Our magazine is called “BUMP”, the reason for the name is that it make the magazine more joyful, exciting and energetic, this is also portrayed in the sub heading, “ Bop till you drop” which emphasis on the movement of your body when listing to the music which our magazine talks about, with the artists and on a more social level. The sub heading is written in a slang style to reach out to the people who listen to the music, which is conveyed on the magazine.
Our magazine challenges other conventional magazine through the more upfront and jam-pack style on the front cover, the reason for this is that there are more attraction for the customer, through the colours, bold headings and a variety of prizes, which include posters and a free CD.
Our aim is for the people who listen to R&B which the majority are youths from mainly inner London, with this in our minds we made the magazine a kind of magnet for these people, for example we created a the title which has no meaning to people from Manchester, but to our certain customers has a varierty of meanings beyond ours. The represented social group we interpret ate is inner city youths, which we have a knowledge of as we are selves are inner city youths. The magazine therefore could just interpret our selves.
The media institution which will sell our magazines will be between a hip hop to a R&B. Because the magazine is shows this through the people other then our selves on the cover such as kanye west who is a Rapper, and the title BUMP and the sub heading BOP TILL U DROP all affiliate with a more Hip hop style tone. Moreover, the use of me and cris back to back in the picture adds to the hip-hop theme. However as this is an R&B magazine in the background came a more elegant background that was snow, to show the season of winter. This is why our magazine cover is more diverse to the usual magazine with a theme of Hip-hop and R&B collaborated in to BUMP.
The magazine does not single out any audience based on who they are but bases it on where the more R&B fans are. Through our knowledge we have found out that more people listen to R&B in London however not everyone does some people are curious about there favourite celebrity, this is what gave us the idea to add personal; interviews about the most popular celebrity, so more people will take notice and buy for the simple fact of the interview. The audience of our magazine cover will be London youths from ages 7 to 25, which in turn gives us a wide range of people to aim at. However, we also aim the magazine to people from the Suburbs as well through the many gifts we do give out, as the price is £2.50 this is cheap enough for the people from outside London and cheap enough for people who live in London. We also found out that more and more people outside of London have taken a keen eye to R&B through the image it gives them, so gradually we will appeal more to those people.
In making the magazine cover, I have learnt how to use Photoshop on an apple Mac computer. In photo shop, I have learnt how to put the background behind the main picture, also, I have learnt hot to take away the background by using a wand, which eliminates the background, and therefore I am able to put any background I wish. Moreover, I learnt how to draft through different word options to choose the most suitable for my magazine, which saved us a lot of time to do more important things, such as the background and pictures. Also constructing the magazine we learnt to copy and paste our picture on the screen in photo shop. Also, change the dimension to A4 so it would fit on our page.
If I was given the opportunity to make another front cover I would act with more confidence and try and give more input, also I would take it more serious as I took like a joke at first with our group only taking a few pictures which put our group in a bad situation, however this was also the turning point for us, as we all buckled up and starting working together and giving pointers to one another. Furthermore I will also make our group work together in a more appropriate manner, for example when we first were given a A3 paper we did not use the time wisely and this also dented our chances of getting a high grade. The last thing I would change would be my view on the project and I have realised this now so in a way I am grateful for this.
Friday, 17 October 2008
Thursday, 16 October 2008
'BUMP!' Magazine Evaluation
Our class practical was to create a front cover of a music magazine. I worked in a group with Susan, Chris and Ali. We decided our genre of the magazine to be R&B and so we came of the title ‘BUMP!’ and the slogan ‘BOP TIL U DROP’. Susan and I worked on the summer issue, while Chris and Ali developed their winter issue. Our magazine was aimed at mainly teenagers and also those who enjoy listening to R&B in their twenties. The summer issue cover featured the new group artists ‘CASE-Y’ posed as us sitting on the stairs. Other images me and Susan included were of Rhianna and Chris Brown representing their exclusive interview, and Chris and Ali indicating their free poster.
Our ‘BUMP!’ magazine use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real music magazines. Our title is bold and presented on a tilt to show its R&B swagger. The use of the title being in capitals with an exclamation mark, kept the masthead stand out like other magazines. Also, the use of the slogan being in capitals written in slang, help represent the genre and its street and edgy side to interest teenagers. The style and the colour of all the fonts used are brash, ‘in your face’ and perfect to make it look appealing for the readers. Both images used, illustrate a confidence pose that most R&B artists pose as, nowadays. The standard faded background of two colours is a style that some R&B magazines choose to keep it fresh and typical. The free poster is a graphic used by many other music magazines attracting teenagers mainly, because they usually don’t have any money and appreciate the things that do come as a bargain.
‘BUMP!’ music magazine cover, represents different social groups and not just one. This is shown by the main cover image of two boys and girls from different racial backgrounds. Our genre R&B represents this because nowadays people who listen to this type of music come from different origins and different sexes.
