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Magazine Contents Page

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production schedule

Front Cover:

 

Firstly, I will take my photo for my front cover on a purple back ground using a projector, however if this doesn’t look effective then I will take the picture anywhere and crop out and change the background using the computer program Photoshop . For my front cover I will use Paige Singer and she will be dressed all in black and have gold accessories, with dark eye makeup and red/pink lipstick and gold jewellery and I will have a close up image of her with the main cover line written over it in gold. I will also have a smaller image of the new boy band which I will take on a zebra crossing and they will all be wearing similar costumes that they would have at home. Then there will be an image in the top right hand corner of the front cover advertising a free poster of Sophia grant and there will be a image just of her face smiling because we don’t want to give too much away I want them to be intrigued by what they see to make them buy the magazine and read it.

 

Contents page:

 

Then after I have done the front cover I will do the contents page and I will have three images going down the right hand side of the page and one image will be of my new celebrity Jasmine Murray (Paige singer) and she will be wearing the same as on the front cover in order to make sure that people still recognise her and another one will be of a brand new boy band and I will use Adam, Shane, Liam and Isaac to be the new boy band that have just got together and they will all be wearing smart casual clothing so like jeans and blazers. For my last image on the contents page I will have Abbie posing as the hot new poster of teen sensation Sophia grant and Abbie will be wearing tight wet look leggings that are black and a black crop top on a purple back ground. I will need a camera and a projector and a screen for this as well as the costumes and makeup. Abbie will have eye shadow and red blusher on and bright pink/red lipstick on, with lots of silver jewellery.

 

Double page spread:

 

For the double page I will use Paige again because she is the one who is being jasmine Murray and on one side of the double page spread I will take a long shot or a medium long shot of her happy and enjoying her new famous life she will be wearing something glamorous and expensive looking. I will have her on a red carpet scene to show her famous life. Then contrasting with that image on the other page I will have her wearing quite casual clothing that she used to wear before she became famous but show her looking a little sad because she doesn’t have much privacy and cant to the things that she used to be able to do. As well as this I will have another image on the top of the double page spread of jasmine and her two best friends which will be me and Abbie and we will be walking through a shopping centre with lots of bags in our hands and sunglasses on with our hand above our eyes and Aiden will be pretending to be a photographer from the press. So I will need more than one camera. This shows that we can’t go anywhere without being noticed.

 

Props/accessories  

·         Shopping bags

·         Sunglasses

·         Gold jewellery

·         Silver jewellery

 

Makeup

·         Foundation

·         Red blusher

·         Pink and red lipstick

·         Dark eye shadow

·         Mascara

 

Equipment

·         2 cameras

·         Projector

·         White screen

 

Costumes

·         2 pairs of Black wet look leggings

·         Black top with gold on it

·         Black crop top

·         2 blazers

·         4 pairs of jeans

·         4 tops

·         4 pairs of trainers/shoes

·         Dress

·         High heels

·         3 day to day outfits

 

Overall, when we are doing the photo shoot if I can’t get the background that I want e.g. the red carpet, shopping centre and the zebra crossing then I will just edit them in using Photoshop.  

Draft Article

The Up’s and Down’s of Fame!

Jasmine Murray, 18, the new found pop artist, talks exclusively to ‘Faze’ magazine about how she is finding fame. She first started out by just posting her videos on line on you tube, and she became a massive hit. Jasmine then got asked to appear on the Xtra Factor and that’s how she is recognised today. We did a short interview with jasmine to see how she is enjoying her new life.

Interviewer: how has your life changed since you were asked to go on the Xtra Factor?

Jasmine: it’s amazing, I love it! I’m now getting asked to go to premiers of movies, and people are recognising me when I go out places and fans are screaming my name. It’s like a dream!

 

“I’m so excited and all my family are behind me!”

 

Interviewer: have you always dreamed of being a famous singer?

Jasmine: I always wanted to be a singer from when I was just a little girl and now my childhood dream has come true and I have been asked to perform live on the X factor on Saturday night! I’m so excited and all of my family are behind me!      

Interviewer: when does your single come out?

