2. THE MASTHEAD
“YourTunes” can be interpreted a number of
ways. Originally I had named it “ForTunes”
so then it would be fortunes as in destiny
and fate, and then it would also come
across as a magazine for music tunes. You
could also interlink it with iTunes as well.
Maybe the font of my masthead isn’t like
most magazines, a normal, simple font;
however this is what makes my magazine
different. The masthead isn’t too girly,
which is what my magazine is trying to
represent. It’s not supposed to be too girly
but the audience of girls is identifiable.
However, it does follow the colour scheme
of my magazine.
3. MISE EN SCENE
The mise en scene of my pictures is not how
I imagined it would be from the start
however I think it has worked out well.
Admittedly when I was taking the picture,
although I had sufficient light while
taking the pictures, I didn’t think it was
bright enough. I edited it on picnik.com
and added the effect “Boost”. This gave
Jade’s skin a yellow tint which was not
intended but I think that it brings out her
facial features such as her eyebrows and
smile. I thought the dress was
appropriate because it’s plain and
simple, not too busy.
4. MISE EN SCENE (CONTINUED)
Her facial expressions are warming and welcome, giving off a friendly
vibe to readers which then also describe one of her characteristics.
In terms of makeup we tried to keep it as natural as possible but
added the glitter on her eyes. This is also another girl thing because
girls love glitter. The picture in which she’s posing with a
microphone gives off the feeling that she enjoys being a singer
because she’s smiling and happy. The picture with the rose is purely
showing her affectionate side, whether it tells you she’s looking for
love or that she’s simply a loving person herself. The picture of Jade
in the sunglasses shows the sassy side that all pop stars have. For
my pictures I had a roll of white paper to give it a simple, not too
busy background and when I “Auto Fixed” it on picnik.com for an
unknown reason it turned aqua which I thought was quite pretty.
5. TEXT, FONT AND STYLE
For the font throughout, I used a font on fireworks called
Xpress SF. I chose this one as I was flicking through the
different fonts because it wasn’t too boring like Times New
Roman or too weird like Parchment which you can hardly
read. Personally, if I saw a whole article in Times New
Roman I wouldn’t read it because it would give off the
feeling that the information was probably boring to someone
like me, let alone the font. I thought Xpress SF gave it a
certain kick.
6. WRITTEN CONTENT
On the double page spread I believe that I did follow the usual
conventions of a magazine, giving an introduction to Jade as an
artist at first and the language that I used was not too formal,
using words such as “totally” and “feisty”. I didn’t use too many
big words that maybe girls from 11 would not understand. I
asked Jade about her music career and what she had planned for
the next step in the future. All the questions were related to her
and her career whether it is what inspired her or what she would
have done if she wasn’t what she was today. However the last
question I included was mainly to encourage young girls and
inspire them. The language I used in the Editor’s Note was more
on a personal level, involving them by using “you”. This
language was definitely informal, using words such as “juicy”,
“amazing” and “fantastic”.
8. GENRE Rock Pop
My music magazine genre is
pop. This is shown
through the bright
colours where as if it was
rock, it would be more
low key colours such as
red, black and white. I
used celebrities that
revolve round the pop
world, Adele, Katy Perry
and Ben Howard.
9. LAYOUT
The masthead follows the
conventions of a usual music
magazine, at the very top of
the cover, big and bold. The
main cover line about Jade is
bigger than the other cover
lines to display that this was
the main article. I used a tiny
little stand first on the cover
after the main cover line title
including a quote from the
interview I did.
10. CONTENTS PAGE
My music magazine features not only music but fashion
and gossip too. I know for a fact that fashion and
gossip are mostly always revolved around
celebrities from the music/film/TV industry, and I
chose to use this to my advantage by including
pages of gossip and fashion to do with musical
celebrities, for example the Katy Perry and Russell
Brand split up is relevant because Katy produces
pop music. Also the Selena Gomez fashion page is a
page of fashion to do with a pop star. Teenage girls
look at pictures of musical celebrities or hear gossip
about them and aspire to be like their idols.
Embarrassing Encounters and Your Letters were
purely for the enjoyment of the audience, as is the
Horoscopes page. Your Letters allows the readers to
write in maybe with pictures of them with celebrities
and any other opinions on the music industry and its
celebrities. I don’t know any magazine that does not
offer at least one prize for a competition entry, or
maybe a little crossword or quiz in case they get
bored.