The kind of media institutions that might distribute our music magazine cover are mostly TV adverts and billboards. This reason would be because that’s how the majority of magazines are promoted. Within a TV advert, a short clip should promote the new act ‘CASE-Y’ and emphasise the line of the group being “The biggest, the best and baddest artists”. This would be effective because the quote has alliteration in a list of three. The advertisement could also highlight the special offer of a free poster. In a billboard, the magazine cover should be layered with the emphasis of the small price. That way you’re attracting more buyers.
The audience of our music magazine cover would be mainly teenagers and also others aged in their twenties who enjoy listening to R&B. This is easily noted because, most of the images used are of us (teenagers) and the other is of R&B artists (Rhianna and Chris Brown). Also to mention how there is a mix of the sexes and racial background, to help create a non niche, yet larger audience.
Susan and I attracted our audience by straight away emphasising the main cover line of the new group ‘CASE-Y’, and their free poster. This special offer is effective as it influences our audience to want to buy it. The other cover line of Rihanna and Chris Brown’s exclusive interview is also useful, as it is what majority teenagers gossip about. Not forgetting the affordable price of £1.40, this symbolises it not being about the quantity of the cost, but the quality of the magazine.
During the process of constructing our magazine front cover, I have learnt a lot. Firstly, I have learnt about how much effort and time can be put into one front cover and not just the magazine in its own. I have learned how to use Photoshop’s features e.g. styling a font, deleting a background by using the ‘wizard’ tool, cropping an image, bringing the image to the front/back of a layout, etc. I have also learnt how little details of a music magazine cover perceive the genre of it e.g. editors might use 'chick' font for a girly teenaged magazine, because of it looking feminine and curvy. I have learnt that in a magazine, more cover lines and images don’t look overcrowding and unappealing but average and acceptable.
If I was given the choice to make another front cover, I would change the genre of the music and chose something more challenging. I would have thought of a backup location just in case our prime location was out of bounds. However, other than that I wouldn’t change anything else. I worked well with Susan to develop our summer issue and all in all we worked positively as a group to help the making of ‘BUMP!’ magazine.
Our ‘BUMP!’ magazine use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real music magazines. Our title is bold and presented on a tilt to show its R&B swagger. The use of the title being in capitals with an exclamation mark, kept the masthead stand out like other magazines. Also, the use of the slogan being in capitals written in slang, help represent the genre and its street and edgy side to interest teenagers. The style and the colour of all the fonts used are brash, ‘in your face’ and perfect to make it look appealing for the readers. Both images used, illustrate a confidence pose that most R&B artists pose as, nowadays. The standard faded background of two colours is a style that some R&B magazines choose to keep it fresh and typical. The free poster is a graphic used by many other music magazines attracting teenagers mainly, because they usually don’t have any money and appreciate the things that do come as a bargain.
‘BUMP!’ music magazine cover, represents different social groups and not just one. This is shown by the main cover image of two boys and girls from different racial backgrounds. Our genre R&B represents this because nowadays people who listen to this type of music come from different origins and different sexes.
The kind of media institutions that might distribute our music magazine cover are mostly TV adverts and billboards. This reason would be because that’s how the majority of magazines are promoted. Within a TV advert, a short clip should promote the new act ‘CASE-Y’ and emphasise the line of the group being “The biggest, the best and baddest artists”. This would be effective because the quote has alliteration in a list of three. The advertisement could also highlight the special offer of a free poster. In a billboard, the magazine cover should be layered with the emphasis of the small price. That way you’re attracting more buyers.
The audience of our music magazine cover would be mainly teenagers and also others aged in their twenties who enjoy listening to R&B. This is easily noted because, most of the images used are of us (teenagers) and the other is of R&B artists (Rhianna and Chris Brown). Also to mention how there is a mix of the sexes and racial background, to help create a non niche, yet larger audience.
Susan and I attracted our audience by straight away emphasising the main cover line of the new group ‘CASE-Y’, and their free poster. This special offer is effective as it influences our audience to want to buy it. The other cover line of Rihanna and Chris Brown’s exclusive interview is also useful, as it is what majority teenagers gossip about. Not forgetting the affordable price of £1.40, this symbolises it not being about the quantity of the cost, but the quality of the magazine.
During the process of constructing our magazine front cover, I have learnt a lot. Firstly, I have learnt about how much effort and time can be put into one front cover and not just the magazine in its own. I have learned how to use Photoshop’s features e.g. styling a font, deleting a background by using the ‘wizard’ tool, cropping an image, bringing the image to the front/back of a layout, etc. I have also learnt how little details of a music magazine cover perceive the genre of it e.g. editors might use 'chick' font for a girly teenaged magazine, because of it looking feminine and curvy. I have learnt that in a magazine, more cover lines and images don’t look overcrowding and unappealing but average and acceptable.
