My own pictures that I am using.

I want this image as my main image on my magazine, it screams out I WANT YOU to buy my magazine and learn what I am about. I've used a low angle to make her look more dominant, powerful and almost commanding. The lighting highlights her main features like her head, but the shadow makes you focus on her face features like the shape and cheekbones. Direct adress is being used to again make an impression of control, like she has hypnotized you to buy the magazine. The background will be different  i will edit it in photoshop and probably out her on a white background, but edit the background to seem like a stage or something similar to that.
Will be edited to get rid of the background.

I might use this image for my double page because I am going to use the next picture of the boys with the guitars looking up, I will have them smaller so it looks like they are looking up at her, and with her smiling and waving, it seems like she's saying "My boys". It's the same girl on the front page, so we know that this article will be all about them. The angle again makes it look like she is powerful and in full control. I dressed her in a glamorous dress to show her to a different audience, more the pop genre. I'm doing this because my magazine is for everyone so they can find and might learn to love different types of music instead of being bound to one genre.
Will be edited in photoshop.

Fun. Walking The Dog

This is the image that I am going to use to have them all looking up at the girl who is waving. This picture and the other one is influenced by the band fun. in the song Walking the Dog (picture at the left) I also had Queen to influence me on this picture, it reminds me of bohemian rhapsody. Again I have a low angle shot, but this one isn't highly obvious, again it has a dominance, but the image at will top will over power this effect. The lighting shines mainly on the boy who is holding the acoustic guitar, but I'll play around with the effects on photoshop.

This image at first was just a play around to see what kind of angles that would work,  but in the end I liked it. I like how two of them are planning to attack him and then the one in the middle is just like "Um no, you can't touch this greatness". The way the one in the middle is standing just shows how he doesn't have a care in the world because he thinks he is flawless. If I do use this picture than it might be at the contents page or have this picture replace the one at the top, so it looks like she is yelling at them for nearly attacking the boy.
There clothes are smart, but they are also screaming out: "I am here for business".

This picture shows that the models have a wild side and that they are rather riotous in the music that they chose to present. It represents some disorder and chaos  but it's not completely in your face. It also shows a reunion between two bands, because they are both the lead singers of two individual bands. I will edit this picture using photoshop and might use it as my contents page, but the background will be white at first and then i'll edit it to look like its broken glass or something similar. This connoting a breaking free motion, on breaking rules and the barriers in the music industry.

I like this picture, it's simple and pretty basic, but I can edit it to make it work. I'm not sure if I am going to use this picture, but if I do, it might just be a small picture for a sideline or use it in my double page article, perhaps edit it to make it a waterprint. (not sure on that idea). Whilst taking this, I made it seem like the hands that are linked, 3D. So the main focus is on the hands, it's somewhat in a cute position, but I won't make it my main image, because between this one and the first one, I would choose the first one.
The lighting again makes a shadow effect on the other side, highlighting her natural features, the lighting does show that this girl isn't perfect, which I like about this image. It isn't fake and prim, unlike many other images, therefore the audience finds it easy to relate.

Collage of images that I have taken

Images related to Photography Sheet

Planning Photography Sheet

Images related to genre

Basically my music magazine will cover nearly all of the categories of music, it will feature and Indie band, some pictures of pop stars with a small interview and a techno DJ trying to make it big in the world. Along with some alternative bands as well.

Uses and Gratifications

Abi U&G by cbamediastudies on GoAnimate

Animation Software

Colours and connotations used in magazine

Due to my results from my questionnaire, I had a response of having a mixture of bright and dark colours so I have decided to have light, but dark neon dust colours to cause a contrast. I was going to use photoshop to see if I can merge a couple of colours together. So I can use it as a background behind my singers.

Connotations of the colours:
Green- hope, envy, jealousy, peace, health, healing
Black- danger, death, sophistication, elegants, dominant, mystery
Yellow- Sunshine, happiness, warmth, spiritual, joy, intellectual
Purple- hope, royal, spiritual, magical, luxury, nobility, ambition
Orange- enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, encouragement
Pink- feminine, bouncy, pretty, bubbly, fruity, flirtatious, kindness, empathy
Red- Danger, passion, lust, love, anger, pain, war, energy, strength, desire
Blue- cleanliness, cold/ warmth, pain, purity, tranquility, calm

If this goes well, my magazine won't be stereotyping anyone with the colours that follow it. So I won't have just one colour because that would be bias and it's what my audience want.

