CLOSED BLOG NOTIFICATION

Centre Name: Norbury Manor BEC 

Centre Number: 14343

Candidate Name: Annamaria Lotmani

Candidate Number: 2131

Unit: G321

Final Construction Piece: Front Cover

Final Construction Piece: Contents Page

Final Construction Piece: Double Page Spread

Evaluation Question 7

Question 7:
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Music Magazine: Front cover, Contents & DPS colour choices

Music Magazine: Artist Interview

This is the interview I have produced for the double page spread of my RnB music magazine. I looked at different real media text interviews to get an idea of what type of questions were asked and here is what I had come up with: 

Question1: What has being an independent artist taught you about the industry and yourself?
It has taught me that the industry is truly built on relationships. You have to connect to your fans and being an independent artist allows you to do this because you are more free to do what you want and get to now them on a more personal level.Overall you have to be yourself and people will love and respect him for it. 

Question 2: When and how did you first become interested in music?
I first became interested in music when I was about 8 years old. My dad used to make me listen to these old school hits and I loved it. I would just listen to it all the time and as I got older I started to understand the true meaning of the songs and I loved the affect music had on me and how it made me think. I wanted to be able to create my own music and hopefully give others the opportunity to feel what I do when I listen to music.

Question 3: Tell us about the first ever song you wrote? Where did you get your inspiration from?
So when I was about 12 years old I wrote my first ever song. It was called 'lay by me'. I wrote this after my grandmother died. I went through a period of grief and I didn't know how to handle it so I expressed my grief through my music and wrote what I felt into a song. I then performed this song to my family and friends and I saw how it made people emotional and this is what I wanted to achieve with my music. I wanted people to feel and relate to the song and it did.

Question 4: Why choose RnB?
Before I was interested in RnB I was into acoustic music as its what I had listened to most. However after performing my first song to an audience I realised that I wanted to produce more upbeat music but also music I felt comfortable with and RnB allowed me to do this.

Question 5: What advice would you give to anyone who is looking to make it in the music industry?
I would say that you should firstly build a fan base. Get your music heard and out there through social media,social events etc. Make sure you know exactly what you want out of it and then work from there because if you have an end goal it makes your musical journey so much better and worth it. Being an independent artist is a lot of work because you don't get much help however, I found that its better as you are free to make your own choices about your whole image and your music where as being signed doesn't allow that as much. However it does help when wanting to be publically noticed around the world. Overall I say please just be yourself and people will love you for it. It gives you your own image and shows that you are unique and make sure you are having fun because if you don't love what you are doing then what is the point?

Music Magazine: Double Page Spread Feedback

Music Magazine: Double Page Spread Manipulation

Music Magazine: Final Double Page Spread Image

This is my final chosen image for my double page spread explaining why I decided to chose this image in particular. 

Test Shots - Double Page Spread

These are a couple of test shots that I had taken for my music magazine double page spread. I decided to go to a different location other than the studio room to take this image as I wanted to allow the auidence to relate and show that the arist is just like everyone else who has worked hard for where he has got to. I want to portary my artist as a down to earth guy and so taking the image in a location that everyone and anyone can go to helps achieve this. I took this image in a park.

Music Magazine: Contents Page Feedback

Music Magazine: Contents Page Manipulation

Music Magazine: Final Contents Page Image

Contents Page Test Shots

These are some test shots that I had taken for my contents page. I took these images in a studio room. I took a varitey of different poses before finding my final shot that I think best suited my genre and house style.I decided to use a female for my contents page as I wanted to make sure Im aiming the magaizne at both genders but also so its fair and attracts anyone. Also by having only one gender doesn't make my magazine interseting or appealing enough.

Music Magazine: Final Masthead Choices

This is me making my final choice for my masthead and how I chose to present it

Music Magazine: Front Cover Deconstruction

Here is a deconstruction of my music magazine's front cover page. I show where I had got my inspiration from to create my magazine. 

Music Magazine: Front Cover Feedback

Music Magazine: Front Cover Manipulation

Here is a slide of all the print screens I took during the process of making my music magazine front cover. It shows all the changes that I had made and all the adjustments to the cover. It shows from start to finish the process on how I made my magazine front cover.

Music Magazine: Final Front Cover Image

This is My final Chosen Front Cover image for my music magaizne! 

Music Magazine: Test Shots 2

         
             
                           


These are some test shots that I had taken. Initally I wanted to take some of these test shots for my double page spread interview, however as I have been working on my front cover and double page spread im not sure it really looks like it links together as both front cover and double spread page have a more professional look where as these images do not tie in with that. I do like the images however whether I use these or not Im not entierly sure.

Music Magazine: Test Shots

           
 These are some test shots that I have taken of my artist for my music magazine from these I was able to see what type of shot works best and how I prefer my model to be positioned and what props that I want included. These images were taking in a studio room and also outside a building to get a different look to see what had worked best.

Music Magazine: Shot/Prop List

             This is my Shot/Prop List for my Music Magazine.                                                         

New Flat Plan - Front Cover Masthead

I decided to change the Masthead of my magazine, so this is my new masthead and an explanation as to why I decided to do this...