If I was given the choice to make another front cover, I would change the genre of the music and chose something more challenging. I would have thought of a backup location just in case our prime location was out of bounds. However, other than that I wouldn’t change anything else. I worked well with Susan to develop our summer issue and all in all we worked positively as a group to help the making of ‘BUMP!’ magazine.
The Making of 'BUMP!' Magazine
Friday 26th Sept. 08 [FIRST DAY OF THE PRACTICAL – SHARING IDEAS]
In Dan’s lesson, we were divided into our groups for the making of our music magazine cover. I was put in Group 40 with Susan, Chris and Ali. With my group, we first discussed the genre of the magazine. That being R&B, because we all listen to this type of music, therefore we knew we would be able to brainstorm more ideas. We came up with the masthead ‘BUMP!’ and the slogan ‘BOP TIL U DROP’ because it sounded catchy, edgy and appealing for R&B fans. We also decided the title to be in capitals with an exclamation mark, so it could strongly attract readers’ attention. As a group, we knew that the magazine would target teenagers mainly and also other R&B fans aged in their twenties. Knowing that our photo shoot was going to be next lesson, we talked about what to wear, the location and what props to use. Our group talked about wearing black, and a different colour of our choice with lots of jewellery. This is because we wanted to match our outfits but not so much so that we would look like a typical group band. We all wanted to stand out individually. The location of our photo shoot decided to be in a recording booth with the props already being there e.g. a microphone. As a group, we wanted to present our audience that we were a new formed talented group, and so we thought taking pictures in the music department would be perfect.
Tuesday 30th Sept. 08 [PHOTO SHOOT]
The day of the photo shoot, we were given a digital camera from Mary and we were told we had an hour of taking as much pictures as we could. Susan came in wearing black and mustard, while I was wearing black and silver. Unfortunately, both Ali and Chris didn’t obey the dress code and forgot to wear what we discussed. Moving on, we had another down point as we were banned from taking any pictures in the music department so we had to improvise a lot. We took pictures individually, as a group and posed with no expression to show our confidence and arrogance of being part of the music industry.
Friday 3rd Oct. 08 [EDITING]
In order to produce two issues of the magazine, we decided to split into two pairs. Chris and Ali worked on their winter issue and me and Susan worked on our summer issue. In that lesson, Susan was absent so I worked by myself editing the main cover picture of us sitting on the stairs and the image of Chris and Ali with their backs against each other. I used the ‘wizard’ tool in Photoshop to delete the original background of both photos. I then chose the background for the group photo. It was two faded colours of mustard and black, to relate to the tops Susan and I were wearing at the time. I rearranged and resized both images to fit the cover. I used the image of Chris and Ali to give away as a ‘free poster’. After doing so, I included our title ‘BUMP!’ and our slogan ‘BOP TIL U DROP’ on the top of the page.
Tuesday 7th Oct. 08 [MORE EDITING]
In Mary’s lesson, we continued editing our magazine cover. Susan and I, both thought about what the main cover line and other cover lines would be about. We acknowledged the fact that most music magazines focus on the best new acts and gossip of the artists. Therefore we came of a story line to sell to the audience about a new group artist called ‘CASE-Y’, represented by us. Another cover line included was about Rihanna and Chris’ relationship presented in an exclusive interview.
Friday 10th Oct. 08 [LAST DAY OF EDITING]
It was the final day of editing our cover and me and Susan gave the magazine its finishing touches by adding the bar code, price and issue date. We also used the time to change the style and the colour of our font to make it bold and brash. Then, we printed out our cover and went to the library to begin our evaluation in advance than others.
In Dan’s lesson, we were divided into our groups for the making of our music magazine cover. I was put in Group 40 with Susan, Chris and Ali. With my group, we first discussed the genre of the magazine. That being R&B, because we all listen to this type of music, therefore we knew we would be able to brainstorm more ideas. We came up with the masthead ‘BUMP!’ and the slogan ‘BOP TIL U DROP’ because it sounded catchy, edgy and appealing for R&B fans. We also decided the title to be in capitals with an exclamation mark, so it could strongly attract readers’ attention. As a group, we knew that the magazine would target teenagers mainly and also other R&B fans aged in their twenties. Knowing that our photo shoot was going to be next lesson, we talked about what to wear, the location and what props to use. Our group talked about wearing black, and a different colour of our choice with lots of jewellery. This is because we wanted to match our outfits but not so much so that we would look like a typical group band. We all wanted to stand out individually. The location of our photo shoot decided to be in a recording booth with the props already being there e.g. a microphone. As a group, we wanted to present our audience that we were a new formed talented group, and so we thought taking pictures in the music department would be perfect.