Jasmine: it is available to pre order on I-tunes now, I really enjoyed designing the cover for my album and recording my single it’s just the start for me.

Interviewer: are you still doing your a-levels at school or have you put them on hold?

Jasmine: oh, I am still doing them I am just finding it hard now to concentrate because everyone treats me differently now I’m famous I don’t really like it when I’m at school because I still want to enjoy my school years like a normal teenager!

 

“I need some privacy!”

 

Interviewer: do you still act and do things like a teenager?

Jasmine: well I haven’t been able to go to town or the cinema or out for a meal with my friends because everywhere I go people are shouting my name and treating me like I’m famous and I know that I am now but I miss the old days when I could just go out with my friends and enjoy myself without the press taking photos of me. I need some privacy! 

Research Genre

From looking at different pop magazines I can clearly see that some of the codes and conventions of pop music magazines are…

House style and target audience:  as we can see there seems to be girly colours used throughout e.g. pink and purple. This appeals to the female audience, also we can tell this by the images that have been used as they are of Britney and Preston which are artists that appeal to women rather than men.

Masthead: the masthead of both of these magazines have been written in pink which relates to the rest of the house style and colour scheme on ‘smashhits’ we can see that it has a white backdrop which makes it stand out from the pink background; followed by the ‘top of the pops’ magazine which has been outlined in purple.

Main cover image: as we can see on both magazines that the main cover image is the largest thing on the page this is to draw in the reader’s attention as that is the first thing that you see.

On the front cover of pop magazines there is normally either one image at medium close up, or the front cover is quite busy and full on with lots of images and text and bright colours.

School Magazine

Mood Board

Research on pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music which is popular (and can include any style), whilst the latter is a specific genre containing qualities of mass appeal.

As a genre, pop music often borrows elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country; nonetheless, there are core elements which define pop. Such include generally short-to-medium length songs, written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and catchy hooks.

Pop music has been created to be pleasurable to listen to and not have that much meaning behind the song and lyrics.

Pre-Production Proposal

As part of our AS coursework in media we have to design and make our own music magazine. We have to design a front cover, a contents page and a double page spread. I have decided to do my music magazine on the music genre pop. Therefore inside my magazine I will be including articles on all different pop artists e.g. Beyoncé, One Direction etc. On the front cover of magazine I intend to have Beyoncé replica all dressed in black and then to have my cover story written in gold; ‘The new Beyoncé?’ all on a purple background then my double page spread will be an article on this new up and coming star. I will have a long shot of her on one side of the page being happy and on the other page there will be another longshot of her being upset and the article will be about the ups and downs of fame.  As we can see from this my target audience will be teenagers to young adults this is because I feel like there is a gap in the market as most companies go for either or, not both.

In the research process I looked into different magazines to see how they had everything laid out and looked at the house style to see if it carried on all the way through the magazine. I then looked into the main cover image like how the images have been taken, how they are laid out on the page and the type of images used. I compared different pop magazines that are already out there like, top of the pops and we love pop to make sure I am including the right information.

To make my magazine I will be using state of the art cameras, laptops/computers where I will hire out a suite, Photoshop and other major design programs. For this project I will have a budget of £5000.        

 

contents page anaylsis 2

This contents page is completely different from the other one. The colour scheme is much more sophisticated meaning that the target audience won’t be just set on teenagers this one will be for more young adults. The colour scheme is simple but effective black blur and white with a little bit of yellow but that is only used to make things stand out. By using these colours in particular go well with the background and the chosen images. There isn’t that many images on this contents page there is one main dominant image of a male in the centre right of the page and that draws your attention straight away to her. After that the other main thing that you would then look at would be the strip of three images directly underneath the contents header. On these images there is a page number which is in the exact same place on each image which keeps the consistency the same and looks professional. This contents page was taken from the music magazine ‘billboard’ and the layout is completely different to the other magazine. This one has two columns a little one on the left of the page which is a list of the charts this week for people to have a read through then the second column has the main contents page elements on it so images; page numbers and story lines to attract the reader. Then at the very bottom section of the page there is a box which inside tells you about events and things online this shows that the magazine is formal because to be able to book events and look into them you would have to be of a certain age so the language used for this music magazine is formal and this links and fits well with its target audience just as the last one did.

