Evaluation

I called my music magazine Sorock as a play on the genre it would focus on which is soft rock. The text I used for the title was a font called hard rock, I used this style as it wasn’t too heavy and difficult to read but had a nice ‘rock’ feel about it which would attract the correct sort of audience in just the use of the title.On the front cover I used a picture of Brighton pier as this is the made up story of the main feature of the magazine is a made up group which started there. In the end I had to use two separate models because one was ill the second time I wanted to do a picture. (This picture was taken by myself with the timer function.) The idea was to make the two band members look like they were diverse and fun people with a cool attitude so in the front cover picture the band members were meant to look cool/sophisticated and fun happy people. In the double page spread picture there is in fact 3 separate picture elements that make up the picture. The picture of Brighton pier, the picture of me and the picture of the other model.

I looked closely at how other magazines lay out there front covers and found no real trend so I decided to go with a nice clear and clean front cover as many magazines in the genre over do front covers putting too much information on the front.

This is an example I found which I thought explains how magazines can over do their front covers. There is far too much going on on this page that it becomes unclear to the audience what their main focus is.

I think the text layout on my double page spread is typical of my genre as it is not too much to read enjoyable and stylised which makes the magazine a leisurely thing to do. My double page spread follows a similar format to this issue of kerrangs double page spread apart from they are the other way round and there is some text below the picture I think mine is slightly more nice in its text lay out in reality the market probably couldn’t afford to leave that blank empty space that could be filled with advertising but if it was aimed at a higher up market that could potentially be possible as they could charge more for the magazine.

The hardest part about this whole process for me was learning how to use adobe in design. In my view it works in the most un convetional ways nothing is clearly marked out.

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analysis of existing magazines

this is the front cover of Q magazine. Q magazine alwats puts its name/logo in the left hand top corner the reaon for this being this is the place most people would look first (as people read left to right, top to botom). usualy the Q is even thurther in the corner but the company have decided to use a header banner.

fonts

fonts that i may use for my magazine include:

hard rock

target audience

some magazines that already exist that my target audience would be interested in are:

Rolling Stone NME Kerrang Q

there are many more but these are some of the main ones already out on the market.

A few bands that my target audience would be likely to listen to are:

Coldplay

Kaiser Chiefs

Gorillaz

Simply Red

Phil Collins

The Killers

Keane

some older people include:

Elton John

Cliff Richard

Rod Stewart

A profile of a typical reader of my magazine would be similar of the typical reader of one of the above magazines research into NME readers show:

as it says in the picture spending habits also play a part in the music scene if you can find out what your readers other intrests are you can try and use these to help you. you would also tend to send this information to adventisers so they know where they can effectivly advertise. and in turn make money for your company.

some solid facts from above that would be similar for my avarage user is the average age of a reader is 24, 69% of readers are male (31% female),92% think its good to be well informed about things, 45% spend alot of money on clothes (higher than national average) and 72% will pay extra for 'quality' goods.

after reasearhing into some other magazine press packs i think an average reader for my magazine would be a male between 16 and 30. middle class proberbly between B and C groups. they would have a fair amount of fashion sence and would buy mostly clothes items from shops like H&M and Top Man. they would most likely have a slightly more interesting job than just siting at a desk and would eat out by buying lunch rather than making it. though the audiences of the three main magazines have similar audiences to mine they do vary nme focuses slightly more on soft and indy rock where as kerrang is abit more heavy and leads away from the audience my magazine will be focusing on. Q magazine is fairly varied and focuses on all sorts of areas in rock including pop rock.

the main task is to create a music magazine including a cover page, a contents page and a double spread page article i am going to create a rock and especially soft rock genre based magazine. this tasks will be a improvement from my preliminary task and hopefully show improvement and development of my skills.

evaluation

this is my finished magazine cover which went alost as expected. it is like my flat plan but the side part saying this month's events is on the opposite side but i didnt take into acount the shoulders of of the picture. if i did it on the right hand side the font would have been too small to read. also my flat plan shows a collage logo but i then realised we could only use pictures we had taken so i had to get rid of that idea.the text box i was using wouldnt blent with the background one thin i could have done to eliminate this would have been to take the picture more profesionally and used enough light to make the etire background the same shade of colour. the cartoon strip at the bottom should be a real cartoon on a relevent topic around the collage unfortunately i didnt have enough time to spend on drawing comic style illustrations.