Analysis of different music magazines

Rock Magazine

This magazine is a rock/heavy metal magazine. You can tell what the genre of this magazine is going to be because it has most of the convention you would expect to see. E.g. the band have a serious look, it’s quite fierce as well as being all dressed in black and having dark make-up which connotes ‘fear’ and ‘evil’ it has usually negative connotations as we would expect the band’s music to come across as because it is very loud.

The title of the magazine is very bold and plays as a pun with the quote ‘Life is Loud’. The writtng seems ‘cracked’ as if someone has broken it by a loud sound. The name is also covered semi by one of the band members heads because the magazine is very well known and you don’t need to see the whole title to recognise which magazine it is.

The magazine has the story of the rock band written across the picture in big red writing to go with the theme. The main cover line acts as a hard hitting list of three which plays along with the main picture and the writing font as we relate the colour red to something like blood and death.

Unlike some other rock magazines I have seen from Karrang, this magazine doesn't have that much information on it doesn't look so 'stuffy' so we know were to look. It uses more pictures and this is placed at the bottom so that all the attention goes to the main picture. I would say the main target audience of this magazine would be the younger teenage audience as the rock band and other artists seem quite young too.

This is an example of another Karrang magazine with more information on the front cover.

Hip Hop/Rap Magazine

This magazine's genre is hip hop and rap. Again the magazine has a well known hip hop artist (Eminem) on the front of the magazine who seems to look very hench and serious as you can see him crossing his arms symbolising 'strength' and to show he is the 'boss'. He is making direct eye contact with the audience making it more personal. The writing on the front is mostly bold red and black writting connoting 'danger', which is what Eminem comes across as it resembles his personality in real life through music and his appearance. Again there is a list of three as the the main cover line so it creates a  bigger impact. Most of the cover lines are smaller than the main cover line and are usually rhetorical question so that it makes the audience want to find the answer to the question if they agree with it or not. As you can see, the layout is quite spacious and makes it easy to read and looks up to date, which compliments it's target audience (teenagers amd young adults).

Classical Music magazine

The genre for this music magazine is classical with incoparating jazz too. The style of this magazine is quite fresh and basic with the background being a plain white and other colour schemes being red, white and black. The front cover is again a main model who is a well known musician who plays classsical music as you can see by the prop she is holding (violine). Her facial expression is seems friendly and engaging because it seems as if she is smiling the the audience, this really comes across in the way she is also holding  her instrument showing how passionate she is about her music and whatshe does. The layout of the magazine is also quite basic with the a few basic bold headings and small subheadings. The font for the title is quite elegant and in red showing elegance and 'royaltiy' almost. Other advertisisng points on the cover of this magazine is the yellow puff at the top of the magazine which says that a CD comes free with every issue connoting you get a bargin offer with the price and its like a 'reward'. Another selling point is where it says  that this magazine is 'the worlds best selling classical magazine', with the well known BBC logo next to it, this shows that you are buying the best of the best. the target audience for this genre would probably be adults around thier mis 30's.

Something that all these magazines have in common is the fact that every model/arist on the front covers a bit of the title of the magazine, this shows that you don't have to see all of the title of the magazine to recognise it if it is a well known magazine. Plus the main story line of the magazine is usually a personal story to do with the artist on the front.

Music Websites

This is one of the music websites I looked at in the first lesson. The genre of music is 'classical' and the website is promotes the magazine and talks about news and other things such as news about the composers and gifts you can win etc. Things you would expect to see on a website as well as the logo on the top of the page. The colours of this website are mostly white and quite basic going with the theme of sophistication.

This website is called Karrang like the magazine. The genre of music is 'rock'. As you can see the colours contrast from the website above it hasmuch more grey and black colours which we associate with the genre rock. The website advertises the concert of the bands and how you can win tickets for it.

This website is called Vibe. The genre of music it presents is Hip Hop/Rap. The website has a bold look and mostly black and sort of red as this is what you would expect most of the artist to be wearing as do the two 'rap'  artists on the website. They use well know artist to advertise the website, hence Eminem who is well know in the hip hop music industrie, with the man standing in the background showing some sort of 'ghetto' sign and they both look very serious.

Starting my Official Music Magazine

Hello everyone, I started my research for my school magazine about 2 week ago, I did some resaerch on different music websites such as Karrang, Vibe etc. And analysed different genres for mucic magazine. I know it's late, but I just need to upload the work I have been doing onto this blog, which will be very soon!

Evaluation of my magazine front cover and contents page

First of all I had to changed the colour theme of the magazine so that I could have similar colours running through it insead of the red colour which was quite random. I also included more pictures in the contents page so that it would look more colourful and more relistic. I wanted the picture on my front cover to look realistic so I used photoshop to edit out the model and put her on to the background (school hall) as I wanted to create illousion that she really is there and that is were the event will take place. Things that went well when creating my magazine front cover and contents age were the fact that I could use a variety of different techniques to test out fonts that when well with the elegant theme of the prom. I also liked that the title of the magazine went well with the theme.
Overall, I wanted to include what my target audience thought most importantly, what the magazine to include/look like. Although for my contents page I went for the 'Beaverwood' theme but using pictures instead like the school hall and the front of the school entrence. It was imporatant for me to keep looking back at the data I found out from my target audience so that I didn't just include what 'I' wanted in the magazine, that way it would show that my magazine could cater for the year elevens taste. 
I would change the fact that I did most of my work for the front cover  of the magazine on word document instead of powerpoint that way the magazine could have looked more professional. I would have shown print screens of my work in process to show how I actually made the front cover and magazine  i.e. what equiptment I used.

My Final School Contents Page!

For the final copy of my school magazine contemts page I used brighter colour so that it matched my front cover more and added a few pictures like you would usually see in a contents page. The background image of the school entrence is blured out with this sight I used called 'Pic Nick', I used a colour contrast equiptment on Photoshop so that it looked more blended in. I tried to match the trees next to the entrence match the titile 'Contents'. I used a bright turquoise colour so that it stood out and when with the 'summer' theme.

My Final School Magazine Cover!

As you can see I made a few changes to the final magazine cover from my first draft. I changed the background colour of my magazine so that it was a more 'midnight' colour theme. I mades shore that the writing was kept the same because it stood out from the dark backgroud and you could read it easily. I made shore that the main words such as 'Glam Factor' etc stood out and make the magazine look elegant and different. I also added a puff near the top of the page in a bold blue cover as a form of advertising to show that it's a good value because it's 'free'.