note to the examiner

Hi,
I hope from reading my blog you begin to release how much Passion i had behind the idea of my magazine. I know that the idea is one that is very simplistic, but it is original. Fitting into the market where I believe, along with my friends there is a gap. Music used to be something of pashion, look at the Beetles, the Who, Sex pistols. Now i find music is just one on a machienery production. It was funny the other day i was listening to the radio on the way to school, I was too tired to put my IPod in, But there was this game in Moyle's show about guess the artist and when you listened yeah, the vocal's were different, the guitars a tad different, but if you were to look simplisticly at it, it all sounded the same. Today new music is being thrown away because of it not appealing to the 'wider' audience mirroring the film industry. I beleive this is wrong, people have different taste, do we do the same with shops? do designer shops all copy each other? compaing TopShop to Newlook yes they are simular. However compare Newlook to Pretty Green, there is such a difference. BECAUSE people are different, and this is my point. each peice of music should inspire people, artist should want to INSPIRE people not get as much money in their back pocket as possible, did the like of Weller, John Lennon carve their names into the back bone of every song becuase they wanted money? or was it becuase they wanted to inspire, wanted to change the world. This is what my magazine does. It changes this new music into inspirational music, something new, something different. Becuase the artist has passion not money in their back pocket.
I really do hope you enjoy my magazine and understand how much passion and how much  I beleive in my magazine and that this is mirrored through the style and the belief in this magazine. Thank you so much for reading, Thank you
from Katie.

In what ways does my media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines) on Prezi

Photography

I've been looking at some styles of photography that I think catch interest and I could possibly work with.  The idea that the town is behind him works with my idea of using London. This imagery is effective because of the exposure and the colours. There are only 3 different colours which are present within the image, mainly the darks and the light greys and then his Tee stands out bringing him to the foreground. The use of the wide angle fish eye lens distorts the contents of the image to the centre. Also a slight vignette is used to emphasise the distortion caused by the fish eye lens. The use of this with my model in the foreground would bring more attention to the image and the image would have a create impact if used in a DPS.

Print Mark scheme

Mark Scheme Print

Audience Profile.

Name: Guy Starie

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Background: Currently at college doing A-levels. Have a huge passion for music especially MOD, rock and indie music. Enjoys playing the guitar and has been for four years, hopes to continue his music into a band and career. He is highly influenced by Oasis, Paul Weller, Ian Brown and Beady Eye.


IdolsLiam Gallagher is his main idol. He looks up to him throughout his life, and this has a huge impact upon his style and taste.

• Noel Gallagher
• Gem Archer
• Paul Weller
• Ian Brown
• Tim Riley

Likes:

• Green
• Guitar
• Fashion
• The Hulks greeness
• Gigs

Dislikes:

• pop artists

Fonts

After looking in several places i decided that these were the best font's for MOD magazine to use. I am not sure which wors i will be using where however i do now know which font's and how the font's look in different sizes.

Draft interview

Draft Interview

Model poses



This style would be what we aim for our models to wear.

We think this is very clever, how the image is made with the mirrors. Possibly we could use the mirrors but place London scenery in them opaque. We think this would look very clever.

This is taken at piccadily circus. This is what we are thinking of doing ^







This is an image from an interview. I think that if you do this but if you put some colour behuind it.



 

this is our mack up of our fron cover. This is the style of imagery we also want... we aim to get something like this but with higher quality of imagery. We want to keep the front, clean and tidy like the MOD culture clothing. (Left)

Here is our main article spread we want it go across the double page, like in NME because we think it looks effective and interesting. (below)

our contence page. (left)

London

We have re-created this picture and made the iconic picture stand out more than the original. The background looks good as it is abstract and black and white. I copied the picture of the bus into photoshop then copied layer 2, then i took the back ground into the black and white effects, created greater contrast and then edited the shadows etc. Then i went around the outside of the bus, bliured the edges and created this.

London pictures for inspiration

London picsa

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front cover text.

Both of these magazines have their logo/masthead (NME&Q) in the top left hand corner of the page. Despite them not being very big, they still stand out very clearly against the rest of the images and text on the page. They are located there so they stand out in the shop and they catch the readers eye, it easily allows someone to recognise the magazine. So we think that we will do the same with the MOD logo.

questionaire

I published a questionaire on Facebook to people who i know like the genre that our magazine caters for, new and upcoming bands, these are the questions i asked:

1. What is your favourite type of music magazine?
2. How often do you buy it?
3. Do you prefer monthly or weekly issues?
4. Do you prefer a music magazine to have a broad range of genres (e.g. NME) or focus on one type of music (e.g. Kerrang!) ?
5. How much would you be willing to pay for a weekly magazine?
6. What is your favourite band?
7. What is your favourite genre/ cross-over genre (e.g. Pop punk)?
8. What music magazine layout/design do you like best?
9. What type of features do you like the magazine to include? (e.g. Gig reviews/ interviews etc)
10. If you could what would you add/change about your favourite music magazine?
In total 19 people responded the most popular answers I got back were:

1.Kerrang! Q, NME

2.Every week, when the issue is about a band they like.
3. Monthly
4. Broad
5. Anything under a fiver
6. Muse, mumford and sons, Passion pit.
7.Rock
8.Loads of stuff on the page about random articles that make me laugh, kinda like Kerrang or Q
9.Gig reviews and interviews are always cool. FREEBIES TOO, information on gigs, interviews, posters

10."Just including the artists I don't like", "Expand the genre a little bit, the bands have become fairly repetitive" "more on new bands"

Contents page analysis

Contents page analysis

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logo/name the final one

After working in Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator I came up with this final piece working with the ideas of Moll's, I think this works well and fits into the genre & style of the magazine.

