Peer feedback

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The feed back from my peers, was mainly to add more text and fill the space in the background. I totally agree with this and i intend to change this by adding more sub titles and quotes, maybe adding some images of sneak peaks inside the magazine and adding music logos. My peers said that my magazine looks sophisticated. They said that they liked the colour scheme and that they liked the image i had taken. I really like this draft and will be making changes to make it better.

Here are two other drafts that i made for my Front cover. I do not like these drafts at all as they look unfinished and um-professional. I feel that i can do alot better than these and i will be choosing on of the other two drafts i made and working from that.

Draft 2

I really like this draft as i feel like it looks like a professional magazine. I am not sure though if it looks too fashion magazine-music magazine. I like the image that i have chosen and i like the tattoo that i placed on Kathy's arm using photoshop.

Some edited photos

Here i took away the colour to give a greyscale effect. This was to make the image darker to look more professional.

I changed the brightness on this image to make a more effective picture.

I changed the brightness and contrast on this image using photoshop to get a brighter image that stands out from the background.

I changed the Hue saturation on this image using photoshop. I added more green to get this effect.

Here i edited the photo by cutting kathy away from the background layer on photoshop. I then placed the cut out layer on top of the original image so it creates a secret layer but looks no different. Using a black rubber tool i scribbled across the background layer to create this effect^. By cutting kathy out it created this cool effect to the background but then did not go on Kahty herself.

Hair, make-up and clothing design for my music magazine on Prezi

My Photo shoot

This video shows my photoshoot for my original images that i will be using for my final media products. It shows me styling Kathy and taking pictures from different angles.

Focus Group

This video was to ask questions to my peers and find what they thought was most important in a magazine.

Initial ideas/Mocks of a front cover, contents page and a double page spread

I made rough templates of my inital ideas for my front cover, my contents page and my double page spread. I have planned where each convention will go and used boxes for text and images. I made these by using photoshop and publisher.

Rihanna  Behind-the-Scenes ELLE Cover Shoot July 2010 

I really like this magazine front cover. I think the Costume design of what Rhianna is wearing fits in with the house style perfectly. I think that the positioning of Rhianna her self is very accurate and it looks effective. Watching the behind the shoot video was really interesting as it shows you all the different positions they placed her in, the different costumes, until they came across the final image. I like how the magazine front cover is plain, yet effective and is widely based around Rhianna. 

Lada Gaga Behind-the-Scenes ELLE Cover Shoot January 2010

When watching the behind footage of Lady Gaga's photo shoot, it really inspired me on the costume and hair design. It was quite simple however with some quirks to it which made her stand out as an individual and made you think wow. I want my model to make my magazine look impressive and look like It is a real magazine. Again the magazine is very plain but the main feature is the main image. I also like how Elle places the model's head half way between the Mast head. It cuts the text in to but it shows how popular the magazine must be as they do this on purpose and everyone will know which magazine it is anyway. 

Hand drawn, initial ideas.

I drew some initial ideas roughly on some A4 paper. I marked out roughly where the main conventions would be and different ways of structuring them.

Reader Profile

My audience is mainly students between the age of 18-22.They come under the social grade E because they are students. They will be on a minimum wage and therefore the price of my magazine suits them. For my reader profile i used images that i felt connected with my audience in likes and hobbies. I used images that are connected to females and males. There are around 200,000 students in great Britain, therefore my magazine will be very popular. 
My audience like the latest styles in hair and make-up and clothes and my statistics show how much money is spent on clothes and make-up. My images relate to the life of a student by the alcohol, cars, phones and other images. 

The definition of demographics

The characteristics and statistical information
that distinguish a group of people. These
characteristics commonly include age, gender,
ethnicity, occupation, interests and other
quantifiable criteria. A business’ target
demographic captures the group of people at
which their products or services are aimed.
Advertisements created through ad platforms
such as Facebook, AdSense and AdWords usually
allow for you to specify certain demographic
information so that your ad targets the
interested people.
(http://www.hudsonhorizons.com) 

Social grades used in media and advertising. 

All producers use this table to insure that their intended product is sold correctly to the target audience. I used this to see who would buy my magazine and why. The social class that fits my target audience is social class E. Students are found within this social class as they are still in the funding of their parents or loans. I would also say that people in the social class C1 and B would also buy my magazine. This is because the price of my magazine is £3.00. I chose this price as it competes with other magazines in the same genre as mine however it is cheaper than the others to fit with the social class group of E. This price is expensive and so people in the social groups of C1 and B will be able to afford it also and it is a high class magazine within the layout and the stories within it.  

Price of my magazine

Top 40 chart

This Week's Number 1

Troublemaker Olly Murs

Number 2

Beneath Your Beautiful (feat. Emeli Sande)Labrinth

Number 3

The Power of Love Gabrielle Aplin

Number 4

Candy Robbie Willams

Number 5

Little Things One Direction

Number 6

Locked Out of Heaven Bruno Mars

Number 7

Gangnam Style (강남스타일)PSY

Number 8

Girl On Fire Alicia Keys

Number 9

Ho Hey The Lumineers

Number 10

Something New Girls Aloud

Number 11

Diamonds Rhianna

Number 12

Skyfall Adele

Number 13

Don't You Worry Child Swedish House Mafia

Number 14

Sweet Nothing Calvin Harris

Number 15

A Thousand Years Christina Perri

Number 16

Hall of Fame The Script

Number 17

One More Night Maroon 5

Number 18

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Taylor Swift

Number 19

DNA Little Mix

Number 20

Anything Could Happen Ellie Goulding

Number 21

Shine Ya Light Rita Ora

Number 22

I Found You The Wanted

Number 23

Not Giving In Rudimental

Number 24

Can You Hear Me? (Ayayaya)Wiley

Number 25

Try P!nk

Number 26

Give Me Love Ed Sheeran

Number 27

Beauty and a Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj) Justin Bieber

Number 28

I Cry Flo Rida

Number 29

Latch (feat. Sam Smith)Disclosure

Number 30

Blow Me (One Last Kiss)P!nk

Number 31

Wings Little Mix

Number 32

Love Is Easy McFly

Number 33

Good Time Owl city & Carley Rae Jepsen

Number 34

Back In Black AC/DC

Number 35

Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself) Ne-Yo

Number 36

Standing in the Dark Lawson

Number 37

Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa)Maroon 5

Number 38

Tidal Wave Sub Focus

Number 39

Feel the Love Rudimental

Number 40

Wonder (feat. Emeli Sandé)Naughty Boy 

When looking at the TOP 40 Charts you can clearly see that the genre i have chosen for my music magazine is widely liked. Every highlighted song is in my genre of music. Over 30% of the music on this chart is pop, electronic and Dance. 

I really like this music. I am around this style of music all the time being a dancer and i love the up beat rhythm and the lyrics that go with it. Everyone is so similar yet so different. You never get a song that is exactly like another. 

Analysis of a front cover, contents page and a double page spread.

I analysed another 3 existing products and i looked at the institution, conventions and audience that make up the magazine.

I looked at the conventions which make a magazine front cover, contents page and a double page spread and i analysed each on 3 existing products.