Vibe music magazine analysis

    Examples of genre

•    The shot types vary slightly from mid-shots to close ups. They do this because they want the consumers to focus on the artist this way when they see the artist their attention is focused on the artist. The camera angle for all my pictures remains consistent throughout VIBE and XXL. The lighting in all the magazines are are bright making the  The costumes tend to be plain (usually black or white) to make them lighter and focus's the readers attention on the artist rather than his or her's clothing. The representations shown are rich black males that tend to have tattoos and jewellery to show their success and fame. The background colours are black or white they do this to divert the readers attention to the artist and cover lines.

Treatment

Hand drawn designs

Audience research

Layouts

Mastheads

October 2015 feedback

Colour scheme

The colour scheme that I could use for my music magazine. I'm planning on using strong bold colours because they are common in rap and hip hop magazines. This will help categorise my music magazine in the rap/hip-hop genre.

House styles

As you can see I've chosen 'vibe' as my music magazine and as you can also see the house styles is mostly the same on all the magazines. In all the magazine covers the masthead is a bold, large and clearly visible. The masthead is the same every time so existing audiences can easily identify a vibe product. The colours of the mastheads are all bold colours and tend to change. The main image is always an artist and the artist is either in front of the image or behind. The background is basic in most cases. The cover lines are never over the face of the artist so the audience can identify who is on the cover and the name.

Research on rap/hip-hop

sources used:
Wikipedia
Rap world

My initial ideas

I have analysed this music magazine and talked about the cover lines, masthead and anchorage text.

Magazine cover and contents page draft 2

I have taken feedback from my peers and my teacher and made adjustments by making it less busy, adding colour and re-sizing my logo.

Feedback from my peers

This the feedback I received from my peers and my teacher on my magazine cover. I have now received the feedback and will make adjustments to my work based on this.

This cover is my first draft.

This cover is my first draft.

In my magazine I have used a masthead, cover lines, logo's and a image for the front cover. The masthead name that I have chosen is 'Plantsbrook news'. I have chosen this because from the name the audience tells us that the magazine is going to be about things happening in plantsbrook. I got the masthead made from 'Dafont'. The image and cover lines support this because the image show's a student in school uniform and the cover lines talk about things happening in the school. The main image is a photo of a student who is currently in plantsbrook sixth form. The use of a sixth form student tell's us it's aimed at sixth form students. The student is the largest object on the screen so all attention can be focused on him. In my cover lines I talk about things that a sixth form student or someone who is about to enter sixth form might find useful, things like revision tips and after school clubs. I have placed the logo underneath the masthead so that people fully understand that the magazine is about plantsbrook. I've already talked about my target audience being sixth formers but can also be aimed towards year 11 students because this will give them a taste of what sixth form can/will be like. I have used a range of techniques to attract the readers attention like a large image of a student which the readers can relate to, different coloured cover lines to make it more attracting and a large masthead.

My september feedback

This is my feedback for September's work based on my teachers marking.

These are my results from the survey I made.

This is my survey and the questions that i'm going to use about my questionnaire.


https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GFC5YHH

Two more magazine cover design's

 This is my design draft for my school magazine. Majority of the front cover will be taken up by the image and the masthead will be in the top right hand corner. I have left space underneath it for cover lines. My large image is big because to catch the reader or someone passing by's attention. My image will be of a student which will hopefully attract a younger audience if they see a picture of their peer on the front cover.

This is my third design draft for my school magazine. This has been split down the middle from right to left leaving the top half to have my masthead with plenty of room and my bottom half to have a image which is quiet large so it attracts the reader or someone passing by's attention. Also it's colourful so it appeals to a younger audience. My cover lines is the space in the middle which separates the masthead from the image.

My mastheads

These are three mastheads i designed that I could use for my magazine.

My magazine cover design

These are my cover designs for my magazine, the mastheads are placed in different places in the page so I have a range of different designs.

Photography

 In these two lessons I learnt how to apply my camera angles knowledge in my photos.
Created with flickr slideshow.

My first school magazine cover

The Masthead is in black fancy capital lettering which make's it appealing and catches the readers eye.The magazine cover doesn't look like it's a adult made/suited magazine, and with the different range of colours and drawings it makes it appealing to a younger audience, which is good because it's aimed at the students of plantsbrook. With my cover lines I have ranged the information from the youngest age group to the oldest so the magazine is suitable for all students. To raise the students attention towards the magazine I added a 'Puff' which is a free pencil case to make the student/reader go for this magazine. I have purposely used only four colours throughout my magazine cover (Black,white, green, brown) as they appear in the school's logo and to keep it within the same theme.

Masthead analysis

The masthead is 'class'. It's written in bold writing all uppercase in
black font. It has a white outline and another outline outside that but in blue. The background is a opposite colour to make it stand out. The masthead is 'Honor student'. It's got a time's new roman font to show the professional/higher education look to make it look like it's for adult's or older teenagers.

The masthead is 'Independent school'. It has two different colour's to make the masthead standout, also the text is different on different words to make it stand out.

School magazine analysis

Magazine analysis

Music magazines

 

They all have a black/white background very plain and bold colours. The mastheads with males on the cover are bold and the other covers with females on them have thin text. All the magazines above have artist's that are leaders, most respected and the one's that are trending the most in their current time. All the magazine cover's have a close up image of the artist's face which show's us the emotion on the face of the artist.