Research into similar products

Briginally titled Billboard Advertising it was a trade paper for the bill posting industry, hence the magazine's name. Within a few years of its founding, it began to carry news of outdoor amusements, a major consumer of billboard space. Eventually, Billboard became the paper of record for circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, fairs, vaudeville, minstrels, whale shows and other live entertainment. The magazine began coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and of radio in the 1920s. Though the first music connection was the Billboard sheet music best sellers charts & top songs in vaudeville theaters published in 1913 but it was not a regular chart yet.

Bill board magazine has changed dramatically since they first started. There images have been further developed along with their texts. Their text is clearer to read and their images aren't pixie they are current artists in the top charts which makes it more modern. The colour red has remained the same through the years.

Drafting and Planning

i visited a font website to help me think of an idea of what font will cover the magazine. This website was called http://www.1001fonts.com/new-and-fresh-fonts.html?page=3&items=10. The word noise  is an idea for the name of my mast head as this associates with music. Also another mast head idea could be loud which also is associated with music/songs.

By researching into different fonts, it helped me make a decision on what fonts I will use throughout my magazine. Looking at a variety of fonts helps me see what suits a house style, for example if i was producing a rock magazine, i would expect to see an edgy font to match the ethos and house style of the magazine.

Self-Assesment

Self Assessment On The Codes And Convention Task.


Have you justified your decision on the blog? how can you improve your entries?
I have not justified my decision on why I chose the codes and conventions I did on each magazine which I was given. I also haven't chosen my reasoning for what genre of music the magazine is based on and what target audience the magazine is aimed at. To improve my entries I could add more story lines which fit in with the ethos of the magazine. I could also improve them by making sure there is a realistic pricing to the magazine.


How do you plan to use these in the future?
I will use these drafting and planning of magazines in the future by looking at what I done well which might be effective to add onto my final magazine. Also I will look at what I needed to improve on which will help me develop my editing skills in the future, which will result in my final magazine being a better version. I now know for the future to keep in mind who my target audience is and that the magazine has to stick to that target audience and also I will focus on making the story lines match the ethos and philosophy of the magazine itself.

drafting and planning

Jayne Eliza- hip hop genre artist.
Target Audience ranges from 14-19
Pink jumper colour co-ordinated with theme magazine colours
Pink- shows feminity, Sunglasses give her a cool style, shirt wrapped around waist emphasise her passion for fashion.
Facial Expression- Serious, elegant look- direct eye contact with camera
body langauge- hand on hip- dedicated to her career and confident.
crop top jumper- revealing
Here is a draft of a front magazine using a VIBE masthead, this masthead was used because their magazines feature r&b and pop music genre which is the same as mine. Therefore they presentation of the layout of different codes and conventions was inherited into the above front cover. I used a round shape with the advertisement of '204 songs' to be downloaded. The bright pink circle was to stand out to the consumers and inspire them to go and purchase the songs but pink was chosen to make the colour scheme consistent. The text was based on white, pink and black. These are because pink shows the feline of the artist, the black shows elegance and a dominant figure and lastly white shows purity. The props used was a waist wrapped tshirt, this was because this is the fashion at this time and wanted to show a fashion role model. The sunglasses were used to make her unrevealed and to indicate to the reader they need to read further into the magazine to reveal who she is.  By doing this it has developed my practice in producing front covers for music magazines and made me think about things for improvement which i can do when designing my final magazine.

Drafting and Planning

This is a little task we did, to see how we applied codes and conventions based on the genre of the magazine. When looking back at this task compared to my final front page, there is a massive improvement in developing my understanding of codes and conventions. This task taught me how to use colours and themes based on the genre of the magazine, for instance- a rock band could use an edgy font with dark colours.This will help me to pick colour based on my pop music genre.

Organisation

This is a photo-shoot of my artist, trying out different poses which were inspired by several other arists such as Beyoncé, Iggy Azalea and Niki Minaj, I took several of images so I have a range to choose from and decide which images suit my magazine house style better. The clothing i chose for this specific photo-shoot was a pink dress, the colour pink highlights her feminity. Also i used jewlerry as props such as a watch and rings to show her wealth.  

