Contents page mock up!

Double page spread mock up!

Front cover mock up!

The folowing mock up templates are only the original documents and I may change them along the course of creating my actual front cover, contents page and double page spread, if i find it neccessary to do so to create a better design.

2 Contents Page analysis!

Analysis of ‘NME’ contents page

NME magazine is probably the biggest music magazine in the music market this is why I chose to analysis it.

As you can see the contents page stays in line with the outside of the magazine from my front cover analysis the black and red colour scheme is the same, this is because the magazine wants to make sure it looks professional and look as though the magazine would be a good read through out.

You know that it is the contents page and you know what is going to be in the magazine as it says NME this week at the top, you will know what the main story is as the main picture on the contents page shows it.

Down the right hand side of the contents page it shows what is going to be in the magazine this is good as if somebody wanted to quickly glance down at the page to look what was going to be appearing in the magazine to check if they wanted to read it and buy it.

It gives an A-Z list of all bands that have appeared in articles though the years of NME’s history showing how good the magazine is and how good it has been, proving that it is a quality source of music information and attracting people to read it.

It also gives details of how you would subscribe to NME magazine with links to its internet as well as a phone number and a text mobile number you can phone if you want any further information or wish to have an issue of the magazine regularly.

It also gives the date showing that you are getting the latest information from music around, it also allows people to keep up to date on whether they have the right magazine and if they are collectors they can have ll the right magazines.

The font in the little writing stays the same but the main parts of the text are bolder and bigger, showing that people should look at them and attract you to looking at it. 

Analysis of vibe magazine contents page

I chose vibe magazine as it is music magazine giving information from my chose genre and it is also a good magazine.

The contents page is like the front page in many cases as one picture is the centre of attention and makes you look at it, you know that the artist on the front is going to be one of the leading stories probably the main story as soon as you pick the magazine up and look in it.

It is very plain with only a little bit of information down the left hand side of the contents page showing the features of the magazine, this is good as people can instantly glance at these features and decided whether or not they want to pick up and read the magazine.

It says contents page 1/3 showing that it isn’t the only contents page which is an interesting way of finding what is going to be in the magazine having to look through 3 contents pages, this is unique and people will look at it and think that there must be a lot of articles n the magazine and this will make them buy the mag.

There is also a little date line at the bottom of the page so that people can keep track on the dates and time periods of the magazines.

The main picture in the centre is there to make the magazine appealing to its audience, and the colour scheme purple shows that the magazine is acceptable for both genders

 

2 Double Page spread analysis!

Amy Winehouse Double page spread

I chose to do the Vibe Amy Winehouse double page spread because it is from my music genre and shows a few things that i can talk about.

One of the main reasons I chose it was that it is a very good way of showing feminism in the media as it is a very male orientated spread as she is in a little pair of shorts and a top this would attract men to reading this article as it is appealing to them in an attractive way.

There is also a pun in the main heading as well as a link with the picture and the words, we can see that in the heading it says ‘Amy’s ink house’ this is because she has a few tattoos and also she has opened as a tattoo artist as it says in the article. This is also linked to her name as her name is Amy Winehouse and the article then says ‘ink house’.

The heading is linked to the story in another way as well as the heading is done in ink like writing with a big blob dropping down the page just to add with the ink house Winehouse link.

The article shows what Amy is like really as it is an interview from her own tattoo house, it jokes around when in the article it says amy has a door mat which says ‘GO AWAY’ showing the readers her personality, as she has become a folk devil in the eyes of the public with people liking to dislike her.

In the article it says that Amy apologises for being late, this makes you think she was late by a lot but she was only late by 4 whole minutes as the author jokes around saying.

The interview is short and sweet, but it shows you a lot about her as a person and what she is up to in her life and a little incite to her world, this is a good way the magazine can increase sales as little article like this one may encourage people into buying the R&B ‘vibe’ magazine.

Analysis of ‘NME’ double page spread

The first double page spread is from the magazine ‘NME’ which Is probably the most commonly known music magazine.

In this double page spread you can see that the headline is one third of the way down the page, this is informality shows that the magazine is trying different things and is showing that the magazine is supposed for relaxed reading, that you could pick up and put down whenever you wanted to.

There is a big quote in the centre of the article this shows that it may be an important part of the article and it will grab the attention of the readers making them want to read through the article in depth.

The text is all the same right the way through same size and font going down the page in three section apart from in two place one being the big quote and the other is the huge letter t at the start of one of the paragraphs, this is another way of getting the reader to look at the article and look at that part of it as it is the section talking about her new album possibly getting people to buy it, it is a common trait often used in music magazines.

There is a clever pun in the top sun heading as it says ‘things have turned a lot darker in lykke li world and were not just talking about her hair’ as she was once blonde, this also makes people want to read on and find out about the other things turning dark in her life.

There is an opinion of her behaviour from the author in the first paragraph showing informality and is drawing the readers in as they want to know why he thinks this.

There is a three alliteration sentence of adjectives this sets the scene for the paragraph and for the author to express these adjectives, it describes her as a singer and person, there is a discography in the paragraph showing all of her previous songs this is advertising her previous work and allows for people reading to look for her already released songs.

