– Level 3 Cambridge Introductory Diploma in Media

Unit 13:

Planning and Pitching a Print based Media Product

Serena Keogh - 1156St. Andrew’s Catholic School – 64135

Contents.

• Slide 4- Genre and Target Audience(we heart pop).• Slide 5-Purpose and Meaning(we heart pop).• Slide 6-Style.• Slide 7- Purpose and meaning(front cover analysis)• Slide 8- Contents analysis.• Slide 9- Frequency.• Slide 10- Content• Slide 11-Publisher We heart pop.• Slide 12- Retail Outlet.• Slide 13- Font and Colors analyzed.• Slide 14-18- Production Process.• Slide 19- Analysis of front cover(we love pop).• Slide 20- DPS analysis (we love pop).• Slide 21- Second front cover analysis.• Slide 22- Social Media and Online.• Slide 23- Genre and Target audience.• Slide 24- Purpose and meaning- front cover. • Slide 25-DPS analysis.• Slide 26- Frequency.• Slide 27- Content analysis.

• Slide 28-Contents analysis• Slide 29- Frequency.• Slide 30-Content.• Slide 31-36- Production Process.• Slide 37-38- Social Media and Online.• Slide 39- 40- Demographics and Psychographics.• Slide 41- LO2 • Slide 42- 43- Mind Map- Sound Key• Slide 44 -Mood Board- Simply Sound• Slide 45- 46- Mind Map- Simply Sound.• Slide 47- 48-Mood Board-Simply Sound.• Slide 49-50- Graphic front covers.• Slide 45-52- DPS graphic layouts.• Slide 53-Front cover analysis.• Slide 54-DPS analysis.• Slide 55-Masthead and Logo ideas.• Slide 56- Proposals.• Slide 57-Fonts and Colours analyzed from a front

cover.• Slide 58-59- Proposals- Simply Sound.• Slide 60-Images of inspiration.• Slide 61-62-Handrawn Drafts-Front Cover• Slide 63-64-DPS handrawn drafts.• Slide 65-Interview Drafts Planning.• Slide 66-Final Interview.• Slide 67-Magazine Fonts.• Slide 68-Front cover inspiration analyised.• Slide 69-DPS inspiration analysised.• Slide 70-71- Conclusion.

Genre and Target Audience.What type of Genre is ‘We love pop’?•We love Pop magazine is a magazine which falls into the music category “pop music”. I have therefore researched this to this conclusion, I have analysed the colour scheme, such as the colour scheme mainly consists of pinks, blues and other bright colours in order for them to stand out, the choice of colour scheme also reflects on the type of readers We Love Pop is aimed at. The choice of colour scheme also reflects on the type of music and artists which are featured in the magazine issues, for example the colours are bright, fun and cheerful, therefore this reflects on the cheerful, fun, pop music which is featured in the magazine issues. Target audience•When looking at the main images of We Love Pop magazine, their target audience is mainly teenage girls aged 13-18 (Hartley) this is because it includes free gifts which are generally targeted at young girls, such as they include things like make up, stickers and sweets, which therefore could affect if they buy the magazine or not. Happy facial expressions from artists on the cover as result of this I would make the audience to also feel happy due to the fact that most of the artists are looking at the reader allowing them to feel connected and brings a light-hearted feel to the magazine.•When it comes to We love Pops would fit into the socio-economic group of E, and D in the demographics table, as We love Pops target audience is teenage girls ages 13-15 they are unlikely to have a job, as they still would be in education therefore this is beneficial to them as We love Pops magazine is priced too high so therefore they will be able to afford it.• We love Pops target audience would fit into the category on the physiographic chart of “Aspires” this is because they tend to be orientated to image and appearance persona and fashion. Attractive packaging more important then contents. As well as this it this is normally found is younger people.•According to Maslow the audience would be ‘survivors’ they like having the routine of knowing when the magazine comes out – which I have shown evidence of in a screenshot. They would also be ‘survioirs’ because they would get into the regular routine of the magazine, and would may get excited when a new one comes out as it means they are likely to get a free gift inside.

Purpose and MeaningThe main purpose of We love Pop magazine is to provide fun, facts and information about teenage girls favourite singers/groups. They also provide small posters of popular artists inside making girls want to buy the magazine more.The meaning of the magazine is for teenage girls to have fun reading it, this is conveyed by the fun bright colours used on the front cover. As a result of using bright fun colours like pink, this is going to make the audience by the magazine again.We love Pop strapline denotes “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus". The connotations of the strapline of “chorus” are that it relates to the music magazine, using the term “bore us” could connote that the magazine would be boring, and this could also connotes attitude, within the strapline, and it gets to the point.

Style

The style of each magazine is full with bright, girly colours. By them doing this it is getting the readers to by the magazine more often. Each magazine has large bright text, which would engaged the reader to be drawn to them first.

Purpose and MeaningStrapline-We love Pop strapline reads “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus". The connotations of the strapline of “chorus” are that it relates to the music magazine, using the term “bore us” could connote that the magazine would be boring, and this could also connotes attitude, within the strapline, and it gets to the point.

House colors- The main house colors used in we heart pop magazines are pink, white, yellow and blue. I think the reason for picking these particular colors is because they appeal to the target audience which is teenage girls, as well as this they are fun, bubbley colors which connote to what the magazine is about.

Connotations-The connotations to we heart pop is that they are trying to persuade the reader to enjoy pop music and that the entire magazine is about pop music.

Puff promotion- Having a puff promotion, on the magazine in a blue circle against a red background, stands out against the pictures and headlines in the magazine. By including this is gives an insight of what's inside the magazine to the reader.

Masthead- The mastheads is written in girly bubbly font with a love heart in the masthead which shortens the name of the magazine. By using a pink love heart for the masthead draws the young readers in more as a pink love heart is mainly associated with young girls.

Price-The price is £ 3.99 which is quite expensive and suggests it is aimed at a young audience who still get their working parents to buy the magazine for them.

All the smaller images are of Teen-Celebes or artists related to pop. This suggests that ‘Top of the Pops’ is a pop magazine. By using lots of imagery on the page suggests that the target audience is quite young, as young people like to see a lot of visual images to stay entertained.

Pull Out-By We love Pop including, a pull out of another magazine, which is similar in the target audience, this would invite readers too by the magazine as they are getting a magazine for free, also it is a magazine which is featuring the latest fashion ideas and this is what young girls hobbies are.

Contents Analysis-”We love pop”.

Here is a contents page for We love Pop, here for the title they have used “We love this..” instead of “contents” I think that they have used this catching slogan, instead of “contents” to catch the readers eye in hope that they will read on into the magazine. This contents has the artists One Direction on the cover to encourage fans to read into the magazine, as it is more than likely to contain a page on One Direction. There are also quotes directly from the group, which would interests fans, while also include a number of pictures.Furthermore, the list of where things are have been highlighted in Gold/orange to fit with the same colors from the pull quotes next to the image of One Direction. Doing this makes them stand out, and catches the eye of the reader. Against the gold numbering they have used black font, which pops against the gold and makes it look neat and sleek.

