Category: Music magazine

Advert 1

I chose this advert as I feel majority of my target audience would use headphones like this or be interested in reading the advertisement to invest in a pair of these headphones. A lot of my readers will often listen to music with headphones and this advert will help with a better understanding of what these certain headphones do. I think its important to include an advert with headphones in as it is a staple to listen to music with or a good investment once seeing this advertisement. This could encourage my target audience to look into Bose for some good quality headphones.

Advert 2

I chose this second advert to have more of a focus on my target audience music that they enjoy. I know that for my genre of pop a good deal of my audience appreciate Ariana Grade’s music and her talents, she is a well known artist and I feel this advert is a good way of drawing in my audience and it could give my audience a better understanding of the genre they are engaging in. It also includes other big artists that my audience know of who will be the opening acts and suits my demographic correctly.

Targets

Front Cover-

• Add white strike around Grade in the title Upgrade
• Spelling mistakes for Billie Eilish and Trends
• Add Chloe’s life’s as a producer to main coverline
• One blue circle in the lemon color on double page spread and add another pug in it

Contents

• Place coverlines correctly
• Make the line thickness the same as each other, same width
• Make contents numbers bigger so they over lap the white border

Double page spread 

• Pull standfirst box over so it matches with the main text
• Move copy column over as its very close to the fold, gutter spacing not wide enough
• Lost the shape for the main photo, try to get the main shape back
• Make sure photos aren’t squashed
• Add yellow or red strike around the small photo
• Page numbers in the yellow
• Sharpen the colors so they pop more

What’s New?

• I Changed the red boxes so it was more opaque
• Changed New, Music, Season, Updates to just New, Music, Updates as season isn’t really a music term
• Made latest No1 artists more bold
• Added a small banner at the bottom about the main star on the front cover

What’s New?

• Added strike around coverlid top right corner
• Added more of a white line to the left hand side to make the page numbers stand out more
• Made page numbers bigger

What’s New?

• Added red strike around the headline
• Added extra red detailing to different words that needed to standout
• Added a quote underneath the main photo
• Added another bold yellow line and made it opaque

Here is my second draft of my double page spread. I have added and changed things so my article catches my target audience and I have re read everything to make sure it all makes sense. After the feedback from my first draft I have changed things and hoping by my final draft I will have competed everything to achieve the target audience I’m after.

What’s new?

I didn’t change a lot for my double page spread as I only wanted to change minor details and parts I felt didn’t work and weren’t conventional. Below are a list of things I changed to create the right Mise En Scene:

• I moved the heading of ‘rising above’ to the right side of the page, I felt this was better as I forgot when creating my first draft where the fold of the magazine would be.
• I moved the Pull quote on the top left up a bit more so it over lapped the yellow box and felt a bit more joined onto the article, I also changed the font of this to match the font of the stand first.
• I changed the font of the stand first to a more exiting on and made sure it matched onto the pull quote to tie the article together.
• I changed the article font from a boring sans serfia to a easier to read font for my target audience.
• I also added a lot of drop shadow to different boxes and some of the corners of the yellow boxes, by doing this it makes my article stand out and pop a bit more then it did.
• I also added strike to certain writing like who the interview and photography was by so my audience new this wasn’t part of the article.
• I added a little tease on the bottom right of the right page, this is to entice my audience to visit their Instagram and other medias to find out more gossip, I also added a little Instagram logo to make it more obvious.

What’s next?

I feel my double page spread has been improved within my second draft but I feel there are still things I can think about changing for my final draft.

• I can add little bits of red or blue so my double page spread matches more with my contents and front page.
• Could add another quote in a circle by the article photo.
• Play and change the Instagram logo in the right bottom corner
• Possibly look at another font for ‘Rising above’
• Yellow shadow box on stand first to align with the top box
• Look at how the inset is framed-bounded and add in the white curly wave frame
• Gutter width between columns a bit too big now
• Can bring the stand first down off the top line slightly
• Number 1 on same line and No. 1 instead
• Copy is very near the bleed and slug boundary at the bottom

Below is my second draft of my contents page. I have improved on my targets and changed important things so my contents page fits and works better with the rest of my magazine. By editing parts of my contents page I’m seeing more improvement each time and the feedback I’m given I take into consideration to change things and make sure everything works well to create a good Mise En Scene.

Whats new?

