Planning

Planning

QuestionnaireGender?

Male / Female

Age?Key stage 3 / Key stage 4 / Key stage 5

What type of music do you listen to?

How much would you expect a music magazine to be?

How Regularly Do you buy magazinesWeekly / Monthly / Yearly

How often do you like to have your magazines realizedWeekly / Monthly

What mode of address do you prefer to be addressed in?Formal / Informal

Questionnaire resultsWhat the results say-Gender –

Age –

What type of music –

The responses were that 4/5 people that took the survey were male, and 1/5 were female. This helps me produce my magazine because I will target it at females instead of males because of the results of question one. This will help me accomplish my magazine because I will be able to determain what audience I am selling at.

The responses to this question were that 1/5 people that took the survey were in key stage 4 and 4/5 were in key stage 5. This helps me to produce my magazine because the majority of people were in key stage 5, so my magazine will target a more mature audience. This defines my audience which my appeals to me more so it gives me a broader scope to work with.

The responses to this question were varied because I left it as an open question so that they people taking the survey had more choice on what they wanted to select. From the results 2/5 people like hiphop music, 1/5 likes Indie music, 1/5 likes all music, 0/8 likes metal music, 1/5 likes R ‘n’ B music, 1/8 likes pop/rock music and 1/8 likes rock music. I have decided to group these together so that it is easier to choose the genre for my magazine. I have grouped hiphop with R ‘n’ B, and metal, rock and pop. This means that my results are that 3/5 people like hiphop/R ‘n’ B, 1/5 likes Indie music, 1/5 likes all music and 3/5 likes Metal/Rock/Pop. It is hard to decide which genre to choose now because there is the same number of results for two categories. However, I have decided to produce a hiphop/R ‘n’ B magazine because they are very similar kinds of music so overall I think that category got the largest vote. It made it hard for me to get good results and to make good choices cause I didn’t get many results back, so I got a small sample to work with so many results wasn’t very relibale.

How much do you expect to pay for a magazine?

How regularly do you buy magazines?

How often do you like seeing magazines being realised?

How the results will help to a successful magazine –These results are going to help me because there going to help me get a clear understanding of my target audience and what they want within there magazine and when they want them. The only problem with my results is that ive only got a small sample so my results wont be as accurate as I would like qz

I expected the results for this question to vary like question three because I also left this as an open question. However, the results were all between £2-£5. 5/5 of the results had £3 included in their answer so therefore I have decided to pitch my magazine at about £3. This decision will help to appeal to bigger audience.

The responses from this question show that 0/5 people buy magazines weekly, and 4/5 people buy them monthly. This will help me produce my magazine because I have now decided that I will produce my magazine to be a monthly issue, this means it will contain a lot of information that will cover a month. As seen this will help apeal to my target audience futher

I chose to incorpreeate this question within my surrvey because it will give me and idea, of how long I should release my magazine, I didn’t get many results back, do It didn’t leave me with reliable resilts bit there wasmt anything I could do, so Its what I had to work wit it nothing.

Text FontsDifferent fonts are used to capture the attention of different audiences within magazines, this is so the producers of the magazines can pick a target audience and suit the magazine accordingly.Magazines and newspapers often combine serif and sans serif fonts on one page, i.e., serif fonts for body text, sans serif for headlines or captions.

There’s two types which stand out for me for the heading of my magazine, and these are the “elephant” font and “Copper Std black” . This is die to the fact that these 2 fonts are very eye catching because of the boldness of them. This font fits well within my theme of alterative rock as well, this is very helpful to attract my target audience because it will appeal to them more. It fits within my target audience because its bold and jagged

Guitar

Font - ElephantDescription - Elephant is a reworked font from a traditional English extra bold serif font. It is mainly used on postersEffect - This font really grabs the attention of the reader, because it Is bold and very jagged so its very eye catching

Guitar

Font – Copper Std BlackDescription - Cooper Black is a heavily weighted, old style serif typeface designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper in 1921Effect- This font is very eye catching because of its boldness and elegant, it is more likely to be seen on a youngsters magazine due to the case it is very rounded

