Music Magazine Photo Images

Since my last post I went home to my  local area and took some pictures for my music magazine that would be suitable and match my ideas. Some photos are involved in a musical activity and some are pictures of a posing person for the contents and double pager article/ interview.

Magazine Front Cover Image

 

The picture of the left is a photo image of a the musician that I am going to interview. As you can see he is in the same standing position as my idea design and has the same props that i have drew: Guitar, Wrist bands and microphone. Plus I have shared my audience research from my questionnaire results (Q.3B). The audience want to see a photo shot of the action and not the person looking at the camera. Using this would attract more attention to the audience once my front cover is completed. Also I went to a concert a month before my taken photos and I took a few photos of the event. Related to music, I'm going to use this as my background for my front cover magazine.

Contents Page Images

Whilst I was taking photos of the main person in the magazine, i also took pictures of a local band that was practising in the same building. With these taken photos I can use them in my contents page to show imagery proof of the named bands that i have mentioned in my text.

Double Page Image

  This photo image is a picture of the interviewed musician doing the same type of pose as my double page idea. Using a high angle shot, makes the musician look at the camera and makes him look smaller, also giving the audience that he is looking up at them and the audience is looking down at him.                                                                                                                                     

                                  

                                                                                                                                              





Music Magazine: Initial Plan and Sketch Ideas For Front Cover, Contents and Double page

Initial Plan
After my collected results from my questionnaire, i used those results and created some ideas for my music magazine pages. Each question results are related to my ideas showing that i have used my research to improve my ideal work. Plus its relates to the theme of my idea, my results match up to a heavy metal type for my idea which would attract an audience suitable enough for a limited age.

Front Cover Idea

My magazine front cover has a heavy metal theme to it using medieval fonts to the master head and Gothic theme to the main person on the front cover "Ryan Mcmannion". Plus all of the text created on this design doesn't cover up the persons face or his instrument. Also, with my previous research on my college magazine i have gave my magazine front over a price tag, date of magazine release and a bar code which is at the bottom of the page. With all the text, fonts and theme put into the design, some shapes and text are in front of one another, so that it makes each shape stand out more, and giving it a 3-D look to it.


Contents Page Idea

The contents page idea design keeps the same theme as it does to my front cover page. Plus using the ideas from my audience research i have done the same text but have moved shapes around, plus using the contents page idea, my text is in columns and not rows, also i have drew 3 images that i could use to improve the ideal design. My colour theme to both my front cover magazine and contents page is going to be a dark and light theme. With my choice and using my research using only 3 colours, I'm going to choose red white and black, which suits the heavy metal look for the magazine.



Double Page Idea

Without my Photos taken for the magazine at this time, i have been looking through some magazines (mostly Kerrang) and comparing double page features/ interviews/ articles on each musician. Over time i have decided that my double page idea is going to look similar to this design because each convention is directed to the audience. The way that Matt tuck looks up at the camera, but as he looks up, its like he looks back at the audience as they read the article. Plus the colour theme of the text on the double page matches the colour theme on the musician and stands out more. Even though my idea will look similar to this, my fonts and colour theme is still going to be the same as my Magazine Front cover and my contents page.

Music Magazine Research: Analysis/Conventions of Magazine Double Page

·         A stand out quote – In bigger text

·         Coherent colour scheme – usually with black main text

·         Usually the main image – bigger than others

·         Usually one or more smaller image

·         Main text is laid out in columns

·         Layout style matches the audience

·         Article needs a big title

·         Drop capitals used at start of articles

·         At end – Further information may be added – e.g. Release dates

·         Musicians photographed in serious poses

·         Small font used for article – 10pt.

Example of a magazine double paged article

Audience Research + Questionnaire Conclusion

I have made a questionnaire to help my research for music magazines. My questionnaire is at 10 questions long, asking about the elements of music, to help with my design.

Once the questionnaire was completed i made 20 copies and added up the results.
paper results was not big enough for a picture framed image:
Question 1
kerrang =15
Q = 0
NME = 5

Question 2.
Metal = 10
Punk = 3
Indie Rock = 4
Pop Rock = 3

Question 3.
Pic. A = 6
Pic. B = 9
Pic. C = 5

Question 4.
Dark = 7
Light = 4
Both = 9

Question 5.
Guitar = 11
Bass = 0
Drums = 6
Vocals = 2
Other = 1

Question 6.
0-30 mins = 8
30-60 mins = 3
More = 4

Question 7.
Font 1 = 2
Font 2 = 4
Font 3 = 9
Font 4 = 5

Question 8.
The whole band = 17
Main member of band = 3

Question 9.
An instrument = 0
A Band = 14
News about a musician

Question 10.
teenage Rock = 2
Unleashed = 16
Chewn = 1
M = 1

Conclusion
Using these results i think i can figure out the right sort of theme to go with my Music magazine. Most of my results relate to a Heavy type of magazine, so I'm going to use my research to make it dark but more presentable.

