releases or artists
competitions

Task two

NME
Price £2.10
Sold monthly
150 pages (approx.)

regular
"new" music express: new artists
latest industry gossip
double page spread interview
gig listings
advertisements
reviews

feature
different bands/artists
competitions
supports aunual music events e.g. Glastonbury

Q
Price £3.90
Sold monthly
Pages 150 (approx.)

regular
Q hero
Q quiz
Last request
access all areas
competitions
advertisements

feature
artists/band spreads
Top 10 Q's chosen must see gigs

Main- Task One

I will be producing an Alternative music magazine aimed at teenagers - early adults. This is because being in this category myself i assume that it would be easier when picking the contents, as i know what is most interested in within my friends. Also i think with it the task being difficult as all content has to be our own and original, it would be more suited and beneficial using alternative as there is a wider variety of content i can include.

I have been in contact with another unsigned band located in London called 'Ten Bears'. I am unable to meet for an interview but they are willing to fill in a questionnaire and send it back to me with what i need to know in order to feature them in my magazine.

My front page has now been looked at. After some helpful critism this is the final result and i am pleased.





This is the contents page i have made on quarker express

in todays lesson (8th October) i fineshed my preliminary front cover of the school magazine. i will now ask for it to be looked at and be given any pointers on how to improve.

Evaluation
I will be evaluating my magazine and contents page. I will be looking at how it both follows and deviates from the codes and conventions of a magazine. I will also talk about how I could have improved my magazine.

My media project both follows and deviates from the codes and conventions of a magazine as I have included a large masthead, this stands out well and follows the colour scheme of my magazine and also appeals to my target audience. On my front cover I have my positioning statement, date and issue number at the top by my title. This is what the codes and conventions say, I followed them so my target audience will see them and recognise straight away that it’s a magazine from the setting. I challenged the codes and conventions on my front cover with my central image as there is not direct mode of address. I did this as I didn’t want it to look too confident as it was meant to be a new student also I thought that I did have to include one challenge that’s goes against the codes and conventions. When using quark to create my contents page I found it easier not to include the guidelines as this made the design I wanted to achieve harder.

To make my magazine and contents page I used Photoshop and QuarkXPress. I used Photoshop on the front page and Quark on the contents page. I found Photoshop easier than Quark as Quark was a new programme and we had been using Photoshop longer. I found it quite difficult getting the hang of quark.
Compared to my sketches my final project was completely different. My titles changes along with a number of other things like the contents etc.
Overall I am happy with my project. If I would improve I could try to include a little more on my front cover. I chose not to clutter my front cover but resulted in a lot of unfilled space.

the past two media lessons that i have had i have been manipulating images that i will be using on my preliminary task of creating a school magazine


Planning my preliminary task


I choose the title for my magazine; Cliff’s Freshest, as I have promoted that we always bring the freshest stories. Also I have shortened the name of the school that I made up.

I also want to make sure any images that I take will connote school and education.

Features:
My features will include things such as interviews form teachers or little notes. Reminders like “dates for your diary” I will use a story about our schools radio in my features as I can utilise the equipment that we have in school for images.

Regulars:

Heads message, editors letter, coming up, competitions, school sports page, what’s going on in each department page.

For my central image I want to include one of our younger students looking happy so I can use it for the story of welcoming our new students to the school.

Other images used will also be appealing and I will try to come up with headlines for the pictures I can take.

I have planned my school name; Cliffside, so I will have to make a logo on Photoshop, and to include the sub headline of our schools radio I will also have to make a logo for that.

I will make sure to include an address and phone number, website address, email and fax.







These are the rough sketches i have made in the planning stages of my preliminary task!

Stills for Preliminary task

The 30th of September i took the pictures that i will use on my prelimanary task of creating a school magazine.