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The document discusses planning elements for the front cover of a magazine targeted towards 16-22 year olds, including font and color choices. The author selects a bold, modern font and the colors bright purple, grey, and small amounts of red. Bright purple is chosen to stand out and relate to the target audience, while grey provides contrast. The document also mentions using banners, boxes, slang language, and buzzwords in the magazine's content and design.
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Planning for front cover
The document discusses planning elements for the front cover of a magazine targeted at 16-22 year olds, including:
1) Choosing modern masthead fonts that relate to the urban genre by looking rough and ridged to appeal to the target audience.
2) Considering several font options for use in the magazine, focusing on fonts that are bold, clear, compact, handwritten-looking, or modern.
3) Establishing a color scheme using bright purple and black, with elements of red, to attract the target audience through intriguing, youthful, busy, and bold colors.
Fonts
The document discusses font and color choices for a magazine cover. For fonts, the author wants to use three similar sans serif fonts for text, with a bolder font for the masthead to make it stand out. Sans serif fonts are chosen to seem more informal for the target audience of females aged 18-30. The chosen colors are purples and blues, as these were advised to suit the target audience better than other colors like pink. Blues represent qualities like trust and calmness, relating to the beach sunset cover image. Purples represent luxury, relevant to the magazine's luxury boutique shop contents. Darker blues and purples will mainly be used.
Analysis of colours
The document analyzes several color palettes and discusses their suitability for different types of magazines. It considers how colors like reds, blacks, blues and greys could work for magazines with themes related to alternative music, fashion, or content appealing to both male and female audiences. The author's favorite palette incorporates light and dark colors like black, blue and grey that contrast strongly yet seem relaxed. This palette is seen as fitting their magazine's alternative music theme while appealing to both genders.
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The student created a poster for their school newspaper. They chose a font for the newspaper name and surrounded it with a box to make it stand out. For the headline, they used a bold font but had to split one word onto two lines. They left space for a scan code and contact details at the bottom right, knowing this location is most aesthetically pleasing. The sizes of these elements and the scan code were made proportionate so readers have different contact options. The finished poster is in black and white to match the newspaper and uses a simple template that can be easily followed for future issues.
Media contents page analysis
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- The first page features a man in the center with the magazine name "Vibe" in the background, using a black and grey color scheme.
- The second page is similar but fainter, featuring a woman laying on her back with her legs in the air, intended to be the main focus.
- The third page differs by featuring a full-length picture of a man making eye contact with the reader, intended as the main focus, with his playlist along the side to indicate he is an artist. This uses a less eye-catching red and black color scheme.
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The document summarizes a student's magazine project. The student designed a magazine for 11-16 year olds attending their school. They used bright colors and bold text on the cover to attract readers. The magazine includes articles about school news as well as topics of interest to teens like music and celebrities. The intended audiences are schools to distribute to students and music companies to advertise.
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The author attracted their audience for their R&B/hip-hop magazine by offering free music from artists, a quiz where fans can interact with artists, and making the magazine available on different platforms including apps. They used bold colors like red on the cover to attract attention in stores. Younger models on the cover would appeal to readers who could relate to them. Large, easy-to-read fonts were used. Feedback from the audience was positive and suggested changes were implemented.
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Planning for front cover
The document discusses planning elements for the front cover of a magazine targeted at 16-22 year olds, including:
1) Choosing modern masthead fonts that relate to the urban genre by looking rough and ridged to appeal to the target audience.
2) Considering several font options for use in the magazine, focusing on fonts that are bold, clear, compact, handwritten-looking, or modern.
3) Establishing a color scheme using bright purple and black, with elements of red, to attract the target audience through intriguing, youthful, busy, and bold colors.