Quick Plan of Double Page

Here's an example on what I mean:

The only thing that I don't like, is that it doesn't seep through the next page, like I want mine to be like.
On my example I don't think i'll have the pictures on the right page or the white book mark thing on the right hand side.

A Quick Plan of the Contents Page

A quick plan of my magazine cover

Magazine profile with the help of results from questionnaire

Magazine Profile on Prezi

How does the magazine industry work?

We see magazines everywhere, whether they're a music magazine, a photo magazines or just full of plain gossip like "Hello" and "Heat". We may see these magazines everyday, but what you have to remember is that, they won't be there to fill in your entertainment or whatever they end up doing for you, without a team of:
Editors
Advertisement
Distributors
And many more..
And of course, magazines won't be on shop shelves if it wasn't for the lovely audience that buys them.

Lets start from the beginning, when you first pick up a magazine, normally the first thing that attracts a person to the magazine is the image, masthead or side-lines. This is down to the editors and photographers. There job is to obviously edit the magazine, to make sure that it isn't boring and colourless. "The responsibilities of the role of an editor can include on generating ideas for features, editing and proof reading, managing writing staff and liaising with artists and photographers".

In magazines, if you flick through, you will find an advert at least 15 times or more, they normally take up the whole page. In the past, advertisers relied on magazines to deliver their ads to the buying public, this is because it is less expensive for the company to publish than running an ad on national T.V or Radio. The ads are almost presented like a poster, here is an example of one:

This is a powerful advertisement  because it's double page spread, it will be more likely for people to witness this. Someone might be thinking about buying a car and then they see this deal and then they take it from there. It isn't just cars, oh no. Most of the time in a woman's gossip magazine you will find adverts of:

• Chocolate
• Washing Machine Powder or Gell
• Car
• Hair products
• Skin Care

And many more... 

Advertisement almost works to subject to the target audience, that was just one example of a stereotype of a woman's magazine advertisement, there we can paint a picture on what our audience likes and doesn't like.

Of course the magazine won't work and be out on the shelfs in supermarkets, if it wasn't for the audience. Thanks to the audience, the magazine know what people want, they help fill in surveys on how to make the magazine better and more efficient.

In the legal responsibilities, one of there jobs is to take there own pictures, so the magazine has the right to that image and so they don't get done for copy right if they use a picture that they have found on the internet and then using it in the magazine, without the original owners permission.

Defining your audience

Legal Responsibilities Journalists Have?

According to a website that I found, journalists have three basic responsibilities.

One of them is social responsibilities, this basically means on how the press reflect on the social images that are presented in our society. They need to make sure that the images are fair, truthful, inspiring and that they meet the needs of common consumers of the news. They usually high-light unsolved areas of the society, they have to make sure that they don't overlook or avoid a part of responsibility towards the society.
They should make an environment basis of understanding within the society and continue the same in an orderly manner, mainly so it satisfies everyone.

Another one is the legal responsibilities  this one is simple, they need to make sure that they don't plagiarise anyone else's work, pictures (meaning that they need to get permission to use the picture from the original creator). They can not inflict on anyone's privacy or confide in a matter until it is brought notice to the public. Definitely NO hacking into anyone's phones, computers or any other electrical equipment (kind of basic, unless you want another BBC incident).

The last one is professional responsibilities, this is where a journalist should have "sincerity and commitment" towards the profession. Any news of any event that is or will be published to the audience must be "delineated" (describing or portraying something precisely)  clearly and fairly. The presentation must be truthful, they can not be bias and must not bring any embarrassment to the organization that will complicate things in the future. "They have to report a fair and undistorted report to the audience instead of crowding them intentially or allegedly to meet the present challenging situation of the news world".
Anything more on the legal responsibilities that journalist have, click the link below.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/phazra57/200902/1648/

Questionnaire Results

These are my results from the questionnaire below.
All of the results are going to help me with creating my magazine, on what music it will be based around and many more.

Questionnaire

Different Music Magazines

Please note, that there are other music magazine genre's out there, the slide below is just an example of some music magazines that are out in shops now:

Music Analysis.

Main Task:
Make 9 analysis of real life music magazines. 3 front covers, 3 contents pages and 3 double pages.

Initial Thoughts

Initial Thought take two on Prezi

These are my thoughts on the magazine that I will make. 

Main Task Brief

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of Three images per candidate.

Evaluation

School Magazine

Research on other magazines

Preliminary Brief

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.