My Magazine Plan

Institutional Research

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Bauer media group is an institution that is centered mainly on spreading media throughout the nation. The media they spread is mostly music varying in all different types of genres and styles and spreading them throughout the airways through radio communications and through music magazines that they create and sponsor themselves.

The types of magazines the Bauer media group produces are mostly music and radio magazines that vary in different music genre. This is done by the institution to  widen the target audience of their magazines and increase the number of purchases for their magazines by creating magazines that suit different people’s needs across the nation more money can be made because the target audience for the many different magazines have been satisfied.

The magazines that the Bauer media group produce are a bit of mainstream and a bit of niche magazines with some magazines centre on particular genres of music and some that are centred on completely different topics  such as bikes, cars and even bird watching once again increasing purchases and widening the target audience accordingly.

Bauer also gives people that need jobs a chance to apply for a job in advertising and earn some money. This job offer is centred on advertising Bauer online through the creation of online adverts and webpages created specifically for the advertisement of Bauer. This gives unemployed people who are skilled on the computer a chance to have a job advertising for a large institution and get paid for it in the process.

 

                                   

                         The institution known as IPC Media is an institution that is based around creating and spreading there media across the nation. The IPC media institution create a wide variety of media mainstream magazines and are most famous for their creation and sponsorship of magazines such as golf monthly, chat and what’s on TV? These different genres of mainstream and niche magazines widen IPC’s target audience range and overall purchases for their magazine this is because with so many magazines varying in genre and meeting the target audience for various potential purchasers more people who want these type of different magazines will purchase these magazines allowing IPC to make a lot of money off the purchases.

The majority of this institutions target audience is made up of a variety of targets but mostly those who read and like to find out about what is going to happen next week in their favourite soap operas and sports magazines fans who want to find out what’s new with the athletes and players that play that particular sport or participate in that particular event.

IPC media are linked to other advertising types of media which allows them to advertise themselves and their magazines or partner brands in a wide range of media products used in order to attract people to their products and increase overall purchases in order to make a profit.

Immediate media is an institution that owns and constructs wide range of media in the United Kingdom. Immediate media own a lot of magazines varying from music to motor sports to cars this gives immediate media a large target audience to meet but they have met this with the large variety of media that they produce on a monthly basis suiting the needs of thousands across the nation.

The other types of media immediate media own are actually television channels such as the toddlers and babies channel known famously as Cbeebies and they don’t only own their own television channel that thousands watch they own their own sponsored and created television shows such as Octonaughts that feature on their channel Cbeebies. These different types of media aim to suit the various needs of various target audiences across the nation which means immediate media will gain an even bigger income from their works in the media industry.

Development Hell is a solo institution based in Islington in the United Kingdom. Development hell owns their own media products and tools and do not sponsor or invest in any other type of media created by others. So far Development Hell owns their own self-proclaimed magazine that was supposedly voted the biggest music and dance magazine in media itself. By allowing there magazine to satisfy two different genres Development Hell has increased their target audience range and thus increased the sales made from this tactic of satisfying a multitude of peoples need through genre splicing.

Development Hell has also worked with apple to create an app exclusively for the IPAD centered

around the magazine they own known as miximag this app that they created allows users to view the magazines online whenever they want to and at wherever they may be giving people the freedom to choose when they view there magazine and having choice to do so where they may be.

Questionnaire Answers Analysis

In this question the answer that got the most amount of vote was answer two with this information I can incorporate this result into my own magazine making sure to feature a good amount of text and images about different genres of music and artist’s.

With this question the answer that got the most votes here was the second answer and with these results i know that i need to include a myriad of bands and artists accompanied by anchorage text, puffs and other magazine front cover layout features.

With the results of this question i can possibly make my magazine specifically centred on either Rock/Indie music or Hip-Hop or even create a magazine with a mixture of both a hybrid genre of Rock/Indie and Hip-Hop in order to suit a wider audiences needs.

With this questions results i can improve my magazine greatly so to ensure that my magazine is read by multitudes because as shown in the results many people don’t even read magazines which mean the time and effort put into music magazines needs to be increased in order to increase the number of readers.

From these results i can incorporate the information and include it in my own front cover.  With these results I will include gossip about artists and include vibrant eye catch colours on the front cover accompanied by text.

With this mixture of results I can include information about artists from these highly voted music genres in my magazine in order to suit a wider target audience rage and attract more readers to my magazine.

 What i can take from these results is that when i create a double page article i should make sure the topic is centered on one particular artist with some images and a character file or bio for those who do not know the artist.

With these results that answer 3 ranked the highest in i can create with confidence a contents page that has a certain number of images in random locations with text and page numbers describing the articles within.

With the results from this magazine I can make an educated choice weather to price my own music magazine at the price of below £2 or £2.99 giving me a fair price range to work out and use as my final price for my music magazine.