Tuesday 30th Sept. 08 [PHOTO SHOOT]
The day of the photo shoot, we were given a digital camera from Mary and we were told we had an hour of taking as much pictures as we could. Susan came in wearing black and mustard, while I was wearing black and silver. Unfortunately, both Ali and Chris didn’t obey the dress code and forgot to wear what we discussed. Moving on, we had another down point as we were banned from taking any pictures in the music department so we had to improvise a lot. We took pictures individually, as a group and posed with no expression to show our confidence and arrogance of being part of the music industry.
Friday 3rd Oct. 08 [EDITING]
In order to produce two issues of the magazine, we decided to split into two pairs. Chris and Ali worked on their winter issue and me and Susan worked on our summer issue. In that lesson, Susan was absent so I worked by myself editing the main cover picture of us sitting on the stairs and the image of Chris and Ali with their backs against each other. I used the ‘wizard’ tool in Photoshop to delete the original background of both photos. I then chose the background for the group photo. It was two faded colours of mustard and black, to relate to the tops Susan and I were wearing at the time. I rearranged and resized both images to fit the cover. I used the image of Chris and Ali to give away as a ‘free poster’. After doing so, I included our title ‘BUMP!’ and our slogan ‘BOP TIL U DROP’ on the top of the page.
Tuesday 7th Oct. 08 [MORE EDITING]
In Mary’s lesson, we continued editing our magazine cover. Susan and I, both thought about what the main cover line and other cover lines would be about. We acknowledged the fact that most music magazines focus on the best new acts and gossip of the artists. Therefore we came of a story line to sell to the audience about a new group artist called ‘CASE-Y’, represented by us. Another cover line included was about Rihanna and Chris’ relationship presented in an exclusive interview.
Friday 10th Oct. 08 [LAST DAY OF EDITING]
It was the final day of editing our cover and me and Susan gave the magazine its finishing touches by adding the bar code, price and issue date. We also used the time to change the style and the colour of our font to make it bold and brash. Then, we printed out our cover and went to the library to begin our evaluation in advance than others.
Friday, 10 October 2008
Magazine Evaluation
Firstly all of us wer put into groups of four at random from the people in our class. The Dan gave us a task of creating our own front cover from scratch and that we had to be on the front cover. Dan also gave us a piece of sugar paper and a merker pen to write down our ideas on. As a group we all decided the genre would be about R&B, Also we agreed to name our own magazine “BUMP!”. We also agreed to make two issues, a winter issue and a sumer issue.
We planned to make our front cover apeal to the younger generation but also could appeal to any of the older generation who like R&B. We felt that the younger generation would catch on to it abit more quicker than the older generation.
Once we decided what was going on our front cover and what it was going to be about, we then got given a camera by Dan to go out in our four’s to pose for photos to go on our front cover. Once we got our pictures to go on our front cover we den split up from four’s into pairs. Me and ali worked together whilst suzanne and elelta worked together. Me and ali worked on the winter issue while suzanne and elelta worked on the summer version.
Once we had the perfect shots and our ideas planned out we den had to actuallt start producing the magazine from scratch. Our magazine consists of: Mastline, images, straplines, free products and interviews.
Our winter issue of bump is for both boys and girls because ther main picture on the cover is of 2 god looking boys and 2 good looking girls. Also the girls can get a free poster of the two boy members and stick it on their bedroom wall. Also it targets many ethnicities because all the people are from different cultures. Each person in the photo have different personalities for example the boys look serious asif they are trying to be gangsters and the girls look like they are friendly and geneerally happy people, so it doesnt just target one set of audience it targets many different audiences.
We atracted our audience by making the magazine cover live by ading alot of straplines, free things, interviews and stories about other people apart from the band. Also we attracted our audience by adding bright coours and contrast between colours instead of making everything different colours or making everything just one colour. So the colours are mainly red, white and black we chose these colours because we felt that these colours go with each other the best without making the magazine cover look cheap and boring. Also we felt that if we have one of the most liked and most famour rap artists giving an iterview wpuld attract alot of fans which would make our magazine successfull.
Some kinds of media institutes that could distribute our magazine cover is through magazines themselves like a little image of the front cover with a analytical critic talking about it like what kinds of things are inside it. Also it could be advertised on the radio with the band going in to talk about what they got asked to do and telling people over the radioagain whats inside the mag. Also it can be advertised on the T.V having a little slogan like other mags do E.g. 50 things for 50p something like that and on busses aswell e.g when a buss goes past you the pictures will stand out and also could have a the date it is comming out and you could enlarge the picture of kanye west on the side looking at the magazine.