FrequencyFrequency-We Love Pop is Egmont’s only publication aimed at a teenage audience. Issued monthly including the popular artists and bands. We love Pop is released monthly, according to recent figures the amount of magazine released is 115,00 (2011) and this number is continue to grow.Subscriptions-You are able to subscribe to a monthly, subscription by this you can buy a magazine subscription to We Love Pop Magazine, dispatched worldwide. Our standard annual subscription is 12 issues for £68.14 including delivery.

Reference: http://www.welovepopmag.co.uk/magazine

Here is evidence of a screenshot of of a magazines barcode, this therefore shows the frequency of the magazine by how many issues they have realeased.

Content • We love pop music magazine is full of fun, interesting facts and games for the younger audience

(8-13years).We love pop magazine is full of girly facts and advise for younger girls.• The language used in We love Pop is quite informal as it is aimed at young teenagers and

informal language best appeals to them, for example including the issue date, within the magazine, having this allows the company of the magazine know how many issues they have relased but also means for the readers in this case young girls, they are able to keep up to date with each issue they have or haven't got. Humour is used throughout the magazine, which makes it more interesting for the specific target audience, by including humour it makes the reader feel more involved, they also include images, to invite the reader in more as bright pictures are a big attraction for young teenagers.

• We love pop magazine also contains a Varity of different pop artists with interviews, we love pop magazine also contains fashion inspired looks by teenage girls favourite artists such as Little Mix.

Publisher-We Love Pop Magazine.• Egmont is a leading media group in the Nordic region. They focus on

films,TV,cinemas,magazines,books and streaming services educational materials, game consoles and a range of digital communities, apps and games. Egmont publishers, produce on of my magazine ideas which I am focusing on which is “We love Pop”.

Egmont Slogan-• Egmont publishers slogan is “We bring stories to life” the connotations of

this slogan is that there are being realistic, and that their company is the best when competing against other publishing companies as, they bring there stories to life, so that they create an impact on their audience and so that they feel connected with the magazine. It also could convey how their stories aren’t lies.

Reference: https://www.egmont.co.uk

Font and colours• The denotation of the house style is pink and black-

which together connote fun and summery feel to the magazine This relates the winter edition of the magazine as it’s an November to December issue. By using a lot of pink on the cover, immediately suggest the target audience is young, girls. The fonts used throughout the page are bubbly and has a lot of flicks in them, suggesting the target audience is for a females. Main image- The main image is of a pop boy band, One Direction which suggests the magazine is aimed at a pop music genre.

• The main style of We Love Pop magazines is to catch the readers eye by including fun bright colours into the magazine. As well has having bright colours they also include many pictures of up to date artists/groups, the style of these magazines is in a way ‘childish’ as you wouldn’t get a older person of a social class reading these magazines. And as well they have to be bright, and full with image as this is what mainly young people like compared to Q music magazine where there is more text and information than images.

Process and ProductionPublished-•Egmont UK Ltd is a leading UK children’s publisher, comprising two children’s book divisions and one magazine division: Egmont Press, which publishes Fiction, and Picture Books; Egmont Publishing, which publishes Classic and Contemporary Characters, Learning and Color & Activity lists - and Egmont Magazines, which publishes a range of top quality market-leading children’s magazines. Eg; We love pop magazines.http://www.welovepopmag.co.uk/termsDistribution-•We love pop magazine get distributed by a company called ABC, this company distributed all we love pop magazines out to the rest of the UK.

Readership-We Love Pop saw an increase of 5% pop, an impressive result in the current tough pre-teen girls market.

Production ProcessDate of publication-The first things is to set a date when the magazine is going to be published. By this is when the magazine will be released to the public. Once this date has been finalized the publishing companies would have to work out a schedule therefore from working out the schedule they will have to make sure that they stick to this deadline in order for the magazine to get completed and published in time.Managing the schedule-This is the most important step as the publishing company need to make sure that they time themselves well and that they stick to the time schedule in order to be successful with their magazine. The publishing company should give themselves enough time in case anything goes wrong so that they can fix their mistakes.Editorial and budgetary decision-This next step happens within the production process of the magazine. By this the editorial decisions involve coming up with what topic will be covered in the issue of the magazine, within this as well the team talk about various content that will make up the main content of the magazine. As well as this they look how much money they have in order to produce this magazine and if they need to budget themselves in any way.

Reference: http://hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process/

Production processContent acquisition-This is the most important process as this determines what is in the magazine and without this there would be a magazine. The are two main ways in which content can me gathered and by this is through in house staff writers that are ordered to write on topics that are specific to the magazine, during this stage the artwork in the magazine and graphics are worked on. The artwork is over viewed as the illustrations and pictures that are going to be put into the magazine.Sub-editing-Sub-editing focuses on one major thing, which is the quality control. If the publishing company is big enough then they are able to have a sub-editor, if there is no sub-editor then the main editor will do this job which involves important things like;•Checking of the accuracy of all facts and information in the article.•Making sure that the words are spelt properly.•Making sure that the grammar and punctuation are use correctly.•Making sure that all the articles follow the house style throughout.

Reference: http://hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process/

Production ProcessPage layout-In large publishing companies there are teams responsible for the pay layout. Their job is to work on the page layout, and that they come up together with ideas in order to make the magazine. In working on the magazine they use a programme in order to work on the layout called Desk-top publishing programs such as InDesign or PageMaker.Proofreading- Once the page layout stage is done, the next stage is proofreading, by this the editorial department will print out a hardcopy of the magazine for reading through it and to find anything which may be incorrect. By printing a hardcopy it is a lot easier to proofread rather than a soft-copy. Any mistakes which are spotted are easily corrected on the DTP file, the editorial team keeps proof-reading until they member is happy with the magazines content.File emailed to printer-After proof-reading the file containing the magazine is send to the printing company.But before printing the company prints the hundreds or thousands of copies requested by the publishing company, the publishing company then gets sent these copies which then get proof-read again by the editorial department.

Reference: http://hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process/

Production ProcessDistribution-This is the last stage of the entire process, the printing company have finished with the printing of the magazine they will package them and send them to a warehouse near by, from the warehouse they are then distributed to the shops and then sold to the public.

Reference: http://hosbeg.com/the-magazine-production-process/

Here is evidence that I have emailed Egmont UK regarding how the they produce their magazine We love Pop, and the stages that go into to producing their magazine. Although, I didn't’t get a reply back.

