Sketch of my Double Page Spread.

I put the title on the top left hand corner so that the audiece are still intuned to the magazine. I had the photo quite largely spaced on the left hand page and so the quote from the band/artist could just cover the image slightly. There will be a capital letter at the top of the text column and an interview will be written underneath it. The photographers name will be palced in the bottom right footer and the page numbers in each corner.

Sketch of my Contents Page.

My contents page is a lot less busier than my front cover so that its more spread out and easier to see. I wanted to have the title of the magazine with 'this week' written afterwards and the website address below with the date followinig. I had a few headings to section off different subjects and the pictures with page numbers within the pictures but in the corner so that it doesnt distract the audience from the photo. I had the page numbers underneath the headers and then some description or text taken out of the article next to it. The photogrpaher of the pictures would be named in the right hand footer.

Sketch of my Front Cover.

This is my sketch for my music magazines front cover. From my reserach I have found that many magazines have a very busy front cover so I decided to have a splash in the top right hand corner, I then had the images name coming across them slightly with a quote from the article that would be avaliable inside. A smaller picture would be seen on the left below the title of the magazine, with a snippet from the article. The barcode will be in the bottom right hand corner with a competition about it and across to the left will be another photo with the review of albums or new releasers.

Results.

Results These are all of my results from my questionnaire that I have given out to my 20 participants. This helped me to understand what my audience wanted and what would appeal to majority of them.

A Filled in Questionnaire.

I took a picture of a filled in questionnaire from what one of the participants have done.

Blank Questionnaire.

This is my questionnaire blank. I had these questions done because it is what I was most worried about for my magazine. I asked around my school so I had my own target audience and wanted to know what they liked about music magazines the most.

Generic Conventions of Rock magazines.

Front Cover

·        Always 1 main image in the middle of the front cover.

·        The colour scheme is always black, white and red.

·        There is always a list of groups or artists along either the right or left.

·        The name of the artist or group is always over the image of them.

·        The title of the magazine is behind the celebrity generally.

·        There is a ‘splash’ in the top right corner of the magazine.

·        The writing surrounding the celebrity is generally a different colour to the rest of the colours on the page to be less associated with the rest of the page.

·        The colour of the background is plain white to help the artist or group to stand out as well as the title.

Contents Page

·        The column for page numbers is always on the left or right never through the middle.

·        There is never all of the page numbers in the column.

·        The date is always underneath the title of the contents page.

·        The website is in the page.

·        There is an image that relates to their top story and is placed on the top of the page.

·        Columns are sectioned off into straplines when going onto another topic.

·        A review of some kind; artists, albums or new comings.

·        The colours are all the same as the front cover to link.

·        The background is white to help the stories, page numbers and image to stand out from the rest.

·        There is credit given to the photographer and article writer.

Double Page Spread

·        The font for the title is always associated with the topic of the story.

·        The general colours are black, white and red, the same as the contents page and the front cover.

·        The start of the articles letter is always in a larger size to the rest of the writing.

·        The background is generally plain white to help the celebrity to stand out and for the story to stand out too.

·        The image is a larger scale compared to the text in all to help keep the audience interested in reading the story.

·        The text is small so that there are more words typed in but into a more compressed space.

·        A quote is normally the title of the page to start off the story.

Radial Analysis of Double Page Spreads.

Double Page Spread

Radial Analysis of Contents Pages.

Contents Page Magazines

Radial analysis of Front Covers.

Front Cover Magazines