December 20th Deadline

The deadline for the rough copies of my magazine front cover, double page spread and contents page is the 20th of December. Within the next few weeks while i am taking photos, using Photoshop or InDesign to create anything, i will update my blog to show the progress i make.

Article Planning

Fonts

Masthead Fonts - 'HME'

The first font, Bebas, is probably my favourite font out of the three I have selected. This is my favourite because it it very bold and will therefore stand out against the background. Not only this,it is thick enough that there will be enough room to have 2 strokes on it, which is how I plan on making my masthead. 

The second font, Streamster, despite being a nice looking font, would not be suitable for a masthead. This is because it is not bold enough so that it will grab the attention of my target audience. As well as this, i do not believe it looks like it would fit into the 'Indie Rock' genre that my magazine is.

The third and final font, An Unfortunate Event, would also not fit into the 'Indie Rock' genre. I believe that this font would look more at home in a metal or punk music magazine, and therefore is unsuitable for use in my own.

Sell Line Fonts - 'Symbol Deed'

Once again, for the main sell line I have selected to use the Bebas font. I have chosen to also use this font for the sell lines as well as the mast head because not only does it create a common style that will run throughout the magazine, it is also the perfect size and shape to use on the front cover. Not only this, it has a modern look to it, which is what i am aiming for, because it will make the front cover of my magazine look quite modern, meaning it will attract the attention of the younger generation, who are my target audience.

The second font, True Lies, is also a very nice font. However, due to the slight distortion on it i don't believe that it would suit the look of my magazine, and would more fit into a rock magazine, like Kerrang. 

The third font, Atlantic Cruise, was a close second for use for the sell line. However I chose to use Bebas because i believed this font looked slightly old fashioned, which is not what I am aiming my magazine to look.

Body Text Fonts

For my body text font, it needs to be clear, easy to read, and yet small enough to be able to fit enough text on a single page. As well as this, they need to be very simple to read when there is lots of the same font together. This is because body text is used as the bulk of a page, and if you are unable to read the font when there a more than just few lines of it, then it is useless as a body text. Despite this, I want my magazine to have a sleek and modern feel to it, and because of this I have chosen to use the second font, Roboto. The main reason why i have chosen to use this as the body text font is because it looks very modern, and it also goes very well with Bebas, the font I will be using for my Masthead and Sell lines.

Recreating Photos

Evaluation of a 'Q Magazine' article

I read through an example article from a 'Q' magazine. In the article, I identified many different features in it that we were shown about previously. One of these features was a main headline/title. The title of this article was 'Kick Out the Jams', which is very short and snappy, and this, and as well as this, the font was far larger than any other font on the page. These two features paired together means that the title/headline was very effective at catching the reader's attention and getting them to read further into the article.

Secondly, drop caps were used at the beginning of the main body text. This is effective because not only does it point of the beginning of the article, but it also draws the readers attention straight after the title, almost forcing them to read on.

After this, subheadings were used throughout the whole article. This helps to divide the body text up, which makes it much more appealing to read, because it does not just look like one extremely large chunk of text, as this can often deter somebody from reading the article. As well as this, they can also help people to easliy skip to a certain part of the article if they are not interested in the rest of it. In one of the subheadings, a quote was used from on e of the band members. This makes the article much more appealing to fans of the band, because people like to know what the band members are like behind the scenes, and also to see if there is any details that may not be in any other magazine.

As well as these, anecdotes and stories were used from the band members to add the the exclusivity of the magazine and in particular the article.

