My progress so far within my music magazine 'Total Tunes' is i have completed my title adding detail, a back shadowed effect, making it eye catching and so it stands out, i have also taken photographs of music releated items for my front cover. I plan to take more photos and then progress to putting them on my magazine.
I have now fully completed my front cover and i am happy with its apperence the background image and font seem to fit well for my genre, i have also finished my contents page adding page references to key articles and news on the latest music and gadgets and have added an appropriate background which seems to fit the genre well and have progressed well into my page 2 page spread although it is not yet finished.
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
School Magazine Analysis
Who is your target audience?
Is this clearly defined?
Have you used succesful headlines + taglines + crossheads?
How succesful was your planing/research/deadlines?
What have you learnt and what will you improve?
Friday, 6 November 2009
Industry: Magazines
Published weekly by Bauer London lifestyle Ltd a division of Bauer consumer LtdBauer Media reaches over nineteen million UK adults across multiple media channels. We have more than eighty influential media brands spanning a wide range of interests, including heat, GRAZIA, Closer, MCN, FHM, Parker's, MATCH, Magic 105.4, Kiss 100, Kerrang!, 4Music and the Big City Network, our group of twenty local radio stations.
"Our business is built on millions of personal relationships with engaged readers and listeners. We connect audiences with compelling content, whenever, wherever, and however they want. Our unique insight allows us to work closely with our customers to develop innovative solutions that create a difference to their business."
Bauer Media connects and engages 19 million consumers every week with the most influential brands in the UK.
The value of our in-depth understanding of these audiences is reflected in our unrivalled research initiatives. Bauer Media is in a unique position to be able to deliver groundbreaking consumer insight to media professionals, having more market leading brands across a wider breadth of markets than any other media owner.
Bauer Media bridges the insight gap with the battle-tested consumer knowledge that has underpinned its own success in fierce consumer markets, and from an advertising standpoint, its unrivalled experience in providing creative solutions to its customers.
The aim of this section of the site is to illustrate how Bauer Media can help customers maximise the effectiveness of their advertising solutions by providing expert understanding of consumer behaviour.
Some of Bauer Media’s major insight projects are:
The Inside:‘The Inside’ is Bauer Media’s unique research panel designed to understand today’s consumers. Launched in November 2006, The Inside’s bespoke research data offers a greater understanding of consumer behaviour and tracks consumer trends as they emerge.
The panel’s 10,000 + members, aged 16 years and over, have been recruited from a wide range of Bauer Media’s brands including FHM, heat, more, Kerrang!, Kiss, Magic 105.4, Empire and GRAZIA.
Kerrang Magazine House Style - Presentation Transcript
Kerrang Magazine House style
What is House style?
House style is where a magazine uses similar layout and structure. For example, Masthead Font, Colours, logo, placement of pictures and location of barcode.
House Style is used by nearly every magazine on the market today to give each magazine a specific look and layout.
This is usually used so the reader can tell that it is the magazine they are after if they are familiar with the layout and font types of the magazine.
In my opinion House style is effective and makes it so that the audience don’t have to look around for there magazine choice because they know what to expect the front cover to be like.
Comparison As you can see the house style of this magazine includes the titles which is the same colour and uses the same font. Kerrang magazine always have a big picture usually going over the masthead or below it. The house style of this magazine includes what is in the magazine at the bottom of the magazine.
Empire: £14,640 £7,705 £10,016 £3,853 £65cpt £45cpt £18,682 £4,500
Kerrang!: £9,092 £4,785 £6,220 £2,607 £65cpt £45cpt £12,130 £4,500
Press complaints commission:
Complaint:
Mr Mark Stickland complained, through Carter-Ruck solicitors, that the magazine had failed to report the outcome of an action for defamation to which it had been party.
