Magazine Front Cover

This is my Magazine front cover, I wanted to keep the colour scheme as blue, white and black. I put the 'xfactor' in red as that is the colour of the show and people will be drawn to that story and want to buy the magazine to see it for themselves.  

How i created my front cover

The picture above show the way that i have made my front cover, i have added several layers that made sure that the picture looks good and changed the colour so that it blends in with the colour scheme but also stands out. There are different types of layers such as the text is all above the picture apart from the main magazine title which is at the top of the cover, other text has gone over the top of the picture this is just to show that i know how to put the text above the picture rather than behind it. The bar-code is on the front cover because it fills space and allows for the viewers to see it. The price, website and date are all in the same text to show that they are all promotional and are advertising the magazine and also giving people the information that they need to buy the magazine.

Double page spread

Contents Page

Evaluation

Evaluation on Prezi

Genre Choice

I made the decision of what genre choice i was going use on my music magazine, these will be located on the front cover contents page and double page spread. I based my choice on the music i listen to on a daily basis these are mostly the songs in the charts at that particular time, i like the way it changes all the time and there is always coming around the corner. These songs are mostly pop, R&B and rock etc.

The pages of my magazine will have the featured artist on the front of the magazine and this picture will be on my double page spread. The contents page will feature other pictures of artist and where they will be located in the magazine. The artists that i have taken pictures of are my cousins they will be given stage names and these will be in the magazine.

Time Table

Pictures to be used on project

These three picture are going to go on my front page, contents page and double page spread.

 

Risk Assesment, contributors release form & people at risk

Photoshop before and after

Here i have photo of pink, this is the front cover of her album which is called so what,i have chosen to photoshop this as it shows my skills of how i can change the colour of her pants to make it look like they where never green and to make it seem different in a way the original looks. This shows that i have the skills to change the colour on the picture without changing the entire colour of it.

Costume List, Actor List & Venue List

Costume list

This will be casual but not scruffy.

Light blue jeans for male and black skinny jeans for female.

Cream dress for one woman and other colourful and patterned.

Colour of shoes is optional therefore any shoes could be worn.

Grey jumper was to be worn for male with pattern on the front.

Hair and makeup was discreet but still worn.

Male wearing suit with tie and shirt.

Actor list

The actors that will appear on my music magazine are the following:

• Andrew Keller
• Clare Garside
• Michelle Sands
• Mark Garside

Venue list

This is where the pictures were taken for this magazine they are the following:

Liverpool Hilton Hotel

Maghull back garden

Streets of Maghull

Music Magazine Mock Ups

Front Cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

This is the mock up of my Front page, Contents page & Double page spread for my collage magazine this shows were the text will be laid out and how it will look. This also shows that there are several pictures on the page and information which helps the reader get to were they want. This helps me when i make the real project as it shows where everything will go and how big it should be on the page.

Charter of Values

This is the charter of values for deyes high school allows the school to give each student the chance to obtain all of them these are Commitment, kindness, a forgiving attitude, value & respect all people, trust, to be responsible for your own actions, enthusiasm, honesty, co-operation, respect all peoples property and fairness. These are linked with ideology because it is aimed at a certain group of people.

Contents Page Analysis

Questionnaire Results

Magazine front cover Analysis Part 1

Double page spread anlysis part 1

Collage magazine mock up

This is the mock up of my collage magazine mock up this shows the layout and how the text will be placed and the title etc. this page will be full of information relating to the information located inside the magazine.

Media Vocab

Buzz words: like wow or exclusive and free are all examples of this.

Puffs: Colourful Boxes promoting features inside.

House style: A magazine distinctive design that distinguishes it from its competitors.

Strap Line: A slogan

Banner: Text which stands out on a coloured background generally at the bottom of the magazine.

Copy: The main story of the magazine.

Anchorage text: The way in which text helps to pin down the meaning of picture of vice versa.

Pugs: Placed at the top left and right corners of the paper and are known as the 'ears' of the page. The price of the paper and the logo or promontion are often postioned here.
Motto: Memorable phrase that is recognisable to a band.

Headline: Catchy title for main article.

Sell Lines: Text on the front cover that hepls to sell the magazine to the audience.

Caption: Description of the main image.

Masthead: Name of the magazine.

Lead: The introductory paragrapgh of an article. Usually written in bold or capitals.

Drop Capitals: Really big letter that starts off an article

Magazine annotations

This is the annotations of a magazine cover this shows that there are several parts to a magazine that are on others.

