Clothing

The clothing that my models will be wearing is:

These are all top quality brands, including: Jack Wolfskin, Hype and Topman.

The Posture I Want

There are a few poses I Want to experiment, they involve props such as a guitar, drums and a microphone. The model will have a few shots taken looking at the camera and then a few when he is looking away..

There are three types of postures I want, these are all poses for musicians and will fit perfectly into my music magazine.

Pose 1 - Playing the Guitar

Pose 2 - Playing the Drums

Pose 3 - Singing with a Mic

Photoshoot Background

Reasons I Want a Plain Background!!

- The White Background will be easier to edit on
- The Background wont have anything in the way, like if i was in the street people, dogs or scruffy walls wont be in the way
- I Can Produce Better Editing On a Plain Background

Location for My Photoshoot

My Photo-shoot will be on the Promenade located in Wallasey, I Chose this Location because the background will be of the Liverpool Skyline. I am hoping that the sky will have a nice colour so it helps make the background stand out more.

RESEARCH: POSSIBLE NAMES!

These are some of the names I have thought of.

MFTP (Music for the People)

M4U/MFU (Music for You)

Louder 

OYE (Open your Ears)

Curve

Charted

Stars In Your Ears

RESEARCH: FONT!

I Have been looking around the internet for certain fonts that I could use for my magazine cover and I have found these. One called 'Piston Pressure', 'BEBAS', 'Bebas Neue' and 'Coolvetica'. 

Task 2

The Profile Of One Of My Magazine Buyers/Readers!

1 - Name: Daniel Hammond
2 - Age: 17

3 - Hobbies: Football, Basketball, Guitar, Drums and Going to Gigs 

4 - Favourite Films: Pulp fiction, World War Z, Goal, Goal 2 and Goal 3

5 - Favourite TV Show: Fresh Meat, Celebrity Juice, Good News, Misfits, Mock the Week and Match of the Day      

6 - Genres: Indie, Hiphop, Rap and Pop

7 - Style: Skinny Jeans, Shirts, Leather Jackets and T-shirts

8 - Likes: Football, Gaming, Music and Food

     Dislike: Soaps, Rugby, Chick Flicks and Heavy Metal

9 - Employed, Part-time 

Task 1

Age of Target Audience

The age of my target audience for my magazine will be from ages 15 – 24. This suits the music bands, information and movies that are being posted into the magazine.

Gender

The gender is mainly male, but a few females will read it, I done a bit of research and found that 68.3% that read it are male and 31.7% are female.

Social Group

The social group that will be reading my magazine will be people who like big recording artists like Arctic Monkeys, Adele, Take That and Lady Gaga. We vary who is included in our magazines, it will be Indie artists to Pop Artists.

Distribution or Readership

In January to December 2012, Q distributed more that 350,000 copies. This shows that it attracts a lot of people because of the quality and price of the magazine.

Genre of Music

Indie and Pop will be the main genre of the magazine as they are the biggest two genres around.

Types of Artists/Bands that would appear in this Mag

Arctic Monkeys, Adele, Take That, Lady Gaga and many more. These are all big recording artists and attract a lot of people because of the quality of the music they produce.

Below is the Research I Done for the Gender of My Magazine.

My Presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/karlgraham96/conventions-28195143

This is my powerpoint on the conventions of a music magazine, the powerpoint is shared by a website called SlideShare!

Main Image

This slide describes what the main image is. The main image is the image on the front of the magazine and gives us a preview of whats inside.

Conventions Youtube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvA1YEVec-A
In the video it shows you the conventions of a music magazine, it helps you label them and gives you an idea of what they are

Banners

This is my slide about Banners. The magazine uses a banner to show what the magazine is called it is like a masthead, they also colour co-ordinate the magazine so the text stands out, example such as black and white.

Mastheads

This is my slide about Mastheads, it tells you what its about too, the mastheads show what the magazine is called so consumers know what magazine they are buying and whether they are in to what the magazine is about

My Two Magazines

These are the two magazines I am using for my presentation. I have chose these magazine because they have various conventions, such as a masthead, banner, main image and a lead. The magazines use a lot of colour to. The Indie magazine uses dull and blank colours and the RnB magazine uses bright and fun colours

Conventions

• I have included page numbers to help navigate around my magazine easier and I have included the page titles too.

• I have put an issue number on the magazine so people know what issue the magazine is and I have also put a date on so people know when it was issued 

• The title is big so people can see it and stand out, instead of putting 'contents' I put 'The Oldershaw Bugle - Whats Inside' because having just contents is boring, I put a glow effect on too.
• The choice of font and colours and name are the same as on the magazine cover and present a clear house style

• A Final convention is the contact details, this is a common feature of a contents page. The contact details help provide communication with the target audience.

My Finished Contents Page

Here is a screenshot of my finished contents page. I have included Images and contact details, I have also made my text a reasonable size.

Starting My Contents Page

Starting My Contents Page For My Magazine, I Am Starting This Because I Have Finished My Front Cover

Blending Tools

Above are the blending options I have used such as Outer Glow, to make the text stand out and I Used a stroke to give the text an outline.

Front Cover Pre-lim Task

Here is my finished front cover for my pre-lim task.

My Chosen Image(s)

Above is my chosen image. There is many reasons to why I chose this image.

Reasons
- It portrayes Lizzie and Kayleigh Reading the school magazine.
- It shows the school magazine and it is interesting to read.
- Lizzie and Kayleigh Look Happy Reading

The Oldershaw Academy Photo Permission

This is the permission sheet for The Oldershaw Academy. The purpose of this is so The Oldershaw Academy or Students can use pictures of other students for special purposes like Media Coursework.

Medium Close-up Camera Shot.

2 Medium Close-Up Camera Shots.

Prelim Media Task

Mr Liddell's Blog Address

oamedia.blogspot.com
Mr Liddells Blog Address