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Cover Page Conventions:
-Masthead
-Anchorage (Text that ties down the meaning of images)
-Banner Headline (Across the cover)
-Direct Mode of Address (Calls audience 'You')
-House Style (Set of Fonts and colours used throughout)
-Synergy (Using the magazine to sell another product)
-Puff (Promotional advert for another service)
-Logo
-Slogan
-Issue Date/s
-Price
Contents Page Conventions:
-Page numbers
-Columns
-Images
-Continued House Style
-Features (Between 8 and 10 that the reader will be interested in)
Double Page Spread Conventions:
-Main Image
-Smalled Images
-Headline
-Page Number
-Column Layout
-Continued House Style
Camera Angles:
Cover Page:
-Depending on how the band is to be represented, the camera angle will alter eg. if the band was being portrayed to look powerful, the camera would be looking up at them to make them look bigger.
-A wide angle shot of the band would be the most effective because a mid shot shows them just as they are but in a wide angle shot, things can be added to mise-en-scene to represent the band.
Contents Page:
-A range of different camera techniques would look good on the contents page to add to the diversity of the magazine.
Double Page Spread:
-There should be a range of pictures of the actual band to let the reader know what they are reading.
-A range of different camera techniques would look good to add to the diversity of the magazine.
Colour Schemes:
-Every magazine should have colour schemes to keep it's housestyle constant.
-I think I may use the theme of red, white and blue in my magazine.
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Publishers:
There are a few currently a few major magazine publishers that my magazine could be produced by. These are:
IPC Media:
-Based in the UK.
-Produces over 85 media brands.
-Sells over 350 million copies of it's magazines every year.
-Online brands get 20 million users a month.
-Produces magazine such as Look, Now, NME, Marie Claire and InStyle.
Bauer Media:
-Based in Hamburg, Germany.
-Operates in 15 countries worldwide.
-Publishes 252 magazines worldwide.
-Sells 38 million magazines a week worldwide.
-Publishes magazines such as Bella, Q and Kerrang!
Conde Nast:
-Main offices located in New York, Chicago, Miami, Madrid, Milan, Tokyo, London and Paris.
-Produces over 25 maagzines.
-Produces magazines such as Vogue, Glamour, GQ and Tatler.
Bauer media seems the most appropriate publisher to have my magazine published by as it is the only one who published major music magazines.
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Every magazine should have a message/morals that needs to be portrayed in the planned way when deisgning and releasing the magazine. The way this is done depends on the genre of music they are trying to promote. eg. Heavy meatal music is not going to be portayed as appealing to pensioners (picture of them playing dominos or something) but in a way that influences fans to purchase it (in appropriate clothing etc.).
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The target audience needs to be clearly addressed when selling a magazine. This can be done in the text, the pictures, the features and the advertisements.
Audiences are classified into different age categories. These are:
<15
15-24
24-35
35-55
55>
They are also classified into social groups. These are:
A - Higher manegerial, administrative or profesional.
B - Intermediate mangerial, administrative or professional.
C1 - Supervisory or clerical, junior manegerial, administrative or professional.
C2 - Semi skilled manual workers.
D - Semi skilled and unskilled manual workers.
E - Casual labourers, unemployed, state pensioners.
There are also groups that differ due to what they are driven by:
Groups driven by needs - survivors and sustainers.
Groups who are outerdirected - belongers, emulators and acheivers.
Groups who are inner-directed - i-am-me, experimentals, socially concious.
Groups who are outer and inner-directed - intergrated.
The target audience for my magazine will be for 15-24 year olds in the E or D category who are outer and inner-directed.
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The artist/s on the cover of magazines need to be represented in a specific way to appeal to the target audience.
I plan to portray the artists in a positive way with some stereotypical apects to it to draw in the usual customer.
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