Fonts
The document discusses font and color choices for a magazine cover. For fonts, the author wants to use three similar sans serif fonts for text, with a bolder font for the masthead to make it stand out. Sans serif fonts are chosen to seem more informal for the target audience of females aged 18-30. The chosen colors are purples and blues, as these were advised to suit the target audience better than other colors like pink. Blues represent qualities like trust and calmness, relating to the beach sunset cover image. Purples represent luxury, relevant to the magazine's luxury boutique shop contents. Darker blues and purples will mainly be used.
Analysis of colours
The document analyzes several color palettes and discusses their suitability for different types of magazines. It considers how colors like reds, blacks, blues and greys could work for magazines with themes related to alternative music, fashion, or content appealing to both male and female audiences. The author's favorite palette incorporates light and dark colors like black, blue and grey that contrast strongly yet seem relaxed. This palette is seen as fitting their magazine's alternative music theme while appealing to both genders.
Making my headline poster powerpoint
The student created a poster for their school newspaper. They chose a font for the newspaper name and surrounded it with a box to make it stand out. For the headline, they used a bold font but had to split one word onto two lines. They left space for a scan code and contact details at the bottom right, knowing this location is most aesthetically pleasing. The sizes of these elements and the scan code were made proportionate so readers have different contact options. The finished poster is in black and white to match the newspaper and uses a simple template that can be easily followed for future issues.
Media contents page analysis
This document analyzes and compares three magazine contents pages:
- The first page features a man in the center with the magazine name "Vibe" in the background, using a black and grey color scheme.
- The second page is similar but fainter, featuring a woman laying on her back with her legs in the air, intended to be the main focus.
- The third page differs by featuring a full-length picture of a man making eye contact with the reader, intended as the main focus, with his playlist along the side to indicate he is an artist. This uses a less eye-catching red and black color scheme.
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The document summarizes a student's magazine project. The student designed a magazine for 11-16 year olds attending their school. They used bright colors and bold text on the cover to attract readers. The magazine includes articles about school news as well as topics of interest to teens like music and celebrities. The intended audiences are schools to distribute to students and music companies to advertise.
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The author attracted their audience for their R&B/hip-hop magazine by offering free music from artists, a quiz where fans can interact with artists, and making the magazine available on different platforms including apps. They used bold colors like red on the cover to attract attention in stores. Younger models on the cover would appeal to readers who could relate to them. Large, easy-to-read fonts were used. Feedback from the audience was positive and suggested changes were implemented.
My ideology
- The magazine will be aimed at 16-20 year olds who enjoy R&B and hip-hop music.
- It will be called Rhapsody and feature elements of both R&B and hip-hop genres.
- The magazine will include tips on becoming a successful artist and a section for readers to provide feedback.
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Evaluation
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2. The contents page includes two male models to show diversity and keep the magazine interesting for its target range of audiences. The magazine aims to attract fans of R&B music through the artists featured and language used.
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- 37.5% found the sell lines uninteresting, so the new magazine should include more sell lines.
- Most would pay £2 for the magazine, so that is a good price point.
- The sample used mainly male images, so the new magazine needs a mix of male and female images to appear for both g
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Planning
This document provides a timeline and planning details for a student media project creating an urban/RnB genre magazine called "PULSE". Key dates include photo shoots on February 12th and 24th for the front cover and contents page. Drafts are presented for the front cover, contents page, and double page spread layouts. Font, color scheme, and content ideas are discussed to match the urban genre and target 16-22 year old audience. Locations and costumes are also planned for the photo shoots.
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According to a reader profile survey, the average person spends 2.5 hours online daily, is a member of Facebook (86%) and uses mobile internet (77%). They own an iPod (79%) and spend on average £290 per year at the cinema, £3.26 per week on music and £9.89 per month on DVDs. The target readers are mostly male (74%), single (44%) students (69%) with an average age of 19 and income of £12,451.
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- The magazine will be aimed at 16-20 year olds who enjoy R&B and hip-hop music.
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- The magazine will include tips on becoming a successful artist and a section for readers to provide feedback.
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The document discusses font choices for an R&B magazine masthead and content pages. Three potential masthead fonts are presented: one in varying unique uppercase styles, one in a slanted superhero style, and one in a graffiti style. The author chooses the unique uppercase style font for the masthead and content pages because it is bold, distinctive, and reflects the cool and masculine feel of R&B.
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Evaluation Q5
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Evaluation
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3. An online format is proposed for the magazine to reach a wider international audience conveniently and at no cost to view, aligning with the target audiences' likely internet usage. Major publishers like Time Inc. could potentially distribute a magazine with a similar
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The advertisement for Plan B's new album uses bold visual elements and minimal text to quickly attract readers. At the top, the band name and "presents" text informs readers that a new release is coming while drawing their eye with bright color against the page. Though the font is initially hard to read, the all-caps, sans-serif typeface shouts to get attention. The main image of the singer establishes familiarity with the artist for fans, though some may object to his depiction smoking given the magazine's general audience. Dark, dull colors and imagery of high rise buildings and a razorblade logo reflect the album's likely rebellious and gritty themes and messages tailored to its target demographic.
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The document discusses choosing a title, font, colors, and layout for a magazine cover and contents page. It analyzes titles like NME and Q magazine and decides on BMM which stands for "best music magazine." Red is selected as the main color. Sample magazine covers and layouts are shown as inspiration for the design.
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The magazine cover uses a medium close-up photograph of a scruffy yet neat band, contrasting their genre as versatile indie musicians. It has an unconventional layout that shows individuality while still identifying the magazine and its contents. A rhetorical question about the band's sanity is meant to intrigue readers into learning more. The design uses distinctive colors and overlapping elements to highlight the magazine name and preview what's inside.
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The document provides details on a proposed music magazine pitch called "Switch". The magazine would focus on rock, indie, and alternative music genres and target an audience aged 16-25. It would be published monthly at £5 per issue and include 140 pages. Proposed features include interviews, questions and answers from readers, reviews, competitions, articles and lists. The magazine would have a dark color scheme and edgy style to match the target genres. Photos would show bands on location in urban settings to seem down-to-earth. The cover would feature a band and the contents page would include photos and categorized text for easy navigation.
Task 5
The document discusses potential genres that could be chosen for a magazine: R&B, classical, and pop. Pop is selected as the genre because the author is most familiar with pop music, artists, news, and magazines in that genre. Potential masthead names are also discussed: Harmonise, Fusion, Melody, Chorus, Fantasia. Research is done on existing pop music magazines like Billboard and We Love Pop to analyze layout, design, and content. Different article styles are also examined including a Q&A, behind the scenes, and what's hot this week format. At the end, a question will be included in a questionnaire to get others' opinions on the masthead name.
Task 5
The document discusses potential genres that could be chosen for a magazine: R&B, classical, and pop. Pop is selected as the genre because the author is most familiar with pop music, artists, news, and magazines in that genre. Potential masthead names are also discussed: Harmonise, Fusion, Melody, Chorus, Fantasia. Research is done on existing pop music magazines like Billboard and We Love Pop to analyze layout, design, and content. Different article styles are also examined including a Q&A, behind the scenes, and what's hot this week format. At the end, a question will be included in a questionnaire to get others' opinions on the masthead name.
Media studies planning
The document provides details about the planning and development of a magazine called Dreamer. It discusses the name, genre, price, and frequency of the magazine. The target reader is described as female aged 13-16 who enjoys music, social media, and shopping. A mission statement says the magazine will focus on up-and-coming indie and acoustic artists in a simple, modern style to appeal to multiple ages and genders. Several fonts and color schemes are proposed for the magazine's design. Draft page layouts are presented for the front cover and contents page.
