Front Cover Progression

Once again, I loved my original idea so I kept my front cover like this... 

As the weeks went on I added fonts, drop shadows and many other Photoshop skills. 

Double Page Spread Progression

I exceptionally liked my original layout so planned on keeping it like this, I wanted it to still look sleek and posh, so kept everything 'in order'. 

Contents Page Progression

Originally for my contents page I planned on following my flat plan so produced this. 

By the last minute, I decided to change my whole layout and experiment with different things, I concluded with this one lesson. 

As the weeks went on, I kept this style and continued to add many features to it. 

To conclude, once I had written headings, captions and 'quotes' I was happy with this final layout. 

Final Front Cover

This is my final Front Cover of my magazine.

Final Double Page Spread

This is my final double page spread which has my article on.

 

Final Contents Page

This is my final contents page.

 

 

Fonts with Commentary

 

I like this font Arial as it's easy to understand I will probably use this as my main font for my articles since my magazine has a clean, sleek look. Yet when I use the font I won't capitialise it like this example.

 

 

I like this Bell Gothic font as it's once again clear, something which I plan on having my magazine like. Once again, if I use the font I won't have it capitalised.

 

 

This font is slightly 'posher' than the other two and looks a little more formal, and since I have analysed Vogue and plan on using the layout for my front cover as inspiration I believe this will be acceptable.

 

 

This font would be suitable for my contents page, yet I plan on using a variety of fonts in magazine. I only plan on using the maximum of four fonts on the contents page.

 

 

With this font I will use it for my Masthead but bolded so that it stands out more. I believe this gives the 'indie/rock' look whilst still looking sleek and sophisticated something which I want my magazine to look like.

 

 

I really don't like this font, therefore will avoid using it within my magazine although it is easy to understand.

 

 

I quite like this font but it wouldn't suit my target audeince, and it seems quite 'childish'.

 

 

Once again this is similar to Felix Titling so it will match with how I want my masthead.

The Conventions, The Producer and Target Audience

Regarding my main images I plan on using the images of Holly on all three of my pages, my front cover contents page and double page spread since it's my main article. I will have my masthead along the top of my front cover, possibly bolded using the title of Indierocks which is a typical convention so I want to keep it the same. Although I’m rather unsure what font I will use throughout my magazine I think Felix Titling will be a suitable font as it is a clean easy font to read. This will be the font for most of my headings within my magazine. This will appeal to my target audience since within my lexis I will be using taboo language which is an older target audience.

Referring back to my previous research of institutions either PPA of Future PLC would be suitable for my magazine as PPA have produced publications like Vogue and Cosmopolitan which highly relates to the model and style I have followed. Yet the only real music related one was Future PLC who has publications with Guitarist and Total Guitar, and since a lot of guitar music will be involved in my magazine this would be great to be on the market by them. Hopefully the success that Vogue and Beano have had with PPA I would like to use them as my institution.

The target audience of my text is late teens early twenties of both genders with similar characteristics within the music industry. I.e. Indie and rock music. These people will also be avid gig 'goers' and enjoy live music so they can relate to my images and articles within my magazine.

Many media platforms/broadcasters/ outlets will be interested in selling my magazine such as music selling stores, i.e HMV, and radio 1 will show advertising on their website, since they follow this sort of target audience. Since Kerrang and Q will be main competitors I would not be able to advertise with them yet my magazine will be alongside these in supermarkets such as ASDA and Tesco.

Colour Palette

On this post I have produced a colour palette by using Microsoft Publisher, these will be some of the colours I will use within my magazine. 

 

Audience Research and Analysis of Data

I produced an online survey via www.surveymonkey.com this survey consisted of ten questions to ask random people, I hoped to get at least ten responses. I posted the link on my Twitter account so I could have a range of responses. The following slideshow shows my responses via a bar chart and percentages.

Media Studies Audience Research from itc6swa

As we can see, the response shows that mostly 18-20's took part in my survey, meaning I will consider that target audience for my magazine. Since I received roughly the same percentage on gender my magazine will be both sexes.

As predicted, the cheapest price for a magazine was highest. This will probably be due to the response that mostly students completed my survey. Yet, the next results were shocking. With a huge percentage of people who don't read music magazines. Results show the people mostly listen to Rock/Indie music which will be great for the production of my magazine as that is the genre I plan on using.

The rest of my results are clearly shown, yet if I were to repeat this procedure I would change the questions and choose only specific people to complete the survey especially since I had many sarcastic responses within the survey.