FRONT COVER DRAFTS!

MOCK UP OF FRONT COVER! with google found images

Digital mock-up number 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurhzANQ_B0

LIIAR Analysis of the brief.

My Magazine will have:

• Anchorage
• A price and bar code
• Competitions and games and free gifts
• A main article and featured advertisement which must relate to the main image
• A main image and thumbnail images that illustrate articles in the magazine
• A bright ,advertising and eye catching color scheme with a clear house style of two or three colors
• It will include a master head, a short title which is as large as possible to overpower the page to allow the audience to notice it clearly

Institution 

• I could pretend that i am a creating a magazine for an existing music magazine publisher. This will mean that my magazine will have to look like their existing magazines.

Ideology

• In my magazine i will have a message/moral values which i will use to show my chosen genre and target audience.

Audience

• I have chosen my target audience using the Demographics and V.A.Ls and S.E.G i will create my magazine to match the target audience that i have chosen using these.
• This will mean that i will have to think about every decision that i make to make sure that it matches my chosen groups.

Representation

• I will represent my target audience, genre and artists accurately, stereotypical and positively. 
• When making my magazine i will think about how i represent my target audience, genre and artists every time i make a big decision in my magazine.

Prezi on Choice of music genre, Target audience and Price of magazine

Choice of music genre, Target audience and price of music magazine. on Prezi

Music Magazine brief.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style).

Prezi on planning and development

planning and development. on Prezi

Ideas for selling the product online.

Ideas for selling the product online.

My ideas for selling my product online are that I could advertise my product on social network website to get people to look and then have links to the magazines online website where they can have a “sneak preview” of the magazine and then afterwards they can purchase the product.

On the website they could have the options to sign up to the website and get a subscription to the magazine, and get updates and news on the magazine, also they could just sign up for news about the product and information of when the next issue will be out for sale and where they could purchase the product. I would also get the magazine advertised by the college and sold around the college; they could also sign up to the website via the college and get information about the magazine and information of when it would be sold in the college.

I would get adverts put up on popular game sites and social sites and also on the college website, this way it is getting to the relevant target audience and also to the public who may be interested.

By getting the product advertised on social networking sites, lots of people will see the product and it would be easier for it to get them to relevant audience as you can make groups and find other groups like the wyke college group, this way information could be spread easier and faster.

Audience feedback of my product

Audience feedback of my product

I asked 10 people to evaluation my product; these are the questions and answers:

1.      Would you purchase my product for the price shown here at wyke?

From the 10 asked, 10 answered yes and 0 answered no.

2.      Do you think my product is advertising/ attractive?

From the 10 asked, 8 answered yes and 2 answered no.

3.      Would you buy my product on the street?

From the 10 asked, 6 answered yes and 4 answered no.

4.      Do you find the information given relevant?

From the 10 asked, 10 answered yes and 0 answered no.

5.      Do you think that the front page is suitable for your social group?

From the 10 asked, 7 answered yes and 3 answered no.

6.      Do you think that the front page is even between most social groups

From the 10 asked, 9 answered yes and 1 answered no.

7.      Do you like the colour scheme?

From the 10 asked, 10 answered yes and 0 answered no.

8.      Do you think the colour scheme is suitable for the college?

From the 10 asked, 8 answered yes and 2 answered no.

9.      Do you think my ideas for selling the product online are good?

From the 10 asked, 9 answered yes and 1 answered no.

10.  Would you buy my product online?

From the 10 asked, 6 answered yes and 4 answered no.

Evaluation of my magazine.

Evaluation of my final product

My media product develops challenges and uses forms of conventions from other college magazines that we have seen, an example of this is that I have anchorage on my product, I used anchorage on my product because I have images on my front cover. I used anchorage to describe what the picture is and to show the meaning of the image and to show what is in the magazine, I used this a few times on my front cover.

Also I used Masthead at the top of my product to show what the title of my magazine is, the title of my product is “The W.M” this stands for The Wyke Magazine, I had to put a masthead on my product so that my target audience would know the name of my product and know what to look for when wanting to purchase it.

Also I used a layout on my front cover, this was so I could arrange my images and text on my front cover, this made it easier for me to create my front cover and to get things where I wanted them. Also this made my front cover less messy. On my front cover I have logo, this is so that my target audience know what the product is and when they want to purchase again they will recognise the logo and know the product better. Also in my front cover I have used a thumbnail image to show the reader what is further in my product, this is to try to get then to want to read on into my product, so that they buy it. I used a banner headline on my product to grab the attention of the target audience; this is to get them to want to read more into the product.

I also used a house style in my product to establish the colours of my product; this is to also to create an ink with the audience so in the future they know the colours of the product so they can find the product easier and recognise the product and create and identity for the magazine.

Institution

The type of Institution that would publish my product would be the college its self as the magazine is about them, this would make it easier for the students to get the magazine’s and it would be more relevant to them.

As the students would be getting the magazines from the college it would be easier for them to buy it and therefore more likely that they would purchase the product, also they would trust the product more as the publisher is the college that they go to and they would be more likely to buy it and also they would believe that it would help them more as it is published by the college.

Ideology

 I wanted the message behind my products to be support for the college students and for the college, my product is a college magazine about Wyke College, therefore I found it relevant to write information about Wyke College for the students to read and find out more about the college and what is going on there.

