NME MAGAZINE

This is the my version of the NME magazine. We were asked to use a masthead of a magazine cover of our choosing, within the mastheads offered to us. I chose NME magazine. The main image is of my sister Jen. 

There are two pictures on either side of the mast head. These pictures relate to their respective headlines. The is a Puff where it says "Brandon Flowers, A week in the life". This is an exclusive interview with Brandon Flowers, which is sure to entice the readers to see more into the magazine issue and into his life. 

The main headline is of Jen Iredia who has spent a few years as a super model, but now has got herself an indie band, and has produced a widely approved indie album. The readers are supposed to see Jen Iredia as a familiar face to the world media and will be interested in reading the reviews of a someone who has completely changed her image and scene.  

The Bar code is on the bottom-right hand corner. It shows the price of the magazine at £1.99, and it also shows the website address, www.NME.com. At the bottom there are acts who's albums and live performances are being reviewed by NME magazine. This will give the audience an insight into what is to come further on into the magazine issue.

There is a pug where it says Win backstage access tickets to Green Day, another enticing offer, but on a commercial based venture to get more readers for the magazine in general.

There is a headline that says "Scarlett Johansen New Album Review" This is the same sort of proposition an Jen Iredia as they have both gone into a transition into a new image. 

There is a date at the right of the front cover, and also the slogan "New Music Express".

This was produced on Microsoft Word and then print-screened into paint and saved there. I then inserted the image into the blog.

MAGAZINE COVER 4

This is the Music Planet magazine. The main image is a guitar. This suggests that the magazine is more of an instrument-based music magazine and not on the mainstream pop musicians. The sort of readers who will be reading this are musicicans trying to increase their instrumental and composition skill. Therefore the Puff "Beginners Guide, Computer Music" will make them want to read on further into the music magazine. On the title of the magazine "Music Planet" the word planet is coloured in blue, to reflect the earth. This is to show that this is a magazine for music lovers all over the world. This is a magazine for instrument lovers, so the Pug "Buying An Acoustic Guitar" will entice a few of the readers who are interested in buying an acoustic guitars.
This magazine isn't for mainstream pop,so an srticle with "The Subways" who are an underground band, is something that is good for their image as a non- mianstream magazine.

Analysis of questionnaire

Nosa Iredia blogs:
I found that on my questionnaire each question had answers of a higher percentage than all the other answers.Most people seem to want to see comedic humour on the magazine.Most people read magazines sometimes.Half of the people want to change the 1 lesson for 5 hours a day strategyA lot of the people would read 4-7 magazines a monthAlmost all the people seemed to not want to be associated with the school in a shared identity
I produced this questionnaire on Microsoft word.

Magazine Cover 3

This is the "Rolling Stone" magazine. It features Amy Winehouse as the main image. She is the blocking the title of the magazine, so this shows that they have confidence in their title. The Puff "Guiliani, worse than Bush" will entice the readers as George Bush is known as someone who is in a negative position with most of the world.
"Amy Winehouse" is written in bold font to signal her importance to this issue while being the same light blue font as the magazine title to blend her name with the magazine. There are also bands mentioned in this like "The Police", "The White Stripes", "Velvet Revolver" and also "Dave Matthews in mentioned in the front cover.
The bar code is on the bottom-left hand corner of the front cover of the magazine.

Contents 2

This is the Drummer Music Magazine contents page. It has the date at the top. It has the main image of a drummer with his drum set, with a page number next to it to show what page number the "Exclusive" article is. The word exclusive is highlighted to try to gain the attention of readers, so that they can read on further into the magazine. It features the band "The Kooks". The readers of this Magazine may like the same type of music that the Kooks realease. It also has the "Regulars" to bring to the attention of their older readers, to see that they still have the same contents as before, that maybe being the reason why they liked it in the first place. Each headline content is in bold to highlight the importance of the headline.

Magazine cover 2

This is the BBC Music Magazine. The main image is the image of Sarah Chung, who is being interviewed for by the magazine. There is a Puff which says "Over 125 Reviews". Which is a means of getting  the magazine reraders to read on further into the magazine. The image of Sarah Chung is blcoking the image of the Title, which is a sign of confidence from the magazine, however the "BBC" name can still be seen on the magazine. There is the pug "Free CD, Plus access free music online. This is put to attempt to entice the readers of the magazine to read on, using commercial means. The Barcode is at the bottom right of the magazine. The font for "Sarah Chung" is bold to highlight her improtance. The font colour is read which goes with her light red dress. The BBC Music Magazine is the best-selling classical music magazine.

Magazine Contents page 2!

This is the Q magazine contents page. The image of main image of the contents page is the band "The Courteeners", with the number 38, to show what page number the story on them, is. It has the content of "Oasis, Meet the other three" This will perhaps get people to want to read more, as not much is said about the other three. They aslo write about the reviews they are doing on "134 music albums" and "166 music dvds" etc.
They are very confident in themselves as they write "The world's biggest and best music guide.
They write about what they have every month on every issue.

Magazine 1!

This is the Q magazine. It features Madonna as the cover masthead of the magazine front cover. There is a puff where it says "The 50 best british albulms, as voted by you". This entices the audience to read on in the magazine. "Madonna" is written in bold font, to signal her importance to music, and she also blocks the title slightly. This shows that the magazine cover are not afraid to share the space as they have the belief that they are big enough for people to know who they are.
There is a pug that says "Free inside! 70 page special, Women in music" This is a commercial means of getting people to buy the maghazine.
There are lists of celebrities names like "Russel Brand and "Michael Stripe" and also celebrities opinion on things like "Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin"
It is a pretty big magazine considering it has "196 pages" on this issue and the bracode is on the side. They are very confident in themselves. they write "Britains best magazine.

This is the Freedom magazine. I decided to go with the Big Brother approach and talk about ex Big Brother contestants cause it is relevant to now. I used Microsoft word to do this and then print screened this into paint.
It has the Pug, "Win tickets to Wrestle mania 2011" as the tickets just went on sale.

Codes and conventions task 3

This is Film X magazine, There is a Halloween theme for this magazine, so there is the question what is the "Scariest Halloween film of all time" The text is in red to match the blood on the face. With gold text to highlight some of the text.

Codes and Conventions task 2

This is the Pitch magazine. It is a front cover of Marilyn Manson. I highlighted the text box with the Puff "Win a date with Justin Bieber" Which is something that could entice the masses in some way. I used Microsoft word for this. With the text in gold

Evaluation of Codes and conventions task.

For the codes and conventions task, we were given the task of using different magazines and filling them with text using the skills that we learnt in the lessons. We tried to make the text boxes blend in with the text boxes.

For film X there was a picture of a man painted white with blood running down his face. I decided to use white text boxes and red text because it goes with the White painted man with blood running down his face.

For Pitch there is a picture of a Maryln Manson. I decided to use black text boxes as it goes well with Marylyn Manson's black hair colour.

For Photography Now there is a picture of a plane with smoke coming out of it. I decided to use sky blue text boxes as it goes well with the colour of the sky.

For freedom there is a picture of an eye with the assumption that we are being watched. I decided to make the text boxes black because it goes well with the black stripes on the magazine cover. The text boxes also point to make it look like it can see you and it's telling you to read it.

This is the contents page of my magazine. It has pictures of recent Sixth Form events like the Year 12 Geography. I used information from my questionnaire to decide what to put on the contents of the magazine.