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GAPS

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Audience relating to Uses and Gratifications Theory

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Production Diary 8

Examples of Mastheads:

The Use Of Colour:
These three examples of masthead are resemblant of what I have planned for my own magazine title style. The overall colour theme for these three is the use of a colour onto a plain white background. By doing this, the magazine becomes very diverse as no matter what colour is used, once placed onto a white background the magazine (especially the title) is made to look bold and very prominent. Further, in relation to the other colours used on the front cover (when using a white backdrop) all the colours can be differentiated from each other, rather than using a specific background colour which inturn could mean either the foreground colours collide or get lost when mixed together. 

Production Diary 7

Now that I have chosen the name for both the magazine and name for the main article artist, I am now deciding on what style to present these names/titles in. I have researched many different styles. Through "style", colour and masthead type is included, for example; dark blue with the same style as kerrang magazine.

Colours:
For the magazine title colour I will use quite bright colour in order to grab the reader's attention, not only this but to also resemble the genre of music the magazine is about. Due to the magazine being about dance music which is an energetic style, the colour will consequently let the viewer recognise what the magazine represents. I will also use bright colours/ a bright colour to stand out from the imagery in the backdrop. I have thought about using yellow, bright purple, light green, or yellow and black together. Another reason to why the colours will be bright and such is because through the title "POWER" the colours must be representative of the title, or what the title intends to represent.


 Masthead Type:
This week I have been looking at different magazine masthead types, and the affect they have on the reader. In order to fulfil it's purpose the title must be very bold. I'm not going to use too much complex styled font, this is as I intend to make the title look very clear, and by making the masthead different (like kerrang) the reader's eye may be taken off of the title itself and more focused on how the title is presented. Magazines I've been looking at are: "Total Film", "Vibe" and "Blender". These mastheads are bold and allow the viewer to clearly see not only the name of the magazine, but what the magazine symbolizes if there is a specific meaning.   

Production Diary 6

This week I have been contemplating names for my magazine and artist names for the main  article artist.

Name of magazine:
For the name of the magazine I had 3 main ideas: POWER, Spark, Radio Rental. I chose "Power" for the name of my magazine, with this name in mind I did play with idea of adding "The" at the beginning of the word "POWER" but after having time to think I chose not to do this, this is as the word "POWER" alone is more bold and clear. Plus, using only one word is more likely to stick with people and be more remembered. Other magazines have done this before and have become very successful, such as "Vibe", "Kerrang" and "Clash".

Name of main article artist:
For the artist name I also had main ideas, after cutting down a few names I came down to two main ones: Darwin and Rambo. In the end I chose "Darwin", I chose this name as even though "Rambo" sounds quite tough and fierce, I chose "Darwin" in connection to Charles Darwin. I did this to make it seem, or give the impression that this artist in the main article is a pioneer/revolutionary figure in relation to new music, much like Charles Darwin to the theory of evolution.   
  

Draft Proposal

 

Article Analysis

 

Music Magazine Survey

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Language and Representation in music magazine

 

Article Analysis Powerpoint

 

Powerpoint music magazine contents analysis

 

Analysis of students work

I have chosen the work of Amy Wichelow to analyse. I think her work I very colourful, imaginative and interesting. Her front cover is very bold, with a close up to a girl's face whilst also using bold text and a variation of text design. She has been creative as in the bottom right corner she has used the effect to seem asthough the page is turning, in order to entice you to read on. Her contents page is also good as there is a range of pictures, and items clearly labeled. The only criticism I would give for the contents page is that the wording is small and quite compact, meaning it could be difficult to follow and less interesting to read. Throughout she uses many pictures to draw the reader's eye, she also uses quotes in her text which is allows the stories in the magazine to have a deep context. There is a fair amount of text variation throughout, she uses some bold lettering especially for quotes where she makes the text very bold and colourful to contrast to the normal smaller thin text. Overall, I would say her work is of a very high standard which not only uses pictures to tell the stories but a wide variety of textual methods aswell.
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