contents page analysis

As we can see by just looking at this contents page we can tell that the target audience is for teenagers because of the colours; the layout and the images that have been used. For example the colours that have been used are yellow, orange, pink, black and blue. These are a range of colours that don’t really go together and clash. The contents page looks really busy however; there isn’t much writing on it. I feel that the order in which the number of the pages have been shown on the contents page are quite hard to understand and mixed up. The language that has been used on this contents page is defiantly informal one because of the target audience being teenagers and two because like ‘crazy in love’ and the ‘o’ being a love heart is something that children would do and ‘date Olly’ is make believe it’s not really going to happen but it works well as that is the sort of content that teenagers want to see. The page itself has been divided into two horizontally with the top half just an image which is of the front cover and the bottom half which is split into two columns, with information telling you what is on each page. Although there is a strip that runs down the whole of the page and it is located on the right hand side of the page with images of celebrities with a title; ‘hot posters’ which will make girls want them and to turn to them pages. Overall, the contents page looks busy and colourful which appeals and suits its target audience well.

double page spread 2

This double page spread has a very simple design which consists of one large image on one page and a rather large article on the other; this has been taken from the music magazine ‘Q’. As we can see the double page spread is all about the pop sensation lady gaga. Compared to the other double page spread from another magazine we can see that this has a more formal approach. We know this because of the three very detailed columns of writing. Also just by using a large letter ‘S’ to start one of the paragraphs tells us that its more formal because that’s normally found un a newspaper not a magazine. The image on the left page sees a mid-shot of Gaga revealing quite a lot of flesh which would appeal quite a lot to the male target audience however, with the amount of writing on the right hand page suggests to us that stereotypically men won’t really be sat reading that. The large letter ‘L’ that is covering the whole of the main article body stays with the house style of the magazine ‘Q’ as it is red this is another reason why I think that the image of lady gaga is in black and white; it not only shows how sophisticated and sexy she is but it also stays with the house style of ‘Q’ magazine. I feel that ‘Q’ magazine has an older target audience therefore the language will be more formal as you wouldn’t really talk informally to an older audience. I like this style and layout better than the one direction double page spread this is because it looks a lot more professional and sophisticated and appeals to a wider audience.

double page spread anaylsis

Language: this magazine double page spread is about two members from the hottest new boy band ‘one direction’ they are talking about there teenage lives and how difficult they found it. Therefore the language that has been used is informal as they are teenagers themselves and the article’s audience will be teenagers. If the language used was formal then it wouldn’t appeal top the target audience. for example the heading on the right hand side of the page from harry ‘I put my girlfriend before my grades’ shows just how immature the young band and teenagers can be, by putting their girlfriends before there grades which is what stays with them for the rest of their lives where as a girl friend is just a fling. Both of these story lines will appeal to teenagers because that is what they are all going through at the current time. Therefore they will buy the magazine to read all about one direction’s troubles.

Layout: the layout of this double page spread has two main images which are located on the right hand side of each page with the main article at the left hand side. This makes it look professional because it is the same on both sides. The colour scheme/ house style is kept the same across the double page spread with the colours being white, grey and blue. This also fits well with the colour of the images.

front cover analysis

The masthead: this is a silver colour which bonds well the background, which is purple, also the masthead is at the top of the page which will be one of the first things you see and read. The insides of the letters ‘a’ and‘d’ are coloured in different colours (green and blue) which adds a little more colour to the main look of the magazine.

Main cover image: this is of Miley Cyrus holding a large letter ‘M’ which is in gold. It is the main dominant image that stands out and it is the first thing that people see and the colours are black and gold these are sophisticated and sexy.

Other cover images: normally on other pop magazines there are other images around the front cover with other cover stories but on this magazine there is no other image but the main one of Miley Cyrus which shows how important she is to this magazine.

Main cover line: ‘the queen of teen grows up. But will her fans follow?’ by using the word ‘queen’ which is in a yellow/gold colour shows the importance of Miley in this magazine.