Front cover analysis• Here is a front cover analysis, by using pink and

white colour scheme, We love Pop is really appealing to their target audience of young teenage girls. On the front cover it features a boy band “One Direction” on the cover to attract fans. You can also see other famous singers at the bottom such as “Katy Perry "whose fans could be interested with this. The magazine have used straplines and boxes to tell potential customers what’s inside to attract attention and the way they’ve done everything looks professional and stylish. The masthead is easily recognisable with it being on a pink background in white writing and is aesthetically pleasing.

• This magazine is specifically targeted at teenage girls as the colours used are feminine but also the main artists on the cover are male which attracts female fans who have a crush rather than a male fan. The cover also has many cover lines which grab attention as they appear to be quite interesting but they also stand out too.

House colours- By using house colours such as blue, purple pink and white, convey how this magazine is targeted at the younger generation as well as being aimed at mainly girls. By having all the house colours as blue, purple and pink don’t make them clash against the artists on the page as them, themselves are wearing similar clothes to the colours in the title. By doing this it gives a very grown up feel to the magazine as it could be seen as a child-like magazine to other/older people. Although this contrasts against the bright cover as people see the cover fist and could expect it do be like that inside the magazine.

Puff promotion -The use of puff promotion in this DPS conveys how it can persuade readers to read the magazine as they could be shown a puff promotion reading ‘free gift’ for example. In this cover in the right hand corner it shows a picture of an iPhone reading next to it ‘blip it now’ which connotes how fans of the band are able to Photoshop themselves into a picture with their favourite member from the band. This could be exciting to some readers as they may not get a chance to meet them personally although it adds to the effect of it and that it seems real that they have met them.

The choice of house colors-By the use of the white within the background it counteracts the bold colors from the title, as well as this it creates a simplysisity and balances out the businesses.

Pull quotes- the pull quotes are interesting and funny which would catch the readers eye and invite them to read on, as well as the cheesy humor could also address the young target audience very well.

Front cover analysis of my magazine of inspiration.

• This magazine is by we love pop magazine who make pop genre magazine, you can tell its for that with it’s pink and white colour scheme. It has a female star on the cover which “Cheryl Cole” and only teenage girls will listen to her music, this is to attract fans. You can also see pictures of other stars who are male and are on the beach in boxes at the bottom. The cover has the star’s name “ Cheryl” going across her picture with a quote underneath this is done to immediately attract fans to this magazine. You can also see posters as the bottom which teenage girls would have. The masthead is easily recognisable as its got the name we love pop in back black writing on a white background but also the world love is not there and they have used a pink love heart there instead which adds an effect.

• This magazine is specifically targeted at teenage girls as the colours used are feminine but also the main artist on the cover would only be popular with females rather than males who would be more interested in a footballer. The cover also has many cover lines which grab attention as they appear to be quite interesting but they also stand out too.

Social Media and Online• We love pop magazine has 2 social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter. On

these social media accounts they provide a insight as to what has happened within the magazine such as sponsors by famous well know people. They also provide up coming facts and information about the magazine as well as this they also provide information/tweet the readers of the magazine replying to them when they ask when the next issue is coming out.

Genre and Target AudienceWhat type of Genre is Q?Q magazine, doesn’t fall into a magazine category. Q music magazine is eclectic magazine which therefore means it specifies in different types of music, therefore this opens up a wide range of magazines that the audience can buy.Q magazines main interest is in releases the latest songs, and upcoming artists and music. As well as music they also included interviews with well known people. Target audience-Q music Magazine target audience is around men who are in their 30s-40s (Hartley) the magazine appeals to men more then women For the older, more mature and more sophisticated, which is reflected in how the music is portrayed in the magazine. The magazine would be aimed at middle class as it is more expensive then other magazines. This also suggests that as the magazine is quite expensive compared to other magazine retailing at around £3.90, this suggests that the people who buy it are older and working as they are able to afford to buy this on a regular basis.

Q music Magazine in 1986, to present day and how it has changed using more up to date artists on the cover, to invite more people to read it.

1986 2015

Target Audience.Hartley’s 7 subjectivities:Age: Q music Magazine target audience is around men who are in their 30s-40s (Hartley).Gender: The magazine appeals to men more then women For the older, more mature and more sophisticated, which is reflected in how the music is portrayed in the magazine.Class: People in the category ABC1 in the socio-economics needs because they would be of a working class who would by the magazine, this is because as the magazine is priced around £3.90 and up, people of a working class would be able to afford to by the magazine on a regular basis. This particular age group, and of the working class is shown by being 70% of the target readership of Q magazine, therefore the other 30% of readers could be students, or young people of a low-working class status aged 15-24, these readers would have a lower spending power than readers of a higher age and high working class status.Katz: Inform and educate, the reader can find out what artists are up to.Diversion: This is where the the readers are able to reader Q magazine, and escape from reality.Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: Explorers: The readers of Q would be explorers because the magazine includes upcoming stories about what is happening in the music world.

Hartley’s 7 Subjectivities:1. Age 2. Gender3. Class4. Ethnicity.5. Self-image.6. Nation.7. Family.

Socio-economic needsSocio-economic needs is groups with people out into groups due to what their job therefore Q magazine, the socio-economics is mainly ABC1,.

The socio-economic needs group which We Love Pop would fit into would be group E as we love pops target audience is younger than Q’s and likely to still be in education.

DemographicsA Higher management, bankers, lawyers

doctors and other professionals.

B Middle management teachers, creative and media people e.g. - graphic designers ect.

C1 Office supervisors, junior managers, nurses specialist clerical staff- white collar.

C2 Skilled manual workers, plumbers, builders-blue collar.

D Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers.

E Unemployed, students, pensioners and casual workers.

This defines the adult population largely by the job they do this is based on the National Readership Survey (NRS).

PsychographicsMainstreamers SEEK SECURITY. Tend to be domestic conformist,

conventional, sentimental- favour value for money family brands. Nearly always the largest group.

Aspirers SEEK STATUS. Materialistic, acquisitive orientated to image and appearance persona and fashion. Attractive packaging more important then contents. Typically younger people, clerical and sales jobs.

Succeeds SEEK CONTROL. Strong goals, confidence work ethic, and organisation. Supports stability. Brand choice based on self-reward, and quality. Typically higher management and professionals.

Resigned SEEK SURVIVAL. Rigid and authoritarian values, interested in the past and tradition. Brand choice stresses safety, familiarity and economy. Typically older people.

Explorers SEEK DISCOVERY. Energy individualism and experience. Values difference and adventure. Brand choice highlights satisfaction and instant effect. The first to try new brands, younger students.

Strugglers SEEK ESCAPE. Alienated and disorganised. Few resources beyond physical skills. Brand choice involves impact and sensation, buys alcohol, junk food, lottery tickets. D and E demographics.

Reformers SEEKS ENLIGHTMENT freedom of restrictions and personal growth. Social awareness and independent judgement.Anti-materialistic higher education and selects products of quality.