Cohen's Moral Panic

Cohen's moral panic is when a condition, episode or group of people emerges as a threat to societal values and interests. We see people who are of a higher power and can threaten the people who aren't for example the media can say anything they want about anyone and mostly get away with it,other such as politicians can get away with things that most people would be unaware of but can still cause a threat to some. The media can change the minds of the public very easily for example when we see riots in other countries and other people trying to come to our country we see them as a threat because we do not know them. These groups are turned into what we call "Folk Devils" which makes people trust that the government will deal with these groups and in the UK and also the BBFC classifies movies because movies are seen as evil in the media that is why they give certificate like 12, 15 and 18 etc.


Folk devils can appear when a group is in trouble for example when the United kingdom was in the recession the media decided to focus all their attention on the Mps scandal which highlighted other things and gave focus from one thing to another.


Victorian Britain > Musicals - Immorality
100 Years Ago - Football - Hooliganism
1890 - Bicycles - Cause of Chaos and Terror
1950's - Rock 'n' Roll - the Negro's Revenge Devil's Music
198o's - Video Nastiest - Home Videos
1990's - Video Games - games like Grand Theft Auto encourage violence and crime2000's - Internet - Social Networking

Feminism Continued

This magazine cover shows rihanna appealing to the male audience this proves that femisim is seen in most cover because rihanna is a female role model and is better looking then beth ditto and would influence people to buy it because she is known for good reason rather than a bad reason like beth ditto.

My Collage magazine Front Cover

My moodboard

This is my mood board this shows that my choosen genre is pop as you can see famous pop artists such as kylie, cheryl cole, katy perry and pink.

My College Magazine Mock up

My Music Magazine Questionnaire

Please take 5 mins to take part in my questionnaire here.

Quantitative & Qualitative

I was also asked to research the difference between Quantitative and Qualitative I found out the following: 

Quantitative is to do with large amounts of information which can be done by giving people questionnaires to fill out to allow feed back which can be good or bad. It is quicker to gain and receive the information although a downside of this would be that less information can be available and sometimes all of the information is needed to carry out a process after the any source of information is given out and for the results to be given back. Quantitative information can be fiddled with and things can be though as true but can also be false information. Quantitative information can reach a wider range of people by just sending out an email rather than giving questionnaires or surveys out in a shopping centre where people will be less co-operative than they would reading an email.

Qualitative is information is researched in more depth than quantitative as it searches for more information and is first hand information so it can be trusted and cannot be edited by anyone. Qualitative information is case studies and interviews so the information always come from someone else.Qualitative information is more personal than quantitative as qualitative  can be done one to one and can be as i have said in more depth and can be trusted because it was first hand. Qualitative information can be hard to to access as if a magazine wants to interview a certain band for an up coming tour and the band is to busy they cannot get the information they want so they may want to make it up so sometimes it is not always true.
I am going to base my Music magazine on Qualitative information because their will be more reliable and will be in more depth and i cannot do that using Quantitative.

Feminism

Feminism

In my media lesson we learned about feminism and what it actually is. Feminism was the response to society, to assume that women should be servants to men. I learned that the land girls went into mens jobs as men went to war, but up until the second world war the women weren't allowed to wear trousers afterwards they were allowed as trousers were seen as males type of clothing and women were only allowed to wear skirts that were over the knee. 

The Jets got votes for women by doing dramatic things to get their points across for example they lay underneath vehicles. In the 1970's the sex quality act was not passed until 1975, also men and women had the same wage from 1975 onwards. 

The Theory
Academic feminist theory as a response to this liberation and activism. Laura Mulveys theory of the male gaze as constructing audience expectations in the film. Mulvey argues that cinema audiences look at films in two different ways

• Vogeuristically 
• Fetishistically

Patrichary is a form of society ruled by men through the figure of the father to whom are subordinate.

Cinema audiences watch a film without being watched by the characters on screen. Therefore we are almost vogues, watching the people on screen, this can lead to two effects:

• Objectification of female characters in relation to this controlling (male) gaze.
•  Narcissistic identification with an ideal image seen on the screen.

Fetishism
 Fetishism looking, she suggests, leads to the cult of the female movie star, celebrated for her looks but considered as an object and often treated as one.
Rules of women in Hollywood
Conventional Hollywood films have a male protagonist in the narrative and assume a mob audiences.

This shows that there arent just natuarally good looking peopkle that can only get on magazine cover beth ditto did these covers to show people that people come in all shapes and sizes and that anyone can go on a magazine cover and natural beauty is the one.