Conventional design features of a magazine

The main media conventional design features consist of the following..

  • Plug
  • Masthead
  • Pug
  • Captions
  • Main cover star
  • Cover lines
  • Inset
  • Main cover line
  • Issue/date
  • Price
  • Bar code

It is crucial to understand the key terms especially whilst creating my own, I need to make sure I include these key terms to make my music magazine more authentic. In addition it’s good to understand and learn these terms when analysing magazine covers, it’s good also to help learn new key words and to extend your vocabulary in media.

This is my annotated magazine cover to show all the key things to look out for in a magazine

Language Analysis

LINK TO BIOGRAPHY 

In this biography it portrays many different personalities, For example at the start we have this man named James Lavelle that is meant to have this ‘bad boy’ type feature it mentions this through the fact it provides the keyword ‘maverick’ which is also stereotyped to be rebellious, free spirited and a popular person like a trend setter. This attracts the audience to read on and find out more.

Secondly they use a very distictive metaphor ‘everest of cocaine’ which shows that Lavelle clearly was a ‘bad boy’ and shows that he went of the rails and used it to have fun, confirms his rebellion to life. However he becomes into great debt after his rebellion and realises that he cannot live a lifestyle like this if he wants to carry on spending that amount of money.

Furthermore, during the end of the biography he lightens up. He made a comeback and released a new album. He explains ‘I’ve put myself through quite extreme situations, both financially and emotionally. But then I got used to that very young.’  This shows his understanding in the situations he put himself through and notices that he’s been through it from such a young age and turns his life around.

Lastly, the biography ends with a rhetorical question “Have you looked at yourself? which engages the reader to really think about the biography and maybe even tell a friend about it because it left them wandering about themselves and what there life really is like and the situations they’ve been through.

 

feedback on draft one

MY OPINION 

This is my first draft for my music magazine, I believe that my front cover is pleasing to look at because of the colour and the bold masthead. I also think the costume and make-up on my model make my magazine work really well as the image matches the personality to my genre, I also think that the contrast in colour from my model is eye catching.

However, I think that the background colours and costume colours make the front page to basic as there isn’t any colours that pop. I also need to cut my models sock out of the corner as it makes the image look unrealistic. Another issue is the text, I need to choose fonts that relate to each other and I need to add more text at different sizes to make it appeal more interesting to look at.

PEER ASSESSMENT 

  1. Likes the colour
  2. Image relates to genre
  3. Needs more writing
  4. Make some text bigger as it’s hard to read
  5. Place image more central and possibly on masthead
  6. Change barcode
  7. Add more colour

second shoot contact sheets

I believe that my production meeting helped sufficiently with the planning of this shoot. The shoot as a whole went really well my models we’re well dressed and positioned to fit the genre. The make up and props (glasses) helped make the image look more appealing and exciting. I had to take into account the position of the models as my magazine cover will be split through the middle so I decided to have one and the other of my models to stand different sides to make sure I had room for my models to be a big part of my page, I also needed to make sure I had room for text. I used a constant light to help with the lighting on my models which helped create a solid light for my image. The different locations that I used consist of Hmv , Market square and the Library I found that the more open space I had the better the lighting on my models, although the Hmv hall was a nice background for my images, as a whole i believe it went well.

 

 

Branding Ideas + Mission Statement

The name I chose for my music magazine is ‘juicy’ because the name creates interest and it’s catchy. It relates well to my audiences ideology as it implies there is something important to which grabs the readers interest.

This is a word cloud I made it includes words that describes my target audience and how I want to portray there interests in my music magazine to make it different and intriguing to read. In my magazine i will ad adverts that are significant and other information such as new music releases to keep my audience up to date with the latest. My magazine ‘Juicy’ seeks to interest my audience through the music. images and captions that will engage the right attention.

My Audience Profile

Audience Theory

When doing this I had to engage with my audiences ideology. I had to identify their values, attitudes and beliefs. This helped me recognize the demographics of my audience and work out their interests. Stewart Hall stated that this creates the preferred reading match. He also mentions the Oppositional reading this shows the difference in interests as there values, attitudes and beliefs are different. There is also another category of audience mentioned by Stewart Hall called the negotiated reading match they share some interests but not all they overlap. Broadly speaking we all identify our interests through the ideology theory.