evaluation

Music Magazine Final Product

Music Magazine (planning)

This is my planning for the contents page as well as the content of the magazine and how it is going to be set out.

The ideas on the sheet of paper are.

• Same act as front
• 3 columns - roughly same size
• Give reader what they need
• Big image or competition covering large section of page
• use of red black and bold colours
• Language (formal, unless in speech sometimes in formal)
• Different image as front, same act with other acts
• Use of questions
• The way the page numbers are set out.
• approx 80/88 pages.

I was aiming to get my contents page to look similar to this by the NME

For my double page spread I didn't really have a specific way I wanted it to look. I had a look a black velvet, kerrang, NME and Q to see what style I would use for my magazine.

When it came to designing the double page spread I used the photo's I wanted and played around with a few ideas until I came to a design that I liked.

The front cover was easy for me as I knew what I wanted straight away with a very similar look to kerrang. I wanted this because it made my independant magazine look like it is competing with the main stream magazines but only within the south east.

• Similar style picture.
• Big bold masthead for attitude
• Similar front cover minus the the other pictures
• similar banner along the bottom with other acts in.
• A competition advertised on the front.
• Issue and date.
• Other acts along the side in a question format.
• Main act in bigger writing.
• Different use of colours.

Music Magazine (research)

Research of other Magazines

The magazine I have chosen to do my research on is Kerrang. The reason for this, is because it is what would be competition for the music magazine that I am designing.





A magazine that is aimed for older male teenagers and now and then female older teenagers, has a backroom staff that is mainly female, that's also including the editor.

The reason it talks to it's target audience is because they can relate and make a connection with the magazine. "Life is Loud" is a good slogan for the magazine because people who like the style of music in the magazine would prefer it to be loud. The title "KERRANG" is also very clever, because most the readers would like to be the musicians within the magazine and the onomatopoeic sound of a guitar for the title gets there attention. The only whit space there is on the front cover usually is the box behind the masthead and sometimes that is coloured in.

The talk to the reader like you they are an important person and it is very formal and it treats the audience like a friend and tries to bond with them like a friend would.

NME



I also looked at NME because of the style they used in the contents page. I liked the way they used informal questions to get the readers attention about the articles within the magazine. I felt if the questions didn't give much away then i feel that reader may want to look on and find out what the article is about.

I took into consideration what front covers are like and what sizes music magazines usually are. Looking at a majority of these made me realise that nearly all the covers are in colour, they are usually round the A4 size maybe even slighty bigger. So my idea would be to make a pocket sized magazine with an oddly coloureed front cover.