I really like how my contents page has turned out, I feel its unique and different to a lot of magazine contents pages however I also feel its easy to read and tells my audience what they need to know. Below are things I added to include different features and certain things I had forgotten in my first draft:

• First I moved the title of ‘contents’ from in a white box to the left of my page. I changed the font to make it look more modern and gave it a blue outline.
• I then added a stand first in the top right corner to briefly talk about who the photo is in the background of the contents page and what they are going to be talking about further on in the magazine.
• I changed the numbers of each article to have an outline of red instead of blue so it matches the red on my front cover and shows the link they have.
• I also changed the font of what each page is about to match the title of the contents page and added a blue border around key parts of each page. I also altered some wording so it made more sense and was slightly shorter.
• I added a page number at the bottom right as I had previously forgotten to do this in my first draft.

Whats next?

Next I plan on adding minor things to my contents page to make final touches. I feel my contents page is conventional and my making these last changes I will be able to target the audience I want. Below are little things I would like to add onto my contents page:

• Change the page number so it doesn’t have the blue border around it as I feel it stands out to much.
• Play with the strike colours to see if there is an alternative.
• Could make the numbers bigger than the box.
• Billie Eilish spelt wrong so change.
• Can add some copy in to the shorter coverlines so that there is not so much of a white empty band on some of them.

This is my second draft for my front cover. Given feedback from my teacher I have looked at this and changed certain aspects to allow my front cover to work better and look more conventional. I feel it already looks better than my first draft however there are still things I would like to change in the future.

Whats new?

I changed quite a lot for my front cover second draft as I felt certain things weren’t working well and I could change parts to allow my target audience be more attracted to my magazine from when they first see it.  Below are different features I added or changed to make my magazine more conventional:

• I changed the font from a boring san serf to a more exiting font which would draw my target audience in, I also changed the wording and colours of this so certain parts where short and sweet and where easy to read quickly and my audience where able to see what the magazine is all about.
• I moved ‘pop summer 2021’ to the top right of the magazine, I did this because I felt it was easier for people to see which magazine issue it is and what genre they are about to read.
• The photo for the front cover I enhanced by making it bigger so its bold and adds more character to the magazine.
• I moved ‘Chloe’ over to the left of the page a bit more than it already was so it wasn’t covering the background photo. I also moved the box below this, changed the colour of it so it stood out and matched it to the red line in between the name of the magazine and changed the font to match the writing on the left, by doing this I felt it pulled the magazine together more.
• I then added the headline ‘New Music Season Updates’ as I felt there was a bit of empty space that needed to be filled and it add more to the magazine.
• The two circles on the bottom right I changed the writing within one of them so it was shorter and more to the point as previously it was to long. I also changed the font of this to a more exiting one and put ‘No 1’ in bold.

What’s next?

I still feel there are things I can do to make sure my front cover is exactly how I want it and creates the Mise En Scene I need. Below are some points on how I am going to go around finalising and creating my final draft of my front cover:

• The writing in the blue circle on the bottom right doesn’t stand out as much as I would like therefore I am going to enhance it by making it a bolder black.
• I am still not sure if I like the red box underneath ‘Chloe’ so I am going to play with other options to see if I can find anything else that I think would fit nicely.
• If I keep the red box I want to add strike around the blue writing in the red box.
• Add a banner across the bottom with some band artists’ names in it.
• Make the Masthead bigger, Particularly the Up and make it whiter.
• Change New Season – not really a music term.
• Different background Slightly less dark grey.
• Add a price onto it.

This is my first draft article of my double page spread. For my first draft I think it is conventional with the photo on the left, however I feel there is a lot to improve on. The image and the title grabs the readers attention and there is a color palette to it.

Targets for my second draft of double page spread:

• Caption the inset
• Stand first needs to be bigger and bolder than the article copy
• Left column needs wider gutter
• Yellow box for the headline needs shadow, or bevel
• Font is sans serfia dn that is hard to read
• Font for headline is not exciting enough
• ‘Be bold’ in bold?
• Not sure about the photo…make them bigger and zing it

Above are my photos from my location shoot in town. I have various locations around town that worked well with my genre of pop and helped me to create good photos that will work very well for my article page in my magazine and help me with targeting the correct audience. The costumes and props like the bag and sunglasses convey my genre well and I feel majority of the photos came out well.  I mainly used backgrounds around the market and the stairs so my models where able to pose easily and to give it an effective background for my magazine. I feel the outfits worked really well, however next time I would work on the focus and lighting and adding more eyeshadow to my models makeup.

Above are 4 of my favourites from the whole of the photoshoot I feel the lighting and focus works well and the exposure isn’t to high, I also really like the background and the theme of them. The way my models are dressed shows the genre of pop and the facial expressions they are making shows confidents and that they are laid back and chilled.