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The document summarizes a student's media studies project to design a music magazine. It describes the target teenage audience aged 14-19 and how the magazine will attract readers through interviews with new bands and bright covers. Planning included choosing an indie/rock genre and developing layout concepts. Pictures were taken and edited to include in the front cover and spreads. Minor changes would include improving the balanced front cover layout and adding more to the contents page.

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Media Studies AS Production Evaluation By Naomi Gayle Year 12
The Brief The campaign objective was to produce a front cover, at least one double page spread and a contents page for a new music magazine. The preliminary project was to produce the front cover for a student magazine and the design the layout for the contents page.
Target Audience and Research My specific target audience for my music magazine is teenagers aged between 14-19. I have chosen this age gap because the magazine is slightly to difficult to understand any younger than 14 because of the language and the detail I have put into it. I have made the age limit in my magazine 19 because of the sorts of bands including within my Magazine. The bands are new every week, and I thought once above a certain age you would want to stick with bands you already have interest in instead of being introduced to new ones every week. My magazine is aimed at the teenage youth because of the style I have created it in. I would aim my magazine at both females and males as it has element for both genders.
How will your magazine attract an audience? I intended to appeal to the audience by including a interview with a “Brand New” band every week. This is will make my audience interested in my magazine because they will look forward to seeing what the next new band will be to enter fame and fortune. Another way that will allow me to attract and audience would be to have a bright front cover to my magazine, this will allow people to notice my magazine upon the shelf with the others in a newsagents/store. I will achieve this by having a colour scheme to my magazine for example the colour scheme I have used for my music magazine I have created is blue, black and white. I will also have a image on the front cover which will allow my readers to see what the new band in each months magazine looks like. Seeing as indie and rock music is becoming more popular over the years it seemed logical to make sure my music magazine genre was Indie/Rock this will give me a good selling starting point, as I know that the magazine will be brought by some customers as it’s a popular genre of music. When I was researching ideas for the genre of my magazine I found out that 65% of music magazine made around the world have the Rock/Indie/Heavy mental genre and 10% classical music and 25% Rap/R&B/Hip-Hop.
Planning the magazine The genre of music magazine I planned was Indie/Rock. I chose this because it is a popular genre within teenagers And possible buyers for My magazine. I planned my magazine by making a lot of different mind maps of Ideas that could go inside it, or on the front cover. And choose the best ideas that I came up with. I made some layout designs for my front cover context page and double page spread to give me different ideas of how I could lay out my magazine so it look interesting to customers here Is and example of one for my planning layout for a context page. One of the hardest parts to creating my own music magazine was getting the right name for my magazine one that people would remember. I made a mind map of different name I could use. I came up with the following names; Rhythm Sound Musical Red hot music My music Rock and read Out of the six names that I came up with when doing my mind map I thought “Rhythm” was most catchy and it represented music as in each song you have a different “Rhythm”.
Pictures included in my magazine For my magazine I had taken all the pictures that are included within it. This allowed me to edit the pictures as I wished and to show my progression on how I had edited them within my work. By taking picture of a really band that I knew outside of school. It meant that my magazine would look more professional as they new what they should be doing within there pictures. For my front cover I used a picture of all three of them. I edited the background so instead of having tree and bushes in the background I would have a plan white studio look. I chose this pictures as my front cover because they look like a fun, chatty band which people might think is interesting and fun to read about inside. On my double page spread I made sure I had a variety of different pictures, I included some studio shot which I customised on Photoshop and used some where they were playing to show who plays what in the band and what they’d look like live. One the context page I used a series of different pictures, this included a picture of the band and a picture of a different band.
Props and costumes in pictures Drums Guitars Micro-phones Speakers Amps Base guitar Casually dressed In teen fashion Original style Sundown City playing live. (picture included within my magazine).
The changes I’d make There isn't much that I would change about my magazine but I would change the way I planned out my time. Some part of my magazine have had more thought than others. I thought that my fount cover could have changed. I think I should have place a different picture on the cover to balance out the page. I didn’t think the page was balanced because it was hard to put all my puffs around the picture there wasn’t much space for the information to go. I also thought that my context page was a little blank when printed and I would change that so it was more full. The last thing that I would like to have another go it is taking my own pictures again. I didn’t take the correct pictures for my magazine. I had to edit them to fit them into the placed marked out on my magazine layout.
Software used Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint Photoshop Internet Camera (Take images)
Conventions Date, Price, Page number barcode Main cover picture Mast head Tag line Puff Inside features
 