I have lernt alot about technologies from the process of constructing this magazine front cover which include getting the right backgroung, the perfect picture because if u aint got a good picture the it aint going to look right and most important peopl will not buy it. Also i have learnt how to contrast the right colours together to bring that bit of umph out of the photo, And i have learnt that you have to spread the straplines out other wise it becomes too much and looks unattractive and people won buy it. Finally i have learnt that the style of writing helps the magazine alot its brings in a little more character to it instead of having the same style all the time wich makes it boring and not interesting.
I think that if i was to make another front cover for a magazine i would most definately plain ertai things more properly like costume camera angles straplines and other little things that could be included on the front cover also i think i would think more carefully about who i would work with because although it was fun working with these people i dont think we worked to our full potential.
We planned to make our front cover apeal to the younger generation but also could appeal to any of the older generation who like R&B. We felt that the younger generation would catch on to it abit more quicker than the older generation.
Once we decided what was going on our front cover and what it was going to be about, we then got given a camera by Dan to go out in our four’s to pose for photos to go on our front cover. Once we got our pictures to go on our front cover we den split up from four’s into pairs. Me and ali worked together whilst suzanne and elelta worked together. Me and ali worked on the winter issue while suzanne and elelta worked on the summer version.
Once we had the perfect shots and our ideas planned out we den had to actuallt start producing the magazine from scratch. Our magazine consists of: Mastline, images, straplines, free products and interviews.
Our winter issue of bump is for both boys and girls because ther main picture on the cover is of 2 god looking boys and 2 good looking girls. Also the girls can get a free poster of the two boy members and stick it on their bedroom wall. Also it targets many ethnicities because all the people are from different cultures. Each person in the photo have different personalities for example the boys look serious asif they are trying to be gangsters and the girls look like they are friendly and geneerally happy people, so it doesnt just target one set of audience it targets many different audiences.
We atracted our audience by making the magazine cover live by ading alot of straplines, free things, interviews and stories about other people apart from the band. Also we attracted our audience by adding bright coours and contrast between colours instead of making everything different colours or making everything just one colour. So the colours are mainly red, white and black we chose these colours because we felt that these colours go with each other the best without making the magazine cover look cheap and boring. Also we felt that if we have one of the most liked and most famour rap artists giving an iterview wpuld attract alot of fans which would make our magazine successfull.
Some kinds of media institutes that could distribute our magazine cover is through magazines themselves like a little image of the front cover with a analytical critic talking about it like what kinds of things are inside it. Also it could be advertised on the radio with the band going in to talk about what they got asked to do and telling people over the radioagain whats inside the mag. Also it can be advertised on the T.V having a little slogan like other mags do E.g. 50 things for 50p something like that and on busses aswell e.g when a buss goes past you the pictures will stand out and also could have a the date it is comming out and you could enlarge the picture of kanye west on the side looking at the magazine.
I have lernt alot about technologies from the process of constructing this magazine front cover which include getting the right backgroung, the perfect picture because if u aint got a good picture the it aint going to look right and most important peopl will not buy it. Also i have learnt how to contrast the right colours together to bring that bit of umph out of the photo, And i have learnt that you have to spread the straplines out other wise it becomes too much and looks unattractive and people won buy it. Finally i have learnt that the style of writing helps the magazine alot its brings in a little more character to it instead of having the same style all the time wich makes it boring and not interesting.
I think that if i was to make another front cover for a magazine i would most definately plain ertai things more properly like costume camera angles straplines and other little things that could be included on the front cover also i think i would think more carefully about who i would work with because although it was fun working with these people i dont think we worked to our full potential.
Friday, 26 September 2008
GROUP 8 MAGAZINE COVERS!
Today we looked at several magazines and analyzed their genres and their cover terminologies , e.g. 'ROCK SOUND'. As a group we found out the following:
The Masthead had cracks in the lettering as the music is very loudMain Cover Line: 'Trivium Exposed' -The style was weird and dangerous. The letter 'T' was shaped as a knife. Finally we decided that the audience was for ; Goths , Punks and Teenagers. The photo looked a bit disturbing , the man had long black hair and all his clothes were dark. He was holding a guitar and it seemed as though he was banging it on the ground, therefore made it seem horrific and not the sort of parents would want their children to bring home.
Today's lesson was basically based on the set of purpose magazines give out , in theory it seems as though all magazines exist just for money and to deliver consumers to advertisers.
Today’s in Mary’s lesson we had to take our magazine images. We had to work with the people within our group. We took loads of shots that we thought were ideal and enough to put onto our magazine covers. Most of these shots were group pictures suitable and were mainly taken in the music room and on the stairs as our magazine was music related. After we finished we had a chance to browse at our images that we had taken that lesson. I then missed the next lesson which was meant to be on Friday 3rd with Dan as I was off sick, but I managed to catch up with what the rest of the group were doing, In Mary’s lesson on Tuesday.
