EVALUATION

Here is my evaluation for my Final music magazine for my AS media studies.



By Jonathan Heap

Final Music Magazine - Front Cover / Contents Page / Double Page Spread (JPG)

Final Music Magazine - Front Cover / Contents Page / Double Page Spread (PDF)

Music Magazines half way through production

Final Photoshoot

Mock Up for music magazine

Front cover.

Contents.

Double Page Spread.

Mock up for contents

Here is my contents mock up. Things id change for the final are, do a full note from the editor, add actual articles and use a photo outside with more of a music base. but still get them in the right hand side middle region.

Music Magazine Front Cover Mock Up.

Here is my mock up for the front cover of my music magazine.

 

 

This is a rough plan of what the front cover of my music magazine will look like. The masthead is the one I have designed and using publisher and paint. The image isn't the one I will use as I haven't yet had a photo-shoot and taken them. This is a photo from when we were learning how to use the Canon DSLR camera.

 

 

Music Magazine Masthead

My music magazine is too be called ''RECORD'' where the O is replaced by a vinyl record.

 

 

 

Music Magazine Draft - RECORD

 

Here is a mock up draft I have made of a music magazine called '' RECORD''

HOUSE STYLE

This NME magazine has many conventions and has various aspects I wish to adapt and use in my own music magazine. It also looks very professional and sets a good example so I would like it to be my House Style. Furthermore I have chosen a house style for my double page spread from a different music magazine called Q. As their are multiple aspects I wish to include in my magazine. As well as a front cover and double page spread I have taken inspiration from two contents pages one from NME and the other from Q magazine to help me create my music magazine.

Different Genre Music Magazines and their Similarities

This TOP OF THE POPS magazine is very bright and colourful and aimed at music in the charts for a younger audience. It is clearly designed to encourage the younger audience. Also the articles and language used are aimed at a younger audience. A noticable similarity between top of the pops and kerrang as well as NME is that their are very few spots on the page where their is any content, so text or images.

This is clearly a well known magazine as they don't mind covering up their masthead. Its theme sticks to using red, black, white and yellow. The font is quite solid and rugged linking it to the rock genre. Something that stands out with Kerrang is that their are multiple images beside the main one of the five band members across the top, as their are a further three main artists along the right as well as examples of pull out posters on the left.  

NME is a highly popular music magazine as it is perfectly happy to cover their own masthead as they know the audience will recognise it even if it is partually covered. Like the other two NME is full of varios articles and has a big sell line taking up a third of the page. At the bottom their is a list of musical artists featured in the magazine and theese can also be seen on the right hand side. This is an idea i would like to take and use in my music magazine. In the top right their is a puff telling you about whats free inside and is in gold which is the same colour as the border. This magazine I belive I shall use as the HOUSE STYLE.

Good and Bad Magazine front cover photos.

OK

 

BAD