Publisher-Q Music Magazine• Bauer Media Group is a European-based media company, headquartered

in Hamburg, Germany that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world.

Bauer Media Slogan-• Bauer’s slogan is “We think popular”. The connotations of this slogan are

that the company are confident especially when competing against other magazine producers.

• “We Think Popular” also connotes to having authority when it comes to their magazine, which also demonstrates how they are confident with their magazine.

• “We” connotes – That Bauer Media publishing company work as a team to provide a good service to their readers, we could also suggest that they are in some way a community and want to share their products and services with others.

Purpose and MeaningOn most of Q’s magazines their slogan is ‘Discover Great Music’ this suggests that to the readers that Q magazine provides the customers with facts and upcoming information about good music. This connotes to the readers that a very confident side to the magazine as they are trying to show off and compete against other music magazines like Kerrang. The verbal code ‘Great’ imply that it is globally known, this could also convey its popularity of the magazine or they are trying to invite more people to read the magazine but suggest to the readers it is the greatest magazine out there.

Purpose of Magazine Conventions.Main picture- By having the main picture in the center of the magazine taking up most of the room on the front cover, draws people into the magazine as a result of this they may buy the magazine increasing the amount of sales and popularity. Not only that but having an up to date artist on the cover may also make people buy the magazine as they are possibly seeing one of their favorite artists on the magazine.

Autograph-Having Tinie Tempah's autography on the front cover in white stands out against the dark colors on Tinie Tempah such as his sunglasses. This could implies that the magazine is a lot more personal to the buyer.

Masthead-The iconic red and white logo largely displayed on the front cover would also draw people into buying the magazine as it contrasts against the white background, and the lighter colors on the front cover. As well as having the logo so large in the corner of the page would also stand out as people may recognize the logo.

Readers Requirements-Having a list of well-know artist listed down the side of the page, gives other readers a chance to read the magazine if they aren't as interested in Tinie Tempah. This connotes how Q magazine are catering to each readers needs.

House Colors-All the house colors are all very neutral and basic, by having these colors neutral and plain make the artist such as Tinie Tempah stand out against the light/neutral background.

Inspiring slogan, personally said from the artist. Could inspire others who are interested in music.

Date-issue-price; The date that the magazine was released on was November 201 and selling at a price of £3.99.

Strapline-The strapline of this Q magazine Reads ‘Discover great music'. This connotes to inspiring thoughts such as, Q are trying to persuade the readers to readthe magazine. As well as this by having the verbal code ‘Great’ suggests the music talked about in this magazine is better than any other music.

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Connotations-The main connotations Of Q link to the theme of the magazine such as ‘queue’ like queue the music, this relates to the theme and links to the types of music in the magazine.

Contents Page Analysis-”Q music Magazine”

Here is one of the contents pages for Q Music Magazine, this particular magazine issue has around 162 pages. On the left hand side, of the page there are 5 images of artists, with their page number at the bottom of the image. Doing this allows readers to easily find what page number the particular artist is on.Q has linked their colour scheme with always using red throughout their magazine, this creates consistency with the reader, as when it coms to buying the magazine again the reader will know what to look out for.At the top of the page they have a banner which has Qs logo in it, doing this again creates consistency, this also means that Q are trying to get their readers to remember their logo as much as they can, they also have the issue date at the top right hand corner, this shows that Q are continuing to produce magazines and shows that they are successful in doing so as they have released 298 issues.

Frequency The price of Q magazine is around £4.20, the price of Q magazines are slightly more than other music magazines available in the UK.Q magazine gets released monthly in the UK to keep up to date with information in the music world. As well as this Q magazine comes out on a monthly basis and is published by Bauer Magazine Publishing company. The main reason why Q magazine comes out on a monthly basis whereas to weekly, is because it contains a large amount of music content, as well as this it comes out monthly is to keep up to date with everything that is happening in the music industry. You can also subscribe to a monthly basic of Q magazines on your phone or tablet. On the Q website you can subscribe to their deal for £32.00 for 12 copies of Q magazine. Or as well as this as apps on our phones are becoming a lot more popular you are now able to download a digital version of Q magazine onto your phone for £32.00 a month. As well as this you can also subscribe to a deal costing £37.00 this includes paper copies of the magazine and digital version on your phone/tablet.

This also coveys buy having a picture of the phone on the magazine makes it a lot more inviting for people, as its an easier way to access the magazine.

Buy having a £20.00 gift card available also makes it more inviting.

Screen shot of the magazine frequency from the cover

Retail OutletReaders are able to access a copy of Q music magazine, either via a hard copy in a shop or online where they are able to subscribe to a subscription service.Readers are able to purchase a hard copy of Q music magazine from.1. Tesco2. Sainsbury's 3. WHsmithQ music magazine can also be accessed through their main website http://www.qthemusic.com/

Content• Within Q magazine they mainly focus their content on upcoming information about the music

information and upcoming events or upcoming albums. Although, as well as this they include some interviews with popular artists.

• Also Q magazine includes small anecdotes of how that particular artist got to where they are now, by including a variety of these throughout the magazine would draw people to reading the magazine as they may be interested as how that artist started off in the music industry.

• Lastly, they include some reviews from other artists about the music world, getting their view on it and sharing it with the readers. They also include reviews from people from the public about festivals that they have been too or music concerts.

Production ProcessPublished- •Q magazine is published by a publishing company called Bauer Media group. Bauer media group are a well-known publishing company, which is privately owned publishing group. Bauer are a worldwide publishing group which offers over 300 magazines in 15 different countries. Some of the main shops Bauer Media publish to are places like Whsmith, Tesco as well as this you can also buy Q magazines online such as Amazon and EBay. Distributed- •As well as publishing the magazine Bauer also distribute it, by this they have a wide range of magazine genres and they distribute them by which they send a large amount of magazines in my case Q out to the public as well as doing this Bauer may ask to have feedback from their magazines from customers so that they are able to work on any improvements providing that their magazines the best music magazine being published. Readership-•Compared to other magazines such as Mojo, and Kerrang Q has one of the second highest readerships out of all the popular music magazines out there. The total arrange of Q magazine read in this year is 48,365, where the circulation figure have also gone down dropping by -8.39% within the year.

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Production Process Date of publication-The first things is to set a date when the magazine is going to be published. By this is when the magazine will be released to the public. Once this date has been finalized the publishing companies would have to work out a schedule therefore from working out the schedule they will have to make sure that they stick to this deadline in order for the magazine to get completed and published in time.Managing the schedule-This is the most important step as the publishing company need to make sure that they time themselves well and that they stick to the time schedule in order to be successful with their magazine. The publishing company should give themselves enough time in case anything goes wrong so that they can fix their mistakes.Editorial and budgetary decision-This next step happens within the production process of the magazine. By this the editorial decisions involve coming up with what topic will be covered in the issue of the magazine, within this as well the team talk about various content that will make up the main content of the magazine. As well as this they look how much money they have in order to produce this magazine and if they need to budget themselves in any way.

