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.