George Kingham provides details on a magazine project including planning a photo shoot, creating a front cover, contents page, and double page spread for a new music magazine focused on rock music. The document discusses choosing IPC as the distributor due to their experience with rock music magazines, designing the magazine to attract rock music fans, and what was learned from the process of constructing the magazine using software like Photoshop and Fireworks.

1. George Kingham
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2. What interests my target audience? Features associated with this How will I advertise this on my
cover/content page?
Succeeding Working hard, pushing your goals further
each day.
Chart on how Getting to university has an
impact on your yearly wage compared to not
making it. (Motivating features)
Social Life Seeing friends, good balance of school and
social life.
Social networking sites, communicating
methods and methods
Time Management Getting the right balance between school,
social life and life at home.
Timetable on managing the 3 key features to
school life. (Social life School work and
Relaxing times.)
Extra-Curricular Activities Out of school hours put in, extra work,
volunteering, helping others to achieve.
UCAS Statement information and how
voluntary work helps.

3. Prelim College Magazine

4. Generic Conventions Of
Magazine Covers and Content
Pages

5. Free Gifts To Attract People In
To Buying It
Contrasting
Colours
Children’s
Comedy
Big Stand
Out Title
Fun Activities

6. Mature Design
Basic Non
Contrasting
Colour Design
Controversial Quote
Minimal Page Clutter
(Basic Design)

7. Basic Title
Following Colour
Scheme (Red)
Clear Page Number & What They
Display
Content Cover Picture
Stand Out Section

8. Basic Colour Scheme
Clear Basic Title
Eye-Catching Photo
Small Description Of Page
Simple Page Layout

9. Double page spread

11. Audience Interests
Audience
Information
Features Language On The
Front
Features on latest releases and
or upcoming albums/singles etc.
Dates for album releases and
rumours on potential singles.
‘New’
Competition for prizes such as
tickets, signed merchandise etc.
Gives information on the prizes to be won
and when/ how to enter.
‘Competition, Giveaway’
Event dates, tours to
different countries , states
etc.
Show tour locations and dates on
the front page numbers with
information on them.
‘Live Shows’
Band chart position, show
where they are in the
national and global charts.
Show a small table on where they
are on their national chart and
global chart.
‘Chart Position’
Recent stories involving the
band whether it be good or
bad
Main story line designed t o stand
out on the front cover.
‘MAIN TITLE COVERLINE’

12. Main task
• The main task is to create a front cover,
contents page and double page spread for a
new music magazine which we were to create
and edit ourselves using the computers and
software we were give. We were to plan and
carry out a photo shoot using the our models
who we chose for ourselves.

13. Photo Shoot Plan
Item/model Shot Type/
Angle
Any Lighting
Changes
Background Position on
front cover
editing
Kez Close up All lights on to
eradicate
shadows
White (easy
for editing
N/A Background
and tone
change
Ollie Close up All lights on to
eradicate
shadows
White (easy
for editing
N/A Background
and tone
change
Kez and Ollie Medium shot All lights on to
eradicate
shadows
White (easy
for editing
Main Focus
on centre of
magazine.
Background
and tone
change
Fraser and
Will
Medium-long
shot
Natural
daylight
Stood in front
of a wall
Lower Left
area
No editing
needed
Milly Medium shot All lights on to
eradicate
shadows
White (easy
for editing
Lower centre
area
Background
change only

14. Copy of magazine
questionnaire
Underneath the questions the
most popular results have
been published.

15. Results summary
• From the results of my questionnaire I can
clearly see that in general people wanted a
cheap magazine with a small amount of
content which was focuses around the rock
genre, also leading to it having a darker colour
scheme than many other mainstream
magazines such at MTV etc.

16. Magazine analysis

17. Front
Cover plan

18. Contents Page

19. Double Page Spread

20. Pre edited photos

21. before After
Tools used for
editing

22. Final Front
Cover

23. Final
Contents
Page

24. Final Double Page Spread

25. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms + conventions
of real media products?

26. This is my magazine front cover
which is based on the rock genre
theme. As can be seen from the dark
colour theme.
The masthead
attracts the
attention along
with the colour
contrasts of the
magazine, purely
to draw in
customers.
Pull quote, my
pull quote is
used to draw in
customers to
want to read the
section quoted.

27. What type of institution would
distribute your magazine?
• The magazine that would be publishing my magazine should be a company who produce rock music
and similar music. Mainly because there will already be a fan base surrounding the company.
• This would mean many people would have a look and most likely purchase the magazine. As
apposed to publishing my magazine through a company who produce pop music magazines.
• I have decided to go with IPC due to the fact that they produce genres surrounding the rock and
alternative genres of music.

