Survey Monkey Analysis

This is a short slideshow on some of the answers I recieved from my SurveyMonkey survey. This is what I have gained from making the magazine and how i'm going to make my magazine incorparating the audiences views and ideas.

Proposal

My proposal has allowed me to plan out all the different parts of my magazine, and put all my ideas into one place. By putting my ideas down in one place it means I can keep going back and checking things to see if I have forgotton anything or not. Of course along the way im sure im going to change my mind and my ideas will alter, but I will specify my reasons for my changes in my evaluation after my magazine is completed.

Business Model - Q

 

Audience - Uses and Gratification Theory

 

Audience - Uses and Gratification Theory

This is my analysis on the uses and gratifications theory of audience. I have outline the basic explanation of what each of the uses and gratifications men and I have given examples. This will help me when creating my final magazine as I will understand how my audience will want to use my magazine.

 

Production Diary 8

 

Yesterday at school, I uploaded my video for the genre of my magazine which is indie. I also started and finished my survey monkey survey, which took longer than I thought it would because I didn't know which questions to ask. I posted them both onto my blog, and asked my friends to complete it when they got home, I also uploaded it onto my fronter page and twitter page asking people to complete it. The idea of having this survey is to get a better insight of what people are going to want to have in a magazine as they are going to buy this and they are going to want the most they can get for their money. Additionally I had a few problems when trying to upload my genre video has it wouldn't go straight onto my blog, therefore I had to upload it up onto YouTube which didn't work the first time, however when I tried the second time it took a long time but did upload. Then I inserted a link onto my blog and put a small description underneath telling everyone what it was and why this was helpful for me. But I did have some problems when making the actual video as I wanted to insert live clips from festivals I had found, however Adobe Premier wouldn't accept them. However I learned how to sort out that problem after a little bit of playing around with the programme, I also learned how to export a video from 'Adobe Premier Pro CS6'. Today in school, I just worked on my audience presentation and went over past posts and made sure I had written enough and made sense. I felt this was important as sometimes I made posts when I was out and busy so I might not have made much sense. 

Music Magazine Audience Survey

I have created a survey to help me understand what people like to have in music magazines, the idea of doing this is so that I can get a feel for what people and my audience will want when I create my magazine.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JQ5GH6B

Representation Video

This is a representation video I made for my magazine genre, everything included in this video I believe to be important to my genre of music. I thought rather than type it out, I would show you instead.

Production Diary 7

Today I was suppose to have my first photo-shoot, but I couldn't as my model was ill and therefore
I decided I might as well wait for them all to be together to do the shoot. I have decided that I definitely want to have a girl group/band on my front cover, I realize that if I do have this I am going to have to work hard on making sure they all look right in character and go together well, otherwise it wont work. As well as this, I have started on my double page spread analysis, as I was behind on this work as I was off ill. That should be finished by my next lesson and should be uploaded soon, this time it wasn't that hard to analyse the spreads as I did this for GCSE and remember a lot of what we did then. My mum brought me some things home from london the other day for my room, I really liked some of the decorations she had picked and it sounds strange but they really inspired me. I took some pictures which I will insert down below, but I think they just look really cool, I liked how fun they made my room looked. I also really liked the dream catcher and the fairy lights because I think they really reflect the look I want to go for with my magazine. Although it is a indie magazine, which people might how does that reflect your magazine that hasn't got anything to do with indie, I do want to bring that fun hipster side into it to. I don't want to have a dull boring magazine. I want it to be stylish. So i'm planning to buy some fairy lights like these and put them around a section of my trees in my garden and take some shots at evening, when its getting dark and the sky is at that orangery yellow colour.

Production Diary 6

Transcript: This week I was researching online more about the sort of clothes I want my models to wear, I was just searching random things such as festival clothes, festival fashion, indie style etc into google and just saving images into a folder so I could print them off and just show them to my models to see if they own any items of clothing like this. I will leave some pictures of those down below so you can see the sort of style i'm going for. I specifically liked the way that Vanessa Hudgen's dressed at some of the festivals she went to this year and last, she went for a sort of indie boho style.

Additionally, I think this style really suits her. I have a model, who I think can also pull this sort of look off. Vanessa also wears a lot of feathers in her hair, face jewels and jewelry which I also intend on having in my magazine. I also decided that I now don't want one model to be my main artist, I want to make a girlband of 3, my models for this will be Kristin Page, Siena Singh and Daniella Blow. I haven't yet decided on a name for the girl band either, but i've been looking online at indie bands names to get a feel and some inspiration.

Production Diary 5

In my last media lesson, we went through the codes and conventions and the representation of magazines in class as a group. Then we went of and had to present this in our own way and put it onto our blogs. I haven't yet started my codes and conventions presentation, although I want to make a powerpoint presentation to present that. But I have started my representation, I have made a video with lots and lots of pictures which I would associate my magazine I want to create with, so it has pictures of indie artists, festivals, bands, clothing, and tattoos etc. Everything about the indie subculture I have got a picture of and has been put into the 3 minute video. I am almost finished with this, however it is at school so I cant work on it at home as I don't have the same programmes. However I am staying after school next week for a couple of days and I will finish it off then as well as my codes and conventions presentation.

Analysis Of Contents Page

Contents Page

This is my analysis of two different contents pages. The reason I have done this is to gain knowledge on the norms, and the codes and conventions of music magazines. This will help me when I create my own magazine as I will know what and what not is effective and what I need to include and what is optional to include on my contents page.

Research of Similar Product Material - Front Cover Analysis (Rolling Stone & Q)

Analysis of Double Page Spreads

Double Page Spreads

This is my analysis of two different double page spreads. The reason I have done this is to gain knowledge on the norms, and the codes and conventions of music magazines. This will help me when I create my own magazine as I will know what and what not is effective and what I need to include and what is optional to include.

Production diary 4

Today I came back into school after being off for a few days and I finished the front cover annotations and started my contents page annotations. I found it a lot harder to find examples of contents pages online, especially double page contents pages. So far I have found one 'vibe' one and one 'Q' one, but I am still looking for my third now, but there is none I really want mine to look like. So I've started my contents pages but haven't yet finished them yet, I have used these sheets to help me do the annotations. The sheets have lots of information on them which give me hints and reminders of what I need to write about and what comes under that. For example; for analyzing magazine front covers, when talking about the masthead you should talk about the significance of the titles name, describe the typography, how big is it, color and font, and where does it sit in relation to the image. In addition to all of this I booked my first photo shoot which will be in the studio and in a couple of weeks, and it will be of Daniella Blow, Siena Singh and Kristin Page. I will be taking these photos for the front cover as well as the contents page and double page spread. I have decided to have Daniella as my main model and Siena and Kristin as my secondary and third models. I have also thought about asking one of my friends thats a boy to model otherwise all of the models will be girls and that may restrict the audience.

Production Diary 3

This week I wasn't in any of my lessons as I was ill and didn't come into school. Although in the lesson that I had previously been in we had started analysing and annotating professional magazines that are well known for being successful, we had to annotate magazines that we wanted our magazines to look like. I chose to annotate the front cover and contents page of two 'Q' magazines and a 'Rolling Stone' for the front cover. I did some of these in class and currently finishing them now. I haven't actually started the contents pages yet. Additionally I also started thinking about when I should do my photo shoot, what genre I want to go for  and who should be in. I decided I wanted to go for the indie music genre and I was going to ask one of my friends called Daniella Blow to model on the front cover and then ask some other friends to model for the contents pages. However I have also asked some of my other friends to take part in my photoshoots, as I think they have the right look for what I am going for.