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The document summarizes research conducted with a focus group of 6 individuals interested in the indie rock genre to inform the design of an indie rock magazine. Key findings from the focus group included that the magazine cover should feature a prominent image of a band and use bright colors and informal language. Interior pages should include a variety of music-focused content and fashion, with clearly laid out text and informal language. Double page spreads should feature a large, representative image of the subject and include an casual interview formatted to reflect the genre.
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2) The magazine's genre was perceived as rap/hip hop based on the font used throughout.
3) The magazine was seen as aimed at both males and females as both genders were pictured.
4) No particular ethnic group was targeted as the magazine included people of Asian, Black, and White cultures.
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1. The document describes a student's design of a magazine front cover and double-page spread for a music magazine called V Music.
2. The student took inspiration from magazines like Kerrang and Hammer and used classic indie/rock themes of black and white images and included a free CD in the design.
3. The target audience is described as mainly people aged 14-21, with a focus on socio-economic classes C2-D, and more aimed at males but possibly appealing also to some females.
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A double page spread interview with a boy band is included to appeal to the target audience as the young girls will be interested in the band.
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2) An Adele magazine targeting women ages 18-25 of any race in English-speaking countries to learn about her personal life and music genre.
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The document presents three initial ideas for a magazine: a festival magazine, a pop magazine, and an alternative/indie magazine. It provides details on the genre, target audience, design elements, and features for each idea. The document discusses feedback received from peers, which unanimously supported the festival magazine idea. It concludes that the festival magazine will be chosen for its uniqueness and broad appeal, and its ability to cover festival lineups and stories year-round.
Music magazine
This document discusses the key features and characteristics typically found in music magazines. It notes that music magazines cover a variety of music genres and target audiences that enjoy those genres, regardless of age. Common content includes information on new albums and songs, interviews with artists, and images of musicians. Standard visual elements are cover lines to attract readers, clear layouts for readability, and photos showing instruments, albums, and friendly expressions from artists to invite readers. All music magazines generally share characteristics like price listing, headers, feature articles, consistent color schemes, and prominent mastheads and cover lines to entice audiences to learn more. These common features are important for inviting target readers and showing the magazine has relevant content for them.
Questionnaire conclusion
The questionnaire responses showed that:
1) Most respondents were between 14-16 years old or 17+.
2) The magazine's genre was perceived as rap/hip hop based on the font used throughout.
3) The magazine was seen as aimed at both males and females as both genders were pictured.
4) No particular ethnic group was targeted as the magazine included people of Asian, Black, and White cultures.
Planning
This document outlines plans for a new music magazine called "Discovered". It discusses potential title ideas that were considered, with "Discovered" being selected after a survey of the target audience. Details are provided on the magazine's planned house style, including font and color choices. The front cover design is discussed, including images, text, and font options. A contents page plan lists the planned sections and includes an editorial script. A double page spread sketch is also included to showcase a featured artist. In summary, this document thoroughly plans the key elements for launching a new indie music magazine called "Discovered".
Q4 new
The target audience for this media product is teenage girls aged 14 interested in pop music. Specifically, the audience likes boy bands like One Direction and enjoys following celebrities on social media. They have a weekly pocket money allowance of around £20 that they spend on magazines, concerts, and merchandise of their favorite artists. They aspire to an upbeat, fashionable lifestyle and look to pop stars as style icons. The language, design, and content of the media product are tailored to this young female demographic with an interest in pop culture.
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This document evaluates the student's media magazine project. It discusses conventions used from real magazines, such as featuring an artist's name on the cover and contents pages. It also discusses conventions challenged, such as only including one person on the cover. The document examines how the magazine represents teenagers through clothing choices and dialogue. It considers potential distributors such as Bauer Media Group and Team Rock. The target audience is described as ages 14 to 25 interested in alternative music. A survey was used to help attract this audience through covers, prices, and free items. The student reflects on using Photoshop, InDesign, and progression from an initial school magazine concept.
Fliside
This document summarizes feedback from the target audience of a proposed rock music magazine. The target audience is teenagers aged 16-17 who want:
- Aggressive colors and bold statements on the cover
- Large, bold fonts and prominent artist images
- A relaxed writing style that is between a pop and intellectual magazine
- Covers featuring dark colors, informal style, and images/fonts that convey attitude
- Music news from rock and other genres like pop, indie, and rap
How did i attract my audience
The document discusses strategies for attracting an indie music audience to a magazine cover and contents. For the cover, pastel and neutral colors like black and white were used instead of brighter colors that could distract. Varied but not too different fonts were chosen to add interest without taking away from the main elements. On the contents page, moody images of people in plain clothes holding a guitar were featured to portray a typical indie fan interested in music. A band index was included to allow finding musicians and potentially attract new fans. The double page spread questions mentioned specific indie-focused events and artists to entice the target audience. Coherence of themes across the covers immersed readers in the content rather than design elements.