Guitar

Font – Calibri (Heading)Description – Calibri is the font which replaced times new roman. Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family under the Microsoft ClearType Font CollectionEffect – This font is very basic and is the default font for most Microsoft programs, this font isn’t very eye catching and is quite boring on the eyes

Title Fonts

I have chosen to go with the font “84 rock” I am going to use this because I feel it attracts my target audience the most, while still keeping bold, and tidy. It is still bold so it stands out still which is very good for my title page, because it needs to stand out from other magazines. I will put this into a survey to make sure this is the type of font my target audience would like to see appear on the front of the cover.

Rock

Font – 84 RockDescription – This is a very untidy font, this gives the reader the impression that it represents rock, because rock is seen to be unity.Effect - The effect of this font is that it gives the reader an instant feel, to what type of magazine it is, and it will attract the rock type of group, because of its unique broken disgn

Rock

Font – Rock Star 2.0Description – the type of font is mainly just symbols an dis near enough unreadable, for anyone.Effect - There isno real affect to this font all it is, is symbol symbols corresponding with letters which sort of represent that letter

Rock

Font – hard rockDescription – this font is very scruffy just like the “84 rock” font” since this font is scruffy it helps to add to the effect of attracting the alerted rock type of people.Effect - the effect of this font is near enough the same as the font “84 rock” but this one lighter so it is harder to read

Colour Schemes

Colours – Red, White, BlackEffect – This colour scheme doesn’t stand out dramatically it is clea, the colours are warm, and mix very well, and mix well with the background picture.These colours fit very well with the logo so it gets a very professional look

Colours –Red, Yellow , BlackEffect - these colours especially the yellow really stand out from the background, it is very eye catching, but it doesn’t look very professional and colours don’t blend very well.

Colours – Red, Black, YellowEffect – There colours mix well, and stand out from the background, so it is easy to be seen from far away. These colours do look messy in places such as the banner at the bottom of the page.

I have took the best bits of the first and third colour schemes to make a colour scheme which I feel appeals to the target audience as well as keeping a professional look. I have came to this conclusion by asking people in my class to see there opions but I will do a survey to double check on the colour scheme I have chosen and base that questionnaire at my selected target audience this will help me create an effective magazine which will appeal to all people. I will double check with my selected audience eva in class or in an online survey to make sure this is the colour scheme which will appeal to them the most, since that is who I am targeting.

TITLE

MAIN PHOTO

BAR CODE & PRICE

STORY INFORMATION

Large coverline to capture readers attention, this will help stand out from all of the other magazines

Large close up shot for the feature of the magazine, this is used to introduce the main headline, and to give a visual idea about the main story with in the magazine

Indication of price makes magazine look professional, and gives the reader a clearer idea at what the magazien is asking

Story main heading introducing one of the story's, this will give the reader an idea what to expect further within the magazine without even havin to pick it up, it makes the reader see if it appeals to them straightaway

I am going to use the font in my title which my audience has asked for within my survey

MAIN IMAGE

MAGAZINE TITLE

MAIN FEATURES OF THE

MAGAZINE

BAR CODE & PRICE

Large close up shot for the feature of the magazine, this is used to introduce the main headline, and give an indication to reader what type of magazine this is before they even pick it up.

Large coverlines to capture readers attention, it will individualise it from over magazines. The font will be based apon my research (what appeals to my target audience)

Indication of price makes magazine look professional, and it gives an instant idea to the the price to the customer.

Section of headlines, introducing the story's related within the magazine, this might include a montage of pictures as will, this might be added as it is being made.