Resolution: The complaint was resolved when the magazine published the following wording: “Issue 1090 of Kerrang!, dated January 14, 2006, contained an interview with Bullet For My Valentine in which drummer Moose made an allegation about the band's tour manager. Mr Stickland denied the allegation and argued that in printing it Kerrang! had defamed him. On January 17, a High Court jury in London ruled that it was libellous of Kerrang! to print the allegation, and awarded Mr Stickland damages and payment of his costs.”
Media Studies 2.0 In 2007, Gauntlett published online the article Media Studies 2.0, which created some discussion amongst media studies educators. The article argues that the traditional form of media studies teaching and research fails to recognise the changing media landscape in which the categories of 'audiences' and 'producers' blur together, and in which new research methods and approaches are needed. Andy Ruddock has written that Gauntlett's "ironic polemic" includes "much to value", and acknowledges that the argument "is more strategy than creed", but argues that audiences still exist, and experience mass media specifically as audience, and so it would be premature to dispose of the notion of 'audience' altogether.Now with discussions around Web 3.0, identified by McKinsey as a return of knowledge to the experts it will be of interest to see how this applied to media studies.
Audience:
Teenage rock music fans, both male and female, on looking at the feedback page i can see that this magazine can take it's fans letters, comments, and emails seriously and isn't afraid to print negative comments aswell and answears their critisism to the best of their ability. Also from the feedback page i can see that the fans are from different parts of the country, informs the readers of all different music related topics eg. albums, games, clothes, gigs and interviews with bands and posters of groups, back page features upcoming issues and subscriptions to future issues and free gifts.
In the September 19th issue the cover story is about a group called Paramore, inside the magazine is the main studio interview with the members of this group the emphasis is on how the group overcame the conflicts and tensions within the band, the story is acompanied by 3 pages photographs of the group. The posistioning of the magazine would be the bottom shelf as this is usually where teen magazines are displayed.
"Our business is built on millions of personal relationships with engaged readers and listeners. We connect audiences with compelling content, whenever, wherever, and however they want. Our unique insight allows us to work closely with our customers to develop innovative solutions that create a difference to their business."
Bauer Media connects and engages 19 million consumers every week with the most influential brands in the UK.
The value of our in-depth understanding of these audiences is reflected in our unrivalled research initiatives. Bauer Media is in a unique position to be able to deliver groundbreaking consumer insight to media professionals, having more market leading brands across a wider breadth of markets than any other media owner.
Bauer Media bridges the insight gap with the battle-tested consumer knowledge that has underpinned its own success in fierce consumer markets, and from an advertising standpoint, its unrivalled experience in providing creative solutions to its customers.
The aim of this section of the site is to illustrate how Bauer Media can help customers maximise the effectiveness of their advertising solutions by providing expert understanding of consumer behaviour.
Some of Bauer Media’s major insight projects are:
The Inside:‘The Inside’ is Bauer Media’s unique research panel designed to understand today’s consumers. Launched in November 2006, The Inside’s bespoke research data offers a greater understanding of consumer behaviour and tracks consumer trends as they emerge.
The panel’s 10,000 + members, aged 16 years and over, have been recruited from a wide range of Bauer Media’s brands including FHM, heat, more, Kerrang!, Kiss, Magic 105.4, Empire and GRAZIA.
Kerrang Magazine House Style - Presentation Transcript
Kerrang Magazine House style
What is House style?
House style is where a magazine uses similar layout and structure. For example, Masthead Font, Colours, logo, placement of pictures and location of barcode.
House Style is used by nearly every magazine on the market today to give each magazine a specific look and layout.
This is usually used so the reader can tell that it is the magazine they are after if they are familiar with the layout and font types of the magazine.
In my opinion House style is effective and makes it so that the audience don’t have to look around for there magazine choice because they know what to expect the front cover to be like.
Comparison As you can see the house style of this magazine includes the titles which is the same colour and uses the same font. Kerrang magazine always have a big picture usually going over the masthead or below it. The house style of this magazine includes what is in the magazine at the bottom of the magazine.