Evaluation 2
The magazine represents four social groups - age, race, ethnicity, and gender. All the models are under 18 to focus on music from the 70s-90s. The models are all white, as the creator's mother confirmed schools in the 80s had only 2-3 races represented. There are three ethnic groups represented though they cannot be identified. The front cover model and double page spread model are both white British. There is one male model among predominantly female models, challenging stereotypes by showing the male with long hair.
Pr11 production commentary
1. The document describes a student's design of a magazine front cover and double-page spread for a music magazine called V Music.
2. The student took inspiration from magazines like Kerrang and Hammer and used classic indie/rock themes of black and white images and included a free CD in the design.
3. The target audience is described as mainly people aged 14-21, with a focus on socio-economic classes C2-D, and more aimed at males but possibly appealing also to some females.
Focus group and audience
The document summarizes the results of a focus group with 6 males aged 16-30 who enjoy rock/indie music. They provided feedback on what should be included in a rock magazine to appeal to their demographic. Key points included images of bands on the cover, a mixture of formal and informal language, equal amounts of images and text for articles including band interviews, and colors typically associated with rock like red, black, white and grey.
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The document discusses how a teen pop culture magazine would represent and appeal to its target audience. It would focus on topics of interest to teens like relationships, music, movies and fashion. The target reader is described as enjoying social media, pop music from acts like One Direction, and shopping brands like Hot Topic. The magazine language uses slang like "awesome" and "poppin'" and features these popular artists to attract fans and make the magazine appealing and recognizable to its teen audience. Overall, the document analyzes how the magazine's content, language, and design fit its target demographic.
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Evaluation 4+5
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The student chose to create an R&B magazine because pop music is associated with younger audiences that they do not understand, and they do not personally enjoy rock music. R&B is a popular genre that will appeal to a wide audience. Some potential magazine names discussed are Tunes, Albums, and Hercules. The masthead Tunes was chosen because it relates to music and implies a focus on new songs, appealing to teenagers. The masthead is designed to represent the R&B genre and target audience through being bold, colorful, and symbolizing good music.
Question 4 and 5
The target audience is 9-15 year old females, mostly 11 years old. They are interested in music, fashion, celebrities, and shopping.
The document discusses how the media was appealed to the target audience through using bright colors, feminine fonts and images throughout the magazine. Research was done through focus groups to understand what would appeal to young girls.
A double page spread interview with a boy band is included to appeal to the target audience as the young girls will be interested in the band.
Question 2 powerpoint
This document discusses how the media product represents different social groups. It aims to target 15-25 year olds of both genders, as this age group is interested in magazines and gossip. Formal language is used as the target audience is older than 20. Slang is not used because K-pop is seen as classy music, and the artists do not use slang themselves. The magazine targets people interested in Korean culture and anime to increase audience and potential profits.
Audience profiling
This document contains three target audience analyses for different magazines:
1) A teenage female magazine focused on Justin Bieber and pop music, targeting white teenage girls aged 13-18 in English-speaking countries.
2) An Adele magazine targeting women ages 18-25 of any race in English-speaking countries to learn about her personal life and music genre.
3) A Billboard magazine on Zayn's solo success, targeting teenage girls ages 13-18 of any race in English-speaking countries interested in R&B and pop music.
Representations of young people in magazines and newspapers
This document discusses representations of young people in print media such as magazines and newspapers. It notes that young people can be sexualized in print media through images intended to attract readers. This portrayal treats women as sex objects and strips them of respect. The media can also portray teenage celebrities negatively by focusing on things like drug use, influencing public opinions. Statistics show young people, especially boys, are often depicted negatively or as perpetrators in crime stories contrary to official data.
Magazine proposal
Rizwan Uddin proposes a new music magazine called "Instrumental" focused on hip-hop, R&B, and rap artists from around the world. It will include information on popular artists like Chris Brown, Tyga, and Nicki Minaj; fashion and music reviews; charts; and concert information. The monthly magazine will be published by Bauer Media and sold for £3.99 physically and on a mobile app to target 12-26 year olds. It will use a black, red, and white color scheme and custom fonts to stand out visually.
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Task 9- formal proposal
The document proposes a new hip hop and R&B magazine called "B&R: The Official Hip Hop and R&B Industry Magazine". It will target both male and female readers ages 16-21. Rather than featuring typical male artists, the magazine will use a white female on the cover to attract a wider audience. The color scheme will be black, white and green to appeal to both sexes. Initial article ideas include an interview/profile of the cover artist discussing her rise in the hip hop field. Photographs will include medium shots, close-ups and various poses to represent the artists visually.
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I used Adobe Photoshop to create my contents page as the page was very image dominated. I first placed the main image, then added the main title, date, and issue number. I created red and grey rectangles to separate text into categories like "On the Cover" and "In this issue". I made page numbers bold to distinguish them from body text. Finally, I added the front cover image with page number "1" in a red circle in the bottom corner along with the website address.