I tried to make the magazine relevant for the college and college students, this was because the magazine is about wyke college and my idea was to give information about wyke in my magazine.

Audience

The audience of my product would be the students of wyke college, this is because my magazine is about wyke college. When I picked my target audience I tried to get a good representation of my product so that It would be suitable to most people.

When I created my product I had a target audience in mind, my target audience was wyke college students aged 16-19. Whilst making my product I constantly kept my target audience in mind so that I would definitely keep my product relevant to my target audience.

When I picked my target audience I kept in mind that different people like different things, there are many different social groups who are into different things, so with this in mind, I tried to make my product as neutral as possible so that I could reach as many buyers as possible and also to make more people want it and it would then be more relevant to more people.

The Socio-economic groups (SEG) of my product is D-E because this is the group that college students are in, when I picked the price of my product I kept in mind that not all college students have jobs but those who do have nothing to pay out, bills ect, but with this in mind I set the price at a comftable price so that all students would be able to buy the magazine.

When I made my product I also had to keep the VALs in mind (Value life styles) because of all of the different groups I had to try to make the magazine even so that all of the groups would want to buy the product, this was hard to do but I did it to the best of my ability, but I don’t believe I achieved this very well, but I have new ideas for if I had to remake the product.

Representation

The representation of my product towards different social groups is bi-ist really as on the front cover I have a picture of a guitarist with an Avenged Sevenfold top on, most social groups would see this and turn away, chavs for example, but because this was an easy picture for me to get and was in my initial ideas I wanted to choose this, also because when walking on the site of wyke there seems to be more social groups that this would be relevant to then social groups that they wouldn’t be relevant to, so I believe what I did was a good idea is more relevant to wyke students.

Front cover draft.

Front Cover Final

initial idea's based on research on Prezi

Wyke College magazine mock-up.

This is my Wyke College magazine mock-up, which i created on photoshop with found images, i created this so i would have a breif idea of what i needed to do when i made my proper one.
Also so i would know how i should create it.

The Grimsby College magazine analysis.

The Grimsby college magazine: The Grimsby College magazine has a a bright coloured background, which is eye-catching, thus this will pull the reader in to look at the front cover.

Also on the front cover there are two animated people which also grab the reader’s attention, and show that there are students at the college.

On the front page there is a big, bold logo of the school this also grabs the attention of the reader, also it shows that the college is linked with this magazine.

On the front page there are 3 sub titles, in the form of rhetorical questions, this gives a taste of what is inside of the magazine, which will make the reader want to read on, and find out the answer to the questions

At the bottom of the page there is another title, "word on the street" this gives the impression that the magazine has all of the gossip from around the college, this will make people want to read on into the magazine to find out more.

The colours used on the front cover are blue and white, blue is the colour of the sky and sea, it is often associated with depth, trust. This could be used to show the reader that the magazine has depth and you can trust it.

The colour white associated with light, this could be used to show the reader that the magazine is a light read, and you can find out depth into different subjects but in a light read.

The subtitle “not just a pretty face” and then the bit of information on it give “the model life of a glamorous Grimsby Institute student” this is an interesting article in the magazine, which is added to the front page to give the reader a hint to what is in the magazine, “not just a pretty face” shows us that there is a dark side behind the model which we are told about.

Furthermore, “not just” gives us the idea that the “model” has done something wrong, this makes the reader think about what she has done, which also makes the reader want to read on.

The other subtitle “Booze, Drugs and life” and the information given, “what planet are you on anyway” this makes the reader think about “Booze, drugs and life” and what bad things they are involved in, this will make the reader think that there is lots of gossip to be heard from this article.

Furthermore, “what planet are you on anyway” is something said to a person when they do something out of the normal, so this also gives the reader the idea that there is something to find out about somebody, that they and other people wouldn’t normally do. 

Also the other subtitle “Shang high surprise” and the information given “a Grimsby Institute tutor's experience of China” this gives the reader another interesting article to read, this subtitle and information makes the reader think about china and a Grimsby Institute tutor in china and what happened to him/her there.

The Grimsby Magazine’s content page

The contents page in the magazine has more than just the contents of the magazine; it has other information about the magazine in it and other information about the school also.

The colours used in the contents page are bright colours and the normal background colours of the photos, the bright colours attracted the readers to look more into the contents page, this also get the readers to read more into the magazine.

Also in the contents page there is other information than just what the contents of the magazine is, there is information on events that the college is related with. This would make people want to read more into the magazine as they would want to find out more information about the events that are up coming.

There is a small article with information about the Grimsby Institute School leavers courses, with this there is a picture, the picture is in black and white, this is to show that the picture is a memory, that the leavers are old and moving on.

Also on the contents page, there is the information about the contents of what is in the magazine, with the titles of the pages and the number that they are on, there are small picture which are linked to some of the articles in the magazine, this will give the reader a brief idea of what is on the page.

Also on the contents page there is some brief information about what the GX magazine is about and what its aim are, it also has some information about if you want to add contributions on what the reader wants to read about in the magazine and what should be shown in it, also if you have any feedback about the magazine or any idea’s, suggestions and a number to contact them on.

The contents page has everything that all normal contents pages should have, but it also have some extra useful bits and pieces on the contents page that the reader might be interested in.

choice of college, target audience and price

Choice of college, target audience and price. on Prezi

The Brief: Preliminary Exercise

Preliminary Exercise: Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must prdouce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate thier grasp of DTP