Font Decision

This is the font I decided to use as my main font for masthead and headings. It is quite conventional with a good mixture of straight lines and minor curves.

This is my masthead in the font above, but I have also edited the 'T' to extend more to the right, so as to make into more of a logo style.

First Draft

Magazine Mock Up

This is a Photoshop Mock-Up I did using outside images so I could work on the layout of my Front Cover

Possible Front Page Images

These are all of the image I took as possible images for my pop music magazine.

Posed but not enough happening in the shot, too still and dull.

Good connotations and bright picture

Too still, not enough movement or anything interesting in the shot for a pop music magazine.

Framing has cut off the models hands and colours do not match.

Background is dark and not white enough.

Good image but the use of prop could lead to  bad anchorage to the image in a music magazine.

Positioning of prop guitar makes it look too big compared to the model.

Good shot. Well framed, relatively simple but  works well

Posed shot with prop but the image looks too still and background looks too dark.

Quirky pose, interesting shot with sunglasses going forwards,  adds depth to the shot.

Bad frame, has cut off the end of the guitar, and background is too dark.

Costume Mood-Board

Colour Scheme

The colour scheme of my magazine will be very busy and full but bold colours will make certain parts stand out over other the top of others and fill the page. This would keep my magazine conventional to the pop music genre. In the example bellow we see only 5 very simple colours and combining this with the many layers of the front page it creates the busyness often seen within pop, that draws in the audience to read further into the page and to the bottom layers of stories and plugs. In my magazine, I hope to use this mass of simple colours as well and to try and fill the pages with images.

Font Ideas

These are fonts I chose out from www.dafont.com, I chose them on a basis of how similar they appeared to be to other font styles of other Pop Music Magazines.

Shot Type Examples

Two Shot - Two people in the same shot, side by side

Group shot - More than two people in the shot

Long Shot - Shows whole body

Posed Shot - The Model is in more of a posed/unnatural position.

Medium Close-up - Shoulder/Chest upwards

Close-up with Bad Framing - Has cropped off the top of the image

Magazine Name Ideas

• Replay - You will want to keep replaying this music, because it's so good.
• Rewind - You will want to listen to this music again, because you will like it so much.
• Repeat - Keeping listening to this sort of music over and over, because it is good.
• Now Music - Modern music  from now. New/in the now. 
• Top - Top of the charts music, New and popular. It's at the top and good.
• Music Now! - Demanding new music, Music 'in the now' and popular.
• Out-Now - New music, recent and popular music just released into the charts.
• Playing - This music is new and popular. Keeps getting played on the radio, it's always playing
• Newphonic - New sounds, Modern up to date music.

 I decided on the name Top. The name is short, snappy and easy to remember which appeals to the younger audience. It also relates to the 'Pop' genre, the name Top it can be related to the charts and the top music at the moment being new and good.

Music Magazine LIIAR Analysis

Language -  The magazine uses both pink and blue as its primary colour scheme; this appeals to both genders and draws them in. However the content of the articles is more focused on females, with a some of the main focuses being on boys, and fashion. 

Ideology -  The magazine uses slang and promotes a very feminine attitude. This will attract the audience to get the magazine bought.

Institution -  Top of the Pops is a BBC branded magazine and Television, both about and playing pop music and the latest music in the charts.

Audience -The audience of this magazine would be teenagers, though predominantly female it would also attract males as well.  The use of slang means that  this young audience can connect to the magazine.  

Representation -  The magazine shows only attractive models/pictures in it, showing the boys to be topless and caught by paparazzi, or posing in a photo shoot. The creates a false representation of the celebrity artists and how they act.

Language -This magazine uses quite a lot of slang and collocations within the text, this is used to connect with the young audience it attracts. The use of simple colors has quite immature connotations, with the younger audience can connect with. The masthead of 'We love Pop' not only does it use a heart instead of the word love, and the use of the word 'we' gives the magazine personalisation that connects the magazine and the reader.

Ideology - The ideology created by this magazine promotes the quite heavy stereotypes of girls, with the focus of the magazine being 'Gossip, Fashion, Boys, Uncensored'

Institution - The magazine Masthead is We love pop, this instantly tells the reader what genre of music the magazine is about how they should love pop, from the use of the word we.

Audience- The audience of this magazine would be of young girls (10-15). The magazine heavily features boy-bands and  girls fashion, and the low price would make it a lot more Continent for younger unemployed people

Representation - The magazine has a quite stereotypical representation of girls, show how they can look better and attractive boys they should admire. The the models in the pictures all look directly towards the camera and at the reader connecting with them.

Language - The background and costume in the image both use a lot of pink. This suggests a quite feminine feeling, this also relates to the flowers which are used for this reason. The placement of the model is in front of the text, to show how important they are and how they are over the top of billboards everywhere. The magazine masthead is 'Billboard', this suggests that the artists inside are on billboards and quite popular.

Ideology - The ideology of the magazine is for it to get bought by people. It does this by using language to attract their target audience. They want to keep people up to date with a the biggest artists.

Institution - Billboard, The name Billboard tells us that these are the sort of artists you would see on big posters, and they are well known.

Audience - This magazine would be targeted towards a younger audience of teenagers to young adults (16-24) using light blue, yellow and pink which are all quite childish colours. They are also the main listeners to pop music

Representation - The use of flowers on the dress suggest how Katy Perry is quite happy and and pretty from the connotations of flowers and their colours. She is also stood a quite a innocent pose as well which suggests her vulnerability.