Evaluation q4
The target audience for the media product would be music fans between 17-21 years old who enjoy rock and indie music. Specifically, the examples given are Tom, a 21 year old who plays in bands, attends gigs, and listens to rock bands like Of Mice & Men and The Black Keys. The other example is Chelsea, a 17 year old who goes to gigs and listens to bands like Mumford & Sons and Paramore. Both download music online and listen to rock-focused radio stations.
How i created my double page spread
I created a double-page spread in Adobe InDesign by first placing images on the left page without changing the white background. I then added boxes underneath smaller images and added red explanatory captions. Finally, I added the title, byline, body text from Word with bold questions and regular answers, page numbers in red circles, and the magazine website and issue number to complete the layout while keeping colors consistent throughout.
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The document discusses the photographer's process for shooting models for the cover of an original music magazine. In three sets of shots, the photographer experimented with different poses, expressions, clothing, and makeup styles inspired by existing hip-hop magazines. For the final cover shot, the photographer chose an image of Model Two with her hair partially covering her face because it created intrigue while effectively showcasing her eye makeup and engaging the target audience. Minor edits were made to refine the aesthetics of the selected cover photo.
Evaluation question 5
The document provides an analysis of the design elements used in a magazine called "Media Evaluation". It summarizes the key design choices on the front cover, contents page, and double-page spread and how they were intended to attract the target audience of students interested in hip hop/R&B music. Market research informed choices like popular artists in the footer, a £2-3 price point, eye-catching images of the cover star, and including a competition on the contents page. Color schemes and fonts were selected to look professional but not overwhelming.
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The document summarizes the steps taken to design a double page magazine spread. First, the main image was inserted and altered to look striking with strong colors. The article headline was then added across both pages in Photoshop with half white and half black text for emphasis. A black rectangle box with white text was used to add a brief description tilted to match the headline. The article text was inserted in a three column InDesign text box. Finally, an exclusive tab and page number were added using shaped boxes and consistent colors throughout the spread.
Task 4 and 5
Task 4, 5 and 6 involved researching similar music magazines. For task 4, Jessica Perry analyzed the UK music magazine Q. She summarized that Q is an alternative music magazine published monthly that was first published in 1986. It targets 30-40 year olds and includes promotional gifts. For task 5, she described the average Q reader as a 29 year old music fan from Leeds who enjoys discovering new music through Q. For task 6, she researched the genres of indie rock and provided examples and a history of the genre.
Vibe images research
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Analysing mgazine pages
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The document summarizes how the student's college magazine product uses and develops conventions of magazine design. It compares the student's front and contents pages to a Teen Vogue sample. Both products use mastheads, cover lines, and sans serif fonts. However, the student's front cover features a college-focused selling line and image instead of professional photography. The student also uses colder colors and a close-up student portrait. For the contents page, the student includes multiple images and an editor's message, while arranging sections differently than the sample. The document discusses using Adobe tools like Photoshop and InDesign to design the magazine pages.
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Task 9
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- A double page spread will feature a large image of an artist and an interview article in a question and answer format to engage readers
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Zareen reflects on improvements from her preliminary college magazine to her final music magazine. She gained more experience with design software like Photoshop and InDesign. Extensive research into music magazine conventions helped her understand features like covers, contents pages, and spreads. Key lessons included maintaining consistent, appealing content and avoiding overcrowded designs. Her color scheme selection gave the final magazine a more professional feel.
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The document describes how the magazine attracts and addresses its audience through various design elements. The cover uses a striking image of the cover girl with direct eye contact, a bold masthead, and a black and white color scheme. The contents page includes pretty images of artists to attract both male and female readers. Numbers listing contents are in red to catch the eye. A double page spread features another pretty image of an artist along with an attention-grabbing headline and quote. Additional elements like "Exclusive" banners and revealing text about the artist provide intrigue for readers.
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The student felt they learned a lot about using software like Photoshop between the preliminary task and final product. They learned tools like the red eye tool and brightness tool to make photos more professional. They also learned about layout and design conventions for magazines. The student recognizes areas for improvement in the preliminary task regarding color schemes, image selection and layout that detracted from a professional appearance. Overall, the student feels they have improved in using software and hardware skills and knowledge of design conventions to create a magazine that looks more polished and appeals to the target audience.
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2. Key elements like mastheads, images, cover lines, page numbers, and bylines are included and positioned according to typical magazine standards. However, the document also discusses how the layout, colors, and pairing of images challenge conventions to create a cohesive dark theme.
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A 16-year-old from Birmingham whose favorite color is black and green. He enjoys rock music, going to concerts, playing games, and hanging out with friends. His favorite band is Marilyn Manson, and favorite song is "The Fight Song." He also likes Rob Zombie, Muse, The Killers, and Betraying The Martyr, downloading and listening to music from these bands on his MP3 player and YouTube.
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This document provides information about the target audience for a rock music magazine. It describes them as typically being 16-19 years old, working class, and interested in rock music, concerts, playing instruments, and socializing. They often dress in band merchandise like t-shirts and hoodies. They listen to rock music daily because the lyrics can relate to personal experiences and lift mood. The target readers want magazine content including interviews, band news, concert guides and competitions about their favorite artists.
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