Monday

Questionnaire Pie chart results

Music magazine questionnaire

1.) What is your favourite colour?

2.) Who is your favourite band?

3.) Who is you favourite singer?

4.) How often do you buy music magazines?

5.) What is your favourite part of a music magazine?

6.) One word you associate with music?

7.) How much do you spend on music magazines?
· £0 - £1.50
· £1.50 - £2.50
· £2.50 - £3.50
· Other
8.) What do you like to appear in a music magazine?

9.) What gender are you?

· Male
· Female

10.)How old are you?

· 0-11
· 12-17
· 18-22
· 23-29
· Plus

11.) What attracts you to a music magazine?













Conclusion
My graph shows that the answers from my questionnaire
were spread equally between the main features that would
appear within a music magazine. The pie chart showed
that the main feature was the main image that would
persuade people to buy the magazine.












Conclusion
In my graph I have shown that the most
people that I questioned had paid £0-£1.50
on a music magazine, the other results
were very similar to each other.













Conclusion
My pie chart shows that a lot of people that
answered my questionnaire wanted to see interviews
within a music magazine; this would persuade
the consumers to purchase the magazine if their
favourite artist was displayed on the main page.














Conclusion
My graph shows that I asked mainly female
to answer my questionnaire, if I had asked
more male then my result will have changed.
















Conclusion
Many different topics were voted the favourite
part of a music magazine, “up coming concerts”
received the most votes from the people
that answered my questionnaire.













Conclusion
I have shown that the average age I had
questioned where aged between 12-17,
if I had asked another age group more then
my results may have changed.
















Conclusion

My pie chart results show that most of the
people I gave my questionnaire to had a
favourite colour of blue and then purple,
because of these results I decided that the
main colours of my magazine would be these
colours to follow my results.















Conclusion
My graph shows that most of the people
I asked in my questionnaire bought their
music magazine yearly, but a lot had also
never bought a music magazine













Conclusion
I had a lot of different band names in my questionnaire,
there was too many with just one vote for a pie
chart, I put all the bands that had more than one
into a pie chart, the others with just one vote
are listed below all of my pie charts.
















Conclusion
My pie chart shows that the word that comes
into people head the most when they think
about music is “Dance” this may have changed
if I and asked more and different people.







Analysis of questionnaire!

I asked 20 people questions that would help me create my own music magazine, I show the results below:

Band list:
Girls aloud ll
Black eyed peas ll
You me at six ll
The killer’s ll

All bands below only came up once:
Busted
Take that
Artic Monkeys
Nolan sisters
Blue October
The Script
Paramore
Biffy Clyro
The Saturdays
All American rejects
Metro station
JLS

Singer’s list:
Esmee Denters lll
Kelly Clarkson ll
George Michael ll
Beyonce llll

List below only had one vote each:
Keri Hilson
Chris Draughty
Alexandra Burke
Lady Gaga
Brittany Spears
Will young
Leona Lewis
Miley Cyrus
Justin Bieber

Questionnaire answers

I have attatched voice clips of 4 people in the age range of my target audience.



Wednesday

Magazine Plan

Title: New Music or Revolution

Position statement: Revolutionise your music!

Price:£1.20

Rationale: My magazine's approach is very much about giving pop music fans what they want, it offers interviews, concert dates, pictures, free stuff e.g. posters.

Style: Informal and relevant information to suit the style and genre of the magazine. The magazine will use simple syntax and vocabulary, making it easily accessible to all readers.

Regular Content

  • Editor's letter
  • Upcoming concert dates
  • Images
  • Special offers within magazine
  • Information on your favourite bands/singers
  • Concert reviews
  • Letters of the week
  • The charts
  • Album releases and interviews
  • Things the reader can buy e.g. Merchandise
  • Peter Andre music column
  • Upcoming music events
  • Subscription information
  • Singer of the week
Feature Content
  • Main image interview
  • Interview with Lily Allen
  • Photo spread of "the Saturdays" concert
  • Rihanna on new single
  • Soloists Vs Bands
  • Young soul rebels with their war child release
  • Hottest music venues
  • Paramore concert secrets
Coverlines: Arial Black
Interviews with Lily Allen
Free posters inside
This week's chart
Deleted scenes from new music videos
Chance to meet a band of your choice
Find out more about Beyonce's new album

Headlines: Arial Black
New music this week!
Shock secret concert by Rihanna
What would you ask your favourite singer?
Shocking concert dates revealed

Standfirst: Byline to be included in Standfirst

Drop capital, at the beginning of each article that is in my music magazine I will start each necessary paragraph with a drop capital, I will do this so it makes each paragraph stand out from each other.

News first paragraph: First two words in bold

Body text: Times New Roman

Colour scheme: Blue, Purple and Light Purple

Sunday

Lily Allen Research

Research on Lily Allen


· Lily fans- Sarah, Josie and Chloe.

Questions
1.) What is your favourite Lily Allen song?
2.) If you had any question to ask Lily, what would it be?
3.) If you had to opportunity to write a song for Lily Allen, what would you call it?
4.) If you could change Lily’s genre of music, what would you change it to?
5.) Have you ever met Lily Allen?
6.) What are three things that remind you of Lily Allen?
7.) Do you think your Lily Allen’s biggest fan?
8.) What would you be willing to do to meet Lily?
9.) What is one thing you love about Lily Allen?
10.) What do you think about Lily’s new music video featuring images of Elton John?
11.) Who would you like to see Lily Allen work with in her future music career?
12.) Do you ever think you could be as big as Lily Allen?
13.) Where would you like to see Lily Allen in 10 years?
14.) Do you think Lily could be as big as Beyonce or Girls Aloud?
15.) What would you say to Lily Allen if you met her right now?