Media Studies Planning
The document provides details for planning a magazine called Dreamer. It discusses choosing the name Dreamer to represent the magazine's indie genre focus on vision and ideals. It describes setting the magazine's genre as indie, price as £2.85, and monthly publication frequency. The target reader is identified as females aged 13-16 who enjoy socializing, music, and shopping. The mission statement outlines a minimalist, modern approach focusing on up-and-coming artists across genres for teenagers and young adults. Font choices and a color scheme are selected to achieve a clean, stylish look. A draft front cover and contents page layout are presented.
Media evaluation proper
This document summarizes and evaluates the front cover and double page spread of a student-created magazine focused on pop music. On the front cover, the student uses bright pink and blue colors in the masthead and cover lines to match the pop genre. Images of musicians and cover lines about celebrities are used to appeal to the target teenage female audience. Bold anchorage text introduces the main artists. On the double page spread, black and white images of the artists scrolling along the top provide contrast. A pink masthead and quote box in the center engage readers in the interview content. Overall, the document analyzes design choices and how they appeal to and attract the intended readership.
Initial ideas
This is my Initial Ideas where I talk about how I would want my magazine to be by picking out certain things I want and why this would be successful to do so.
Pitch 2
This document provides details on the proposed magazine "Replay" including:
- The magazine will focus on chart music to appeal to a younger audience.
- It will be published monthly to satisfy reader preferences and control costs.
- Name ideas like "Replay" emphasize replaying music.
- The target audience is 17-28 year olds who listen to chart music while driving.
- Photo shoots will include contrasting outfits and a studio setting to look professional.
- Sample covers and layouts emphasize simplicity and focus on images and headlines.
- Prices will be £2.20-4.20 for issues and £7 monthly for online subscriptions.
As Media Studies
This document summarizes Kaylor Wright's process in designing an alternative music magazine called Antidote. Some key points:
- Kaylor was inspired by the layout of Kerrang!, particularly the large images and masthead. They aimed to use a similar house style with black, white, and red colors.
- The magazine uses codes and conventions from Kerrang! such as large band images, large masthead text, and clash of black and white colors. However, it differs by only having one plug and smaller footer images.
- Kaylor learned skills like image manipulation in Photoshop and Fireworks. They also gained experience with InDesign from their preliminary college magazine task.
- Feedback from
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Question 4
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- 1. Planning for front cover Planning for front cover
- 2. Fonts for masthead I chose a range of masthead font ideas that were quite similar I decided to look for ones that looked more modern and ones that relate to the urban genre by looking rough and ridged which I think would appeal to the target audience of my magazine which will be 16 – 22 year olds.
- 4. One of the main colours I want to use is a bright purple colour because it will stand out. Purple can have connotations of mystery which I think could make the audience intrigued to read the magazine and be attracted to. I think the colour will relate to my target audience of 15-22 year olds because I think the colour describes the younger generation as purple is a made up of blue and red. Red is a focusing, dynamic and active energy showing the busy and exciting lifestyle younger people live while blue is cooling and calming which is the opposite and represents the peaceful time which is necessary for a busy lifestyle. I think bright purple will be eye catching and I think it is a refreshing colour. I want to use grey as this is a calmer and less alarming colour as too many bright colours can clash and be too over powering I think this colour will still be able to stand out against a dark background. I think this colour will also be good to use to break up the two other bright colours. I want to use elements of red in my magazine, this follows conventions as a lot of magazines use red to catch the readers eye it doesn’t sink into the background and stands out from the background. I don’t want to use too much red as the red and bright purple could be too over powering but I think using small elements of red can be effective. Colour Scheme
- 5. Use of flashes I want to use a banner line because I think its easy to see and follows conventions as many magazines use this I think using boxes are bold and stand out because of the straight lines and sharp corners I want to keep the shapes simple as it could be too complicated using complex shapes
- 7. My Magazine Genre & Name After researching different types of music magazines I have decided that I want to make an urban/RnB genre of magazine. I will be calling my magazine ‘PULSE’ because I think this fits in with the genre and gives connotations on the rhythm and beat of the music.
- 8. Contents Page Interviews Free posters Competitions Music chart