Other cover lines: the consistency of the colour scheme stays throughout the front cover because they are all title in yellow/gold and the little sub lines underneath are in white, which keeps the front cover looking professional.

Font: The entire font on the front cover is kept the same this shows how sophisticated and professional the magazine is because if all of the fonts were different it would look all mashed up and wouldn’t really appeal to a wider audience.

Puff: in the top left hand corner there is a little yellow strip that stands out dramatically from the rest which says ‘don’t miss’ this is leading you into reading the rest of the magazine as you want to find out what’s inside and what you would be missing if you didn’t read it.

my ideas

research questionnaire

1.    What colour scheme would you expect to see?

a.   Bright (pink, purple)

b.   Light  (blue, yellow)

c.    Dark (black, green)

d.   Other…

                                        

2.    What layout (house style) would you expect a pop magazine to have?

a.   Many columns

b.   Lots of images

c.    Lots of text and information

d.   Other…

3.    Who would expect to see in a pop magazine?

a.   One direction

b.   Cheryl Cole

c.    Queen

d.   Green day

4.    How much would you be willing to pay?

a.   £1 - £2

b.   £2 - £3

c.    £3 - £4

d.   £4+

5.    Would you expect there to be one dominate image or lots of little images on each page?

6.    Who would you expect the target audience to be for a pop magazine?

7.    How often would you buy the magazine?

Evaluation

Evaluation of Preliminary Magazine

I started by looking through different school magazines to collate my ideas for my own school magazine; and from them I found that they have a masthead which is called ‘excel’ this is blue and red which stands out in the back ground colour which on the one I looked at was black. This makes the main image stand out, also because the main cover story was about talent and the winners performed thriller so the black makes it more realistic with the story. The main house style of the school magazines was blue, red white and black and this was continued throughout the magazine which makes it look professional. At the bottom of the magazine there is a plug this tells us what’s happening inside the magazine, the date is always kept under the masthead and ‘The Armthorpe School Magazine’ is always kept above the masthead.

Then we moved on to the planning stage and this consisted of sketching out three different possible layouts for the front cover and three possible layouts for the contents page, which consisted of graphic design symbols, before deciding on the final design. When I had decided on the layout for my school magazine I had to go out and take lots of pictures to use on the front cover and on the contents page. I used this image of fame for the front covers main image and this is because The Armthorpe School specialises in the arts and sports therefore an image of one of the school productions is relevant. I then decided for my plugs I would stick with the arts theme by telling people that we will rock you and Shakespeare schools festival is coming to the Armthorpe school soon as a little taster so it will make them read on and want to come and watch them when they are on.

Inside my magazine my house style colours are black and white this is because the front cover image is quite dark and has a black background, so therefore sticking with the colour scheme of my front cover I decided to change from the original school magazine house style of blue red white and black just to black and white. I did this because I thought, and tried out that blue looked silly in contrast with my front cover. The original school magazines that we looked at were called ‘excel’ but I decided to change mine to ‘Academy news’ which is in white, this stands out on my black background.

I developed all of these ideas on Adobe Photoshop CS6 as I am new to this software therefore I only used basic skills like importing images and adding texts. I feel that when we move onto our final design on our music magazine I will be more confident with using Photoshop.  My contents page is very basic as all that is on it is text and images and a gradient background, which goes from black to white. Although it’s very basic and plan it sort of works as you don’t want it to be too busy this is because it is aimed at students and they can be quite lazy and not really be interested in what’s happening at school and they don’t really want to be read that much so I included lots of images so it is visually stimulating and appeals to a wider audience of students. One of my images is the stain glass window which we use to remember one our teachers I used this image and story in particular because I feel that it will appeal to all of the students as they can remember him by it and even new students who didn’t know him will find it interesting to read.

