Research And Planning: Magazine Sketches

This is the sketch of what I want my contents page to look like. I dont want the page to look empty and then it will give the impression that the magazine has lots of articles in it. I also want it to have some pictures on it then it wont be all text, the reader will have something to look at then instead of just reading it all.

This is the sketch of what i want my front cover to look like, I chose to do it on a band splitting up because people are more likely to want to know why the band have split up and therefore it is more likely to be bought. I have decided to change the layout of my front cover and have just one artist on the cover because I think that the reader will not be mislead into thinking that both of the singers are going to be in the magazine when just one of them will be. I chose a different name for magazine instead of unplugged, because i think that name makes it sound like the magazine is going to be based around acoustic music, so I have decided to go with the name ''backstage'' this makes the magazine sound like it is going to be about all the behind the scenes gossip with all the big artists. It makes the reader think that they are going to be hearing about topics in my magazine that other magazines might not have in their magazine.

Research And Planning: Fonts

I chose four fonts and then chose which one I wanted to use for my magazine. I decided that font one would look the best because it is a simple one and also looks like it is the best to be associated with a music magazine.

Research And Planning: Contents Page Analysis

Research And Planning: Feature Article Analysis

Research And Planning: Mood Board

I created a mood board of conventions that I would like to try and include in my magazine. I think that the conventions in the mood board are very effective to their genre of music, because my magazine is going to be a mixture of music.

Research And Planning: EMAP

EMAP is a media publishing company which was founded in 1947. EMAP is an abbreviation of East Midlands Allied Press. They have published many magazines and one particular music magazine that they were involved with was Smash Hits.

Feedback 6.12.09

Well done Charlotte. You need to get working on the planning quickly now or show you've been planning by posting your mood board, sketches, rough article and pictures on here. You should be starting production this week in lessons ideally.

Mrs A

Research And Planning: UK Top 10

Here is the current UK top 10, the kind of music that is in the top ten is mainly the music that I am going to be focusing on in my magazine, so the fact that they are in the top ten prove that this is a popular type of music

1. Jason Derulo - Watcha Say

2. Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway

3. Lady GaGa- Bad Romance

4. Rihanna - Russian Roulette

5. Kesha - Tik Tok

6. Susan Boyle - Wild Horses

7. Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love

8. X Factor Finalists - You Are Not Alone

9. JLS - Everybody In Love

10. Leona Lewis - Happy

Research And Planning: The Killers Image Analysation

Here is an image of a band ''The Killers.'' The are styled to look very casual in general day to day clothes (jeans and shirt)

The setting is on a park bench in a forest which makes them seem like normal people like everyone else. This creates a sense of informality to the picture.

Their body language and facial expressions are very relaxed and not thought about, it doesn't seem like it is a photo shoot but just  general photograph of an average group of friends which also supports the sense of informality in the image.

Research And Planning: Questionnaire Results

I asked this question to decide whether my idea of a mixture of music in the magazine would be a good idea or not, judging by the answers that i got back it supports my idea.

As you can see from the pie chart above, there isn't a distinct favourite genre of music, I think this supports my idea of doing a mixture of music in my magazine.

Research And Planning: Magazine Questionnaire

I created a magazine questionnaire to give out to people for them to fill in, I used the answers I got to adjust my magazine accordingly.

I asked questions like ''what would you expect to see on the cover of a music magazine?'' I can use the answers I got to create my front cover specifically to attract my target audience.

As my magazine is going to be a mixture of genre's, I asked the question "would you rather read a magazine on a specific genre or a mixture of all genre's of

music?" the majority of my questionnaire's came back with the answer of mixture of genre's which supports my magazine theme.

Overall, I think that the questionnaire was a good idea because it has helped me to decide what kind of features I will include in my magazine.