Production ProcessContent acquisition-This is the most important process as this determines what is in the magazine and without this there would be a magazine. The are two main ways in which content can me gathered and by this is through in house staff writers that are ordered to write on topics that are specific to the magazine, during this stage the artwork in the magazine and graphics are worked on. The artwork is over viewed as the illustrations and pictures that are going to be put into the magazine.Sub-editing-Sub-editing focuses on one major thing, which is the quality control. If the publishing company is big enough then they are able to have a sub-editor, if there is no sub-editor then the main editor will do this job which involves important things like;•Checking of the accuracy of all facts and information in the article.•Making sure that the words are spelt properly.•Making sure that the grammar and punctuation are use correctly.•Making sure that all the articles follow the house style throughout.

Production ProcessPage layout-In large publishing companies there are teams responsible for the pay layout. Their job is to work on the page layout, and that they come up together with ideas in order to make the magazine. In working on the magazine they use a programme in order to work on the layout called Desk-top publishing programs such as InDesign or PageMaker.Proofreading- Once the page layout stage is done, the next stage is proofreading, by this the editorial department will print out a hardcopy of the magazine for reading through it and to find anything which may be incorrect. By printing a hardcopy it is a lot easier to proofread rather than a soft-copy. Any mistakes which are spotted are easily corrected on the DTP file, the editorial team keeps proof-reading until they member is happy with the magazines content.File emailed to printer-After proof-reading the file containing the magazine is send to the printing company.But before printing the company prints the hundreds or thousands of copies requested by the publishing company, the publishing company then gets sent these copies which then get proof-read again by the editorial department.

Production ProcessDistribution-This is the last stage of the entire process, the printing company have finished with the printing of the magazine they will package them and send them to a warehouse near by, from the warehouse they are then distributed to the shops and then sold to the public.

Here I have emailed Bauer media group, asking them to explain to me the production process of their magazine ‘Q’, right from planning the magazine to selling it to the public.

Production Process-Follow up.

Here, these screenshots show the two emails I have sent to Bauer Media Group, asking for them to explain to me the production process of one of their magazines “Q”.I the first screenshot above shows my first email I sent them, as I didn't’t get a response I then decided to forward the email again, asking them to read my email again regarding my question I previously asked.

Social Media and Online• As well as buying a hard copy of Q magazine in hand you can also subscribe to a monthly payment each

month by this you will receive copies of Q magazine each month on Q website you can subscribe to their deal for £32.00 for 12 copies of Q magazine.

Web page Analysis;• Bauer publishing webpage format I very well laded out by this, there are clear drop down menus which

allow you to click on and go to other parts of the web page they also have picture list of all the radio or artists that feature in some of the UK magazines. There is a consistent colour scheme, which is of colours that work together, but aren’t bright colours like pinks and yellows etc. as it is attracting an older audience and not a young audience. There is more emphasis on the image, which therefor aim for it to stand out against the white background.

Clear drop down tabs for easy access, as well as the standard Bauer logo on each page you click on.

The Bauer logo is consistent throughout.

Social Media and Online.

Mind Map –Sound Key-Generated from “ We love Pop”.

1st idea Generation of

Ideas

Colour Schemes

Masthead Names

Frequency of

Release

Price

Price-The price of my magazine would be around £1.50, I have chosen this because price as it’s a cheap than other magazines like ‘Q’. The main reason why I have chosen this price is so that it appeals to a lower target audience so that they are able to afford it.I have also chosen this price because my magazine is going to get released monthly, and I think this is a reasonable price to pay.

Frequency- I have decided that my magazine will get released on a weekly basis, unlike my first idea, I have decided to do this as it keeps the buyers up with up coming information about my magazine.

Colour Schemes-My main colour schemes in my magazine are going to be pink, gold and white. The reason I have picked these two colours is because I want my magazine to appeal to my target audience which is girls although I don’t want my magazine to seem to child-like so that’s why I am adding gold into my design as I want there to a mature feel to the magazine.

Strapline- • If it wasn’t in VOGUE, it

wasn’t in vogue.• Impatience is a virtue.• Life’s more interesting when

you get Closer.• News you can use.• Where words fail, music

speaks.• Music makes the world go

round.

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1st idea Generation

of Ideas

Brand Identity

Images

Target Audience

Target Audience - My target audience is going to range from 11year olds. I have chosen this age group as my 1st magazine idea is going to be more aimed at girls. According to Hartley 7 Subjectivities the audience would mainly be female and working/middle class. According to Katz’ Uses and Gratification theory the audience would be in the category ‘Diversion’ because by reading this magazine they will be able to escape from reality such as working. Furthermore, the magazine will ‘inform and educate’ them because of the new music content that will be illustrated in the magazine. Lastly, the audience would be ‘survivors’ (Maslow) as they would like the routine of knowing this magazine will produce relevant music of the genre.

Brand Identity-Places in which I will advertise my magazine are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

Images- The types of images I am going to use are images based on the theme of my magazine, which is music I am also going to inspire my magazine based on ‘Q.I am also going to include fun images to invite my particular audience to read my magazine. I will also make sure I include up to date artists to make sure people buy my magazine.

Mind Map –Sound Key(Generated from “We love Pop”

Mood Board (1st idea)

Generation of Ideas

Masthead Names

Brand Identity

Frequency of Release

Brand Identity- Places in which I will advertise my magazine are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

Strapline - • If it wasn’t in VOGUE, it wasn’t in

vogue.• Impatience is a virtue.• Life’s more interesting when you

get Closer.• News you can use.

Frequency- I have decided that my magazine will get released on a monthly basis, I have decided to do this as it keeps the buyers up with up coming information about my magazine.

Mind Map –Simply Sound- Generated from “Q music Magazine”

Mind Map –Simply Sound-Generated from “Q music Magazine”

Generation of Ideas

Colour Schemes

Images

Price

Price: The price of my 2nd magazine, is £3.25 which is slightly more expensive I have chosen to price my magazine at this price because unlike my first magazine idea I have decided to include for information/facts than pictures as this may appeal to people more.

Colour Schemes-My main colour schemes in my magazine are going to be grey and yellow. The reason I have picked these two colours is because I want my magazine to appeal to both girls and boys. So therefore the grey side of the magazine is for the boys and the yellow for the girls, so that my magazine is covering both genders.

Images- The types of images I am going to use are images based on the theme of my magazine, which is music I am also going to inspire my magazine based on ‘Q.I am also going to include fun images to invite my particular audience to read my magazine.

Mood Board(2nd idea)

Mood Board - Conclusion• I have put together 2 mood boards in order to help give

myself ideas of what type of artists I want to feature in my magazine.