Institutional Research

Magazine Name: NME

Publisher: IPC Media

Publisher also owns:
Amateur Gardening (magazines) 
Amateur Photographer (magazines) 
Anglers Mail (magazines) 
Bird Keeper (magazines) 
Chat (magazines) 
Chat - It's Fate (magazines) 
Country Homes & Interiors (magazines) 
Country Life (magazines) 
Cycle Sport (magazines) 
Cycling Weekly (magazines) 
Decanter (magazines) 
Essentials (magazines) 
Eventing (magazines) 
The Field (magazines) 
4x4 (magazines) 
Golf Monthly (magazines) 
Volkswagen Golf+ (magazines) 
Homes & Gardens (magazines) 
Horse (magazines) 
Horse and Hound (magazines) 
Ideal Home (magazines) 
InStyle (magazines) 
International Boat Industry (magazines) 
Livingetc (magazines) 
Look (magazines) 
Marie Claire (magazines) 
Motor Boat & Yachting (magazines) 
Motor Boats Monthly (magazines) 
Motor Caravan Magazine (magazines) 
Mountain Bike Rider (magazines) 
NME (magazines) 
Now (magazines) 
Nuts (magazines) 
Pick Me Up (magazines) 
Practical Boat Owner (magazines) 
Rugby World (magazines) 
Shoot Monthly (magazines) 
The Shooting Gazette (magazines) 
Shooting Times (magazines) 
Soaplife (magazines) 
Sporting Gun (magazines) 
Teen Now (magazines) 
Total Golf (magazines) 
TV & Satellite Week (magazines) 
TV Easy (magazines) 
TV Times (magazines) 
25 Beautiful Gardens (magazines) 
25 Beautiful Homes (magazines) 
25 Beautiful Kitchens (magazines) 
Uncut (magazines) 
Uncut DVD (magazines) 
VolksWorld (magazines) 
Wallpaper* (magazines) 
Wedding (magazines) 
What Digital Camera (magazines) 
What's On TV (magazines) 
Woman (magazines) 
Woman and Home (magazines) 
Woman's Own (magazines) 
Woman's Weekly (magazines) 
Woman's Weekly Fiction (magazines) 
World Soccer (magazines) 
Yachting Monthly (magazines) 
Yachting World (magazines) 

Their other magazines that IPC Media create have a very wide number of target audiences for their different magazines. This ranges from football fans ('World Soccer (magazines)'), to Volkswagen enthusiasts ('Volkswagen Golf+ (magazines)')

The URL of IPC Media's website is (http://www.ipcmedia.com/).I accessed this website on 04/11/2013.

Some of the largest selling magazines the IPC Media sells is 'NME', 'Nuts' and 'Now'. however, some of the more 'special interests' magaiznes that they also produce could be magazines like, 'Total Golf', 'International Boat Industry' and 'Bird Keeper'.

Location Recce - Front cover

Feature writing research - Language and Features

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Overall, structure and organisation is extremly important to maintain a active group of readers, and also to make sure it is as appealing as possible to get people to read it in the first place. As well as this, it makes the artice far more entertaining to read. Not only these, but if the article is very set out, including valid and unusual points, facts and opinions, the customers are far more likely to enjoy the article.

Organising Costumes and Props

According to Prof. Deborah Landis, the primary function of costume and props is storytelling/. With regards to my production this means; for my print production careful planning of costumes and props is important because -

- It will help to me to set the scene of the magazine, and also extinguish the genre of the magazine is quickly and simply as possible.
 - It will also enable me to come up with an effective colour scheme to theme the rest of my magazine components from. This will mean it will be consistent with all of the other aspects in my production.

Props and Costumes

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Location Recce mindmap

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Location Recce

A Location Recce is when somebody who is going to be filming/recording in a specific location goes to that location before they begin their filming. This enables them to scout out the location for suitability, and address any lighting or sound issues that they may encounter. As well as this, they can perform any risk assessments that they may need to. However, Location Recce's also mean that the director can check opening times for the location, and also to make sure they are able to shoot there when it is available to use during openings with schedules and other factors like the weather. Not only this, they can prepare extra equipment they may need for example if the location was in a very open, outdoors place, they may need to create wind blockers to make the quality of the final recordings better.

Researching Genre

Finished Prelim Products

Our recreated photos

Textual Analysis

Flat Plans - Prelim task

My Chosen Brief

Print:
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. 

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. 

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate.