Lesson 10

Transscript: This lesson I created my questionnaire. I made this for market research to look into the style of music magazine the public wants and what they look for. . I made sure I used different styles of questions so I could get a variety of responses like qualitative and quantitative.. I asked questions that gave me an idea of what my magazine should include.

Aditional information:
I sent out the link to get people to fill it out on my twitter and Facebook to get as many responses as possible. When I have a decent amount of responses I will analyse the feedback and begin to brain storm my ideas further.

My Music Magazine Survey

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I made this so I could research into what types of music magazines people would like. This is finding out the customer wants and needs so I can adjust my magazine to them and therefore it will be more popular.

Lesson 9

This lesson I decided to finish my iconography of Indie music as this is the style of music I will probably base my magazine on. This required me to do quite a bit of research and find a lot of pictures. I also learnt how to use Prezi as I have never used it before. It took me a while to figure out the layout. I have decided who I will ask to do the photo shoot for me, I have 3 from outside of school and maybe 2 from inside. I have asked if I can do a bot group on the front cover as I think this will look more interesting than just one person. Also, I have the idea of doing a photo shoot outside of school because it will add interesting backgrounds and individuality to my magazine. Also the use of other back grounds means I will have more photos to choose from as I would like a variety of choices.

Representation of Indie Music

This is a prezi about the representation of Indie music and atrists. I talk about how Indie artists dress and style themselves. This is helpful because I can refere to it for when I am styling my models for my photoshoots as I am doing an indie magazine.

Research of 3 Double Page Spreads

I analysed some double page spreads. This gave me an idea of what I want to do with my own magazine when I have to start making designs. I looked at differnt styles to see what flows and what is easy to read, also what grabs the readers attention. All of this has to be taken into concideration for my own magazine. I didnt like the first article I analysed as it was too small and I feel mine has to have a lot of information to look detailed and busy. Also the photos werent layed out very well. However I wont do one like the last double spread (arctic monkeys) as I dont feel it has enough information on it, although it does get the readers attention.

Lesson 8

This lesson i continued with my double page spread analysis. This is going well and i have found lots to write about. Next lesson I need to continue with analysis as I havent finished yet. Also i am going to start asking people to model for my magazine photo shoot as I will begin takin photos soon so I am prepared ahead of starting the real magazine. 

Lesson 7

This lesson I started to analyse double page spreads. First I had to chose some good ones to use. Here are some I had to chose from. However I didnt use these as I found some more which were easier to analyse and I personally found more interesting.

Research of 3 Contents Pages

My analysis of contents pages helped me to see what i needed on mine. I looked at different lay outs and genres of music and how this influenced how the contents page was set out. This had helped me because I can use some ideas to put into my magazine and imporve it when I start to make some designs. I tried to chose 3 different styles of contents pages because it gave me more to write about and gave me an insight to different types for different audiences.

Reasearch of 3 Music Front covers

This is my evaluation of existing music magazine front covers. I did this because it helps me look into detail at why certain things are there and what magazines generally have. I also now know what appeals to certain audiences and that the colours, pose and clothing of the artist matters and resembles their music style. So I can use this evaluation to look at my magazine when I make it to improve it as much as I can. and i can also take insperation for my own designs.

Lesson 6

This lesson I continued evaluating the front covers of existing successful magazines as i missed last lesson and couldnt access my work. However, I need to get the front cover evaluations from home as they didnt send properly on my e-mail. I moved onto the analysis of the contents pages. These were hard to find so I had to email them to myself. Once I had these I moved on to commenting on them for example the colour schemes and fonts. This was made easier as I found some online help. I just need to finish analysing them for homework and then upload them on slide share then to my blog. I think my magazine will be like NME as I like the style of music theyreport about and their layout and photo stype looks really good. I think analysing the past magazines has helped me decide as I've seen other stypes of music magazines. I have also had a look at other students magazines and taken thoughts from them.