• I have put together the mood boards with images of up to date/ popular artists, I have done this is order to fit the needs of my target audience. This is because I research from people within my class that the ‘star’ (Richard Dyer) on the main cover is the main thing that would draw them into buying my magazine or any other magazine.

1st Graphic Layout - Front Cover design

Main Image

Logo/masthead

MAIN HEADLINE

ARTISTS AUTOGRAPH

UPCOMING EVENTS/MUSIC FESTIVALS

BARCODE,PRICE AND DATE

Puff promotion

Strapline

Firstly, the main Image of my magazine, I have chose to use my main image covering the whole of the magazine cover, The reason why I have done this is to convey what my magazine is about and what type of genre my magazine is.As well as this having the main artist covering the whole page, would also draw the reader into to reading the magazine as if the star artist appeals to them. Artist autograph I have decided to include an artists autograph into each one of my magazines depending on the artists, although I have decided to not include it into every magazine I publish as this could become to repetitive for the reader, as well as this I’m going to include it into some of the magazines to invite/surprise them as one of their favourite artist autograph is on the page. House colours I have thought about my house colours and made sure that they appeal to each of my target audiences men and women, so I have gone with the theme of yellow, white and grey and added some red in there for my puff promotions to catch the readers eye. Price, I have decided to price my magazine at £3.25 as this is a affordable price for the age group my magazine fits into.

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Main image

Logo

PuffPromotion

Firstly, for my main Image of my magazine I have chosen to have the main image in the centre of the page as it will draw the reader straight to the picture. I have also chosen to not have the front cover too busy as it could distract the reader away from the star artist. As well as having text and information around the image, as for some readers the image might not be the most important thing on the page but the text/info is. The Logo I have decide to have my logo in the left hand corner I was inspired to do this my the music magazine Q. Cover Stories-I have also chosen to have the cover stories right next to the star artist, I have chosen to do this as when the reader, looks at the magazine cover they will look straight to the cover lines which would intense them to look inside. I am also including Puff Promotion-coveys how this would persuade the reader to read inside the magazine. Price the price of my magazine is going to be slightly more than my previous plan, as this magazine is going to contain more text than images although I am not going to price it too high as I still want it to be affordable.

Cover stories

Strapline

1st Front Cover idea.

Cover line

1st Graphic Layout for DPS

text

Main Image

Main title Image

text

text

Graphic Layout for DPS

Main headline

Photo

Main Interview

Double page spread-I have decided to place everything on my double page spread like this as I feel it will draw the reader into reading the page,I have also decided to have my image on one side of the page, as readers will be more interested in reading my interview as my target audience are young they would’t want to read a lot of writing.. I have also decided to do this as it makes my content consistent throughout my magazine and means therefore this has an impact on the reader as they will remember my logo and hopefully they will begin to buy my magazine more frequently.

Photo

Main interview

Front cover analysis

Masthead- One of the main and most important parts of Q magazine is the masthead I think this is the most important part of the magazine because this depicts Q magazines apart from everyone because of their bold logo. I was inspired to keep the masthead, in this place as like the idea of having a large masthead so that it can stand out against other magazines.

Strapline-the strapline denotes ‘The UK biggest music magazine’ this connotes that Q is one of the best music magazines out there. As well by having this at the top of the page in white font against a black background means that the reader is more likely to read it first. Also by having a powerful strapline next to the logo gives an impression that the publisher (Bauer) wants you to know that the best magazine is Q. I also decided to keep the strapline at the top of the front cover, as this is where readers tend to look first.

Cover lines- By having a variation of different fonts draws the readers eyes to all different parts of the magazine. Having a variation of fonts provides different bits of content to the reader as well as this it appeals to the reader by including other artists names. This is called ‘star appeal’.

Puff Promotion-Having the verbal code ‘plus’ in red font means that the reader will be drawn to it as it stands out against the dark background. Although, this also gives an insight as to what is inside the magazine as by giving the reader an added bonus.

Cover headline - Having the cover headline below the picture would shortly draw the reader down to the headline after looking at the picture. As well as this having the verbal code ‘unmasked’ in grey font gives an insight as to what is in the magazine and that it could be something to shock the reader.

Background Features-One feature of this page is close up shot of the artist draws the reader in more as their attention of focused on the artist. Having the contrast high in the main picture as well as the background, draws attention to the background and makes the most important features stand out such as ‘Big Ben’.

Having Humor within the magazine would draw more readers to it. By having a a personal quote from the artists himself, which would therefore make it a lot more personal and direct. Furthermore by adding humor into the quote makes it seem less serious and as if the artist is having a laugh with the reader. Position of objects - Having the artist

standing in front of the London skyline, whilst having is guitar next to him adds to the effect that he's just a regular person growing up in a normal city, which therefore could inspire people to follow in him footsteps.

Main text - Having the large piece of text to the side of the photo allows readers to swap from looking at the picture to reading through the text which is related to the artist. As well as this I have realized d that there is only one man picture this could be due to the fact that they want to want the reader to focus on only one image, and by the image being so detailed and important by adding others may make it overcrowded.

Drop Capital: The drop capital is the large letter starting of the article. This tells the reader that the beginning of the article starts there. The drop capital is bright red which links to the contents page and the front cover.

Masthead/logo ideas.Masthead text ideas-

Reason - When creating my magazine I want to make sure that my magazine masthead is eye-catching to the reader, I have come up with a name for my magazine ‘Simply Sound’ the reason for choosing this particular name I decided to reflect my masthead on my logo, by this it is going to be simple but eye-catching. I have chosen to call my magazine ‘simply sound’ because my magazine is simply going to based round music which creates a ‘sound’ as well as this some people use the word ‘sound’ as describing something which is good.

Test 1.

Test 2.

Test 3.

Logo idea- for my logo I have decided to use to first 2 letter of my masthead “SS” the reason for choosing this is because its catching and the reader will remember it easily. I have picked a similar font to my masthead, I have created this logo on Photoshop, making sure that I include my house colors, yellow and grey. The background of the logo is yellow and I plan to keep this the same throughout the whole magazine. I used different effects including stroke, bevel and emboss.

1st idea 2ND idea 3rd idea(final idea

Test 4 final idea

‘Sound Key’ & ‘Simply Sound’Two Name Ideas.

Proposals-’Sound Key’ Genre--Pop music/hip hop.Target Audience--Target audience is going to be the same as my first magazine idea- 15-18+-As well as gender both being girls and boys.Content--Reviews from the public on recent albums.-Up-coming events, such as festivals, concerts.(As well as using puff promotion inviting the public to win tickets to a concert).Interaction with the readers--information on upcoming events.-Facts/gossip on popular artists.-Images.