The article isn’t as formal as a newspaper article this is so that you feel as though you are actually hearing or talking to the artist yourself, there is also a swear word used in the article this is so that it feels as though you are listening to the artist and she is speaking to you personally giving a sense of the artists voice in the article.

There is also a list of bands that are related to her type of music so that the magazine is pointing out songs you may like if you like lkke li’s music this is here so you may think to buy it again for music hints.

photo shop practice!

This is the photo shop practice that I chose to do I selected the scream mask from the internet and changed a few of the colours and the background of it to make it look different from its original state.

Mood Board!

This is my mood board with some of the artists from the genre of music my magazine is going to be about, and the style of music I like to listen to.

Analysis of 2 Music magazine covers!

These are two magazine front covers that are already in the music magazine market that I will analysis shoewing the media vocabulary that can be used to describe the features on the front of magazines, I will be describing ‘VIBE’ magazine from my genre I have decided to do and also ‘NME’ one of the biggest music magazines around.

VIBE

NME

My college newsletter!

This is my own college newsletter that I have made in publisher, I used the mock design and tried to make it as near the same as i could, I only made a little cahnge to the name of the newsletter I moved it slighlty to the left so that you could see the White writing, as you couldnt see it when it was behind the yellow pug star, everything else is the same as the mock layout version I created.

I used the blue as the background cover as it is the colour associated with Deyes High School, as it is the colour of the shirts they wear.

The pictures used in the Newsletter front cover are ones that I took of the ‘Lydiate’ building, the main school building and the new ‘wow’ building, as this is what the main story line is all about.

I used the same font in all the writting on the front cover from the Issue number to the main headline, trying to make it look good, I used the colour yellow in the pug as I realised it would stand out dramatically on the blue background catching the eye of the readers.

Mock college newsletter layout!

This is the Mock layout that I have made in Microsoft word using many different shapes and text boxes in order to make a shape and a layout that I will use when making the actual school newsletter with pictures that I have taken myself.

Analysis of college newsletter!

This is the analysis I made of the St Ambrose newsletter annotating it and describing what each part is.


This is the analysis i made of the Deyes newsleter annotating it and describing what each part is.

Genre!

These are some artists from the Genre of music that I will be using for my music magazine.

  

Feminism!

Feminist believe that the media’s outputs of a product is very patriarchal or male dominated, Feminism was the response to society believing that women were seen as objects or less of a person than men. They believe this because of the fact that the sex equality act was only passed in 1975, and because of Laura Mulvey’s theory of the male gaze that the media is created by men for men, arguing that audiences look at films in two ways voyeuristically and fetishistically.

She argues that Voyeurism turns the figure into a fetish in the way that they have to be perfectly beautiful and admired turning women into objectified characters on the screen, She believes that or women to become movie stars they have to be beautiful and glamorous, as to be approved by the male gaze.  

She believes in this theory as the men are always the main protagonists they are the main actors who are in the fighting seems to save the women or protect her, this show that the man is powerful and the women is there for eye candy on screen for the male gaze for a male audience.                                                                  

Cohens Moral panic!

Cohen’s moral panic is a way that media can be used to show a certain person, persons, condition in a certain way that appears to threaten society in some way. This thought was brought to life by a man named Stanley Cohen who said that panic can cause a condition, episode, person or group of persons to be looked at as a threat to society presented in a stereotypical fashion by the media on a mass scale, people in social power can stir up feelings of panic selecting how these things a viewed and when the media decides to show these in a bad way ‘Folk Devils’ are made, these are people that need help to be controlled this is where the panic start to kick in.

‘Folk Devils’ are created by the media who use the evidence of something and exaggerate the truth by adding more people in an attack or increasing the violence used in a riot for example, the writer of the piece wrote about the ‘Folk Devil’ will be very vocal in their piece and this will effect what the widespread general thought of society, they are greeted by the public by a great deal of hostility in the sense of a “them” and “us” type of way, however they are very short lived as it is hard to sustain the story on a long term bases.

Media vocabulary!

Vocabulary that describes the features that appear on a magazine front cover,
These are words that are used to describe front covers of magazines, as they are features that appear on a front cover when reading a magazine.

Masthead: This is the title of the magazine such as ‘NME’

Anchorage text: The way the positioning of the text can help signify the importance of a picture.

Puffs: These are stand out parts of a magazine promoting the contents inside.

House style: The memorable design of a magazine that is memorable, so people know it from competitor’s magazines.
Buzz words: These are words that attract you to a magazine such as “exclusive” or “new”.

Banner: This is text usually on a noticeable coloured background, one of the main articles in the magazine usually.

Pugs: These usually appear in either of the top corners on the front page of the magazine, often referred to as the ears of the magazine front cover, the price can be found here.

Head line: Often a play on words for the main article in the magazine, that is catchy and appealing.

 

Semiotic Theory!

Semiotics is the theory of a man named Saussure who stated that “in everything there is a sign and a signified” this means in every word, symbol, image and sound can have other connotations, this means that if you gave somebody else a red rose this can show that you love them, the red rose is the signifier and the signified is the love you feel for that person you gave the red rose to, this can be linked to a music magazine as if a woman was on the front cover of a magazine with swim wear on this could signify sex appeal in the magazine.