Target Audience

The Target Audience for my Pop magazine will be teenagers ranging from about 13-16 old. This is based off the sort of people that predominantly listen to pop music. The target audience would be used to decide what adverts to put in the magazine and it would also be used to decide on colour schemes.

http://www.abc.org.uk/certificates/18386730.pdf

The magazine 'We Love Pop' is a pop music magazine targeted at teenagers from 13-16. In a 5 month period from launching they sold 50,505 copies of their magazine. The price of £2.99 is cheap for a monthly magazine, and supports the younger audience with less disposable income.
The magazine is publish by Egmont, and from a news report at launch they commented on how the pop music magazine was a difficult industry, but that they believe the younger target audience will help them succeed.

http://www.qthemusic.com/
Q is another popular music magazine, however Q magazine has a higher age average of 29 and costs £3.50. Its is predominant audience is young male professionals, and the use of multimedia and social-media will help with the relatively young audience in the modern day.

Genre Research:Pop Music

History
Modern pop music originated in the 1950s, coming from rock and roll. The term popular music can cover multiple styles of music and the genre is based off what is in the top of the charts at the time. It borrows elements of urban, dance, rock, Latin country. Nonetheless the core elements of pop are the medium to short length songs, written in a basic format, usually verse chorus structure as well as the use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes and catchy hooks.

Artists
Good example of Pop musicians and artists would be Micheal Jackson, who was titled 'The King of Pop' in his time. More modern artists would include Elyar Fox, One Direction and Miley Cyrus.

Magazines 
Pop music magazines include 'Top of the Pops', 'Billboard' and 'We love Pop' they are all aimed at the relatively young audience of 10-15 year old, mostly girls.

Magazine Genre and Ideas

Music Magazine Genre by Elliot Daniel on GoAnimate

Magazine Conventions

Front Cover:
Main Image - Subject's face can be seen easily and clearly
Masthead - Short and memorable magazine title
Date - Date and price of release of magazine issue
Barcode
Plug - Competitions, free gifts or offers, Normally boxed
Teaser - Teasing contents/what's inside
Anchorage - Language techniques used to anchor articles and pictures meaning

Contents Page:
Page numbers - Conventions
Adverts - External advertisement from other institutions or offers
Clear font - Easy to read, large text
Featured story - Main stories from the front page. Must read or big stories
Editor Information
Quotes from Articles - Makes people want to read the full article
Continuous colour scheme - What the reader expects or is used to seeing
Regulars - Usual content, e.g. reviews, charts, readers  section.

Double Page Spread:
Introduction - Conventional, leads you into the article at the slower pace.
Articles itself in columns - Clear font and easy to read
Overlapping pictures/text - Fills out the page with the product or person/s
Pictures relating to article - Keeps the product or person in your head and want to buy their products
Continuous colour scheme - Expected, Conventional
Certain quotes enlarged - Highlighted opinions

Examples

Main Brief

Preliminary exercise:

Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of an new music magazine, featuring a photograph of an student in the medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the content page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main Task: 

The front page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. all images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.

Final Cover

Unused Pictures

I did not use this image because it looked too long looking down all the lockers.

Posters in background would interfere with masthead and shot is too long.

There is too much empty space in this image

Model is not pulling a happy face, and the shot is taken from too far away leaving empty space.

Magazine Ideas and Paper drafts.

Masthead: Wyke College Magazine, College Logo
Main Image: Happy Students with college as the background.
Main Story: New block opening next month.
Side stories
Audience: Students, Parents and Staff.

Contents Page Mock-Up

Medium Close-Up

Medium Close ups are a shot usually of shoulders, head and upper chest. They are used to focus on a single person and not groups of people. They are used on magazine covers to show the model's face and their feelings. It is on a more personal level so people can see the persons emotions and opinions on something or somewhere. Aspire to being like that person and feel like they do about the same thing, like what they like.

College Magazines

Language - Red top connotes passion and wanting to learn. Attractive girl is used as an ideal or role model that people seeing the magazine will looks up to and want to be like. The camera is only focused on her and it is just her in the shot, this suggests how important she is and you could be like her too.

Ideology - Enjoying Education and wanting to come to college and be happy like this person. Passion for learning and the importance of individuals.

Institution - College, Magazine. Wanting to promote College life to people and how good it is to be in college to the audience.

Audience - Students, Parents and Staff. Shows the ideal student and what they want to be like as well.

Representation - Smiling because they are happy about being in college and learning. They are individual and alone in the picture to show their importance.

Language - Bright happy colours show how they are happy to be in college and to be achieving what they are. Attractive model creates and ideal, readers will want to be more like this person and enjoy college as well. The colour yellow connotes youth and childhood which is what college is the last step of.

Ideology - Education is a good place and people are happy there.

Institution - College, Magazine

Audience - Students, Parents and Staff

Representation - They are happy to be in education, they are smiling.

Bright happy colours

Language - Plain colours,
Ideology - Education is happy and enjoyable,
Institution - Ridgewater College, Magazine
Audience - Students, Parents and Staff
Representation - They are happy to be in education, they are smiling.

The Brief

Preliminary exercise:

Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of an new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of an student in the medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the content page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

Main Task: 

The front page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. all images and text used must be original, produced by you - minimum of four images.