Empire: £14,640 £7,705 £10,016 £3,853 £65cpt £45cpt £18,682 £4,500
Kerrang!: £9,092 £4,785 £6,220 £2,607 £65cpt £45cpt £12,130 £4,500
Press complaints commission:
Complaint:
Mr Mark Stickland complained, through Carter-Ruck solicitors, that the magazine had failed to report the outcome of an action for defamation to which it had been party.
Resolution: The complaint was resolved when the magazine published the following wording: “Issue 1090 of Kerrang!, dated January 14, 2006, contained an interview with Bullet For My Valentine in which drummer Moose made an allegation about the band's tour manager. Mr Stickland denied the allegation and argued that in printing it Kerrang! had defamed him. On January 17, a High Court jury in London ruled that it was libellous of Kerrang! to print the allegation, and awarded Mr Stickland damages and payment of his costs.”
Media Studies 2.0 In 2007, Gauntlett published online the article Media Studies 2.0, which created some discussion amongst media studies educators. The article argues that the traditional form of media studies teaching and research fails to recognise the changing media landscape in which the categories of 'audiences' and 'producers' blur together, and in which new research methods and approaches are needed. Andy Ruddock has written that Gauntlett's "ironic polemic" includes "much to value", and acknowledges that the argument "is more strategy than creed", but argues that audiences still exist, and experience mass media specifically as audience, and so it would be premature to dispose of the notion of 'audience' altogether.Now with discussions around Web 3.0, identified by McKinsey as a return of knowledge to the experts it will be of interest to see how this applied to media studies.
Audience:
Teenage rock music fans, both male and female, on looking at the feedback page i can see that this magazine can take it's fans letters, comments, and emails seriously and isn't afraid to print negative comments aswell and answears their critisism to the best of their ability. Also from the feedback page i can see that the fans are from different parts of the country, informs the readers of all different music related topics eg. albums, games, clothes, gigs and interviews with bands and posters of groups, back page features upcoming issues and subscriptions to future issues and free gifts.
In the September 19th issue the cover story is about a group called Paramore, inside the magazine is the main studio interview with the members of this group the emphasis is on how the group overcame the conflicts and tensions within the band, the story is acompanied by 3 pages photographs of the group. The posistioning of the magazine would be the bottom shelf as this is usually where teen magazines are displayed.
School Magazine Research
Grapevine: This magazine published by Marlwood students mainly focuses onfuture, present and past events that occur within Marlwood and events that happen outside school such as sports days or charity events, news includes such articles as 'Maths challange' and 'Colsten's charity event'
Kerrang Magazine
-Audience: Its target audience may range from 13-25 year olds and mainly focuses on male student readers and music lovers of that style.
-Genre: Kerrang is a music magazine which concentrates on the more heavy metal/rock music links to goth subgenre.
-Colours: Mainly dark colours which goes with the theme of the magazine and gives it a gothic feel to it and also make it more modernised
-Cost: £1.80 a week, which is fairly cheap considering the target market of teenagers.-Informative on new albums, singles and bands, also video games and films but still focuses on the music genre-Satirical comic strips, features jokes mocking the rock world, to humour readers
-Identity: Kerrang’s identity is a world ‘where Jackass meets Playstation and Skate culture meets ipod’ 80 A4 pages.
-Ideaology :Teenage colloqualism-’Blag to Swag’ ACDC/Green Day/The Darkness/Marilyn Manson
-Genre: Kerrang is a music magazine which concentrates on the more heavy metal/rock music links to goth subgenre.
-Colours: Mainly dark colours which goes with the theme of the magazine and gives it a gothic feel to it and also make it more modernised
-Cost: £1.80 a week, which is fairly cheap considering the target market of teenagers.-Informative on new albums, singles and bands, also video games and films but still focuses on the music genre-Satirical comic strips, features jokes mocking the rock world, to humour readers
-Identity: Kerrang’s identity is a world ‘where Jackass meets Playstation and Skate culture meets ipod’ 80 A4 pages.
-Ideaology :Teenage colloqualism-’Blag to Swag’ ACDC/Green Day/The Darkness/Marilyn Manson
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