Media CourseworkPrint – G321 Part 1

Eloise Kenton – BarnesMain Task: To create a new music magazine with a minimum of 3 pages to a standard level of presentation. Consisting of a front cover, contents page and a double page spread.

Contents

• Main Task Planning

Magazine Ideas

Genre: - Icons, influential figures at the time of print.

- New on the music scene ‘upcoming stars’

Magazine Name Ideas:-Kick

-Trip

-Wave

-Chant

Contents Page Ideas: -Featuring lots of images but still in line with colour scheme. Featured articles to stick out – maybe highlighted in red? Of different shot distances.

- Quotes from articles and insight into topic of writing.

Double Page Spread Ideas:-Main image focus on artist ‘behind the music’. Down to earth photo. Relation to audience.

- Interesting quotes larger in font and in different colour to rest of article to draw attention.

-Article based on interview with artist – release of new track or experience of tour.

Article Language Ideas

Double Page Spread:-Focus on the importance of fans – Idol for the younger generation encouraging perseverance.

Quote Ideas:

-‘It just shows anyone can do what they put their mind to’.

- ‘Im so thankful for the support I’ve had’

- ‘I hope I’ve shown anyone can make something of themselves.’

-Representation of down to earth girl – relates to audience.

Cover Page:-On trend stories, recent and exclusive stories.

Ideas for articles:

-Whitney Housten’s death

-Super Bowl incident with M.I.A swearing at camera – explore appropriateness?

- T-Pain recent marriage – his traditional views on marriage.

-Adele’s incident at the Brit Awards.

Aiming to pick 3 articles to feature – not to over-crowd cover page.

Contents Page:•Regulars:

-giving continuous consumers a sense of exclusiveness.

-Clipping of words ‘Celeb’ to appeal to age of audience.

- Use of 2nd person pronouns ‘You’ to fully engage reader in magazine.

- Use of the age appropriate words such as ‘trending’ which has been coined from the social networking site ‘Twitter’.

Timeline

Preliminary exercise

1 Week

Main Task - Research

4 Weeks

Planning

3 Weeks

Photoshoot

1 Week

Production

2 Months

Evaluation

6 Weeks

I will gather valuable information on the conventions of music magazines in this stage.

Allows me to fully outline the direction of my magazine.

The gathering of images for the cover page, double page spread and contents page – will be a variety of medium and long shots.

The construction of my magazine on Photoshop will lead to the final product being produced.

This section allows me to evaluate the effectiveness of my magazine in relation to consumers.

Logo• This is a crucial feature of my magazine it will be the face of the product and therefore should be recognised by

all consumers. It should reflect the topic of the magazine and stand out from the rest of the cover page.

Logo

Two contrasting colours of black & white.

Simple, bold and eye-catching.

Font is clear and large in size – clearly

readable. Will be located at top of cover page aligning

with convention.

Main Photoshoot

Selection of shots from my photoshoot

• I’ve chosen to use a variety of long shots. This is because the impression of the artist I want to give is a ‘authoritative’ and ‘independent’ female which is done through the positioning of the model.

• I also took a variety of medium shots. These did not have the same effect and I felt that it represented the female artist as an object rather than an inspiring idol.