Publication plan

Title: LOUD

Positioning statement: Your monthly dose of rock!

Frequency of publication: Monthly

Price: £2.50

Distribution: Supermarkets, Newsagents, Online shopping websites (e.g. amazon) internet subscriptions, Digital devices (I phone, android, I pad) I tunes store, Google play store.

Rationale: The magazine will bring the audience the latest news and events about rock music.  As well as getting the readers involved with our work, we promise to keep the readers on the edge of their seats!

Style: the magazine is going to use informal language and contain lots of slang words, which will make it easily read and understood. I am going to use swearing when appropriate, for example, I am going to use it in an interview, and if the person being interviewed swears, the magazine will not edit it out. From my audience research, I have found out that my audiences favourite colours are red, black and blue, so I will use those colours as the colour scheme.

Regular content: Reviews of the month’s top concerts.

Album reviews.

 Twitter Q and A, send in questions, and the Loud team will answer them!

Album artwork page, showing off the best album artwork, chosen by the readers.

Feature content:

-R.I.P Lou Reed, article about Lou Reed and why he was such an inspiration.

- Summer Festival Line-ups. Top Festivals throughout the summer; who is playing and who we think could be confirmed?

-An interview with Avenged Sevenfold, talking about their new album Hail to the king.

-5 minutes with Fred Durst. A short interview with the Limp Bizkit frontman.

-A short biography about one of the most prestigious men in rock; Dave Grohl

-The UK’s most popular venues.

-Top music stores in the UK.

-We find out more about some of the UK’s top upcoming bands.

-Rise Against, a short interview about their upcoming tour.

-The Red Hot Chilli Peppers talk to us about writing some new songs.

-Golden oldies hitting their way back into the charts.

-Backstage with the gaslight anthem.

-we take a look at Billy Joe Armstrong’s guitar collection.

-Corey Taylor and James Root talk us through their time at download 2013.

-Rob Trujillo talks us through his new signature bass guitar coming out soon.

-Bowling for soup and their final UK tour.

-We chat with Amy Thomas about her bands rise in popularity and what lies ahead.

-Behind the scenes with Linkin park, working with Warner Brothers.

-Foo Fighters set to release their brand new single.

- Vinyl and LPs coming back?

 

House style:

Masthead- cooper STD black

Cover lines- Berlin sans FB Demi

Headlines-Adobe Fan Heiti STD black

Stand first- Adobe Fan Heiti STD black

main text- arial 11pt

Drop Capital- Adobe Fan heti STD black (4 lines deep)

 

questionnaire results

Questionnaire results for slideshare new from jacquesASmedia

Audience Questionnaire

Questionnaire
1) How old are you? 14-16      17-19       20-22       23 or above
2) What gender are you? Male Female
3) How often do you buy music magazines? Rarely       sometimes       often       regularly
4) How much are you willing to pay for music magazines? Less than 99p       £1-£1.99       £2-£2.99      £3-£3.99       £4 or above
5) Which music magazine do you buy the most? ________________________________________________________________________________ 6) What to you like or dislike about the magazine you have previously stated? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7) What are your favourite colours? ________________________________________________________________________________ 8) On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is most important and 5 is least important, how would you rate the following aspects of a music magazine?
Articles: 1 2 3 4 5
Reviews: 1 2 3 4 5
Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5
Interviews: 1 2 3 4 5 9)
   What 3 words do you associate with “Rock”? ________________________________________________________________________________ 10) Who are your favourite bands/artists? (State a couple) ________________________________________________________________________________

Analysis of double page spread from jacquesASmedia

Analysis of magazine contents pages

Analysis of professional magazine contents pages complete from jacquesASmedia

Analysis of professional magazine front covers

Analysis of professional magazine covers from jacquesASmedia

Magazine Initial planning

Title: LOUD
Price of Magazine: £2.50
Frequency of Publication: Monthly
Average Issue Size: 64 pages
Regular Content: Concert reviews (5 concerts), Album Review (10 albums), twitter Q&A page, editors message.
Feature Content: Article on Lou reed, Festival Lineups, Article about avenged sevelfolds "hail to the king" album. Interview with Fred Durst. A weekend at download Festival, weekend review. Dave Grohl short biography. popular venues. Popular Music Shops.

Researching the Marketplace

 

Link to kerrang! website                  Kerrang! media pack
Link to classic rock website
Link to metal hammer website
Link to Rock Sound website

Rock Sound Media Pack



 

Rock Sound 2012 Media Pack from CrudgeRockSound

Evaluation

    My magazine front cover uses some of the forms and conventions of real media products because my cover uses 1 main image only and from previous research, the majority of magazines on the market use only 1 main image. My cover page also contains many coverlines and a masthead at the top of the page. Another thing that my magazine cover follows is that it has an issue number and issue date at the top and a price.
My contents page not only follows some of these codes and conventions but challenges some of these because my contents page doesn't have a larger main image and the images have no relation to any of the content but is more advertising purposes. On the other hand, my contents page does use a column layout.

I used new media technologies, for example photoshop to construct the cover page of my product because photoshop is simple to use and its is easy to layer images and text together and easy to import images into the product. For the contents page, i used quark express because its simple to use and we could set guidelines to follow as contents pages all follow a column layout and this software allows us to create text and images that will fit into these guidelines.
   
    The strengths and weaknesses of the product and new media technologies is that with this, we can change and manipulate images to suit our needs and we can easily layer text over the top of images to make our magazine covers. Another Strength of using new media technologies is that we can produce accurate work quickly. the strengths of my product are that is uses many of the forms and conventions of real media products, which makes my product look like a real magazine. Some of the weaknesses of my product are that my cover doesn't have enough detail on it. My cover needs More coverlines and more information regarding regular and feature content.
  
  To make my product better i could try to keep a consistent colour scheme throughout my cover page and my contents page.

Final contents page:

Cover page

Final cover page:

Magazine images

These are the pictures that i took to use om the front cover of my magazine and the contents page:
                                                                 COVER IMAGE

CONTENTS PAGE IMAGES

Cover and contents plan

PLAN FOR COVER PAGE AND CONTENTS PAGE

Magazine plan

Planning for college magazine

Title: CAMPUS
Mise en scene: Medium close up of a student smiling in front of one of the college buildings, smiling and looking directly at the camera.
COVERLINES:
"ten top tips for good grades"
"meet the college council"
"PLUS map of the college"
"where to hang out"

CONTENT:
Feature content:
-students of the month
-menu list and pricing
-revision and study tips
-subject information
Regular content:
-start of term tips
-enrichment information
-college band
-places to hang out
-staff of each department
-map of college
-list of courses
-where to eat outside of college
-travel information
-clubs and other activities
-student council

IMAGES TO BE USED:
-front of the crescent building
-students working in the LRC
-students sat in the crescent cafe

Camera angles task

media camera angles from jacquesASmedia

Codes and conventions

CODES AND CONVENTIONS

All magazine front covers follow a set of codes and conventions. these codes and conventions are:

-1 main image.
-masthead at the top.
-issue date.
-price.
-coverlines.
-sometimes puffs.
-bar code .
-1 main storyline .
-bright colours/and rage of colours.
-self advertising.



Contents page:

-column layout
-smaller images
-page numbers
-title
-larger sized image

Brief

BRIEF

preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation programme, 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 masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of DTP.

MAIN TASK: The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text must be original, produced by the candidates, minimum of four images per candidate.