Target Audience Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BFP2RHD

This is my link to my survey, to help me decide my target audience.
This will develop my ideas on what information to keep my audience engaged and attract them to buy the magazine, This will also develop my ideas on what artists will inspire mine. it will give me a draft idea of what age range likes the chosen genre of music i am presenting on my magazine. A blog will be later posted when i have results to show my highest number of people who like what genre of music and what age they are and how much they are willing to spend on a magazine.

Response to blog feedback

By looking at the blog tracker and seeing how well i'm doing on different sections. I find that my strongest area is research into similar products. However i need to work on my blog posts for target audience and improve my organisation posts. My drafting and planning is almost as good as my research into similar products, but both still need more added to it.

Research into similar products

I put together a publication image     of   different images of artist and female models. This was to help me consider the way females put themselves across to audience. A pose can say a lot about the artist. Revealing and confident poses make the artist look dominant. Iggy Azalea was an artist I deeply research about and used her poses on my artist to develop a dominant image. Niki minaj is also another dominant female who inspired me when analysing her images and the double page spread of her in VIBE magazine. Beyonce is a soul genre artist who is known as the Queen of music. She is an inspiration to a lot of young girls and older women.

Research into similar products

Rhythm and Blues, often abbreviated to R&B and RnB, is a genre of popular african-american music. the term Rhythm and Blues, R&B, was first used by Billboard magazine in the late 1940's. R&B was an African-American urban sound that evolved from blues and jazz.
  in the late 1940's R&B was described as rocking and jazz based with a heavy insistent beat. R&B was becoming popular because of it dance ability. By 1949 the term has been replaced Billboard's category Harlem Hit Parade.
   The lyrics of R&B were about everybody life. The songs were about work and drinking. Concerts then would be hot and wild, sometimes shut down. By the 1950's R&B was starting to define the sound of Rock n Roll but by the 1960's rhythm and blues would include soul music. In the seventies disco was added to the R&B was defining music that included soul, funk, rock n roll and pop music.
   By the 90's classic soul and vocal harmonies were being popularised by Mariah Carey, TLC, R.Kelly and Boys II Men. going into the 21st century R&B would include, New Jack Swing, Hip-hop, Neo-Soul, pop and funk, also known as contemporary R&B.

i researched into this genre of music, because this is the music i am interested in today. Since i am a fan of R&B music, i am going to use this genre of music for my magazine.

organisation

Connotations of the colour black and cool colours including, blue, purple, green etc. This will help me in my magazine, this is because it can help me specifically pick colours of clothing to create a purpose and reflect something of the artist. As explained in the research of looking at this website, black is the strongest of the neutral colours, but has positive and negative connotations. The positive being associated with power, elegance and formality. However on the negative it can be associated with evil, death and mystery. It can be used for edgy designs or elegant designs. i want my artist to come across as an elegant female and show she is has power, which black is commonly associated with, Hopefully this will be taken into consideration when taking a photo shoot of my artist, in which case i will try on black outfits to give off this specific image.

organisation

This is a screen shot of my research and planning of collecting ideas for my music magazine. This will help me pick a colour for my magazine by looking at the different connotations of individual colours. Again this will help me pick a colour scheme for my magazine and colour of clothing the artist will be wearing. As shown in the above screen shot Yellow is often considered the brightest and most emerging of the warm colours. it is associated with hope, My magazine is a summer magazine so when i come to designing my magazine i will take into consideration the bright summer themed colours such as Yellow.

Organisation

When i was researching what connotations different colours have, there was a short summary to each colour, as said in previous blog post it will help me choose my colour scheme and colour of clothing the artist will be wearing. By using specific colours it can help the artist stand out more or give off a specific image, such as a pure look by using colour White, or i could use a black piece of clothing with a black colour scheme to create a sense of mischief and elegance.