Media Music Magazine Research: The Magazine Industry

The magazine market - Basic Facts

• In the UK there are 3000 different "consumer Magazines"
• ...But most of the main magazines titles are owned and published by a relatively small number of companies.

Magazines as a Business

• Magazines exist to make money for their owners.
• Magazines make most f their money through selling advertising space - "Selling eyeballs to advertisers"
• Advertisers like magazines because they enable them to reach very specific "Niche" audiences.

Magazine Circulation

• Magazine publishers keep a close eye on their circulation figures - ie. how many magazines they sell each week/month.
• Circulation figures are gathered by the audit bureau of circulation (ABC)

Music Magazine Publishers

• I.P.C
• Bauer
• Future Publishing

Music Magazines published by I.P.C

• NME
• Uncut

Music Magazines published by Bauer

• Kerrang
• Mojo
• Q

Music Magazines published by Future Publishing

• Classic Rock
• Class Rock prog
• Computer Music
• Future Music
• Guitar Aficiando (US)
• Guitar Legends (US)
• Guitar Techniques
• Guitar World (US)
• Guitarist
• Guitarist (Australia)
• Metal Hammer
• Revolver
• Rhythm
• Total Guitar

New Assessed Music Magazine

After the work i did for a college magazine and understanding the features of a magazine front cover and the contents page, researching the conventions. Now, I'm going to make a Music magazine for my own choice, using research to help my create my idea design.

Finished designs for Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page

After using the chosen programmes i have finally completed my idea designs for my magazine front cover and my contents page, using the photographic images that i have taken too.

College magazine front cover

This is my magazine front cover design, in comparison it looks a little similar to my brief ideas but with a few differences. II have used the image i have taken of the student from the previous college. Using the told in Adobe Photoshop Cs5 i have wiped out all the background behind the shot taken of the student, a created and outline of the shape of figure. Then i made the image look bigger so that the student fills up some space on the front cover, and so that the audience can see his facial expression, attracting the audiences attention.

Contents Page

This is my finished design of my contents page for the magazine, using the selected programme QuarkXPress. This took a while to make because i had to use the few optional tools to create text boxes and insert take photographic pictures useful for the design. Whilst making these creations I then had to add colour to them boxes/text/background. Also, increasing the size of text for the audience to see. Then i had to save is as a PDF file and then open the file into a Photoshop programme, giving it a background and then saving it as an image to get the full design completed.

Using Photo Images For Magazine Front Cover and Contents Page

Magazine Front Cover Image
Now that i have made a draft publication of my Magazine Front cover and Contents page ideas, i have taken a couple of photos that would be suitable for my magazine design.

This is a picture of a student from college with a medium-shot picture view.

From this image, the suitable audience/ readers can see the picture clearly and know that it is aimed at them. We know this because of the facial expression of the satudent in the picture, he looks directly at the audience.

Magazine Contents Page
This photographic image was taken inside of a college cafe.

This image is taken for the contents page so that the audience know what its like inside a college and show how suitable safe and secure and open free the facility. this helps attract the audience's attention and makes it the idea design very persuasive about the college that the magazine is representing.

Photo Image of a student from college.

This is another small image for the contents page, a student striking a happy pose, showing the audience how much he likes college, another way to attract the audience's attention, and persuade parents to let there children come to this college too.

Ideas of Magazine Cover and Contents Page

These are my ideas for my magazine front cover and my contents page. Hopefully my designs will look similiar to these briefs. For my Idea designs im going to use an two different programmes. My first prgramme im going to use for my Magazine front cover is a programme called Adobe Photoshop. The other programme im going to use is for my contents page is a prgramme called QuarkXPress.
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Magazine Front Cover Idea


Magazine Contents page Idea

Conventions of Magazine front cover and Content page.

Magazine Front Cover Research

Bright colours -  A colour scheme is used for text, 3-5 colours.

One main cover image is used = A celebrity

• Facial expressions convey personality or image of a star.
• Cover image uses direct address - eye contact with reader

Price is usually small

Central cover lines links to Image

•  Smaller cover lines are arranged
•  Around the face of cover image

If cover image has more than one person, they may have one in the foreground, positioning celebrities.
Page number may be used
Other products, freebies,posters may be advertised

Different fonts are used

• Not too many
• Needs to match the colour theme
• White or light coloured background is used or just plain.

Clothing of cover image matches style/fashion of personality

Cover image text are layered

• Masthead (title)/ Cover image/ Cover lines

Cover linesCover lines are written in an entertaining way to lure the reader e.g. Rhetorical questions

Title of cover has connotations
Linked to contact

Banners may be used as background
These are a few examples of Music Magazine covers:

Conventions of Magazines Content Pages

• Section from he editor 'speaks' to the reader. (Editorial)
• Photographs illustrate the content of the main articles.
• Offers for the magazine-reduced rates etc.
• Colour scheme is consistent with front cover.
• Bold page numbers for main article
• Sub-headings are used, to group articles of similar content
• Similar layered effect with headline at top.
• Pictures show people/ faces.
• Content/ lists laid in columns

NO EMPTY SPACES!!!

These are a few examples of content page in a music magazine: