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The magazine Top of the Pops targets teenage girls with its pink color scheme and articles about boy bands like the Jonas Brothers. Its covers use attention-grabbing headlines and celebrity photos to entice readers. The contents page also appeals to its target audience with pink headings and pictures of popular celebrities like Selena Gomez. Double page spreads feature a repeated color scheme and large central photos accompanying articles, with smaller photos and highlighted text to draw the eye. The analysis concludes the student will apply similar design principles in their own magazine for a teenage pop audience.
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The magazine case study analyzes Top of the Pops magazine. It is aimed at teenage girls based on its pink color scheme and boy band cover image. The cover uses pull quotes and celebrity photos to engage readers. The contents page also uses bright pink colors and pictures of popular celebrities to attract the target audience. The double page spread repeats the pink and yellow color scheme with large cover images and bold fonts. In conclusion, the analysis found the magazine effectively uses colors, fonts, images and pull quotes tailored to its teenage girl readership.
Target audience 4 and 5
This document provides research on the target audience for a pop magazine. It identifies the audience as primarily female aged 9-15, interested in music, beauty, celebrity and fashion. Research through surveys found the audience wants news, reviews, gossip and style tips. To appeal to this audience, the magazine will use bright colors like pink and blue, casual fonts, trending celebrity images and an informal chatty tone.
Target audience 4 and 5
This document provides information about the target audience and content for a pop music magazine. The target audience is primarily female aged 9-15 who enjoy music, beauty, fashion and celebrity gossip. Research through surveys found the audience wants news, reviews, and celebrity stories about music, films, fashion and shopping. To appeal to this audience, the magazine will use bright pink and blue colors, casual fonts, on-trend celebrity images and an informal chatty tone.
Target audience 4 and 5
The document provides information about the target audience and design considerations for a pop music magazine. The target audience is primarily female aged 9-15 who enjoy music, beauty, fashion and celebrity gossip. Research found their top interests were music, films and shopping. The magazine content focuses on music news, reviews, interviews and celebrity fashion/beauty tips. Bright pink and blue colors with feminine fonts were chosen to appeal to this young female audience. Images and language used an informal, chatty tone. The front cover features a band in on-trend clothing to draw readers in.
Focus group pres.
The document discusses plans for a new music magazine called "Amped" focused on rock, indie, and alternative music. It will feature local band FoTown on the cover and have an in-depth double-page spread interview with them. The magazine will use a red, black, and white color scheme and be priced at £2 to attract customers while still earning a profit. Feedback supported focusing on rock music, using a local band, keeping costs low, and having a simple color scheme.
Magazine conventions
The document provides guidance on key conventions for magazine design and layout. It discusses several essential elements including the masthead, cover line, focal image, and contents page. The masthead identifies the magazine brand and is typically located in the top third of the cover. The cover line informs readers of the main feature. An impactful focal image, such as a celebrity, is important for attracting audiences. The contents page lists article topics and page numbers. Representation of gender in magazines is also addressed, noting a focus on empowering women in house music genres.
Front cover statement of intent
The document provides details about the planned front cover of a new music magazine called NMM (New Music Monthly) focused on indie music. The summary includes:
1) The magazine will be called NMM and aims to introduce new music to young music lovers each month with a focus on the indie genre.
2) The main cover image will feature a mid-shot of two females representing modern indie music culture.
3) The target audience is 15-20 year olds interested in indie music, as represented by the edgy yet commercial cover images and styles.
(1) research
The document summarizes research conducted on existing magazine products. It analyzes features of different magazines' front covers, double page spreads, and audience profiles. Common features identified across magazines included similar font styles and color palettes. Aspects that will be applied to the author's own work include thoughtful consideration of layout, composition, image placement, and text alignment based on the research.
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Media analysis powerpoint notes
The magazine case study analyzes Top of the Pops magazine. It is aimed at teenage girls based on its pink color scheme and boy band cover image. The cover uses pull quotes and celebrity photos to engage readers. The contents page also uses bright pink colors and pictures of popular celebrities to attract the target audience. The double page spread repeats the pink and yellow color scheme with large cover images and bold fonts. In conclusion, the analysis found the magazine effectively uses colors, fonts, images and pull quotes tailored to its teenage girl readership.
Target audience 4 and 5
This document provides research on the target audience for a pop magazine. It identifies the audience as primarily female aged 9-15, interested in music, beauty, celebrity and fashion. Research through surveys found the audience wants news, reviews, gossip and style tips. To appeal to this audience, the magazine will use bright colors like pink and blue, casual fonts, trending celebrity images and an informal chatty tone.
Target audience 4 and 5
This document provides information about the target audience and content for a pop music magazine. The target audience is primarily female aged 9-15 who enjoy music, beauty, fashion and celebrity gossip. Research through surveys found the audience wants news, reviews, and celebrity stories about music, films, fashion and shopping. To appeal to this audience, the magazine will use bright pink and blue colors, casual fonts, on-trend celebrity images and an informal chatty tone.
Target audience 4 and 5
The document provides information about the target audience and design considerations for a pop music magazine. The target audience is primarily female aged 9-15 who enjoy music, beauty, fashion and celebrity gossip. Research found their top interests were music, films and shopping. The magazine content focuses on music news, reviews, interviews and celebrity fashion/beauty tips. Bright pink and blue colors with feminine fonts were chosen to appeal to this young female audience. Images and language used an informal, chatty tone. The front cover features a band in on-trend clothing to draw readers in.
Focus group pres.
The document discusses plans for a new music magazine called "Amped" focused on rock, indie, and alternative music. It will feature local band FoTown on the cover and have an in-depth double-page spread interview with them. The magazine will use a red, black, and white color scheme and be priced at £2 to attract customers while still earning a profit. Feedback supported focusing on rock music, using a local band, keeping costs low, and having a simple color scheme.
Magazine conventions
The document provides guidance on key conventions for magazine design and layout. It discusses several essential elements including the masthead, cover line, focal image, and contents page. The masthead identifies the magazine brand and is typically located in the top third of the cover. The cover line informs readers of the main feature. An impactful focal image, such as a celebrity, is important for attracting audiences. The contents page lists article topics and page numbers. Representation of gender in magazines is also addressed, noting a focus on empowering women in house music genres.
Front cover statement of intent
The document provides details about the planned front cover of a new music magazine called NMM (New Music Monthly) focused on indie music. The summary includes:
1) The magazine will be called NMM and aims to introduce new music to young music lovers each month with a focus on the indie genre.
2) The main cover image will feature a mid-shot of two females representing modern indie music culture.
3) The target audience is 15-20 year olds interested in indie music, as represented by the edgy yet commercial cover images and styles.
(1) research
The document summarizes research conducted on existing magazine products. It analyzes features of different magazines' front covers, double page spreads, and audience profiles. Common features identified across magazines included similar font styles and color palettes. Aspects that will be applied to the author's own work include thoughtful consideration of layout, composition, image placement, and text alignment based on the research.
Task 9
The document outlines initial ideas for a new pop magazine targeted at teenage girls aged 14-19. It will feature popular male artists from various ethnicities on the cover and throughout the magazine to appeal to its target audience. The magazine will have a pink, purple, and blue color scheme. The cover will showcase a solo artist in a medium shot with direct eye contact. Inside, a question and answer interview article will span two pages with a large artist image and pull quotes to entice readers. Photographs of various solo and group artists from different backgrounds will be included.
Contents page and dps marked
This document analyzes the contents page and double page spread (DPS) of NME Magazine from November 2008 and 2011. It summarizes the key conventions used, including subheadings in boxes to label sections, a band index, a subscription box, colored drop capitals, pull quotes, and filling most of the DPS with an image of a featured artist. The document concludes that incorporating these conventions would help appeal to the target audience of a music magazine and increase readership based on theories of star appeal and genre expectations.
Q one
The document discusses the masthead of a magazine created for a class evaluation. It describes how the masthead was designed to represent the target audience's tastes while still standing out from competitors. Specific design elements of the masthead like its font, color, and positioning are discussed. The masthead helps identify the magazine's brand and genre. Other generic magazine conventions used in the product like coverlines, central images, and double page spreads are also reviewed.
Powerpont 3 task 7 3
1) The document discusses conducting a questionnaire to determine the target audience and preferences for a new music magazine. It provides analysis of the questionnaire results, including demographics of respondents and their music and magazine preferences.
2) Key findings indicate that the target audience should be 16-21 year olds, with pop music as the most popular genre. Respondents preferred magazines that are visually appealing and include celebrity interviews and music news.
3) To improve, the author will focus on a wider range of ethnic groups and conduct focus groups to gain more detailed feedback on specific questions. The results provide guidance on content, design, and frequency of issues to match the target audience's wants.
Magazine research and analysis
This document analyzes and summarizes the design elements of magazine covers and pages from NME and Q magazines, including their use of color schemes, imagery, text styles and layouts. Key points discussed include the limited color palettes featuring red, black and white used on both magazines' covers to draw attention. Imagery is also analyzed in terms of appealing to target audiences and emphasizing important stories. Text styles are described as mostly conventional for readability except for occasional stylistic variations. Overall layouts are characterized as clean, simple and aesthetically pleasing designs.
