Monday 10 December 2012

Article Research

Glogster on my article research. Including scans of an article in Q for The xx, dps artist article research and interview questions.

Saturday 1 December 2012

Planning Production

Sliderocket on my music magazine Planning Production.

Magazine Publication Plan


Title:  VINYL (MS Reference Sans Serif)

Positioning Statement: Everything Independent

Frequency of Publication: Monthly

Price: £3.50

Distribution: Music/Vinyl stores, supermarkets, newsagents.

Rationale:  The approach of my magazine is from a music critic’s point of view. Opinions of bands/artists will be said, without consideration of what readers may think.

Style: Informal, Writers own opinions on bands/artists and not afraid to slate an artist/band. 

Regular Content
·         Band/Artist of the Month – Magazine picks a band that they haven’t taken off repeat.
·         Indie Music Chart – The songs in the indie music chart this month.
·         Gig Guide
·          Tour Dates
·         Following...- Q&A with current hot artist.
·         Question Time – Member of band/artist is asked questions on their music, inside back cover page.
·         Fan Mail page
·         Slated Bands –On the way down.
·         Competition – Signed vinyl’s to win
Feature Content
·         Interview with featured indie artist (Connie Roberts)
·         Bombay Bicycle Club- live sessions Review
·         Jake Bugg -  Interview on powering the indie chart in 2013  
·         Orlando Weeks – Maccabees front man speaks out about his favourite songs.
·         The Bands/Artists of 2012
·         Glastonbury 2013 article
·         Jamie T – His comeback to music
·         Are fans paying too much on gig prices?
·         Friendly Fires – On their new album
·         The Vaccines – Justin Young and his love of chart music
·         Foxes – Filming new video in NY City
·         The Maccabees – After ‘GTTW’
·         The xx – Touring
·         Laura Marling – Britain’s best female singer?


House Style
Title:  MS Reference Sans Serif
Positioning statement: Everything Independent(vijaya)
Coverlines:  Arial
Sublines: Arial Narrow
Standfirst and by-line: Times New Roman
Captions: Arial
Body Text: Times New Roman 11pt
Colour Scheme: Neutral green, turquoise, white, black

Tuesday 6 November 2012

Video Recording for my Questionnaire.

Video recording of a few questions asked from my questionnaire.

Indie Music Magazine Questionnaire Recording.

Slideshare of a recording, asking questions from my indie music magazine questionnaire and getting my answers that will contribute towards my magazine.

Questionnaire Results and Conclusions.

Slideshare on my indie music magazine questionnaire results and their conclusions.

Wednesday 31 October 2012

Questionnaire Questions.

Slideshare on my questionnaire questions for my indie music magazine.

Questionnaire Screenshot.

A screenshot of my music magazine questionnaire that I gave out for people to fill in to help me with my own indie music magazine. I asked 20 different people to fill in my questionnaire which the questions were revolved around the indie genre.

Monday 29 October 2012

Analysis of an indie Double Page Spread.

This is an analysis of a professional double page spread from NME magazine, I made this using Prezi, it shows an explanation of the codes and conventions of a double page spread and an image of a professional double page spread from NME.

Saturday 27 October 2012

Sunday 14 October 2012

Research on the Indie Music Magazine Market Place.

Prezi to show my research on the indie music magazine market place. All 3 magazine examples include their Media Pack.

Thursday 11 October 2012

Evaluation of School Front Cover and Contents Page.

An evaluation created with Powerpoint and uploaded on Slideshare to show my process of my final school magazine front cover and contents page.

Wednesday 10 October 2012

Saturday 6 October 2012

Final School Magazine Front Cover.

Final Front Cover design for my school magazine front cover. It has changed from the original plan from the student changing to a sixth form student along with the main coverline changing from 'School Uniform' to 'School Fashion Week'.The layout is very much the same along with the masthead, coverlines and sublines etc. I could have included the writing in the puff on the left side of the magazine. This is for the 'free pasta token' included within the magazine.

School Magazine Contents Page Screen Shots.

A sliderocket to show how I made my contents page for my School Magazine on Quark. Including analysis of what I did.

School Magazine Front Cover Screen Shots.

Screen shots of how I made my school magazine front cover on Photoshop.

Photos took/used for school magazine.

Photos I took/used for my school magazine front cover and contents page, used with sliderocket.

Sketch School Magazine Contents Page.

Sketch of my school magazine contents page on Glogster. Different from written up plan as I changed the main coverline 'School Uniform' to 'School Fashion Week'.

Planning Content

Powerpoint to show my plan for my school magazine contents page.

Sketch School Magazine Front Cover

Image of my sketch front cover for my school magazine.

School Magazine Front cover Plan

A powerpoint to present my school front cover plan, I then uploaded this to slideshare.

Thursday 27 September 2012

Friday 21 September 2012

Codes and Conventions of Music Front Covers

We learnt how the codes and conventions of music magazine front covers and was asked to type it up, I used powerpoint to do this and uploaded it to slideshare.

Thursday 20 September 2012