Planning Production

Planning Production

Front Cover Image – Britpop style men/mods around a scooter dressed in retro clothes, Chelsea boots and parkas

This image will be a medium long shot using no additional lighting.  Some subjects using direct address, some facing away. The image will draw the reader in and will feature a bland background.  The subjects will be holding certain objects that have been associated with the genre by the subjects who took the questionnaire.

Main coverline to go with image.- The generation – Craig Pugh Strums His Story...

·  Coverlines - 

·  Ocean Colour Scene – It’s not all high and dry

·  Keith Moon – The legends story

·  Zoot Suit - The High numbers on how they became The Who

·  The Small Faces – Big Sounds

·  Pulp – A squeeze of the Britpop giants

·  Miles Kane – The Wirral Riddler Returns

·  New Venue – ‘The Jam’ Opens It’s Doors

Contents page.

Regular Content

·   Local Gigs – Page 9

·  Band of the month Page 35-36

·  Unsigned band of the month Page 37-38

·  Big, Bold and British – The best bands that blighty has to offer Page 50-55

·  Posters and Interviews Page 39-43

·  Q&A - from the reader for the artist Page 15

·  Britpop Special  Page 55 - 60

·  Album of the month Page 25-26

·  Red, White And Blue – What makes British music best

·  Mad For Mod – Special

·  Where are they now? We catch up with the old members

 

Feature Content

Examples of feature articles which will appear in the magazine:

·  Free CD – ‘The best of British’ 60’s – 2012 Compilation of the greatest Mod/Britpop artists 12 songs. Page 3-5

·  Has Britpop died – we say why we think not Page 20-22

·  The Yardbirds on their take of the 60’s Page 23-24

·  Super Grass – Back to their super roots Page 12-14

·  Ocean Colour Scene – It’s not all high and dry Page 6-8

·  Keith Moon – The legends story Page 16-19

·  The originals – How the whole craze started. Page 30-34

·  Zoot Suit - The High numbers on how they became The Who Page 27-29

·   Band Reviews Old and New – From The Kinks to The Moons 64-67

·  Beady Eye – Blurry vision of the future

·  The Generation

·  New venue ‘The Jam’ opens its doors to showcase some raw talents  Page 47-59

·  The Kingsmen – Their interoperation of Louie Louie 

·  Pulp – A squeeze of the Britpop Giants Page 61-63

·  The Small Faces – Big Sounds Page 44 - 46

·  Blur at the brits – Phil Daniels rejoins the British wonders

 

Images for my contents page.

 

Stack of old vinyl records 

 

Band photo who feature on the double page spread but a different image.

 ‘Big, Bold and British’ Iconic british image for best british acts

 

Local Artist Interview– Unsigned band of the month, images needed, one whole band image or one of the musicians mid long shot or live gig low angle shot. Article about their recent Liverpool conquest and ‘Band Bant’ shenanigans.

 

For my double page spread I will review the “unsigned band of the month” The image will be a live gig photo that takes up one page and bleeds onto the other. There will be use of drop quotes and all names will be in red with normal text in blue.

Publication Plan

Publication Plan.

 

Title: Revival

 

Positioning statement:  Bringing back the British music scene.

 

Frequency of publication:  Monthly

 

Price:  £2.70

 

Distribution: Newsagents, supermarkets, gigs, tours and festivals.

 

Rationale:  The approach of the magazine is very much from perspective of people who listen to Mod/Britpop genres.  We will offer opinions and insights; articles and interviews will focus very much on what the audience want to know and ask, rather than what the music industry would want them to know.

 

Style: Informal and irreverent style, using humour but not afraid to offer strong comment on events.  The magazine is for all Mod/ Britpop fans and so will use both simple and some challenging vocabulary, following the red top tabloid style of writing and presentation, with short paragraphs and some slang.

 

Images will be the dominant feature of layouts.

 

Regular Content

·   Local Gigs

·  Band of the month

·  Unsigned band of the month – one for the future

·  Big, Bold and British – The best bands that blighty has to offer

·  Posters and Interviews

·  Q&A - from the reader for the artist

·  Britpop Bundle  

·  Album of the month

·  Red, White And Blue – What makes British music best

·  Mad For Mod

 

Feature Content

Examples of feature articles which will appear in the magazine:

·  Free CD – ‘The best of British’ 60’s – 2012 Compilation of the greatest Mod/Britpop artists 12 songs.

·  Has Britpop died – we say why we think no

·  The Yardbirds on their take of the 60’s

·  Super Grass – Back to their super roots

·  Ocean Colour Scene – It’s not all high and dry

·  Keith Moon – The legends story

·  The originals – How the whole craze started.