MAIN IMAGE

MAGAZINE TITLE

FEATURES OF THE

MAGAZINE

BAR CODE AND PRICE

SMALL CLIPS OF

THE MAIN STORY

AWARD SIGN FOR THE

MAGAZINE

The main image of the magazine about the main story will be the background of the cover, everything else on the cover will be layered on top of the image. This will help give a visual impression of what the magazine is about

Main features apart from the main story will be described down the left hand column. Coverlines will also be included with the stories. These will help the reader get a lear impression of whats within the magazine without opening it, this helps to see if it appeals to them

The main captions and pull quotes of the main story that would attract the audience will be in the bottom right corner.

The masthead will take up the whole length of the magazine. So it can been seen more by the reader, gives a clear invite to the consumer, to read the magaizine, it gives them the impression straight away of what type of magazine it is.

Contents Pages

CONTENTS TITLE

ANOTHER IMAGE OF THE MAIN

STORY

I going to put some advertisement within the front page to make the magazine look more professional. But this might clutter it up to much. If I decide it clutters it up to much I will decide to my be take it out or to increase the size of it.

ALL CONTENTS OF THE MAGAZINE

(serif font)Big content title is used to try and capture the readers attention as well as the picture I have used. Mast head. It will try and draw the reader in, the font im using will be used in coordination of what my target audience chooses in ym survey

Lots of information relating to the information within the magazine these are the cover story's. This will be done in a simple font which will appeal to my target audience and this font will be consistent all the way through the magazine

I am incorporating another image to mash up 2 story’s and this gives it a more magazine feel, I might decide as I am developing this to make this little section into a montage of pictres. These pictures are used to give the reader a visul impression of the story

CONTENTS TITLE

ALL THE PAGES IN THE MAGAZINE IN

ORDER AND BFIEFLY WHAT THEY CONTAIN

Only small snippets of the stories so that it draws in the audience to buy the magazine to read more. It will feature the contents of the magazine with a quick summary t so the reader know where to go to find the specfic story they are trying to find.

Three small images of articles involved in the magazine to attract readers if they want to know more by looking at photos. This will be done in a montage of pictures, this will help spice the page up a bit and give it more veristility

(serif font)Big content title is used to try and capture the readers attention as well as the picture I have used. Mast head. It will try and draw the reader in, the font im using will be used in coordination of what my target audience chooses in ym survey

CONTENTS TITLE

Additional image of the main article with a caption and pull quote underneath. This will help signfy to the reader what that picture is about so it gives a bit more of an understanding.

Three small images of other sub-main articles. Are used to give the reader are more visual idea of the main headlines within the magazine

concents

All contents of the magazine will be around the centre photos in the correct order with some pull quotes and captions underneath the information.

price

2 Page Spreads

title

Main picture

Article, justified text

Article justified text. Fits around the pcitures

Key pieces of informat

ion

big itaalic title to grab attention and to give the frist impression of the story ahead,

big picture to give a vissual of the story ahead. This picture will be a medium close up of the artist, this will be done to show people what that person is wearing and the expression on there face

Article will be justified within coloums to give it a professional feel, it will also fit around the pictures so the page seems neat and tidy.

Key facts are used to make the magazine less boring and it livens it up and bit more then being so dull and boring.

title

Main picture

Article, justified text Article, justified text

A large image is used to capture the audiences attention, this gives the audience as visual impression of what the article is about.

big itaalic title to grab attention and to give the frist impression of the story ahead,

Article will be justified within coloums to give it a professional feel, it will also fit around the pictures so the page seems neat and tidy.

Key pieces of informat

ion

Key pieces of informat

ion

Key facts are used to make the magazine less boring and it livens it up and bit more then being so dull and boring.

title

Main picture

Article, justified text

Article justified text. Fits around the pcitures

picture

picture

big itaalic title to grab attention and to give the frist impression of the story ahead,

A large image is used to capture the audiences attention, this gives the audience as visual impression of what the article is about.

Article will be justified within coloums to give it a professional feel, it will also fit around the pictures so the page seems neat and tidy.

Montage of pictures are used to show the reader images in the head which are relevent to the article they are reading

Key pieces of informat

ion

Key facts are used to make the magazine less boring and it livens it up and bit more then being so dull and boring.