Today’s lesson with Mary was in the Mac room, we were given the chance to make and design our own magazines covers. We had to work in pairs but it had to be with a person from your group we all sat next to each other, in order to make it easy for each other to share our ideas and communicate with each other. At the start of the lesson we were shown how to open up Photoshop and how to use it as well as; font, colour, layout and so on. Mary showed us how to create an A4 size sheet on Photoshop as it was were we would then work on our front covers from. We where then left to work on out magazines with the assurance of assistants and help available if we required it , each group had to design two different magazine covers but of the same genre so that meant two people had to work on one magazine. However The name of the magazine and the caption had to be the same for both the magazines. The colour of our magazine name was bold and in red, and we used the colour white for the other information that was on our magazine covers. We then played around with our group images and cut them out to our preferences and placed the ones we chose onto the centre of our magazine. On the top left we added and additional image or Rihanna and Chris brown as they would be featured in our magazine. We tried to use the same colours of our outfits with our background on our cover. I learnt a lot of new things from using Photoshop and I am sure the rest of the group did too. We did well in the time of the lesson leaving us with plenty of time to complete our magazine cover by the end of next lesson.
Today’s lesson with Dan was the final lesson to complete and finish our decorations of our front covers. We went straight from were we left off last lesson. Me and Elelta managed to nit ten up our cover and position everything correctly. We put a price and bar code on our magazine cover. We had little to do so we didn’t really have much to do after completing the magazine cover except start working on our evaluation. I think the magazine cover finished off looking great. It is something that I would pick up in a shop. The colour and the information are catchy and very clear to read.
EVALUATION
Finally our magazine cover is finished. Our task was to create a music magazine cover. Our magazine was called ‘ BUMP ’and its audience was aimed at teenagers aged from 16- 19 years of age, who’s preference is Urban music. The cover featured a lot of things; a free poster of the male members of the group CASE-Y, Chris and Ali, two celebrity images of Rihanna and Chris Brown and their interview with the group. The cover also contained a bar code which was next to the magazine cost. And finally our image was in the centre surrounded by bold bright text.
Firstly my magazine uses forms and conventions of real but unique music magazines through the way I have designed it. It has the same denotations and connotations as real magazines out there, due to its unique design and layout. The way I designed the magazine makes it have similarities with other real music magazines on the market. My magazine has a big and clear over head and large font making it so catchy and easy for the reader or the consumer to read immediately, as well as similar conventions as a real magazine would have such as the main picture which I placed in the centre of the front cover of the magazine. The main image on the front cover is also important that it links with the genre of the magazine.
Secondly my magazine represents certain social groups; teenagers from the age of 16-19 year olds. This is because that is mainly the age range of people that have a strong preference of urban music. It is important that the magazine is clear what age range it is for because of the context of the cover. I also think that my magazine cover represents that age range perfectly because it contains celebrities of the same ethnicity background as the consumer and stars of roughly their same age group and things that they possibly experience also. For example I wouldn’t except my magazine to be apply for someone who is old posh and that lives in the countryside or anywhere like that to have interest in the things and material within the magazine as would probably have no interest in such material of music or even music at all. That is why my magazine applies to urban/ hip hop fans that are more likely to live in a vibrant multi-cultural city. .
Thirdly I think that my music magazine cover would distribute to a multi-cultural media institution such as MTV because it is globally well known for urban and hip hop related material. I wouldn’t expect it to be on somewhere like ITV because it is not a performing arts related institution or globally known and certainly not a musically related media institution. MTV would be more likely to promote my magazine because a lot of their audience would most likely consume that king of magazine because of its content and nature. The output of my magazine is what they would expect from a genre of hip hop/urban. BET will also help promote my magazine because of the nature and entertainment their network broadcasts. They support and promote urban and ethnical music such as R & B Hip-hop and even Urban. And my magazine also provides news a lot of material these institutions broadcast.
The audience for my magazine cover would be teenagers and young adults from the age of 16 and mid 20’s that have a preference of Urban or Hip Hop, and also show an interest in all sources or entertainment and fame. I would also like it be unisex based so that both men and woman could relate to in some way.
I attracted my audience mainly through the name of my magazine name. It is unusual but catchy and very urban musically related. Also the main image because there was something different about everyone in the portrait even though we all had a preference of the same genre. We contrasted our outfit colours with the background of our cover making it bright and bold at the same time. I also addressed my audience by using images of teenagers and young adults in order to attract my consuming audience, so that my magazine can sell to the young urban generation.
