Health & Safety

When capturing images and doing recce for my music magazine, I have to take in to account health and safety issues in terms of my model(s), equipment and the environment. 

- When shooting on location, if there is any other technical equipment around, I need to make sure there are no loose cables, that could become a trip hazard.

- If there are any low hanging spot lights that people may hit their heads on. 

- I can not take a camera into the school toilets for ethical reasons. 

- I also need to keep the people I am going to use safe, so not letting the images I have captured be distributed, if they do not want me to. 

- If I am shooting outside, I need to make sure there are not any hazards like broken glass on the floor.

Contents Page Draft

This is a draft of what I would like my contents page to look like. Very minimalistic, like my cover page, to remain in-keeping with the rest of my mag. I am sticking to my colour theme and also, I want to feature one of the artists who will be playing in the Lunar Festival as I feel this will draw my TA in.

Double Page Spread Draft

This is the basic layout of what i want my DPS to look like. I will have a mid - long shot of the artist, with one of the quotes from the interview printed over the top. I will then use the right hand page for the interview, using my colour scheme of black, white and red throughout. This layout is similar to Q magazines interviewing style, so I used it as a style model for my own magazine, because Q is the type of magazine my target audience are likely to read.

Inside Page

This is a draft of one of the inside pages of my music magazine. I created the page on Pixlr and included the Lunar Festival Tour Dates, which is something my TA is very interested in. Also to help this page appeal, I included a long shot of James Vincent McMorrow, one of the artists playing at the Lunar Festival. It is agin quite minimalistic like my cover, to help continue on with the style of the magazine. I also stuck to my 3 colour scheme and used black and red fonts.

First Draft

This is a rough draft of what i would like the front cover of my magazine to look like. A large close up of a featured artist and a clear magazine name on a vertical. There is a 3 font colour theme of black, red and white. I want to keep the cover quite minimalistic as i feel this will appeal most to my target audience. It looks more like an album cover to me, which is what i think my T.A. wants, as they are more about the music than the presentation. The title of my magazine is named PICK, I chose this because of its relevance to a guitar pick, and the fact that my magazine is indie folk so a guitar plays a big part in the type of music my TA reads, and also as i want them to pick my magazine to read over the others.

Photo Edits

These are a few examples of some of the photo editing we did in lessons, using the website Pixlr. We selected multiple images and experimented with various different effects and colouring. I have included the originals to show how we proceded to edit the images and our final results.

Photo Edits

These two images are the before and after edits of one of the bands (Daughter) I would like to include in my Indie Folk magazine. I will use the same photo editing site, pixlr, to edit the images i will shoot on location in the next few weeks. I will be using similar shots to these ones on my models - mid - long shots possibly. I will keep them simplistic and include a band name as I have done here.

 

Questionnaire Results

Questionnaire Results

I distributed my questionnaire to a total of ten people with questions about music and music magazines to try and establish a target audience, these are my findings.

Gender:

- Female: 6

- Male: 4

Age:

- 16-18: 4

- 19-21:3

- 22-24:1

- 25+: 2

How often do you listen to music?

Never: 0

Sometimes: 2

Often: 5

All the time: 3

What music genre do you prefer?

Rock: 1

Rap: 0

Electro: 1

Indie: 4

Hip hop: 3

Classical: 0

Jazz: 0

Country: 0

Do you read Music Magazines?

Yes: 7

No: 3

If yes to the above, what genre Music Magazines do you read?

Mainstream: 2 

Rock: 0

Rap: 0

Electro: 0

Indie: 4

Hip hop: 1

Classical: 0 

Jazz: 0

Country: 0 

What are your hobbies? (you may select more than one)

Fashion: 7

Sports: 3

Books: 4

Art: 3

Music: 8

Television: 5

Study: 3

Work: 7

What is your occupational status?

Student: 6

Part time work:1

Full time work:2

Unemployed: 1
Retired:0

From the findings of this questionnaire, I discovered that my Target Audience are men and women aged 16 - 26, are students with hobbies centering around music, work and fashion, and are indie music lovers.



Target Audience

 

These young adults are an example of what my target audience will be.

The Female: first of all, she is wearing quite casual clothes, possibly designer. She is wearing skinny jeans and a loose knitted jumper, which is high in fashion currently. She is wearing Coverse All Star, a famous brand of shoes.
The Male: he is wearing a designer jumper, with turned up jeans, currently in fashion and expensive Nike shoes.
The style this male and female are exhibiting is very similar to the genre of my magazine - Indie Folk.

The age of my TA will be from 16 - 24.

History of Music Magazines

NME

The New Musical Express magazine is the longest running music magazine and has been published weekly in the UK since the early 1950's. It originally started its life as a newspaper but the format changed to a magazine in the 1980's. It was also the first magazine to include a UK singles chart, featuring the top 12 best-selling singles. NME is currently published by the publishing house IPC media, which is the UK's leading consumer magazine and digital publisher. NME's readers are usually Indie Rock fans, which features heavily in its content, and they are around the ages of 20-25.  

RAY GUN

Ray Gun was originally published as an American alternative rock and roll magazine in California in 1992. Ray Gun explored typographic design, giving it it's, not always readable distinctive design. Ray Gun was also distinctive in its content, featuring cutting-edge advertising, edgy pop culture icons and artists that were typically ahead of the curve. Ray Gun produced over 70 issues from 1992 through to 2000.