Reader profile

Using www.surveymonkey.com i created a survey to find out information to aid me in designing my own magazine. I posted the link on my facebook as people go on facebook alot so i would get enough responses. Some of the questions included: what are you favourite music artists? which websites do you visit most? and how do you access new music? I collected the responses for these and presented a few of the revelant ones in this reader profile aswel as adding a few of my own ideas which i think my readers may like. This will give me inspiration to what sort of things i could include in my magazine to appeal to my target audience.



The basics of my music magazine

The genre of music I have chosen to base my music magazine on is a mixture of dance, rave and break beat. I chose to do this as I listen to that sort of music myself so I will have a better idea of what my target audience will be looking for in a music magazine of this genre.Obviously my target audience are people who are interested in this type of music as this is not a very mainstream magazine. This is also aimed at people in the age range of 16 to 20 years, more for the reason that most the advertisements and content are not appropriate for under 16s. I have found few on the internet of this genre but ‘rave’ is one stylistic influence as generally I like the content of it as it definitely meets its target audience. The name of my music magazine will be ‘volume’ as it is suitable for the genre as this sort of music is played loud.

detailed analysis of three music magazine double page spreads

Detailed analysis of three music magazine contents pages

Detailed analysis of three music magazine front covers

Analysis of music magazine front covers taken from my moodboard

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Music magazine mood board

Finished college magazine front cover and contents page

College magazine contents page

College Magazine Contents Page Sequence Slideshow

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My college magazine front cover

1)I first used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out my medium close up on the two students in the chosen image for my front cover.










2)Next i added a white background and a masthead. I downloaded my font from the website www.dafont.com then enlarged it to make it stand out.










3)I also used the same font from dafont.com to use for my main cover line which I also inverted, rotated and enlarged to make it livelier.










4)I then searched on Google images for a barcode which I copy and pasted on my cover and I then added a issue number at the top using Photoshop’s fonts.










5)The next thing I did was added the price in bright red, again using Photoshop font. I put a bright yellow star behind the price by using the brushes already available on Photoshop. This was to catch peoples eye as when people see they price they will think it’s cheap and take a better look at the magazine.










6)Next I added a tagline below the masthead so people get an idea of what the magazines about.

7)At the bottom of the page I also added text advertising a competition to incise people to read to find out more. I used Photoshop’s fonts to do this and I also put it in red as it stands out more. I placed a bright yellow star behind the word ‘win’ and £30 to catch people’s eye. I made sure that when I was creating my cover that the important things were left aligned as that’s what people will see when the magazines are stacked on the shop shelves which was my intentions when positioning the price, competition at the bottom and also the main cover line.

My CD front cover and back cover

The programme i used to create my back and front cd cover was photoshop. I got my front cover font from the website http://www.dafont.com/ and the back cover font was from photoshop. As the genre of music is dance, i wanted my covers to have a club theme which is what iv tried to do with the background. I used several brushes on photoshop to create the effect of bright lights like in a club. I chose to use bright colours as they stand out to attract peoples attention to the cd.

Moodboard Powerpoint

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