Typography

Drop caps are used at the beginning of a page and generally take up three to four lines, it is always the first letter of the first word, they are used to draw the readers eye to the beginning of the text.

 

Finding these fonts for my magazine has helped me figure out what kind of font I want to use for my magazine as well as the size of the font, it taught me what effect a font can have on the reader and that it can completely transform the style and genre of the magazine simply through font choice.

Colours and Spacing 

The colour is important as a feature as it can be used to draw the reader to a specific place or add emphasis to an otherwise unnoticeable position. I learned about the importance of spacing as a tool for emphasis as well as showing the reader there is a difference between texts.

Fashion Planning

Looking at current fashion has helped me to know what the band members will wear, they will wear different costumes in different photo shoots. This will then resemble following the band on tour and having them participate ion a number of shoots.

Photo Shoot Planning

This task helped me to get an idea of what I want for my shots for my magazine and to think about how I'm going to take them and where would be the best place for the shots. It also made me work out the style of the shots I want to take.

Music magazine research representation

Rate Card

Completing this task has taught me what I want from my magazine and what I intend to include, it gave me an idea of how I wish to structure my magazine also.

Mood Board Video

                                                         From doing this task and creating my mood board it gave me a good idea on what ideas I can implement into my magazine and what style I am looking to achieve, from discussing the ideas behind the mood board I also learned about what characteristics a photo will need to be used in a rock magazine.

Logo Planning

This task gave me the chance to create a style for my Logo, it gave me several ideas on what I want for my Logo and allowed me to come up with a final style for it. I learned a lot a bout the importance of style when used for a logo and I now know more about fonts.

Sub Hertz (my magazine) Flat Plan

It is important to know the content of my magazine as I will be making the front cover, contents page and a double page spread. I will need to know where they are in the magazine and what will be surrounding them so I can make them as related where it is as I can.

Mood board

From doing this task and creating my mood board it gave me a good idea on what ideas I can implement into my magazine and what style I am looking to achieve

Dragon's Den Pitch

Doing this task helped me understand the market I will be aiming my magazine towards as well as giving me ideas on what pictures I will be using and what I will be featuring in my magazine.
I later went on to change my style of magazine from rock to drum and bass. I used the concepts from this task to help further my understanding of different styles I could use but had to change several as there was no overlap of genres.

Thinking of a concept

Doing this task helped me create a concept for my magazine, it gave me an area to compile all of my thoughts and ideas for the magazine. It was helpful because once I had come up with one idea then I could just use that one to come up with more ideas and eventually I had a good idea of what I want to do for the magazine.
I later went on to change my ideas from rock to that of drum and bass but used the concepts and ideas I had compiled to my advantage and used those ideas to stem more ideas but instead of into rock I thought more about how to turn these initial ideas into a drum and bass magazine.

Picture Analysis

This task taught me about which shots are characteristic of my magazine genre and how to implement them effectively. It taught me about when it is the correct time to use one shot over the other and as such I have improved my knowledge of shot angles, when to use them and how to use them.

Alignment Task

This task helped me develop ideas about what a template of a front cover, contents page, double page spread looks like and how to create one myself.

Content and double page spread analysis

This task taught me a lot about what is common in each magazine, what the constants are within magazines which will allow me to better construct my own magazine later on. I learned a lot about the necessities for certain pages and what made certain contents pages or double page spreads stand out from the others, this will be key in making my own design original and interesting.

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Audience research survey

The results of my survey showed a number of things such as the lack of regular purchase of music magazines, most responses were rarely to never showing the market is not very large at least within people aged 18-34 as these were the only age range to respond to my survey. The type of music listened to by my respondents came up generally as pop, chart music, this shows me that it is important for the music represented in my magazine must be popular and have recognition within the charts. I found the price my respondents were willing to pay averaged around £5 which I believe is a fair price for me to sell my magazine at. I found that the content of the magazine heavily outweighed the worth of the presentation and as such I will focus more on the content aspects of my magazine rather than the aesthetics. I found that people find interviews very interesting and are important for the magazine to be successful as people like to learn about the artists. It was apparent that people would read a music magazine not based solely on their favorite type of music if the magazine was presented in such a way as to draw their attention.

Rate card analysis

History of music magazines

How magazines attract an audience

This research has taught me that to make a successful music magazine cover I need to create connections and give the reader an incentive to buy mine over another such as exclusive interviews.

Magazines in a shop

Magazines in a shop on PhotoPeach