Research and Planning LITTLE MIX PHOTOS FOR CONTENTS PAGE

Research and Planning MODEL

Research and Planning INSPO FOR MY MUSIC MAGAZINE (COVER)

When creating the cover for my music magazine I decided to take inspiration from other magazines similar to my genre. I did this as I felt it would help me identify with what people who read my genre like to read about, and see in a magazine of its type. 

The two magazine covers I took inspiration from are Billboard and POP magazine. I chose these two as I feel they represent what I would like my music magazine to represent very well, and usually design and include content very similar to mine. 

The first one I chose was Billboard, the Adele cover. However, I chose to have the Brazilian cover as I felt it identified more with how I wanted mine to look, more than the British one. This is because I liked the simple look it has to it, as it is just a plain background with the main focus being on the cover image. This is how I wanted mine, as I felt it was important for my cover image to be the main feature. This is as it is what most of my magazine is about, as it's the double page spread story too. 

The second one I chose was POP magazine. I decided to take influence from this cover as I felt it had an unusual look to it, and thats what I wanted for my mag cover too. It had a funky twist to it and was unique like no other magazine. I wanted this for my music magazine as I felt it had to be different and stand out from any other. It had to draw attention, and although I didn't copy the cover, I definatly took inspo from it. I took the pop art look from it and adapted it into my magazine cover.

Research and Planning TWITTER FEEDBACK

A few months ago I set up a twitter page regarding my magazine. I set up questionnaires of multiple choice so I could gather feeback off an audeince (not necessarrily mine), and also promote my magazine a little. 

On the twitter page, I asked the questions; Which bright colour scheme do you think would fit best throughout my pop magazine?, Do you agree £2.50 is a reasonable price for a fortnightly pop magazine?, and Which of the following artists gig should I review? I did suceesfully gather some feedback from the public, which helped me decide on certain aspects in and for my music magazine. 

The questions that the feedback helped influence were, ''Which of the following artists gig should I review?'', as the majority vote was One Direction, therefore I know to review them, as it will hopefully draw people in as it what the public has voted. Also the other question of of the three, where the answers helped influence my magazine and decision was, ''Do you agree £2.50 is a reasonable price for a fortnightly magazine?''. The feedback helped as it was a full majority of Yes, therefore I know that this price is reasonable and people wil be willing to pay it. I now know what price I can have my music magazine at, where people will be willing to buy it. However, this may change once people know it now more of an adult pop magazine, and not pretty pop.

Although, as we can see here, the majority of the feeback did help, some still didn't. On the question, ''Which bright colour scheme do you think would  fit best throughout my pop magazine?'' The feedback isn't helpful to me now as I have changed the genre of my magazine, none of these colour schemes fit anyway, and i ended up going with another one. Therefore this question is now irrelivant, which makes the feedback uninfluencial.

Research and Planning PROGRESS CONTENTS PAGE X4

Today I have been working on my contents page and cover.
Today I added the number issue onto the cover.
Also, I have begun to plan out my conetnts page, although I clearly still need to finish it, and add another image next to the two at the top. I also need to finalise my fonts, as I don't think the ones on the contents page are 100% suitable for the page, and the genre.

Resrach and Planning COVER PROGRESS 5

 

Today I have worked moer on my front cover, as i felt it needed a change. 

I have changed the title font, and added text desrbing the content and extra content featured inside. There is also now a barcode.

The only other things i now need to do are add an issue number, and add a price.

 

Research and Planning NEW AUDIENCE