I have learnt a lot of new things from the technologies, you can put new objects on a photo, Fake items and objects such as instruments on Photoshop, or easily play with an image and make it look original, you can completely transform and image from being original to being so exclusive and you can also add context that was not there when the image was originally taken. I have learned that not all images on magazines and newspapers are as they seem it could have easily been altered just the same way that i altered my images to make my magazine front cover. For example I could take a picture in a bathroom and I can then just cut out the background and put a new one for example somewhere on a beach. And you can just select certain colours that you want and change them into something completely different just by selecting the area. E.g. change the buttons on a jumper from grey to black. Or if you just want to cut out all the grey parts Photoshop can easily do that.
If i was to make another cover I would pick a totally difference genre possibly fashion since I have a passion for it. Even though the genre was quite easy for me and not really new to me as I was already familiar with it I would have liked to do something that was of my own choice. If I did fashion I would have done something modeling related because I am a model so I would just use my own images or use pictures fashion related or top celebrities. However I am happy with the way my magazine turned out because I learnt some new skills; such as learning how to use Photoshop a little bit and other things I wouldn’t have known could happen. Next time I would like to perhaps just try and explore more into the topic because even I am quite familiar with hip hop I could come across something totally new. And I would also like to spend a bit more time with the rest of my group members and help them more instead of not being so involved in their attributes to the task.
The Masthead had cracks in the lettering as the music is very loudMain Cover Line: 'Trivium Exposed' -The style was weird and dangerous. The letter 'T' was shaped as a knife. Finally we decided that the audience was for ; Goths , Punks and Teenagers. The photo looked a bit disturbing , the man had long black hair and all his clothes were dark. He was holding a guitar and it seemed as though he was banging it on the ground, therefore made it seem horrific and not the sort of parents would want their children to bring home.
Today's lesson was basically based on the set of purpose magazines give out , in theory it seems as though all magazines exist just for money and to deliver consumers to advertisers.
Today’s in Mary’s lesson we had to take our magazine images. We had to work with the people within our group. We took loads of shots that we thought were ideal and enough to put onto our magazine covers. Most of these shots were group pictures suitable and were mainly taken in the music room and on the stairs as our magazine was music related. After we finished we had a chance to browse at our images that we had taken that lesson. I then missed the next lesson which was meant to be on Friday 3rd with Dan as I was off sick, but I managed to catch up with what the rest of the group were doing, In Mary’s lesson on Tuesday.
Today’s lesson with Mary was in the Mac room, we were given the chance to make and design our own magazines covers. We had to work in pairs but it had to be with a person from your group we all sat next to each other, in order to make it easy for each other to share our ideas and communicate with each other. At the start of the lesson we were shown how to open up Photoshop and how to use it as well as; font, colour, layout and so on. Mary showed us how to create an A4 size sheet on Photoshop as it was were we would then work on our front covers from. We where then left to work on out magazines with the assurance of assistants and help available if we required it , each group had to design two different magazine covers but of the same genre so that meant two people had to work on one magazine. However The name of the magazine and the caption had to be the same for both the magazines. The colour of our magazine name was bold and in red, and we used the colour white for the other information that was on our magazine covers. We then played around with our group images and cut them out to our preferences and placed the ones we chose onto the centre of our magazine. On the top left we added and additional image or Rihanna and Chris brown as they would be featured in our magazine. We tried to use the same colours of our outfits with our background on our cover. I learnt a lot of new things from using Photoshop and I am sure the rest of the group did too. We did well in the time of the lesson leaving us with plenty of time to complete our magazine cover by the end of next lesson.
Today’s lesson with Dan was the final lesson to complete and finish our decorations of our front covers. We went straight from were we left off last lesson. Me and Elelta managed to nit ten up our cover and position everything correctly. We put a price and bar code on our magazine cover. We had little to do so we didn’t really have much to do after completing the magazine cover except start working on our evaluation. I think the magazine cover finished off looking great. It is something that I would pick up in a shop. The colour and the information are catchy and very clear to read.
EVALUATION
Finally our magazine cover is finished. Our task was to create a music magazine cover. Our magazine was called ‘ BUMP ’and its audience was aimed at teenagers aged from 16- 19 years of age, who’s preference is Urban music. The cover featured a lot of things; a free poster of the male members of the group CASE-Y, Chris and Ali, two celebrity images of Rihanna and Chris Brown and their interview with the group. The cover also contained a bar code which was next to the magazine cost. And finally our image was in the centre surrounded by bold bright text.
Firstly my magazine uses forms and conventions of real but unique music magazines through the way I have designed it. It has the same denotations and connotations as real magazines out there, due to its unique design and layout. The way I designed the magazine makes it have similarities with other real music magazines on the market. My magazine has a big and clear over head and large font making it so catchy and easy for the reader or the consumer to read immediately, as well as similar conventions as a real magazine would have such as the main picture which I placed in the centre of the front cover of the magazine. The main image on the front cover is also important that it links with the genre of the magazine.