·  Zoot Suit - The High numbers on how they became The Who

·   Band Reviews Old and New – From The Kinks to The Moons

·  Beady Eye – Blurry vision of the future

·  New venue ‘The Jam’ opens its doors to showcase some raw talents

·  The Kingsmen – Their interoperation of Louie Louie 

·  Pulp – A squeeze of the Britpop Giants

·  The Small Faces – Big Sounds

·  Blur at the brits – Phil Daniels rejoins the British wonders

·  Where are they now? – we meet up with the old members.

 

 

House style

Cover lines: Berlin Sans FB Demi and Arial

 

Headlines: Cooper STD Black

 

Stand first: Franklin Gothic Demi 14pt.  By-line to be included in stand first

 

Captions: Franklin Gothic Demi 8pt

 

Features first paragraph: drop capital Franklin Gothic Demi, 5 lines deep, and first two words in capitals

 

News first paragraph: first two words in bold capitals

 

Body text: Times New Roman 12pt

 

Colour Scheme: Red, White, Blue

Magazine Questionnaire Survey - Voice Clip

 

Magazine Questionnaire - Video Recording

 

Audience Research-Questionnaire Answers

 

This is the reasons I asked the questions that I did.

 

These are charts to show some of the answers that i recieved from the questionnaire.

Questionnaire

Professional Analysis of a Double Page Spread

Analysis Of Professional Contents Pages

Analysis Of Professional Contents Pages on Prezi

Analysis Of Professional Magazine Covers

Initial Plans

Researching the Market Place

Initial Ideas

Evaluation Of School Magazine

Evaluation Of School Magazine on Prezi

Production Of Contents Page

Production Of My School Magazine Front Cover

Photographs for school magazine

 I will use this for my cover.

This picture will be for a story headline in the contents about uniform.

 

This picture will be for a story headline in the contents about Pink Day.

This picture will be for a story headline in the contents about school trips.

This picture will be for a story headline in the contents about the schools new layout.

Plans For My Magazine - Cover & Contents

Shot Types - Pictures I've taken.

 

Shot Types.

 

 

Mid Shot.

Medium Close-Up.

Close-Up.

Extreame Close- Up.

Medium Long Shot.

High Angle

Tilted Frame.

Over The Shoulder .

Two Shot.

Music Magazine - Contents Page Codes & Conventions

Codes And Conventions on Prezi

In today's lesson we looked into the codes and conventions of contents pages in music magazine. Using Prezi we were told to make interactive slides to present the codes and conventions

Music Magazine - Front Cover Codes & Conventions

Music magazine Codes & Convention from JcFoolsOnParade

In this lesson we learnt how to use slide share. From taking the information I wrote about music magazines front covers codes and conventions, I put together this slide share.

Music Magazines - Codes & Conventions

          This in an example of a popular, well known music magazine.

All music magazines, no matter what genre of music, share the same codes & conventions. When looking at the codes & conventions of the front cover it is easy to point out similarities in different magazines. The name of the magazine ,in this example NME, goes at the top of the magazine in what's called the 'mast head'. They are usually top left but can also be centred. The font used for the magazines name is unique to the other fonts used and is the biggest sized font on the cover. The name of the magazine can be part covered by the image if the magazine is well know as shown above.

Underneath the name but still in the mast head is the positioning statement. This is line a slogan or tag line that describes what the magazine believes it is about for example NME use ' New Musical Express'. This informs the reader about what the magazine may be written about.

The main image is usually a picture of the artist who features in the main story. This image dominates the cover and uses direct address by looking at the reader of the magazine to draw them in. This direct address is done by the artist looking towards the camera. This can be done by many different shots including, mid shot, close up or longer shots. Bands would use longer shots to get all the members in the image. The main images are usually posed in a studio with a plain background to draw the readers attention to the image. 

The main cover line is usually about the artist in the main image and is placed on top of the image to anchor it. However it is never placed over the facial aspect of the image. Cover lines frame the image and are written in capital letters. They are usually 3-4 words long and are ambiguous deliberately to make the reader want to buy the magazine to read the story behind it. Sublines are used under cover lines and they add detail and clarity to the cover line while still being ambiguous.

All music magazines use about 3 fonts on the cover. Fonts used are usually, Arial, Times New Roman, Serif or Sans Serif. They also use 3-4 colours maximum which are often primary colours that don't clash with each other. Buzz words are used on the cover. These consist of words like, new, plus and exclusive. The bar codes on music magazines are at the bottom right of the magazine and also usually have the date, issue number and price near them. They can be either portrait or horizontal and got where there is space rather than interfering.

Brief - School Magazine task

Brief for the preliminary exercise from JcFoolsOnParade