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Media Studies As Production Evaluation

  • 1. Media Studies AS Production Evaluation By Naomi Gayle Year 12
  • 2. The Brief The campaign objective was to produce a front cover, at least one double page spread and a contents page for a new music magazine. The preliminary project was to produce the front cover for a student magazine and the design the layout for the contents page.
  • 3. Target Audience and Research My specific target audience for my music magazine is teenagers aged between 14-19. I have chosen this age gap because the magazine is slightly to difficult to understand any younger than 14 because of the language and the detail I have put into it. I have made the age limit in my magazine 19 because of the sorts of bands including within my Magazine. The bands are new every week, and I thought once above a certain age you would want to stick with bands you already have interest in instead of being introduced to new ones every week. My magazine is aimed at the teenage youth because of the style I have created it in. I would aim my magazine at both females and males as it has element for both genders.
  • 4. How will your magazine attract an audience? I intended to appeal to the audience by including a interview with a “Brand New” band every week. This is will make my audience interested in my magazine because they will look forward to seeing what the next new band will be to enter fame and fortune. Another way that will allow me to attract and audience would be to have a bright front cover to my magazine, this will allow people to notice my magazine upon the shelf with the others in a newsagents/store. I will achieve this by having a colour scheme to my magazine for example the colour scheme I have used for my music magazine I have created is blue, black and white. I will also have a image on the front cover which will allow my readers to see what the new band in each months magazine looks like. Seeing as indie and rock music is becoming more popular over the years it seemed logical to make sure my music magazine genre was Indie/Rock this will give me a good selling starting point, as I know that the magazine will be brought by some customers as it’s a popular genre of music. When I was researching ideas for the genre of my magazine I found out that 65% of music magazine made around the world have the Rock/Indie/Heavy mental genre and 10% classical music and 25% Rap/R&B/Hip-Hop.
  • 5. Planning the magazine The genre of music magazine I planned was Indie/Rock. I chose this because it is a popular genre within teenagers And possible buyers for My magazine. I planned my magazine by making a lot of different mind maps of Ideas that could go inside it, or on the front cover. And choose the best ideas that I came up with. I made some layout designs for my front cover context page and double page spread to give me different ideas of how I could lay out my magazine so it look interesting to customers here Is and example of one for my planning layout for a context page. One of the hardest parts to creating my own music magazine was getting the right name for my magazine one that people would remember. I made a mind map of different name I could use. I came up with the following names; Rhythm Sound Musical Red hot music My music Rock and read Out of the six names that I came up with when doing my mind map I thought “Rhythm” was most catchy and it represented music as in each song you have a different “Rhythm”.
  • 6. Pictures included in my magazine For my magazine I had taken all the pictures that are included within it. This allowed me to edit the pictures as I wished and to show my progression on how I had edited them within my work. By taking picture of a really band that I knew outside of school. It meant that my magazine would look more professional as they new what they should be doing within there pictures. For my front cover I used a picture of all three of them. I edited the background so instead of having tree and bushes in the background I would have a plan white studio look. I chose this pictures as my front cover because they look like a fun, chatty band which people might think is interesting and fun to read about inside. On my double page spread I made sure I had a variety of different pictures, I included some studio shot which I customised on Photoshop and used some where they were playing to show who plays what in the band and what they’d look like live. One the context page I used a series of different pictures, this included a picture of the band and a picture of a different band.
  • 7. Props and costumes in pictures Drums Guitars Micro-phones Speakers Amps Base guitar Casually dressed In teen fashion Original style Sundown City playing live. (picture included within my magazine).
  • 8. The changes I’d make There isn't much that I would change about my magazine but I would change the way I planned out my time. Some part of my magazine have had more thought than others. I thought that my fount cover could have changed. I think I should have place a different picture on the cover to balance out the page. I didn’t think the page was balanced because it was hard to put all my puffs around the picture there wasn’t much space for the information to go. I also thought that my context page was a little blank when printed and I would change that so it was more full. The last thing that I would like to have another go it is taking my own pictures again. I didn’t take the correct pictures for my magazine. I had to edit them to fit them into the placed marked out on my magazine layout.
  • 9. Software used Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint Photoshop Internet Camera (Take images)
  • 10. Conventions Date, Price, Page number barcode Main cover picture Mast head Tag line Puff Inside features
  • 11.