Task 9 proposal
The document summarizes research into music magazines and their target audiences. It discusses how the target audience must be considered in content and production. The genres and artists featured are determined by what is popular with the target audience at that time. Music magazines also need their own style to stand out as a brand. The rest of the document outlines plans for a pop music magazine aimed at teenage girls, including genre, target audience, front page design, contents page, and double page interview spread. Photographs of models will be needed to portray artists in a glamorous, posed style suitable for the magazine.
Pitch
This document outlines a proposal for a new indie music magazine. It will target 16-25 year olds and focus on indie rock music. Each issue will cost £2 and feature a red, black, and yellow color scheme. The magazine will provide exclusive stories and information about popular and up-and-coming indie bands to attract readers interested in discovering new music in this genre.
Task 8 conclusion
From research on magazine readers' preferences, the respondent discovered that readers find text and images providing insights into musicians' interests and lifestyles most important. There were mixed opinions on whether the main cover image should feature a group or single artist. Ultimately, having a well-liked artist on the cover was deemed most likely to increase demand for the issue, as many respondents said they wouldn't purchase the magazine without a cover artist they enjoy.
Magazine production process 2
The document summarizes the process of designing and creating a music magazine called "SOUNDCLASH" as part of a school project. Key aspects included conducting market research on genres and target audiences, analyzing conventions of existing magazines, designing covers, content pages and articles featuring an interview with a local band. The student evaluated their final product pages and felt they successfully incorporated research into a magazine that brought different music genres together.
Factual pp
The document discusses practicing an interview with a student to gain experience for when interviewing a specialist for their fanzine, noting that the interviewee was knowledgeable about their topic and answered questions thoroughly, and that follow-up questions allowed for more in-depth answers and different approaches to questions. Conducting the practice interview helped the interviewer learn what works well and what does not work as well when interviewing.
As research planning_updated_2011-201
This document provides information about a student's media studies foundation portfolio project on researching and planning for a music magazine. It includes sections on targeting the audience, visual design choices, learning about design software, preliminary project components like covers and contents, reflections on feedback, and re-drafting elements based on criticism. The student aims to create a hip-hop genre magazine for a teenage and young adult audience.
Mediacontents
The document summarizes the layout and design elements of a magazine page. The main story is a Rolling Stones article, indicating an older audience that enjoys this type of music. A pug graphic and puff promote other stories and attract readers. Page numbers, a title labeling the contents, and a basic color scheme in red, white, black and sepia are used to clearly guide readers to find stories matching their interests.
Comparing magazine covers
The document analyzes the front covers of three music magazines - Hammer, Q, and Kerrang! All three magazines use similar design elements to target their audiences of metal, rock, and various genre fans respectively. These include prominent images of bands in styles associated with the genres, headlines about interviews and articles that would interest fans, and design choices like colors and fonts that draw the eye to important information and persuade readers to purchase the issue.
Evaluation
This magazine targets 15-20 year olds interested in rock/indie music. It uses a dark color scheme of black, grey, white and dark red throughout to match the genre. The front cover features the lead band and cover lines. The contents page highlights upcoming articles in dark red and grey. The double-page spread has a photo of the band member discussed in the lead article about a drummer revealing his drug addiction. The magazine aims to attract its target audience by covering their interests in music, festivals and celebrities' personal lives.
Media homework totp 1
This document analyzes the layout and design elements of a magazine targeted towards teenage girls. It discusses features like the magazine cover, table of contents, and a double page spread. The cover uses imagery and text to entice readers and convey the genre of music covered. The table of contents continues the girly color scheme and addresses readers directly to make them feel involved. It also previews content through images and subheadings. The double page spread analyzed maintains the feminine house style and focuses on an interview format to engage the teenage audience.
Preliminary Task and Planning Research
The document provides details on the planning and research for a music magazine front cover and contents page project. It describes the step-by-step process taken to create the front cover, including adding graphics, images, and text. It also outlines the steps to create the contents page layout. Research is presented on established music magazines like Q and Billboard to identify conventions and the target audiences. Key points about the publishers and statistical information about circulation and readers are also summarized.
Mind Map
Claire Olney is developing ideas for a music magazine including potential masthead names like Flo, E, and BNM Fire Magazine. Colour scheme options are listed along with potential social media accounts and website. Three potential straplines are provided with reasoning for each: "The must have of music magazines" to convince readers it's the best, "When words fail, music speaks" relating music to emotions, and "The UK's number 1 magazine to connect with music" being simple and catchy. The magazine will cost around £3.50-£4 and include interviews, advertisements, and music news/events with the double page spread featuring an interview and photos of the front cover artist.
Media question 7-progression
The document provides an evaluation of the key skills learned in creating a pop magazine, including conventions of photography, layout, fonts, and colors. It discusses researching features of existing pop magazines to understand tone and style. Formatting conventions like consistent fonts and colors create a recognizable "housestyle." Photos on covers need to be edited to be more conventional without props. Content pages must break information into sections for easy reader navigation and include photos to link stories.
Evalution
The document discusses magazine covers and their use of conventions. It provides examples of magazine covers that both follow and break conventions. Typical conventions for music magazine covers are listed, such as having the masthead at the top, a large central photo, clear subtitles, and a consistent color scheme. The document discusses how the author's magazine cover follows conventions by including the masthead at the top, cover lines in a bold color, and additional information like the date and price. It also discusses how the author's magazine articles and contents page follow conventions through use of formatting, colors, and images. The target audience is identified as teenage girls aged 13-18, and an example reader named Lucy is described who fits the target demographic and enjoys pop
As media evaluation
1. The document provides an analysis by Isaac Jones of his media product, which is a magazine, and how it uses and challenges conventions of real magazines.
2. Isaac describes the design elements of the front cover, contents page, and a double page article spread. He aims to attract different audiences by varying the use of images, text size, and colors.
3. Isaac learned new skills in photo editing and design techniques that helped him improve the professional quality of his media product from his preliminary task.
Media analysis powerpoint notes
The magazine case study analyzes Top of the Pops magazine. It is aimed at teenage girls based on its pink color scheme and boy band cover image. The cover uses pull quotes and celebrity photos to engage readers. The contents page also uses bright pink colors and pictures of popular celebrities to attract the target audience. The double page spread continues the pink and yellow color scheme with large cover photos and bold fonts to draw attention to articles.
Case study 2
The document analyzes different elements of a magazine case study, including the cover page, contents page, and a double page spread. Key findings include:
1) The cover page uses bright colors, large headings and images to attract teenage readers. It includes buzz words and pull quotes to engage audiences.
2) The contents page continues the color scheme and includes smaller images previewing articles. Heading sizes are used to highlight different sections.
3) The double page spread also matches the color palette and features a large celebrity image taking up one full page. It includes a bold title and contest to encourage engagement.
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Task 9
The document outlines initial ideas for a new pop magazine targeted at teenage girls aged 14-19. It will feature popular male artists from various ethnicities on the cover and throughout the magazine to appeal to its target audience. The magazine will have a pink, purple, and blue color scheme. The cover will showcase a solo artist in a medium shot with direct eye contact. Inside, a question and answer interview article will span two pages with a large artist image and pull quotes to entice readers. Photographs of various solo and group artists from different backgrounds will be included.
Contents page and dps marked
This document analyzes the contents page and double page spread (DPS) of NME Magazine from November 2008 and 2011. It summarizes the key conventions used, including subheadings in boxes to label sections, a band index, a subscription box, colored drop capitals, pull quotes, and filling most of the DPS with an image of a featured artist. The document concludes that incorporating these conventions would help appeal to the target audience of a music magazine and increase readership based on theories of star appeal and genre expectations.
Q one
The document discusses the masthead of a magazine created for a class evaluation. It describes how the masthead was designed to represent the target audience's tastes while still standing out from competitors. Specific design elements of the masthead like its font, color, and positioning are discussed. The masthead helps identify the magazine's brand and genre. Other generic magazine conventions used in the product like coverlines, central images, and double page spreads are also reviewed.
Powerpont 3 task 7 3
1) The document discusses conducting a questionnaire to determine the target audience and preferences for a new music magazine. It provides analysis of the questionnaire results, including demographics of respondents and their music and magazine preferences.
2) Key findings indicate that the target audience should be 16-21 year olds, with pop music as the most popular genre. Respondents preferred magazines that are visually appealing and include celebrity interviews and music news.
3) To improve, the author will focus on a wider range of ethnic groups and conduct focus groups to gain more detailed feedback on specific questions. The results provide guidance on content, design, and frequency of issues to match the target audience's wants.
Magazine research and analysis
This document analyzes and summarizes the design elements of magazine covers and pages from NME and Q magazines, including their use of color schemes, imagery, text styles and layouts. Key points discussed include the limited color palettes featuring red, black and white used on both magazines' covers to draw attention. Imagery is also analyzed in terms of appealing to target audiences and emphasizing important stories. Text styles are described as mostly conventional for readability except for occasional stylistic variations. Overall layouts are characterized as clean, simple and aesthetically pleasing designs.
Task 9 proposal
The document summarizes research into music magazines and their target audiences. It discusses how the target audience must be considered in content and production. The genres and artists featured are determined by what is popular with the target audience at that time. Music magazines also need their own style to stand out as a brand. The rest of the document outlines plans for a pop music magazine aimed at teenage girls, including genre, target audience, front page design, contents page, and double page interview spread. Photographs of models will be needed to portray artists in a glamorous, posed style suitable for the magazine.
Pitch
This document outlines a proposal for a new indie music magazine. It will target 16-25 year olds and focus on indie rock music. Each issue will cost £2 and feature a red, black, and yellow color scheme. The magazine will provide exclusive stories and information about popular and up-and-coming indie bands to attract readers interested in discovering new music in this genre.
Task 8 conclusion
From research on magazine readers' preferences, the respondent discovered that readers find text and images providing insights into musicians' interests and lifestyles most important. There were mixed opinions on whether the main cover image should feature a group or single artist. Ultimately, having a well-liked artist on the cover was deemed most likely to increase demand for the issue, as many respondents said they wouldn't purchase the magazine without a cover artist they enjoy.
Magazine production process 2
The document summarizes the process of designing and creating a music magazine called "SOUNDCLASH" as part of a school project. Key aspects included conducting market research on genres and target audiences, analyzing conventions of existing magazines, designing covers, content pages and articles featuring an interview with a local band. The student evaluated their final product pages and felt they successfully incorporated research into a magazine that brought different music genres together.
Factual pp
The document discusses practicing an interview with a student to gain experience for when interviewing a specialist for their fanzine, noting that the interviewee was knowledgeable about their topic and answered questions thoroughly, and that follow-up questions allowed for more in-depth answers and different approaches to questions. Conducting the practice interview helped the interviewer learn what works well and what does not work as well when interviewing.
As research planning_updated_2011-201
This document provides information about a student's media studies foundation portfolio project on researching and planning for a music magazine. It includes sections on targeting the audience, visual design choices, learning about design software, preliminary project components like covers and contents, reflections on feedback, and re-drafting elements based on criticism. The student aims to create a hip-hop genre magazine for a teenage and young adult audience.
Mediacontents
The document summarizes the layout and design elements of a magazine page. The main story is a Rolling Stones article, indicating an older audience that enjoys this type of music. A pug graphic and puff promote other stories and attract readers. Page numbers, a title labeling the contents, and a basic color scheme in red, white, black and sepia are used to clearly guide readers to find stories matching their interests.
Comparing magazine covers
The document analyzes the front covers of three music magazines - Hammer, Q, and Kerrang! All three magazines use similar design elements to target their audiences of metal, rock, and various genre fans respectively. These include prominent images of bands in styles associated with the genres, headlines about interviews and articles that would interest fans, and design choices like colors and fonts that draw the eye to important information and persuade readers to purchase the issue.
Evaluation
This magazine targets 15-20 year olds interested in rock/indie music. It uses a dark color scheme of black, grey, white and dark red throughout to match the genre. The front cover features the lead band and cover lines. The contents page highlights upcoming articles in dark red and grey. The double-page spread has a photo of the band member discussed in the lead article about a drummer revealing his drug addiction. The magazine aims to attract its target audience by covering their interests in music, festivals and celebrities' personal lives.
Media homework totp 1
This document analyzes the layout and design elements of a magazine targeted towards teenage girls. It discusses features like the magazine cover, table of contents, and a double page spread. The cover uses imagery and text to entice readers and convey the genre of music covered. The table of contents continues the girly color scheme and addresses readers directly to make them feel involved. It also previews content through images and subheadings. The double page spread analyzed maintains the feminine house style and focuses on an interview format to engage the teenage audience.
Preliminary Task and Planning Research
The document provides details on the planning and research for a music magazine front cover and contents page project. It describes the step-by-step process taken to create the front cover, including adding graphics, images, and text. It also outlines the steps to create the contents page layout. Research is presented on established music magazines like Q and Billboard to identify conventions and the target audiences. Key points about the publishers and statistical information about circulation and readers are also summarized.
Mind Map
Claire Olney is developing ideas for a music magazine including potential masthead names like Flo, E, and BNM Fire Magazine. Colour scheme options are listed along with potential social media accounts and website. Three potential straplines are provided with reasoning for each: "The must have of music magazines" to convince readers it's the best, "When words fail, music speaks" relating music to emotions, and "The UK's number 1 magazine to connect with music" being simple and catchy. The magazine will cost around £3.50-£4 and include interviews, advertisements, and music news/events with the double page spread featuring an interview and photos of the front cover artist.
Media question 7-progression
The document provides an evaluation of the key skills learned in creating a pop magazine, including conventions of photography, layout, fonts, and colors. It discusses researching features of existing pop magazines to understand tone and style. Formatting conventions like consistent fonts and colors create a recognizable "housestyle." Photos on covers need to be edited to be more conventional without props. Content pages must break information into sections for easy reader navigation and include photos to link stories.
Evalution
The document discusses magazine covers and their use of conventions. It provides examples of magazine covers that both follow and break conventions. Typical conventions for music magazine covers are listed, such as having the masthead at the top, a large central photo, clear subtitles, and a consistent color scheme. The document discusses how the author's magazine cover follows conventions by including the masthead at the top, cover lines in a bold color, and additional information like the date and price. It also discusses how the author's magazine articles and contents page follow conventions through use of formatting, colors, and images. The target audience is identified as teenage girls aged 13-18, and an example reader named Lucy is described who fits the target demographic and enjoys pop
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1. The document provides an analysis by Isaac Jones of his media product, which is a magazine, and how it uses and challenges conventions of real magazines.
2. Isaac describes the design elements of the front cover, contents page, and a double page article spread. He aims to attract different audiences by varying the use of images, text size, and colors.
3. Isaac learned new skills in photo editing and design techniques that helped him improve the professional quality of his media product from his preliminary task.
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The magazine case study analyzes Top of the Pops magazine. It is aimed at teenage girls based on its pink color scheme and boy band cover image. The cover uses pull quotes and celebrity photos to engage readers. The contents page also uses bright pink colors and pictures of popular celebrities to attract the target audience. The double page spread continues the pink and yellow color scheme with large cover photos and bold fonts to draw attention to articles.
Case study 2
The document analyzes different elements of a magazine case study, including the cover page, contents page, and a double page spread. Key findings include:
1) The cover page uses bright colors, large headings and images to attract teenage readers. It includes buzz words and pull quotes to engage audiences.
2) The contents page continues the color scheme and includes smaller images previewing articles. Heading sizes are used to highlight different sections.
3) The double page spread also matches the color palette and features a large celebrity image taking up one full page. It includes a bold title and contest to encourage engagement.
Researching genre
Philippa Weston is researching the genre of pop music magazines to create her own magazine. She identifies several key components that define the genre including using bright colors, a large masthead and titles, a full-page model photo, different fonts and text sizes, and a messy informal layout on the cover with a more structured layout on the contents page. She will apply these elements, such as using a model in jeans and a fun top against a white background and incorporating pink throughout, to design her magazine in the style of popular pop music magazines.
Music magazine research
The document provides information about music magazines, including:
- The first music magazine was founded in 1894 called Billboard. Music magazines grew popular in the 1950s-1960s with magazines like NME and Rolling Stone.
- The biggest music magazine publishers currently are Rolling Stone, NME, Smash Hits, Kerrang!, and Billboard.
- The document then analyzes sample pages from magazines like NME and Smash Hits, examining things like layout, colors, target audiences, and conventions used across issues.
Magazine front cover
The document discusses key elements of magazine covers that attract readers, including the masthead, cover lines, price, and main image. The masthead is large and distinctive to instantly identify the magazine brand. Cover lines use varying fonts and sizes to advertise multiple stories appealing to a wide audience. The price is kept small so as not to detract from the other elements. The main image typically features a medium or long shot of a singer or celebrity to appeal to the target demographic of teens. These elements are designed to grab readers' attention and entice them to purchase the magazine.
textual analysis
The document provides information about music magazines, including:
- The first music magazine was founded in 1894 called Billboard. Music magazines grew in popularity in the 1950s-1960s with magazines like NME and Rolling Stone.
- The biggest music magazine publishers currently are Rolling Stone, NME, Smash Hits, Kerrang!, and Billboard.
- Sample pages from magazines like NME and Smash Hits show conventions like layout, colors, pictures, and writing styles used to appeal to different target audiences.
Unit 13 media final version
This document provides information about NME magazine, including its target audience, publisher, and circulation numbers. NME targets mainly men aged 17-30 with an interest in new music. It has experienced declining circulation, with an average weekly sale of 18,184 in 2013 dropping to 14,312 in 2014. NME is published weekly and its publisher is Timeinc.UK. The magazine aims to cover the past, present, and future of music through features, interviews, and reviews that appeal to its target psychographic groups of survivors and explorers interested in music and social change.
Evaluation question 1
The document discusses the conventions used in the design of a magazine cover and contents page created by the student.
For the cover, conventions like the masthead, barcode, and price were included. Larger images and quotes were used to grab attention. For the contents page, continuity in color scheme and inclusion of the editor's message followed conventions. However, the student challenged some conventions like not including additional colors or using the rule of thirds layout.
The double page spread also followed conventions like consistent color scheme and placement of images. But non-standard elements like a cartoon title and accent symbols were included based on research of popular magazine styles. Maintaining some conventions but also adding original elements was the goal.
Textual analysis summary
The document provides guidelines for designing magazine covers and pages to attract different target audiences. For the cover: use colorful backgrounds and headlines to attract attention; feature the main artist prominently; and include the magazine masthead. For interior pages: include pictures related to stories; provide background information on stories; use consistent color schemes; feature the magazine masthead and include page numbers. For double page spreads: use large, prominent images of the main artist; employ consistent colors with the cover; include headlines; and use high key lighting to convey confidence.
Case study 2
The magazine uses bright colors, large fonts, and bold designs to catch readers' attention. Large cover photos showcase popular celebrities to appeal mainly to teenage girls. Buzzwords and intriguing pull quotes entice readers to learn more. Inside, smaller photos preview additional articles while consistent colors maintain branding. Quizzes and contests encourage engagement. Overall, visual elements and entertaining content target a young female audience.
Question One
This document discusses how the media product, a music magazine called "Candy", uses and develops conventions from real magazines. It summarizes how the cover, contents page, and double page spread of "Candy" were inspired by and similar to the magazine "Top of the Pops", maintaining conventions like color schemes, layouts, and styles of headlines, images, and interviews. While "Candy" follows conventions of magazines like "Top of the Pops", it does not significantly challenge typical forms and styles of music magazines.
Question One
This document discusses how the media product, a music magazine called "Candy", uses and develops conventions from real music magazines. It provides examples of how "Candy" mirrors conventions from magazines like "Top of the Pops" in its cover design, contents page, and double page spread layout. Specifically, it replicates design elements like color schemes, fonts, and positioning of mastheads, barcodes, and cover lines. The document argues that "Candy" does not fundamentally challenge conventions, but rather develops them to create a magazine targeted towards its intended young female audience.
Contents analysis
The document summarizes the contents pages of three different magazines - Kerrang, Top of the Pops, and an unnamed celebrity magazine. It notes that Kerrang uses yellow, black and white with rebellious imagery to appeal to its young audience. Top of the Pops uses a more feminine font and various text boxes to showcase different article categories. The celebrity magazine uses simple language and questions to give readers insight into a star's life as a celebrity.
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The document provides requirements and research for developing a new real-life story magazine targeted at 16-25 year olds. It outlines that the task is to create covers, contents pages, and a website for the magazine launch. Research into existing magazines found that codes and conventions like shocking headlines, colorful designs, and prizes would not appeal to the target audience. Additional research with the target age group found they prefer a minimalist design with muted colors, sensitivity around topics, and social media promotions over puzzles. The document concludes with proposed codes and conventions for the new magazine based on this research, such as softer topics, cleaner layouts, and headlines centered at the top in a consistent font.
Magazine anaylisis
The document describes the design elements of two magazine covers - NME magazine and Top of the Pops magazine. For NME, it discusses the color palette of red, white and black which appeals to its rock music audience. The large masthead in white stands out against the red background. The main image takes up the whole cover with a close-up shot of Florence. For Top of the Pops, the target audience is young girls aged 8-13. It uses a girly color palette of pink, white and purple. The cover features a mid-shot of Cheryl Cole and text that tells readers "you can be Cheryl." Both magazines employ consistent color palettes, prominent cover lines and images, and mast
Magazine anaylisis
The document describes the design elements of two magazine covers - NME magazine and Top of the Pops magazine. For NME, it discusses the color palette of red, white and black which appeals to its rock music audience. The large masthead in white stands out against the red background. The main image takes up the whole cover with a close-up shot of Florence. For Top of the Pops, the target audience is young girls aged 8-13. It uses a pink, white and purple color scheme with images of celebrities like Cheryl Cole to appeal to this demographic. The masthead is in pink bubbles to resemble girlish handwriting. Both magazines employ consistent color palettes and layouts across their covers and contents
Evaluation Media
1. The document evaluates a music magazine mock-up called "Pulse" and analyzes how it uses conventions of real magazines to seem authentic.
2. It examines the ways the magazine represents and targets particular social groups like working class teenagers through the use of images, colors, pricing, and language.
3. Feedback from questionnaires indicated that the magazine's target audience is perceived to be teenagers aged 13-20, and that an editorial could improve the contents page.
Evaluation Media
1. The document evaluates a music magazine mock-up called "Pulse" and analyzes how it uses conventions of real magazines to seem authentic.
2. Key conventions it uses include a masthead, cover lines, typography, incentives, issue dates, and page numbers like real magazines.
3. Feedback on the mock-up showed that 50% felt an editorial could be added to the contents page and 70% liked the headphones image on that page.
Question 1
The media product is a magazine called "Pop'ular" that targets teenage girls aged 9-15. The magazine challenges some conventions by using a slanted font for the title and only featuring female models, but otherwise follows conventions. It uses bright images, interviews pop artists, and discusses fashion to attract its target audience. The layout and content sections like interviews and pull quotes mimic a real music magazine. Overall the magazine develops conventions through its focus on pop music genre and young female audience.
Pop magazine annotation
This pop magazine targets teenage girls with its bright color scheme of orange, white, and turquoise. The masthead "We <3 Pop" indicates it covers the pop genre in an informal and fun style. The layout is busy with overlapping fonts, images, and headlines designed to quickly engage readers. Photographs of the girl band The Saturdays appeal to different members' fans. The informal language and focus on gossip about popular artists aims to attract its young audience.
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- 1. Type of magazine Case Study Pop/chart music Distribution Available in stores, and online or subscribed. Publishing Company BBC Magazines Editors name Peter Hart Date of first publication 1995 Frequency of publication Fortnightly Price of magazine £2.99
- 2. • Detailed analysis of front cover: The magazine Top of the pops is aimed at teenagers, mostly girls, as the background colour and font writing is pink, and a yellow background is used behind a pink heading which is connotated towards girls. The masthead of the magazine cover indicates to the audience straight away that the magazine is about popular music in the charts, and the background picture being the boy band The Jonas Brothers also tells us this as their audience is mainly teenage girls who listen to their pop style of music. The cover stories and pull stories grab the readers attention and are effective, as they use some like ‘No more secrets!’ making the reader want to read the article to find out what secrets their telling. ‘Strictly confidential’ is another pull quote making the reader interested, and the buzz-word. ‘Exposed!’ tell us theirs celebrity gossip involved so the audience will want to buy the magazine to find out what information is being released. They also use effective smaller images around the sides of the magazine of A-list celebrities which are very popular in the media, so the pull quotes they have next to the images of them will engage readers who may not like the magazine very much but may be fans of the celebrity, so this could help sell the magazine to wider audiences.
- 3. Contents page of TOTP magazine Case Study Pink, white, yellow Bold heading colour scheme Page numbers Page contents information Main image Smaller key images Pull headings
- 4. • Detailed analysis of contents page The contents page of the magazine uses a lot of colour schemes and pictures to match the target audience, which is teenage girls. The heading used tells us that the magazine is for girls because it is on a bright pink background which stands out a lot, and the colour pink is connotated with girls. The headings are effective for pulling readers in as they stand out and say things like ’Wins and Offers’, and ‘Celebs and gossip’ making the audience interested to see what things they can win, and make them want to buy it if it is a good prize. The pictures on the contents page attract the audience as they are pictures of celebrities such as Selena Gomez who is very popular on Disney shows, and with teenage audience, making them want to see what information is being told about her if they are fans of her. Also One direction are in a smaller image, also bringing their fans in to buy them as they want to see what gossip they could find out about the band.
- 5. Double page spread Case Study Big pictures to do with the article covering half of one whole page Repeated colour of font, bold bright pink Smaller pictures Important information standing out Repeated colour scheme, yellow and pink
- 6. • Detailed analysis of double page spread • The double page spread of the Top of the pops magazine shows its target audience by the colour scheme, and the pictures used for the articles. The colour scheme for the font and background colours are repeated all the way through the magazine, the colours used are pink, yellow and white. The fonts are all different, however they are all very bold and stand out a lot to draw the readers attention to them. They also use small bits of information in their own parts to make them stand out more from the rest of the article, and words used are pull quotes to grab the readers attention by picking out interesting gossip.
- 7. Conclusion In my magazine I am going to; • Repeat the colour scheme and font style from one page to the other. • On my cover page I am going to have the same layout of a big background picture of the student, a masthead which stands out and different little pictures of other articles and pull quotes to draw the audience in. • Put more than one picture on the contents page to show different things in the articles. • I am going to use a similar colour scheme to the one in the Top of the pops magazine, as my magazine is also going to be Pop genre and target the same audience. • On my double page spread I am not going to have so many pictures, as I am going to save more room for an interesting article and just have one medium sized picture. • On my contents page I am going to put big page numbers and detailed page contents.