Beady Eye - NME - Analysis

As you can see this double page spread has a large picture in the middle, a main feature (Liam Gallagher). He's had that picture done in an professional photo shoot.
This interview has a lot of text and quotes in it. Again NME have stuck with an 3 colour pallete, this time black, white and gold. This again stands out very well but it isn't too flashy. The pictures' colours match the writing font aswell.
I like seeing a main picture in the middle to focus on and having text on both sides of the picture. This makes the larger interviews not only more interesting to read but easier to read as it helps space out the writing so its not all a one, big pile of writing.
Also i think that the use of important quotes that have been put in between text helps space out the writing aswell. Having the quotes in larger, bolder writing and in a different colour font allows the reader to see what that part of the text is about. For example Liam says "I think the tunes are just as good as 'definitely maybe', if not better. (this is located at the right hand side of the right page).
The interview itself asks alot about the bands appearance, their style of music, their plans for their band and themselves individually, as well as how successful their music is and what their music is like.

Photography

For our images, we are thinking about using iconic britislandmarks our "trademark" as I-D does with the one eye closed. This will be expensive so we will have to create more funding as we will have to go to iconic places to do the photography... or we could use photoshop skills to put the  model in the picture with the landmark. I will have a play around in Photoshop and see what i can do, and how effective it wil be, therefore it would only be a one day shoot.

Institution Profile

Look at a style model similar to the film/magazine you will produce and research:
• Who produces it?
IPC Media (formerly International Publishing Corporation)-
• Hardware/software they use
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustrator, Adobe indesign
• Techniques they use to appeal to new/existing audiences
The Title of the Magazine(New musical Express) the use of iconic people of the front cover. The other things they do e.g Radio, awards  
• Marketing techniques
Radio, shops, online, tv.
• Who distributes the film/magazine
Shops and there online company.
• How is it exhibited?
Mid shelved, so when you look it is at eye level.
• Reasons for success/failure
It is an iconic magazine, supports new music & has a reputation.

What we need to do

• Capitals I's
• Comment on the Interviews
• Get more people to comment on Pitch
• Pitch feedback
• The questionaire on Facebook
• Analysis of Magazines
• Anaylsis the market research
• Institution profile
• Test shots/location shots
• Shots of London setting
• Double page spread-1000 words   

orginal fonts that are already associated with MOD

the MOD culture logo and 'the who' logo carry the similar style with the arrows in the font as it does with the targets (faint white) in the words. These arrows are very iconically MOD. Pretty Green logo looks very '60s' (where the MOD culture started from). Also the roundness of the logo and the font helps represent the MOD target. Bass Weejun, Fred Perry, Vespa, Ben Sherman and the Who logo fonts are all simple and bold. They are all clear and easy to read.

Liam Gallagher, MOD Style

This displays a lot about MOD culture, clearly shows the colours and the fashion style associated with this music. Liam Gallagher who is defineltely well known for his music and his type of fashion and his arrogant personality. I am very inspired by this picture as Liam shows his passion for the MOD culture and it shows others bout what MOD is about.

Liam Gallagher interview.

  we love the arrogance and attitude in the video. this is what makes it a great interview.

Weller

i like the colours, and the photoshop effects here, following the shodows witht he blues and the black and the white. which is the colours are those we aim to use. i like how he stands out, and is the centre of our attention.
      I like his stance, how he avoides the eye contact with the arrogance, but also that its as if her doesn't know you're there. The idea of his wearing the Ray's all the time also shows his mischeif and how we do not know the  whole of him. This is also the same in his interviews, he doesn't let you get to know him.

NME Awards 2010 - Kasabian

An interview with Serge and Tom (from Kasabian)
NME interviews them in a more relaxed way, asking them questions on what they think about NME aswell as what they like about things such as other people and music.

NME Awards 2010 - Paul Weller - Godlike Genius

NME TV: Roger Daltrey & Paul Weller

God like Genius Weller

Pitch

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Contents Page Inspiration

This album cover has been given a negative colour contrast. I was thnking with the contents page that possibly we could use something like this, with the amp but with the negative colours. But change the colours to fit with our colours pallette.

Contents Page

I think that this contents page works because of it's clear layout. Maybe instead of the colours at the side we could use guitars. I also like that it is a DPS because it is not so crushed together which would work for MOD with the tidyness. I think this would work better for us.

Audience profile/Name

We have decided that the name of our magazine will be MOD. As its a genre of which holds both of our interest,  this is because both of our Dads were inspired by the genre of music. Naturally passing their interest to us throughout our music and fashion you can see the influences. Therefore we thought that it would only be natural to write to an audience which shares similiar interests. As 80s fashion comes back, we see people wearing Fred Perry, Ben Sherman, Parkas with no knowledge of its history or meaning, therefore we think its only right to create a magazine of bands and fashion will bring to light the real, individual great music that goes with this genre our appeal is to those who are interested in this fashion and people who are already inspired and need new people to follow. 
We will also appeal to those who want to follow new and upcoming bands and fashion.  

Contents Page Analysis

 This is another DP contents page. I really do like how tidy, neat and easy to read the contents page is. I also like how it has the next issue on this one, as we are producing 2 magazines we could easilydo this.

Contents Page Analysis

I like this contents page because of it's stlye however it does not fit into the MOD culture. I think that the style of the page numbers being different sizing would work, just tidier.

Contents Page and Photography

I think that for our contents page we need to do another photo shoot but with a variety of people perhaps with a variety of styles. This is because it means we can put more picture into the contents so it looks more official and final.

Mood borard

Contents page analysis

The tidiness of the would fit in with the MOD culture. It also looks modern and tidy. I like the various text fonts at the bottom of the page. This is effective and would work well with someone on the stage or something.