Form and Style.The main house styles of Q magazines are most of the covers have a light background, and the image of the artist is normally dark or they are wearing dark clothes, by having the artist in dark clothing or the image being dark against a light background makes the artist stand out. By doing this it makes the reader be drawn to the image of the artist first more than the word. Although, on the other hand if the reader is being drawn to the photo first of the artist and they like the artist this may make them read the words around the image. Format- The length of Q magazine is 28.5cm, the width of Q magazine is 21cm.Language- The language used on the cover of the magazine are mainly bold words, such as ‘breaking BAD’ and ‘ROCK STAR'. These words would mainly appeal to the audience such as men, but this the words are quite bold statement words whereas this wouldn't’t appeal as much to a woman. Therefore this may mean the magazines are a lot more popular therefore more people are buying them making high profits for shops selling them. I Have decided to analysis this front covers house style and the fonts in order to give me inspiration for my own magazine, and how I will make it look neat and professional.

TARGET READERSHIP• Simply sound Target Audience: 15-18+• Sound Key’s target audience:13-16+ • When it comes to psychographics my target audience would fit into Aspirers because

they are SEEK STATUS. • When it comes to my theory my magazine best fits into Hartley as I am basing my

magazine on around age,gender,and ethnicity. There there isn't a specific person who can read my magazine it is open to everyone.

• Katz: When it comes to Maslow's theory my target audience would be come under ‘Diversion’ this is because they would read my magazine, so that they can escape from reality, such as everyday life whether that is school life, working or life in general. They would feel like they are not worrying about any issues they may have when they read my magazine.

• Hartley’s 7 subjectivities; When it comes to Hartley’s theory I will be mainly focusing on age and gender for my magazine, by this I will be making my magazine accessible to both genders, as well as focusing on a particular age group I want my magazine to be aimed at- (Final Idea – 15-18+)

Maslow’s Theory: ‘Social climbers’ ‘survivors’ and ‘explorers’.• My target audience would fit into the category ‘Explores’ this is where the audience

are driven to change caused by social media, and everything which changes in the media. My target audience would fit into this category as they are driven by the change of media, making sure they keep up to date with the latest issues that are happening in the media industry.

• They would also be a part of ‘Survivors’ as they will want the security and a routine of knowing that my magazine will be released monthly.

• Socio-Economic Need: • My target audience for my magazine would full in to the categories E and D, this is

because as they are of a young age they are likely to still be in education or in a semi-skilled workers, therefore they are unlikely to be earning a lot of money therefore this links in how I have priced my magazine, quite cheap so they will be able to afford it each month.

• Psychographics: • My target audience would be aspires this is because they would look up to particular

people, like their role models and aim to aspire to be like them.

Proposal-Simply Sound

Proposal-Simply Sound.

In each of these pictures they are demonstrating a different style to each front cover of ‘Q music magazine’. In the first picture its conveys a dark simple side to the magazine compared to the others, this could be done to convey the type of artist that is on the front cover, as his music may be simple, a gentle. Where as compared to the middle magazine the middle magazine is a lot more bright and colourful making the artist stand out in the middle of the magazine. Having white font against skin tone of the artist really makes his own hand signed autograph stand out attracting customers.

Having the third image against a white background while having the artist dressed in dark clothing could connote to the type of music the artist mainly studies in.The connotations to having the background white in this image is that it could symbolise pure/clean(no swearing in the music).

The connotations of grey and white in the first picture and cool, neutral and cam much like the artists music.

Images of Inspiration

Masthead; I have decided to have my masthead in the left hand corner of the page, I have done this because I still want to include my logo although I want the artist to be the main attraction. I was inspired to do this my Q music magazine.

Main image; for my magazine I have change the idea of having the artist cover the whole page, but I have decided to have the artist in the middle of the page, the reason for this is that this magazine is going to contain less images and more fun, inviting information I have done this as my magazine needs to appeal to all types of audiences.

Barcode, price and date; I am keeping the barcode in the same place like Q magazine.

Cover stories; I want to include more information about the content that can be found inside the magazine. Therefore I plan to include a small textbox with the name of one artist and their autograph inviting the reader in. This will be placed over the front cover subjects lower chest, as this is not considered as an important area that creates ‘star appeal’, as well as this it would still give the reader an insight as to what the magazine is about..

Strapline;My strapline is ‘The UK’s first music magazine’

Puff Promotion; Instead of a puff promotion that reads ‘free gift’ I have included a ‘coming soon’ puff promotion as others who are willing to buy the magazine on a monthly basis may appeal to them more. I have ladled/coloured it in red in order to stand out.

Final Product I decided to go with.

Main Image of my magazine, I have chose to use my main image covering the whole of the magazine cover, The reason why I have done this is to convey what my magazine is about and what type of genre my magazine is.As well as this having the main artist covering the whole page, would also draw the reader into to reading the magazine as if the star artist appeals to them.

Price, barcode and date: I am keeping the barcode in the same place inspired by Q magazine.

Puff Promotion: This puff promotion will include a free gift, this is because other may not be as interested in what is coming soon therefore I want my magazine to attract as many readers as possible. By placing the puff promotion at the top of the page, when the magazine is picked up this will be one of the first things the reader will see, as well as the logo.

Readers Requirements – I am going to have a list of well-know artist listed down the side of the page, gives other readers a chance to read the magazine if they aren't as interested in the ‘star artist’.I was inspired to do this by Q music magazine.

Logo/masthead: I have decided to have my masthead in the left hand corner of the page, I have done this because I still want to include my logo although I want the artist to be the main attraction. I was inspired to do this my Q music magazine.

Stars autograph: I am going to have the stars autograph on the front cover, underneath the image of the star I am going to have this typed in white font the reason for this is because its going to stand out against the background of the image of the artist.

Main Interview; the main part of my interview is going to be to the right hand side of the page, I have done this because I feel that while the reader is reading the information about the star artist they are able to refer back to the image while they are reading.

Pull Quote; Having a pull quote form my interview in bold, this will attract the readers to the quote which would get them interested in the interview, it also demonstrates what will be in the interview and what it is based on and who is it about.

Page number; Will be shown on each page at the bottom coner or each page.

Final Product I decided to go with.

Images- I have decided to place all the Images above the text, the reason for this is that I don’t want the page to look to messy as well as this is also want to reader to be drawn to one part of the page and not have to look all around the page.

Text: I have decided to have 2 blocks of text at the bottom of the page, the reason for this that I want the images above to correspond to the text below.

Masthead: I am keeping the logo in the left hand corner of each page I am doing this so that my logo becomes recognisable to the reader when they go to buy another copy of my magazine.

Main title: I have decided to have the main title of the interview right next to my logo the reason for this is because I still want my logo to be the last thing they remember, and as well as this it means that the title is covering the whole page focusing on the text and photos.

Interview draft planningThis image conveys how I have drafted a dew questions and ideas for my interview, going over what I would ask. After planning I began to write up the interview with a series of questions.I began to draft questions before finalizing what I was actually going to write, I did this so that I wasn’t just asking closed questions like ‘Yes or No'. I also drafted questions as to make sure that they fit with the artist I am interviewing. I chose Krept and Konan because they are a popular well known group and fits in well with my target audience. Although, I just decided in the end to interview just krept, as when looking on my magazine cover, a image of just one person looked a lot better than the two.

Interview question ideasKrept joins us at Simply Sound to chat about his life in music and his lifestyle out of his music career. So Krept lets get the questions rolling, how old were you when you started off in the music industry?Krept: I was around 13 years when I started loving music. I started to make up my own raps after school and my other mates would join in and we would have a rap off (laughs). So basically that is how it all started and I’m still creating raps to this day. We love your music and your rapping is great. When you were younger did you think you would be here today?Krept: Nah defo not, we just began making up raps in our bedroom after school for a bit of fun, and now were here sharing those raps we made with our friends. What do you aim for you music to do to the younger generation?Krept:I just wanted my music to inspire young people, as when I was growing up music play a huge part of my life. I want my music to motivate people to carry on with their goals you know, and it can show that like me coming from a run down house in Croydon you can make it somewhere in the world. What could be a motivation quote you could give to your fans then? There's going to be times in your life when people tell you, you can't do something, and there's going to be times in your life when people tell you, you cant live your dreams.Have you had any favorite or life changing moments this year?Krept- My favorite moment by far was when i performed at Reading Festival the crowd when crazy man! The screams were so loud! It was unreal to think that all these people have come to see me perform.Who’s your celebrity friend, and is there anyone you would like to make a song with?Krept: Ive always wanted to make music with Kanye West as his music inspired me a lot, ive got a few celebrity friends, most of them singers or rappers like Stormzy, and Ed Sheeran.I would love to preform with Fetty Wrap as im close mates with him, but we live such busy lifes, when it comes to preforming our timings never add up.

How do you come up with the raps you make?Krept-I tend to base my raps around passed experiences in life when growing up I didn’t have the best childhood you know always getting into trouble and fights in school, getting myself mixed up with the wrong people, like joining gangs.Do you think young people are targets for this type of up bringing, getting themselves into gangs? And a fan wanted to know do you have any pets?Krept: yeah course, there are so many young people getting mixed up in the wrong groups, getting involved in drugs and crime, you know I was young too and got mixed up with the wrong people.Krept- Yeah I’ve got a family, but would love to have a pet of our own but cant as were always on the go. Who do you base your style of clothing on?Krept- my style icon is Usher, I've always been inspired by what he wears and he can make wearing sunglasses in the dark, good !! (LAUGHS)Hahaha yeah he can, is there a song which you have enjoyed writing the most?Krept –My most enjoyable song I have written would be Dreams featuring Ed Sheeran, I loved writing this song with Ed as he’s a huge inspiration to me selling out the O2, when he first started off singing on the streets for some pocket money .. Now look where he is!!Krept-ahhh no way! He's I'm a HUGE fan of Ed sheeran!!so goodI thinks that’s all for now krept, thank you for coming in and answering some questions for us!!Krept- no problem, anytime.Good Luck at Wireless, and we hope to see you soon!!

Magazine Fonts/Text-And House Colours.Font Name Font Preview Font Usage

Impact Headline - Headline- Main Article Title

Bodoni 72 Smallcaps Book Puff Promotion -Puff Promotion

Eurostile Text -text and information such as interviews.

Bodoni 72 Smallcaps Book Puff Promotion -Puff Promotion

Font-When deciding what font I want in my magazine, I want to make sure that it is consistent throughout. I have also made sure that my font looks interesting as it would appeal/address to the target audience. I have chosen several fonts that will be used in my magazine, because some are easier to read than others when sized differently, although I didn't’t want my magazine to contain a lot of different fonts as it could just confuse the reader, and become messy.

House Color-My main color schemes in my magazine are going to be grey and yellow. The reason I have picked these two colors is because I want my magazine to appeal to both girls and boys. So therefore the grey side of the magazine is for the boys and the yellow for the girls, so that my magazine is covering both genders.

Front cover analysis of magazine of inspiration.

Logo-One of the main and most important parts of Q magazine is the logo. I think this is the most important part of the magazine because this depicts Q magazines apart from everyone because of their bold logo. I will repeat this in my magazine as I was inspired by Q music magazine.

Puff promotion- Having the verbal code ‘plus’ in red font means that the reader will be drawn to it as it stands out against the dark background. Although, this also gives an insight as to what is inside the magazine as by giving the reader an added bonus. I will repeat this in my magazine as it would draw the reader in to my magazine as well as appealing to the target audience.

Cover lines- I will include cover lines in my magazine by having a variation of different fonts draws the readers eyes to all different parts of the magazine. Having a variation of fonts provides different bits of content to the reader as well as this it appeals to the reader by including other artists names. This is called ‘start appeal’

Double page spread analysis of magazine of inspiration.

Positioning of the page-I was inspired by this page when making my magazine, I liked the way the text was to one side and the multiple photos were on the other side, I think this is a good idea as it allows the reader to refer back to the images while reading.

Drop Capital-When making my magazine I am going to consider using as large capital letter during the interview, I think this will had to the effect of the magazine as well as it will be eye-catching to the reader when they are flicking through the magazine.

Consistently of logo- I have decided that throughout my magazine I will keep my logo in the left hand corner I have decided to do this as my logo soon with become rememberble to the readers, as well as when they are in a magazine shop they will be able to remember my logo.

Conclusion

• In this learning outcome I focused on todays generation to come up with ideas fitting my brief for my music magazine. I started this by coming up with two similar music magazines which were ‘We love pop’ and ‘Q’ music magazine. I first started off researching about the two magazines reaching things like how frequently they get realised and what there content involved and began to analyse their front covers and a double-page spread from each magazine in order to pick up ideas for my own magazine.

• Once I had done this is began to analyse the language used within each magazine, to determine what type of language I wanted to use my magazine. Additionally I looked at the house styles of each magazine to get an idea of the type of colours/fonts I wanted to use.

• Finally, I produced 2 draft sketches for the front cover and the double page spread. During this is began to repeat ideas for my magazines of inspiration include similar things like the position of the masthead and including a strapline.

Conclusion Continued • The genre I have decided to go for is with R&B, the reason why I chose this

genre of music over pop from my magazine of inspiration ‘we heart pop'. Is because of my target audience as is 15-18+.This is why I have chosen the genre to be R&B as people who fit into this age category typically listen to R&B music, rather than pop as today they are influence by music in their day to day life, from seeing new artists, and new music on social media, as well as listening to the radio which typically plays more R&B on popular radio stations like Capital FM and Kiss 100.