· CD:
It's Not Me It's YouEveryone's At ItThe FearNot Fair22I Could SayBack To The StartNever Gonna HappenF**k YouWho'd Have KnownChineseHimHe Wasn't ThereThe Fear (Acoustic)22 (Acoustic)Who'd Have Known (Acoustic)He Wasn't There (Acoustic)I Could Say (Acoustic)Womanizer (Acoustic)Mr Blue SkyThe Count (Aka Hervi) And Lily Face The Fear (Explicit)Not Fair (Style Of Eye Remix)

· Lily Rose Beatrice Allen

· She was born 2 May 1985 Hammersmith, London, England

· Daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and Film producer Alison Owen

· She appeared and sang in an episode of “neighbours” in Australia

· Lily has up coming UK tour dates and she will be joined by Example and Dizzee Rascal.

· Lily had been to thirteen different schools by the time she was fifteen, which is the age she then left school.

· Lily worked in a CD selling store.

· She was overheard singing by … in the school play ground and then she was discovered

· She was rejected by several recording companies before she was then signed at the age of …

Wednesday

Main task

My main Double Page Spread

My Main Contents Page

My Main Front Cover Image





Music Magazines.
Kerrang, NME,Q, Mojo, Smash hits ( doesnt excist anymore), rolling atone, uncut, classic rock, top of the pops, total guitar, classic FM, mixmag.

Codes and conventions of a music magazine.

Double page spread
  • One side is a massive images or more, pictures often bleed across from one page to the other.


  • Quote to relate and link image- Hyline- name of journalist who wrote the article positioned in or by the standfirst or at the end of the article. Photographer is also credited.


  • Drop capital, as big as you want it to be.


  • Imaginative photography


  • Headlines across two pages


  • Straplines or a broder often used to bleed across double paged spread.

  • More than one image sometimes used-smaller images are used to break up the layer and make it more inviting-panals and quotes.


  • Standfirst always by headline and before start of the article- intoduces the article. Works witht he headline to tell the reader what is the article is about- also larger font.


  • Headlines-creative, eye catching.


  • Artists' name are highlighted.


  • Page Number/Title of magazine/ Issue date

E.g 2 Mogo January 2009


  • Limited use of colour, layed out in columns, usually 3 or 4.
  • Strapline- heading/tab
  • Creative use of images

  • Website address

  • Personality of journalist comes through interview, their opinion is shown.

Sunday

Planning

For my Preliminary task I created a school magazine, I have shown the school magazine that I created on the left.
























Evaluation
My aim before the deadline was to complete my front cover and my contents page, for my magazine front cover I used the program Adobe Photoshop and then to make my contents page I used a new program to me called QuarkXpress, to make my magazine front cover I follwed the codes and conventions of a magazine, I took many pictures some of which I used on my front cover and others which I did not use, I did use some of these images on my contents page also, aswell as using some more than once.

Overal it took me two lessons to complete my front page and contents page, I produced my two peices by keeping them between the codes and conventions. Next time I will have longer to produce my work and i will take more pictures and include better articles, I will also be including a double page spread.



Photgraphs that I used


































































Pictures I did not use
























































































































































































Codes and conventions of a music magazine

Codes and conventions of magazine and contents page(s)

-Letter from the editor.
-List of bands and artists.
-Main image.
-Date on the top of contents.
-Headings to divide up contents.
-Page numbers with each topic.
-Consistant colour scheme (few colours)
-Page numbers on pictures anchor image to written contents.
-Laid out in columns (two to three columns)
-Subscription adverts.
-White backgrounds.
-Title of magazine at the top.
-Arrangement- page number
-Text- one or two words, bold/slightly larger text and subline smaller text.-


Regular and feature contents

-Appears all the time in every issue.
-Only feature once in the magazine.
-Bottom of page- page number, title, issue date, website address, contact details, picture of the editor, editor letter.

Friday

Preleminary Exercise

G321 foundation portfolio in media. (100)



Print


Preliminary exercise: front cover and contents page of a new school magazine.

Main exercise: front cover, contents page, Double page spread of a new music magazine.

100% Original.

Research and planning-evidence} BLOG

Evaluation

  • Title always in top left corner, big and bold.
  • Top statement on all music magazines.
  • Price and date either on barcode or under the title.
  • Main picture is main article in the magazine.
  • Competitions.
  • Red and black colour code.
  • A bottom line at the end of the cover.

Codes and conventions of a music magazine front cover. Title is usually on word/letter or letters. - Positioned top left of the cover and full page width.

- Unique font.

- Largest text on the cover.

Barcode- On the front because a paid for advert is on the back so it has to go on the front. Consistant colour scheme- Few colours.

One main image- A band or singer, usually medium close-up (waist upwards), conveys attitude, direct address and the main image has always got eye contact with the reader.

Main coverline-always the text that links with the picture and the largest writing on the page.

Anchors the main meaning of the main image.

Coverlines:

  • Main coverline, two lines.
  • Information about the contents.
  • Intrigue the audience who it is aimed at.
  • As little wording as possible

Typography- consistant, only a few fonts are used.

Two types of typography-

  • SERIF ( with hooks) for example, Times New Roman
  • SANS SERIF (without hooks) for example, Ariel

Connotations of font reflect target audience and subject.

  • Frame main image.
  • Left side of cover.
  • Positioning statement- by the title.
  • Issue date and price.
  • Puff- giving something for free (extra)
  • Posters.
  • Buzzwords- exclusive.

Strip at bottom or top of cover- list of names and topics.