Overall, I am quite pleased with my first magazine that I have done, although there is still a lot of improvement to be done as I feel that the colour scheme is quite dull and there isn’t that much information on either my front cover or my contents page and they are quite bland and not that appealing to a wider school audience especially because of the colour scheme. Next time I do a magazine, which will be my music one I will make sure that the colours are bright and look aesthetically pleasing to the eye as this will make more people want to buy and look at it, also I will add more information to both the contents page and the front cover.

magazine double page

On the right hand side of the double page spread we can see a very large image of what we believe to be the Chapman family, as it clearly states in the caption underneath. the colour scheme for this magazine sort of follows the logo which is blue black pink and purple which are a mixture of male and female colours so this magazine could be aimed at either gender. However saying that there seems to be a lot of text in this magazine to be a male one because usually there isn't much writing, this is because the stereotypical view on men is that they are lazy and would Rather look at the images. this could be why there is a large image on the right hand side. As we can see at the very beginning of the article/story it starts with a very large 'F' and we don't normally see this in magazines its normally found in newspapers, although it is sticking with the theme of purple!

magazine contents page

The house style for this magazine has three columns and we can tell this just from the contents page! Hopefully the house style will stay the same all of the way through; the third column is full of images of celebrities this would appeal to the female audience that this magazine is set for! We can also tell this by the fact that the colour scheme is pink, purple and white which are very girly colours! Also in the first column there is an image of a woman in a bikini this shows that it’s for woman because this is what women want to look like it could be considered as a role model, and there is a lot of images that are summery style which appeal to women as they want to get the perfect body for summer! There is quite a lot of writing on this page to say that it is only a contents page however, women like reading and that won’t put them off buying the magazine. The word ‘OK!’ is always in the same font as it is the logo/brand of the magazine, the mast head! finally at the bottom of the second column there is lots and lots of small writing this is the like copy right and manufacturing laws. this will be found on every magazine no matter what age, genre or gender!  

GCSE English Article

The GCSE results for English, were they right?

All the uproar about the GCSE English results can’t have escaped you’re attention! The fact they changed the grade boundaries just two weeks before the results were published. There has been resent concerns in the rise of C grades and this meant that the board quickly had to produce closer predictions for this subject.

After these particular concerns the board responded a day later and they said that the proposed grades were fair and they had no need to change them.

As a result of this, when the results of the letters were produced, Ofqual’s chief regulator, Glenys Stacey was faced with a call to resign, and many people strongly agreed with is for example John Townsley (a head teacher and former board member) told us exclusively that “Glenys Stacey should resign” this is all because Ofqual were seen to be applying too much pressure to the awarding body about bringing the amount of C grades down!

However, Ofqual said that the letters produced were correct and it was something that they had to do to make sure that the standard of results maintained but also that they reflected on the past years results.

Although at a school in Wales it came about that hundreds of students were expected to get higher GCSE English grades because of this the education minister demanded that they had a remark and in Wales this is allowed where as in England it couldn’t be any more different… Welsh pupils are seen as “victims” of an “injustice” this is because they got lower results than they would have had last month!

Following this, Dennis Opposs who is the director of standards at Ofqual wrote a letter to Edexcel on 7^th August because he was concerned about the results predicted as they were eight points higher and because of this they had to quickly change the results to make sure that they were a lot closer to the predictions, but they were moved a lot more than they normally are!

Now if Ofqual are still wanting to change the grade boundaries then the English requirement to get a C would be 65/96 and this is 10 marks higher than in January!!

magazine front cover

The target audience for this magazine would be females who are looking to get married. We can also tell this by the fact that some of the words are in pink this colour appeals to females. Also, by using the puff ‘new’ suggests to the audience that there is some new information in this magazine that no one has seen before this would therefore make them want to by it. As we can see the price is hidden under the mast head this is because they don’t want to attract the attention to the price as it may put off potential buyers.

The colour scheme stands out this is because by using a white background shows how sophisticated it is and that it appeals to older women. The main image is of a woman who is dressed in a wedding dress this shows what styles there is inside the magazine.  

definitions

Target audience - Particular group of people, identified as the intended recipient of an advertisement or message.

Genre – it is a French word for type this means that different types of films are put into categories this means that it is easier for the audience to make a choice.

Conventions – these are the key features of genres this means that you would expect in a horror film that there would be a hero and a villain and lots of blood and guts everywhere.

Codes – is a way of conveying meaning without using words.