Drafting and Planning

Iggy  Azalea got recognized for her modelling just before she got well known for her singing. This is why i researched some of her poses, because she done it as an occupation and also because many teenagers are inspired by the look she reveals. Her modelling puts her across as confident and dominant. Her outfits either cover her up or make her revealing and a bit provocative. I want my artist to be presented on the front of my magazine as dominant, so a close up would be ideal, as this makes the facial expression more noticeable and gets her at the main focus. By researching these images has made me consider different ideas of how to angle the camera and how to position the artist.

drafting and planning

I made this draft of a rough front cover for magazine Vibe. I used the cover star of Rita Ora, she is an artist who offers the genre of music i have chosen for my specific magazine which is pop and r&b music. i found an image which is quite rebellious of her but her facial expression gives a completely different look; timid. Majority of females within the front page of magazines tend to be quite revealing with very little clothing. Personally i didn't want my artist to do this, this therefore will be the unique part of my magazine as not everybody does it. I had a colour scheme which consisted of a plum purple and black and white. These colours blended well and matched the image of the artist. i had the barcode present at the bottom as this isn't a feature to focus to much on. This helped me because i can see a colour scheme blended in with the conventions of a magazine and can help me develop my knowledge on these when i make my final magazine. to edit this draft magazine i used pair.net, this was to help me get familiar with the software ready for my final piece.

Research into similar products

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Ticket Master is one of my favourite websites. Whenever i'm on a computer, i will always go onto this websites, this is because i love concerts/ festivals. Music is one of my favourite things, hence why i love concerts. Festivals just let you have a break from studying to enjoy yourself and do what i love doing. 

Research into similar products

This contents page was taken from Vibe magazine, which is magazine i am using for influence for my front page, double page and contents page. The construction of the text is unusual and unique and the text usually goes in colums all the way across the page, whilst this specific contents page has the headinging of 'contents' divided to make it more effective. Also the image of the female is unusual as she is lying down which makes the image slightly twisted, this is unusual as we usually have small images of mid shots of the stars. The colours are simple and match, the simplicity of the page makes it easier to read and follow as the reader. Analysing this contents page, gives me ideas on how to make my content page unique and different to other magazines.

Research into similar products

The double page spread is divided into sections. the first page is dedicated to the main image of the artist the magazine is featuring, and in this case its Chipmunk. They used a big close up of his face. The layout of this magazine is unusual as normally we have the text on the first page, but this time we have the image before the text, this is important if your aiming your magazine at a younger target audience, who prefer pictures over lots of text. The mast head is on the right paige which is made to seen first to engage with the reader, the text is a simple black font which makes it more clear. the mast head uses a pun with 'champion chip'. this makes the magazine have some humour also, the mast head uses alliteration which is catchy for the younger generation. The word 'champion' has replaced its 'O' with a gold medal. this could inspire the younger target audience as they will look up to it and see it as success and might encourage them to become more successful. the picture gives it a positive tone and chipmunk looks like his focusing in both images. the colours used in this article is blue and black and gold, these colours aren't feminie which could reflect as to why the big image of the artist on the right side page, this could attract younger girls who find him attractive. i may consider using the structure of this double page spread in mine, this is because not many magazine use a whole page for an image and then text on the other side, this makes the magazine unique.

 

Research into similar products

The main image on the double page spread has the person of interest, this is by her facing the camera with her body facing the same direction. They have use a medium shot on her. The double page spread follows a colour scheme of mainly pink and black. the text has been wrote in columns which is typical of a magazine. The first part of the headline 'The gospel according to' is written in a bold and black font. The use of the font connotates a modern look. Niki Minaj's name is the biggest piece of text on the page which indicates to the reader the whole article will be about this particular artist. Her name is written in the colour pink which highlights her femininity and beauty and might have been used to reflect her personality. Niki Minaj is wearing a zebra patterned item of clothing which brings out her appreciation of animals which might appeal to younger audience. the use of different jewellery have a range of colours which are exciting and suggest she has an unusual style and she is independent. the lighting is bright which gives it a happy feel to the magazine and might reflect her enthusiastic personality.

This double page spread, is what i will be using for my influence of my double page spread. The idea that the image is beside the text i found was effective and makes it look very interesting. This will be inherited into my work.