Front Cover, Contentes Page & Double Page Spread Sketches

These are the sketches that I drew in order to actually produce my front cover, contentes page & double page spread.

Production Plans

Planning Production

I will now go further into the deeper detail of what I will include in my magazine.

Images I will use for my front cover:

·         Helen Mahoney

Coverlines:

·         Interview with Blame The Object

·         Win meet and great with Kasabian

·         Scarlet “My life is so different now”

·         Download festival 2012

·         Morrissey and Marr from The Smiths reveal all

·         10 albums you have to listen to this year

·         Muse back to the old days

Images I will include for my contests page:

·         Blame The Object

·         Scarlet

·         Refrain

·         An amplifier

Text I will use for my contents page:

·         Album reviews

·         Band of the fortnight

·         Money off gigs vouchers

·         Win VIP and meet and great with Kasabian

·         Gig Guide

·         Posters

·         Tabs - Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule

·         Gigs across the country

·         Gig experiences

·         Guitars

·         In the making of Velociraptor

·         Metallica and Megadeth

·         Best drummers, voted by you

·         Arctic Monkeys

·         Line up for Sonesphere 2011

·         Getting into the music business

·         Mon the Biff

·         Muse in the old days

·         What is the best album cover of all time?

·         Morrisey & Marr from The Smiths reveal all

·         Mumford & Sons amp it up

·         Interview with blame the object

·         Muse and Radiohead

·         Noel Gallager going solo

·         Scarlet

·         Line up for download festival 2012

·         10 albums you have to listen to in this year

·         Top 10 rock songs of this year

·         Ed Sheeran’s album plus +

·         Kirk Hammett’s amazing guitar solo’s

·         Amy McDonald has a new album!

 

Publication Plan

Publication Plan

Title:  ROCKK!

Frequency of Publication: Weekly

Price: £2.80 per week

Rationale: This magazine aims to give it’s target audience gig information, interviews & posters, I will focus on what the fans really want to see and read.

Style: Informal but not using strong slang so that everyone can read this magazine. I will use the colours purple and black to keep in with the rock theme.

Regular Content:

·         Album reviews

·         Band of the fortnight

·         Money off gigs vouchers

·         Win VIP and meet and great with Kasabian

·         Gig Guide

·         Posters

·         Tabs - Biffy Clyro - That Golden Rule

·         Gigs across the country

·         Gig experiences

·         Guitars

Featured Content:

·         In the making of Velociraptor

·         Metallica and Megadeth

·         Best drummers, voted by you

·         Arctic Monkeys

·         Line up for Sonesphere 2011

·         Getting into the music business

·         Mon the Biff

·         Muse in the old days

·         What is the best album cover of all time?

·         Morrisey & Marr from The Smiths reveal all

·         Mumford & Sons amp it up

·         Interview with blame the object

·         Muse and Radiohead

·         Noel Gallager going solo

·         Scarlet

·         Line up for download festival 2012

·         10 albums you have to listen to in this year

·         Top 10 rock songs of this year

·         Ed Sheeran’s album plus +

·         Kirk Hammett’s amazing guitar solo’s

·         Amy McDonald has a new album!

House Style: Arial

Coverlines: Impact

Headlines: Arial Underlined

Standfirst: Arial Bold 14pt

Captions: Arial Italic 8pt

Features First Paragraph: Drop capital Impact 4 lines deep the rest of the text lower case.

Body Text: Arial

Colour Scheme: Black, green and purple

Audience Research Results and Conclusions

For this task I did 2 voice recordings and 1 video recording of people answering my questionnaire to gain results and I could then base my magazine on what people said.

Questionnaire Results

These are the results that I concluded from the questionnaires that I gave out for people to fill in. It shows what the popular choices are and what I should include in my magazine.

The first question I asked was: Do you like to see interviews with bands? The majority of people said yes. This helped me when choosing what content I will include in my magazine. The second question I asked was: Do you like to receive information on where you can go to see bands? The majority again said yes so this will again help me choose what I want to include in my magazine.

For the next question I asked I asked: Who is their favourite band or singer? The answeres where misxed and I think I could have asked the question better by asking people that listen to rock music so that I would have a clearer idea. The next question I asked was: How often to you buy music magazines? Half of the people I asked said weekly. This helped me choose how frequent I would publish my magazine.

The next question I asked was: What colours would you associate with a rock magazine? A large proportion said black, I think this is an essential colour to use on any rock music magazine. The next question I asked was: How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine? Most people ticked the box that said £2 - £3. This is the price range I will choose.

Target Audience Research

For this task I made my own questionnaire about rock magazines to gain research as to what I would put in my magazine, this task was helpful as it helped me to decided what colour scheme & price etc... To put in my magazine so that people would buy it.


Questionnaire about rock magazines
1. What is your age?
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2. Are you...
Male
Female

3. What colours would you associate with rock magazines?
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4. How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?
£1 – £2
£2 - £3
£3 - £4

5. Who is your favourite band/singer?
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6. How often do you buy music magazines?
Weekly
Fortnightly
Monthly

7. Do you like to see interviews with bands?
Yes
No

8. Do you like to receive information on where you can go to see bands?
Yes
No

9. How old where you when you started to read music magazines?
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10. Are there any qualities that you don’t like in previous magazines? If so what are these things?
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11. Do you think there is enough in the music magazines you buy? If less how much more would you like to see?
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Thank you for filling in this questionnaire.

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas on Prezi

Researching the Market Place

Media Packs on Prezi

Analysis of Double Page Spreads

For this task I was asked to present what was included in double page spreads in music magazines.

This is a double page spread from Q magazine. It has the name of the artist in a bold font at the top of the page on the left. It has an interview underneath with some pictures relating to the text in the interview. This attracts the reader to see what the interview is about if one of the pictures apeals to them. In the top right hand corner of the large image is the masthead of the magazine to reinforce the brand. The higlighted text shows the importand parts and things that people will like so that the intended audience reads the magazine. The quote on the bottom right corner of the image is of a larger font. This shares an important/shocking peice of information to the readers to make them read thw whole article.

This is a double page spread for NME. unlike Q magazine the image is on the left page instead of the right, this is effective because you see the picture before the text therefore know who is included in the article. On the left page the text is all of one font except one drop capital that is colourful to show that the magazine is interesting. It also has a quote in the middle of the text so people read it first and want to know what else is said in the article. There are smaller images down the right hand side of the text also. This again shows what the article is about.

Analysis of Contents Page

I made this video to anylise contents pages. I then edited it so that I could show what I was speaking about. I tried to clearly show how I did it although I could have done it better.