Mock Magazine Front Cover - Photoshop Task

This is a mock magazine front cover I have made on Photoshop, this was to experiment with ideas and the photoshop tools. I
If I was to do this again, I would make the the puff to fit more into the colour scheme and add some tag lines and more about the inside of the magazine.

Using Photoshop - The Simpsons Movie Poster

This is my teaser poster for the Simpsons Movie using Adobe Photoshop, being my first time on photoshop I found parts of it quite straight forward and some parts challenging, in this activity I used the clone tool to copy the donuts and spread them about, I also used the eraser/lasso tool to cut around the donut next to the other image so the white background wouldnt be shown.

Magazine Institutions

A magazine institution are the companies that fund and create the music magazines that consumers read. 

The four main magazine institutions are: BBC - Emap – IPC Media - Bauer

IPC Media 

IPC Media (International Publishing Company) is a consumer magazine and a digital publisher founded in 1958 in the United Kingdom, it has a large portfolio and sells over 350 million copies each year. It supplies magazines and newspapers such as NME, Look, TV Times, Pick Me Up and Marie Claire. www.ipcmedia.com 

Bauer Media Group

Is a large German publishing company based in Hamburg, which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately-owned and under management by the Bauer family. The Music Magazine this publisher provides are Q, MOJO and KERRANG. All three are advertised on their website as being men's magazine.

Emap

Emap was the second largest magazine publisher in the UK with about 18% of the news-stand market by revenue (to IPC/Time Warner's 20%). However in July 2007, the company announced a strategic review. The result was that the company was split up and sold off in December. It's consumer magazines and radio arm, including Kiss and Magic, went to Bauer for £1.14 billion - making the German magazine publisher the largest in Britian. 

BBC

BBC magazine is the magazine publishing arm of the BBC worldwide. BBC provides a varied and wide range of magazines that target many different audiences. They focus their magazines on music, gardening, children’s popular TV programmes, cooking, cars and astrology.

The music magazines that the BBC has published include:
Its Hot - Top of The Pops - Classical Music Magazine
The BBC publishes many different genres of magazines as well as major websites through their digital channels as well. There are only a few magazines that are of the same genre. Top of the Pops attracts age ranges from 11 up to 15 years due to the content, music articles such as ‘Glee’ and ‘X Factor’





My Magazine - BBC Magazines would probably publish my magazine the best as my magazine is aimed for the Pop genre for the younger generations, which is what the BBC publishes shown above, with music articles on things like 'X Factor' and 'Glee'

Other Magazines Reader Profile Research

This reader profile of NME Magazine has helped me decide what type of a reader profile I wanted to create, I like the style of this reader profile as I'd like to recreate something like this with the collage of photos above the information of things to do with my audience, like a mood board.it is inspiration for what type of questions I needed to put on my survey and what I needed to know about my target audience to help me choose what article to put in my music magazine.

Survey Results

I created a survey to research what my target audience would like to see in a magazine and what they do in their spare time. I created this survey on www.surveymonkey.com then got two sets of groups to complete it, 10 participants from students around college where I printed off the survey and asked them to complete it and then I got 11 participants responses by putting a link on twitter asking people to complete my survey. I chose to complete it this way as students around college are around the age group my target audience is, and my target audience would most likely use social media sites like twitter. I put 10 main questions on my survey both open and closed to get the best possible responses from the survey. I used open and closed questions, collecting both qualitative and quantitative data to help identify how to appeal to the target audience of my chosen genre, pop.

Results

From my twitter sample the results I received were:

2. I found the average age was 15-19

Question 5 has helped me in order to be able to reach my target audience, this lets me know what they use more often, what social media sites everyone has. Also, from these results showing my target audience use a lot of social media sites, I'm going to use this as an aspect in my magazine, having social media links to our sites and having the artist talking about social media, this also means I have more than one way of approaching my target audience. 

From the college student sample the results were: 

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2. Everyone that completed the survey was in college therefore aged 16-20

Potential Problems

Potential area where there might be a problem	How I will deal with this problem
Front cover images	Certain images will not fit into the theme of my magazine, being a mature girly theme to fit with my target audience, certain images like darkened and mysterious images won't fit, and the shape of the photo will have to be in the middle third where I want it, I'll deal with this problem by taking numerous shots and editing photos to the way I need them.
Article Inside Magazine	The article inside my magazine had to appeal to my target audience, it has to link well with the article itself and still go with the theme of the whole article,
Images to accompany article	I'll need to find images that go with the article in question, and make sure they go with the theme and style of my magazine, I'll avoid this problem by taking numerous shots from different angles and with different lighting to see which fits best with the colour scheme, theme and the article itself.

Proposal Form

Type of Magazine (fashion, music, etc)	Music
Name of Magazine	MBS (Music, Bands and Singers)
Audience (male/female)	Appeals to both genders but will probably have a majority of female readers
Audience (attitudes and interests)	My target audience would probably keep up to date with the recent charts, enjoy watching and attending award shows and probably use social media sites like Twitter and Instagram often.
Outlet (where it can be bought from?)	My magazine can be bought in newsagents, super markets, cd shops and the concerts where my target audience would attend.
Necessary Information	The price of my magazine would be around £1.99-£2.99, I will have a website shown in the magazine to show where the magazine can be accessed elsewhere other than just the hard copy of the magazine.
Selling Point	This magazine will be the only one like it at this price, and will also include exclusives and interviews that will appeal to my target audience.
Theme (article)	The theme of my article will be an interview type article with a simple layout, on one side a large image with a quote from the article across it, with a fact file of the artist, then the article on the other side, with pull quotes and a simple colour scheme.
Images Front Cover	It will only have one main image on the front cover and not be too cluttered, to give it a mature look to it.
Images Inside	I will use another smaller image on the contents page then I will use a large image on my double page spread.