Secondly my magazine represents certain social groups; teenagers from the age of 16-19 year olds. This is because that is mainly the age range of people that have a strong preference of urban music. It is important that the magazine is clear what age range it is for because of the context of the cover. I also think that my magazine cover represents that age range perfectly because it contains celebrities of the same ethnicity background as the consumer and stars of roughly their same age group and things that they possibly experience also. For example I wouldn’t except my magazine to be apply for someone who is old posh and that lives in the countryside or anywhere like that to have interest in the things and material within the magazine as would probably have no interest in such material of music or even music at all. That is why my magazine applies to urban/ hip hop fans that are more likely to live in a vibrant multi-cultural city. .
Thirdly I think that my music magazine cover would distribute to a multi-cultural media institution such as MTV because it is globally well known for urban and hip hop related material. I wouldn’t expect it to be on somewhere like ITV because it is not a performing arts related institution or globally known and certainly not a musically related media institution. MTV would be more likely to promote my magazine because a lot of their audience would most likely consume that king of magazine because of its content and nature. The output of my magazine is what they would expect from a genre of hip hop/urban. BET will also help promote my magazine because of the nature and entertainment their network broadcasts. They support and promote urban and ethnical music such as R & B Hip-hop and even Urban. And my magazine also provides news a lot of material these institutions broadcast.
The audience for my magazine cover would be teenagers and young adults from the age of 16 and mid 20’s that have a preference of Urban or Hip Hop, and also show an interest in all sources or entertainment and fame. I would also like it be unisex based so that both men and woman could relate to in some way.
I attracted my audience mainly through the name of my magazine name. It is unusual but catchy and very urban musically related. Also the main image because there was something different about everyone in the portrait even though we all had a preference of the same genre. We contrasted our outfit colours with the background of our cover making it bright and bold at the same time. I also addressed my audience by using images of teenagers and young adults in order to attract my consuming audience, so that my magazine can sell to the young urban generation.
I have learnt a lot of new things from the technologies, you can put new objects on a photo, Fake items and objects such as instruments on Photoshop, or easily play with an image and make it look original, you can completely transform and image from being original to being so exclusive and you can also add context that was not there when the image was originally taken. I have learned that not all images on magazines and newspapers are as they seem it could have easily been altered just the same way that i altered my images to make my magazine front cover. For example I could take a picture in a bathroom and I can then just cut out the background and put a new one for example somewhere on a beach. And you can just select certain colours that you want and change them into something completely different just by selecting the area. E.g. change the buttons on a jumper from grey to black. Or if you just want to cut out all the grey parts Photoshop can easily do that.
If i was to make another cover I would pick a totally difference genre possibly fashion since I have a passion for it. Even though the genre was quite easy for me and not really new to me as I was already familiar with it I would have liked to do something that was of my own choice. If I did fashion I would have done something modeling related because I am a model so I would just use my own images or use pictures fashion related or top celebrities. However I am happy with the way my magazine turned out because I learnt some new skills; such as learning how to use Photoshop a little bit and other things I wouldn’t have known could happen. Next time I would like to perhaps just try and explore more into the topic because even I am quite familiar with hip hop I could come across something totally new. And I would also like to spend a bit more time with the rest of my group members and help them more instead of not being so involved in their attributes to the task.
Magazine Covers
In todays lesson with dan, we learned about magazines and audience. we analysed the cover of Rock Sound.
we learned that many magazines are sold for the companies to earn alot of money just from telling some stories about other people or different things.
we also learned that the mast head of the cover is the word ROCK SOUND. It is stretched across the page. it is white bold writting and has little scratches on the ends of the letters. this suggests to me that the music is loud and hard.
also the man with long black hair with many funky tattoos in the photo looked as if he is posesed whilst holding a guitar as if he was going to smash it over someones head.
also the bands mentioned in the magazine sound weird and dangerous for example motor head cancer bats, suicide silence etc. the main colours on the front cover are dark colours like dark blue or black.
on the front cover they used words like slipnot, trivium which i thought was a little extreme and aimed for teenagers, goths, punks etc.
Also they magazine is advertising free cd's if you buy this magazine, the cd contains songs from them brutall artist like suicide silence
ROCK SOUND Magazine Cover
In today's lesson we learned about magazines and audiences. All media exists to make money and magazines exist to deliver consumers to advertisers. As a group wee analysed the cover of 'Rock Sound' magazine and we found out the following:
Masthead: The title of the magazine was bold and had cracks to show how loud rock music is.
Strapline: The sub-heading of 'Trivium' is presented with a deadly font and the letters 'T' and 'M' are styled to look like a knife.
Main Cover Image: This showed a man posing aggressively with a guitar. He had an angry expression on his face, showing his tattoos. This illustrates the music of the magazine being deadly and gothic.
Graphic: The magazine also had a promotion of 3 posters included, attracting their target audience even more. Its target audience are punks, goths and emos.
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