29/09/08 Magazine plan.

In todays lesson, we were put into our groups, and we were given sugar paper to start planning our magazine. In my group there was me Nicole, Stephanie, Rebecca, and Sevin, and together we were contemplating on what type of genre and theme our magazine would have. Eventually we decided that our magazine would have a Hip Hop genre with target audience of 16-24 year olds. We also decided that the magazine would be appropriate for both male and female, containing a content which will interest both genders of all ages between 16-24. As part of our magazine, we made four different additions, which were Spring, Summer. Autumn, and  winter, which will contain different contents, and different issues, which will keep our readers interested. In addition to this, we decided we will add free goodies for our readers, which will also influence readers to by our magazine, as they would be gaining somethink for free such as: a mix cd, key ring, t shirt etc. 

Music Magazine.. Sev

In todays session we were taught how to edit images, what kind of background should be used when taking a picture, how to cut, copy and paste an image onto another one, add colours and texts. We decided the name for our magazine, 'Platinum' and it would be priced around £4-£5.  Our target audience is sixteen to twenty four year olds, male and females. Our magazine will have real life stories about celebrities. The genre of music we decided on is R 'n' B.

Our magazine will have seasonly issues, winter, spring, summer and autumn, each member of the group will do a different season.

Incentives will include free posters, CD's, tickets for lucky readers etc.

Media Lesson 25/09/08

We analysised a music magazine which goes by the name of "Hip Hop".  We were looking out for the most important aspects of the cover page, for example, the connotations and the denotations, the graphics,  main title, etc. we analysed every detail of the magazine, which helped us undastand what the magazine was about, and what type of genre it had, also what its target audience was.

Magazine review

We have just analyzed a music magazine called  "NME (New Music Express)". We looked at how different it looked to other magazines, the magazine was set  out in a different way to some others that the class looked at. An example of this was where the title "NME" was placed; in most magazines the title of the magazine is placed in on the top middle of the magazine, but on "NME" it has been placed on the top left hand corner. This could be for the reason that the magazine "NME" wants to stand out from the others, (be different to normal).

The banner is also eye catching as it is telling the person that the magazine is a special edition and that in this edition there is 100 pages.  

NME Magazine Cover

In groups we analyzed a magazine cover called NME "New Music Express" we looked at the master-header, Sub heading, banner and graphics. The master-header is the title of the magazine (NME) its usually justified in the middle or right but on this magazine its on the left hand side. The banner is located on the top of the magazine it's used to advertise features of the magazine or new topics to come out in future issues also the graphics located on the right has a white background its used of bright colours make it stand out. They used graphics on the page is to draw attention to the freebies in the magazine, also people are usually attracted to pictures more than writing, so the they use pictures more often to explain the magazine features.