Music Magazine: Model Consent Forms

Magazine Magazine: My Flat Plan Feedback

           
            

This is some feedback that I had got for my flat plans. From this it has given me a couple ideas on how to improve and make my magazine better and more suitable for my target audience. From the feedback that I was given  I was told that I should maybe change the masthead of my magazine to suit my magazine more to which I totally agree as I was never that keen on it. I was also told that the Artist name and pull quote should be a lot bigger as to which I also agree on. I was planning to do that when it had come to actually start on the production of magazine. I had also got feedback that  should add more pictures to my contents page.

Music Magazine: Flat Plan Draft - Deconstructed

This is a rough sketch of a flat plan for my magazines front cover, contents and double spread page. I had looked at a couple of magazines and pulled them apart to create my own version.

Music Magazine: Flat Plans

This is my Flat Plan for my music magazines Front cover, Contents and double spread page

Music Magazine: Visual Moodboad

             

 This a short visual mood board for my R&B music magazine it includes a variety words and imagery that I feel associates with my magazine it provides an little insight to what i want my magazine vibe to feel like.

Music Magazine: Reader Profile

This is my reader profile, its a brief look into a typical reader of my target audience. From this it will help me to ensure that my magazine suits my target audience.

Music Magazine: Artist Profile

Music Magazine: Exploration of artists of R&B - Music Videos

Here are some music videos from the artists that I have looked at this is a taste of their music and style as although they are all R&B artists they are all very different in their own individual ways for example Jay Sean and Drakes music are quite different as drakes music is more current as he also raps in some of his music where as Jay Sean music sounds a lot different in comparison. Their cultural background also influences their music as Jay Sean has an Asian background he has produced some asain music/ music vibe as well as his original British music Drake: R Kelly: TheWeeknd: Jay Sean:

Music Magazine: Exploration of Artists of R&B

Music Magazine: Findings/Analysis of results

From looking at the results that I have collected from my audience research I have put into a chart what my target audience most like to see and want from a music magazine and here is what I have found out: 

Music Magazine: Audience focus group - Part 2

       
            
This is my focus group where I had asked these two students a few questions to get a feel of what my target audience likes in a music magazine and questions relating to the genre I have chosen. 

The questions that I had asked were:  
1.)Who is your favorite R&B artist and why?
2.)Do you listen to more female or male R&B artists? anyone in particular?
3.) What kind of information would you like to see on a music magazine front cover that would make you want to buy the magazine?
4.) What information would you like to know about an R&B artist in an interview?

Music Magazine: Audience Research - Part 1

Music Magazine: Research of the genre of music

This is some research that I have done looking into the chosen genre that I will be using for my music magazine which as you can see is RnB. 

Music Magazine: Research Rationale

I plan to produce an RnB music magazine to which the target audience that I have chosen to make my music magazine for is from 16+ as I have a large access to people of this age. I go to a sixth form where the ages rage from 16-18 but I also access to people from outside of school who are much younger and older too so when doing my market research I can get feedback from all ages.I think that by using my age group as my target audience puts me at an advantage as I am able to relate to others and have more of an understanding of which magazine type interests them. 

I will do a market research where my aim will be to gather information that I could use to help create my music magazine to be of interest to my target audience. I will gather this information by asking survey questions to a group of people that will help me to get a rough idea of peoples opinions on things such as for example; "how much you would pay for a music magazine?" 

With this information I hope to ensure that I will get a rough idea of the type of magazine my target audience would like to see and read and this should help to get a better understanding and know all the key elements into making sure that I create something to make my magazine most successful.

Music Magazine: Magazine Typography

This is my Magazine Typography. Here I have selected multiple music magazine masthead examples and merged them together into a mood board. Most of these fonts are quite easy to read and stand out very clearly such as Vibe, Beat, XXL, Spin, Clash, Q. All of theses fonts are big and bold which makes it a lot easier for readers to see/read and is mostly likely to attract them more where as on the other hand magazines such as 'Kerrang' is a lot more harder to read because of the font and style in which it is presented makes it harder to read straight away. As you can see there are lines that cover the letters and the letter A is also quite hard to read as it is blanked out.

I really like how 'Stoned' magazine is presented as it is bold so you can see it clearly but also slightly blurred which represented the meaning of being stoned. However the blurriness does mess with my eyes but i like that it relates to the text. I also like how 'Rolling Stone' is presented as the font is written in a way where it looks like the text is actually rolling. When I create my music magazine I wish to take inspiration form these as I like the way it links.

The serifs used in 'Choir&Organ' magazine relate to the house style of the magazine as choirs are very neat, organised and do everything in sync and therefore their magazine is quite formal like this too and the serifs help represent this as I believe that serifs show organisation and that it looks quite posh. The font is also quite large, thin and spaced out and all this together also helps show who the target audience is for as the neat representation shows that it would be for an older audience where as if you compare ti to the magazine 'Top of the Pops' the text is quite funky and colourful showing that this is more for a younger audience.

Music Magzine Deconstruction

This is my magazine deconstruction.. I chose to deconstruct Vibe magazine as it predominantly features R&B and Hip Hop music artists which I have decided that R&B will be the genre that I will chose to base my music magazine on.

Music Magazine Moodboard

This is my moodboard that I have created showing some key examples of different magazine styles. The 4 that I chose to look at are Q magazine, NME, Billboard, MOJO. Each of these magazines present different styles of music and they all present themselves in different way such as billboard where there is hardly any text on the front cover compared to Q magazine where there is a lot of text on the page.

Music Magazine: My outline of my brief and my initial feelings

This is a breif outline of my task to create a music magazine along with my inital thoughts and feelings about this whole process.