Bauer Media and IPC Media

Friday 27th March



Today I looked at Bauer Media (http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/ ) and IPC Media (http://www.ipcmedia.com/), from these two groups I will decide what one would be most appropriate for my music magazine, from looking at them both I have decided that Bauer Media would be more suitable for my magazine. My reasons for this are that they dont have alot of pop publications so there is an opportunity there for my magazine, The publishing group would expand my magazine through to TV, online and radio, as they encourage this in many of their magazines.

Bauer Media is reliable, they own so much; they have 230 magazines in 15 countries. So they could make my magazine international.

I have also planned my evaluation questions.

Images for my magazine

I took this photograph for my double page spread. I will edit this image to make it look professional.

What works well
In this picture there are many thing what work well; Firstly the person in this photo is looking directly at the camera therefore catching the readers attention and engaging the reader making the reader feel involved.

The genre is pop, and there is a big smile on the persons face, which is typical of images in pop magazines. Also she is wearing bright colours attracting readers and the colour pink, which is a typical girly colour, and the target audience for my magazine is young teenage girls so it relates to the target audience also.

What doesn't work well
There are a few things which dont work so well with this image. The location is not suitable for taking this picture as in the background of the image there is too much going on so this will need to be edited out.

Overall i think this is a successful image for my magazine double page spread.

Top of the Pops

I was looking at another Top of the Pops magazine front cover, using the internet and i found key facts about the pop magazine; i learnt that the majority of readers are girls; 87% girls, to 13% boys, this would have a big affect what was in the magazine, dedicating more of the content to interest girls, i will take this information in mind when creating my magazine.
The price of Top of the Pops magazine is £2.85, i may price my magazine cheaper to appeal to a wider audience.
This is very helpful to me as my music magazine is pop, the same genre as my magazine.


Here is the link to the website where i got this from:
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbcmagazinesadvertising.com/library/public/Magazine%2520Covers/TOTP_big.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbcmagazinesadvertising.com/Magazines/Top_Of_The_Pops.html&usg=__cTSSnDjcSMyCYyKTjsxKCA4cNOE=&h=677&w=499&sz=476&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=0LqX7Mu8edH0OM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=102&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtop%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bpops%2Bmagazine%2Bcontents%2Bpage%26hl%3Den%26um%3D1

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By looking at front covers such as this it gives me ideas to start forming my front cover. This example looks typically like a pop magazine by the colours used pinks and purples, the sparkles, bright pink and yellow gives it a girly feel. and this appeals to its target audience( teenage girls), the main story is on High School Musical which is targeted at many people, there are alot of images on the front and lots of writing making it look busy and exiting so i will try and put alot of these features onto my magazine. This magazine would be read for all Escapism, Personal relationships ( this is shown by the headline"Your a star" making the reader feel on a one to one basis), Personal Identity( there is advice on clothes on the front page "A list glam. 56 hot buys" this is creating an identity by copying a celebrity image) and surveillance.
The stories would interest young girls as they are about celebrities or are interesting or shocking (body shock).
This magazine shows the genre of pop very well, and will help me create my magazine.

I have decided that i am going to do my genre of my music magazine as pop. I will need to research pop magazines such as top of the pops to help me in creating my magazine. I have written and plan and have written a readers profile for my magazine, and have also drawn a mock up of my front cover, contents page and double page spread. I have looked at Uses and Gratifications theory, i found this helpful to figure out why the target reader would read my music magazine and what the reader looks for.

Preliminary Task

I created my Preliminary task of a front cover and a contents page for students using Photoshop and from photos which i have taken myself. From doing this i believe that it will help me with my music magazine coursework, from getting feedback and realising what i did wrong it will help me to not make those type of mistakes in my music magazine.

Here is my Preliminary task:

FRONT COVER


CONTENTS

Mock Up

This is my mock up for my preliminary magazine. I did this in class in groups. This planning helped me decide what type of information that I wanted on my front cover, the layout and the title. Also it made people share their own thoughts and ideas.
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NME magazine

I have looked at NME magazine, I have looked both at the online and print version. The colour theme runs throughout both print and online, purple background with a border, the title of the magazine is made clear; red and in capitals this makes it look important, and clear to see. This is the same online and in the magazine.

There are more stories online rather than print as there are more links to other websites, and online is important because of interactivity, this would appeal to a wider audience and a more younger audience. Also online NME more people can access as it is free and easy to access.

kerrang! magazine

I have looked at the magazine Kerrang!, The front page has a band on the front; this tells us the main topic within the magazine. The people are looking face on at you. this attracts the reader and catches your attention.
within the magazine there are lots of advertisements, such as x box games, HMV adverts, cds, adverts for the army and many more; this is where the magazine gets its money from.
At first the writing on each page looks scattered and un-organised, but then if you look closer all the text is neatly in boxes and is organised.
The target audience would be for older teenagers and adults (15+),as the language within the magazine is offensive (swearing), and also there is alot of text on each page, therefore There's too much to read and would loose a younger audiences interest quickly.
The colour theme on each page is white writing on a black background.