NME double page article analysis

In this double page article the artist featured is Tyler the creator this tells us that the target audience for this double page article are hip hop music fans and fans of Tyler the creator himself females and males alike. The language used in the magazine is mostly offensive and aggressive phrases such as “fucking boredom” and “Goblin is still the shit” tells us that this magazine article can be aimed at a younger audience who are most commonly are seen using such language and thus will understand what Tyler the creator is saying in this double page article more so than an adult would understand which also tells us that the style of this magazine is mostly about the cool music stars in the world and what they say, do and how they act.

Not much colour is used differently here besides the red coloured section on the second page of the double page article giving the audience a quick background check of Tyler the creator in case they don’t know who he is or where he came from. The style of text used in this double page article is mostly standard text and font varying from small letters to capital letters when there is a point to be made in the article and to create effect.

The double page article’s layout spreads text in columns below a few images that are put there and link to what is being talked about in the double page article itself this is done to give the audience a visual image about what is being talked about in the double page article. The double page article is also laid out with a coloured red section that mentions the artists full bio completely unrelated to the actual story in the article and is placed there just for future reference.

The majority of the pages of the double page article are taken up by text while the remaining majority is taken up by the images as seen simply by looking at the double page articles layout.

In the double page article the text doesn’t address the user directly or even indirectly because this double page article is centred on the artist’s current and past life so the audience only reads and gets information on the artists life and not much else.

In this double page article the artist is represented as a party person, king of hip hop and a very social person. We see him as a party person from the two images of him having fun and partying on stage and joining in with the crowd. We see him portrayed as a king of rap through the picture of him with a crown and jewellery on suggesting to the audience that he is the king of hip hop music as seen from the props he using in the image. Finally we see Tyler as a very social person through the remaining images of him with people who appear to be his friends in many of the images Tyler and these people are seen smiling which contributes to the fact that they may be friends which makes the audience believe that Tyler may be a very social person unlike your average black music star.

The style of the double page article matches the style of the front cover in a sense that Tyler the creator is the main subject of both the front cover and the double page article. Also the style of Tyler being a king or royalty on the front cover is incorporated onto the images on the double page article.

The article does not really demand any prior knowledge about the artist being mentioned in the double page article. This is because the creators of the double page article included a particular section unrelated to the article in the double page article. This section includes a full bio of the artist being mentioned in the article so that those who don’t know the artist being mentioned in the double page article gain some information about whom they are reading about.

NME Contents Page Analysis

This contents page uses images that have been constructed above or around page numbers that feature articles directly connected to the person or group featured in the image. The images support the rather simplistic style of the magazine itself as shown as the text is linked to the images around or above them so you know which page holds which article about the artist featured in the image.

The fonts used in the contents page vary but the colour of the font stays the same colour throughout and that colour is black. The varying font and colour on the contents page does not really support the fonts and colour on the front cover because they are both very much different from each other in both font style and colour so roughly can’t be compared to each other.

The information is organised where the article and the page number is put around or underneath the image that the article is actually about this makes this information very easy and accessible to the audience of this contents page.

There are not any different sections in particular in this contents page besides the small boxes that separate each page number and image from the other articles making it easier for a reader to single out a page number and image and analyses that particular mini section.

There are no promotional features in this contents page. There is also no sight of the magazine logo on the contents page. Furthermore there is no other brands being advertised or endorsed on this
contents page.

The techniques that this contents page uses to attract readers eye to specific articles are the use of secondary images onto of or next to the articles that these images belong to. This attracts the reader’s eyes to the article because the reader may recognise the people in the image and then notice the text underneath stating the article and the articles location so then the reader flick through the magazine in an attempt to locate the article all because of the use of secondary images which attracted their eyes.

Second Front Cover Analysis

NME is a mainstream music magazine centred on the genre of music known as hip hop. Just by looking at the front cover you can tell that the issues and articles in the magazine are going to be about music, artists and the latest or most downloaded/purchased music at the moment. The target audience for this magazine are mainly 16 to 23 year olds mostly males but also females who listen to music and like to read the latest news/gossip about their favourite or least favourite artists all in one magazine.

The person in the central image is using direct address with the audience practically looking the audience in the eye this type of addressing is used here to create a direct connection to the reader or the passer-by’s who might look in the magazines direction. The person on the front cover is Tyler the creator a musical artist whose music is well known with the youth of the 21^st century. He is used on this magazine because he is a well-known musician especially among the youth so him being on the front cover will attract readers to purchase the magazine because they will want to see what is new with Tyler the creator and if he has realised any new albums, tracks or pieces of music.

The anchorage text says “ ODD FUTURE ANARCHY HITS THE UK” this suggests that Tyler has come to the United kingdom and has a plan to throw the United Kingdom into anarchy with his music attempting to get the United Kingdom listening and getting hooked on his music.

The overall message the artist is giving through the central image is that he is coming to London to spread his music. This is seen through the props used such as the crown and the chains that he has on him which is what people of the royal family in the United Kingdom most commonly carry which is a big giveaway to his plans in the United Kingdom.

In this magazine no other groups are being represented the only artist being advertised here is Tyler the creator.

The buzzwords used in this magazine are FREE and WIN these two buzzwords have a positive effect on the readers because they now believe they have a chance to win some sort of competition and gain a prize. While the word FREE creates a positive effect on the reader because now they believe they are getting a free item within the magazine they have already paid for as some sort of bonus to their purchase.

The design of the title block for NME is quite large and in blocked caps suggesting to us that the magazine is very prominent or big in the music magazine industry. The size and the block capitals in the title also suggest that only big and famous hip hop artists are featured on the front cover and within the issue of NME.

The title NME tells the audience that this magazine is rather simple to read and understand and is not overrun by intellectual text; this is seen by the simple title NME which does not tell you much but that the magazine is about music. The title of NME does not really tell the audience much about the magazines overall image or its style as a whole.

The puffs on the front cover of NME tell the audience that the issues in the magazine will be about music. An example of this is the puff “the doors when bands take on the establishment. The word band automatically makes us think of music because bands are always associated with music so we can imply that the issues within the magazine are also about music. The puffs also tell us that this magazine expects to get readers who are interested in music to read the magazine.

The slogan of NME is “New Music Express” this slogan tells the reader that this magazine features new and upcoming music artists in there magazine and it also tells us that the genre of this magazine is music.

The magazine NME uses strategies such as direct address in the central image so it looks like the artist in the central image Is looking at the audience and thus creates a connection between the audience and the magazine. NME also use strategies such as the use of buzz words such as FREE and WIN which attract people to the magazine because there is a promise of free goods within and a chance to win a desirable prize.

Magazine Front Cover Analysis

This magazine is a mainstream music magazine named Q. From looking at the front cover you can tell that the articles inside the magazines are going to be based on music quite primarily this is seen through the use of the puffs such as Nike Minaj and Artic monkeys both are music artistes so we infer that this magazine has articles based around music. The central image is using direct address to address the reader this creates the effect as if the person in the central image is actually looking at the reader and wants to get to know them and know what he is all about. The person on the front cover of this magazine is leader of the Foo fighters Dave Grohl. He is on the front cover in because he is the one who brought fame back to rock music and got the general population rocking back to heavy metal and rock.

 

The target audience for this magazine are ages 17 and over who listen to music on a regular basis and want to find out all about the many music artists in the world and the genre of music they play. The target audience may also be people who want to find out about how music artists live, there latest tracks or albums and maybe even their personal life and how they started out as an artist.

 

The anchorage text says “this will kill me foo fighters Dave Grohl saves rock again.” This implies that almost automatically that this artist is a heavy metal artist which is seen through the quote “this will kill me” the word kill in music is almost always linked to heavy metal music. This is implies that Dave Grohl is a hero in the world of rock and heavy metal music which we implied through the sentence Dave Grohl saves rock again” the words saves rock imply that he is a saviour in the world of rock. The overall message that the artist is giving from the image of him is that he screams as loud as hell when he’s singing seen through the flames that are shown spewing from his mouth.

 

This magazine represents the band the artic monkeys via puffs on the front cover telling the readers that there is an article in the magazine about the artic monkeys that could also attract readers to turn to that page specifically and read it. There is only one buzzword in this magazine front cover the buzzword used here is FREE this is used to attract readers to the offer and peek there interest in the rest of the magazine.

 

The design of the title block tells me that this magazine is quite professional. This is because the font and design of the title is placed and altered very specifically and articulately that we get a feeling of professionalism from this magazines creators. The title of the magazine itself doesn’t really tell you much about the magazine so we can only infer the genre via the features on the page.

 

The title doesn’t really tell you about the image of the style of the magazines mainly because the magazines title is just a simple letter Q.

 

The slogan of Q magazine is “discover great music” this slogan tells me that this magazine contains not only musical content about one genre but a lot of musical content about many different genres that tell also tells us that this magazine is not biased to one particular type of genre of music because this magazine allows you to discover all different types of genre of music all in one magazine. This could attract readers because the magazine really sets itself apart from all the other genre biased music magazines out there and gives the reader one magazine centred around all genres of music.

 

The puffs suggests that there will be a lot of content about music and artists as well as musicians and their personal as well as professional lives with other artists.

 

The magazine does not use any strategies besides a large central image and the use of buzz words in order to attract attention of passer-by’s.

Magazine Layout Analysis

Here i had to analyse and label a music magazine cover labeling the key features included in the magazine also telling me what i need to include in my own magazine.

Contents Page For College Talk

I also had to create a contents page showing the most interesting stories in my college magazine i had to use adobe  Photoshop and illustrator for editing and the construction of my contents page.

College Magazine Cover

I had to create a magazine cover for a college magazine firstly using a camera to take mid shots of a specific person to use in my magazine and then  i had to use adobe Photoshop to edit the photos and adobe illustrator to construct the cover itself and give me my final product. i used a range of tools to create this magazine cover such as the magic wand tool to cut and shape the picture of the young man in the center of the magazine and he rubber tool to refine and shape the young man in the center to ensure that no part of the original image that i took him from remained.