28. IPC
• IPC was produced in 1968 and they produce
popular magazines such as NME which is a
rock and alternative music magazine. IPC
magazine produces within the UK and sells
350million magazines annually from
magazines such as NME

29. Reasons
• Genre, IPC media produces very popular magazines surrounding the
rock and alternative music genre, being that IPC are known for rock
music and alternative music magazine it makes sense to go with a
company that are successful In doing so.
• People all around the world who are subscribed to emails from IPC
media will receive updates on news and new features of their
magazines. By going with IPC as my producer millions of people will
receive updates that my magazine is the latest in their fleet of
magazine editions such as NME, in doing this it will create a huge
amount of interest and also generate sales, making the magazine
successful.
• The style of magazines in comparison to my magazine are very
similar in colour theme (dark colours) and placement of images and
words.

30. 1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• My target audience is anyone who would associate themselves
with the rock music genre, by using the band names and colours I
have, I have met the needs and demands of a rock music fan by
including the sorts of themes and artists which they would want
to see within the magazine. The age for my target audience is not
specific and can range from younger people around the age of 13
to people right up into people in their 60’s. If you were to
compare my magazine to a current popular rock magazine such
as Kerrang! You would see similarities in the respect of colour,
theme and band choices etc. The reason I have chosen to
represent this particular social group is mainly because I have a
huge interest in rock music myself, therefore designing a rock
magazine was close to home and something I wouldn’t stutter on
with the design and contents.

31. In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
My magazine is very similar to magazines of the same genre, rock. It shows similar designs
throughout the magazine, in the respect of the dark colour schemes and the fonts being bold and
having a slight eerier tone to them. I believe giving an eerier effect to the fonts gives it a scarier
theme to it, which is linked with rock music in many people’s eyes. The difference between my
magazine and other similar ones are the fact that I don’t include posters and free items with the
magazine; due to the fact that I believe they can clog up the magazine space meaning you cannot
have as much content if your plan was to have maximum content. My front cover is where I spent
most of my time developing and designing the cover, I know that with some popular magazines
when you are having a look at it, if it really catches your eye you can have already thought ‘yes
I’m going to buy this’ before you even look at the price meaning that the customer is then more
than likely to buy the magazine no matter what the circumstances from that point forward. In
many rock themed magazines having a gothic image or theme to go as the background of the front
page is also a very popular method. In my magazine having a blood spray themed background
added to the eerie effect. The photo shoot for the 2 people in my photo was specially done for the
magazine I had wanted to do from the start, by setting out to design a rock magazine having the
correct poses for the camera was made as much easier task for myself, by having a still look
directly into the camera with no emotion from one, and a confident intimidating look from the
other person really gave an eerier effect in my opinion. Having a box near each photo to give
minimal detail related to the photo was also another positive effect on my magazine, not only does
it give the readers a small insight in to what the photo is or who it is related to but also in their
interests.

32. Who would be the audience for
your media product?
My main focus for my magazine is to target fans of the rock music genre, for
reasons that rock music for starters is my favoured genre of music and would be
much easier for me to think of ideas for the magazine but also as I would have a
better understanding for what appeals to rock music fans. The rock music genre is
extremely diverse in its sound in comparison to other genres, and many
stereotypes can show the differences between genres, such as rock and pop etc.
this is also another reason why making a rock magazine is much easier to show
the genre in comparison to the other available genres.

33. How did you attract your audience?
• Attracting the fans of rock music is a relatively straight forward task, by using a
darker colour scheme such as the usage of Black, Red and other dark colours is one
way of separating it from other genres. Not only by using colours but also using
the photos and names of well known bands and song names, this was a good way
of attracting true rock fans as they would know straight away for example that
Green Day are a well known rock band, seeing straight away that my magazine is a
rock magazine, as opposed to a pop magazine. The final way I attracted rock fans
to my magazine was by the use of images related to rock music, such as electric
guitars, flames and eerie editing to give a more deep rock effect to it, changing the
way my models on the front page looked towards the camera and the facial
expressions they used towards the camera. Using expressions of seriousness and
to some extent anger towards the camera, exposing the rock music stereotype.

34. What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing your product?
• The only technological device I had used to construct my magazine was a
computer, with the help of software such as Adobe fireworks and also Adobe
Photoshop. These two software's were able to assist me in creating the magazine
when it had came to the design of the background to give a rock themed effect but
also for editing my models to remove the background where the photo was taken
and also to remove major impurities in the photo, such as a small spot on the face
etc. Purely to give it a perfect finish and to be finished to the most professional
standard possible. I have learnt that photoshop can have a huge effect on the final
outcome of your magazine in terms of editing, it is an extremely complex software
but once you know how to use it you are then able to do many things with photos
to give it the bet final finish possible.

35. Prelim Task and what I have learnt
along the way in the construction
process of creating the magazine
• From the prelim task I can see that my skills in editing and understanding of layout
of magazines themselves has increased and developed significantly. At first I was
unable to construct a well designed and constructed magazine with maximum
effect for the target audience, whereas in my rock magazine I was able to target
my specific audience efficiently and strongly. I believe this is a direct link with my
understanding of the software and competence with the software increasing and
the overall final quality of my product increasing. From the first time using the
software to my most recent magazine I can see that my skills and application of
the software to my product has increased significantly, I believe that my work has
improved significantly and now shows signs of improvement from the first task
completed.