Publication plan

Title: Verse

Positioning Statement: Everything to do with punk pop

Frequency of Publication: Fortnightly

Price: £2.50

Distribution: Newsagents and supermarkets

Rationale: The magazine is aimed at punk pop fans and due to gigs being a main part of this genre; it will include a gig guide. Also this magazine will include posters, interviews and new singles.

Style: The style of my magazine is aimed at teenagers therefore needs to have a young approach and use simple language that will appeal to the teenagers.

Regular Content

Poster of the week

Music quiz

Song of the week

Top 10 released new songs

All access backstage

Lyric bloopers

Gig guide

Up and coming

Band bust ups

Feature Content

Exclusive interview with an up and coming new band

Why twenty twenty have had to cancel dates

How Travis Barker broke his arm on tour

How to play You Me at Six

Hello goodbye- we are back

Elliot minor – Jessica fans

Hollywood undead – convert the fans

New band play o2 academy

Blink 182 – we are back

Go:Audio – How we helped Saving Aimee

House styles

Cover lines: Arial black

Headlines: Arial

Stand first: Arial 14pt

Captions: Arial 8pt

Features first paragraphs: drop capital Times new roman, 2 lines deep

News first paragraph: First word bold

Body text: Tahoma

Colour scheme: Green, Blue and Purple

Task two Music

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Issue size – 63 pages

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main task codes and conventions of a music double page spead

• The main image takes up a whole page.
• The main image is bleeds across to the next page.
• The headlines usually stretch across the two pages.
• Strap lines or boarders often bleed across the two pages.
• There is sometimes a drop capital at the start of an article so you know where to start reading from.
• Bold type is used on the first paragraph which has a slightly bigger type face.
• More than one image is usually used.
• Smaller images are used to break up the text, which makes it more appealing to the eye to read panels and quotes can also be used to this effect.
• Quotes are sometimes used on the main image.
• There is a by-line which is the name or the artist who wrote the article. Usually at the end of the article.
• There is usually a credit of the name of the person who did the photography.
• Stand first goes under the headline.
• Creative, eye catching headlines.
• The artist's names are highlighted.
• Page numbers are at the bottom of the magazine with the issue date.
• There is usually a website address.
• There is a limited use of colour.
• Usually lay out in columns (3 or 4).
• The stand first has a larger font size.
• An informal style of writing is used.
• The personality of the writer comes through in the article by the way it is written and the use of opinions.

Main task codes and conventions of a music contents page

• Headings are used to divide up the contents into sections.
• Sometimes there is an editorial letter with a picture, however not all the time used.
• There is one main image.
• Then some smaller images.
• Creative photography is used.
• There is a consistent colour scheme.
• Page numbers on the pictures anchor the image to written content.
• There are usually two to three columns.
• There are sometimes subscription details.
• They have white backgrounds the majority of the time.
• The title of the magazine is repeated.
• There is an issue date.
• It has the page numbers and then text telling the reader what the article is about.
• The sub line is in smaller text.
• There are regular which are articles which appear in each issue and feature articles which are articles which are a one off
• The contents page usually contains the email address of the magazine and contact details.

Main Task codes and conventions of the front cover of a music magazine

• The headline is usually one word or letters long, usually on the left, uses a unique font and is always the biggest font on the page
• There is always a consistent colour scheme
• The main image is of a band or singer; they look at the camera and do not usually smile as it conveys an attitude
• Creative photography is used
• A slightly lower camera angle gives the impression of the artist having a lot of power
• There is usually smaller picture of performances or artists
• A strip at the top or bottom lists additional information
• The barcode is always on the bottom right corner
• The barcode is always on the front this is because the back is used for adverts.
• Puffs advertise "something for nothing"
• They typography is either sans or serif.
• There is always a price and issue date

Main Task

Task Seven

All the people that I asked are within my target audience. Therefore this gives me a very good idea as to how my magazine will be constructed.

This gives me an idea of what bands to include in my magazine. I am very pleased with the range of artists which I will include.

The most popular colour is green therefore I have decided for this to be my main colour. I am also going to use hints of blue.

This shows me that on my magazine I need to include a lot of headlines.

Due to the words given I will try to include as many as possible on my front cover.

Punk pop is the highest answer which is good because that is the genre of my music magazine.

£2.50 - £3.00 is the most popular choice therefore a magazine priced at £3.00 as it is the highest of the range therefore in the long run would make a profit.

Due to female singers being more popular I have decided to use a female band on my front cover

This shows that the quiz is biased towards females as I asked more girls than boys. Therefore I need to take into consideration that some of the questions may be in favour of a female approach.

This shows that fortnightly magazines are more popular. Therefore I strongly agree my magazine should be a fortnightly issue.

Evaluation

I have been asked to create a school magazine following the codes and conventions of a conventional magazine. I believe that I have followed them well this is because the title is positioned it the top left and consists of a unique font, I have used a mid shot for my main central image, I have a bar code, I have used the font sans serif, I have included a puff and website and issue date. My front cover consists of the main colour orange with a few details in yellow I have kept the range of colours as minimum as possible. I do consider the positioning of it all and could possibly have added more images if positioned better on the page.
My contents page also follows the codes and conventions by having three columns, headings, consistent colour scheme, images and the magazine title. However instead of using Photoshop as I did for the front cover I used the software QuarkXPress this pushed my skills as I had to get use to the software in order to produce a product which I was satisfied about.
I used media technologies such as Photoshop and QuarkXPress to create my media product. I have used Photoshop many times however QuarkXPress was a new software for me.
One of my main strengths during the creation of this school magazine was that a new how to use Photoshop very well therefore it didn’t take long for me to achieve the look I wanted. As I stated before QuarkXPress is a new software therefore was completely new to me this meant that it took a little longer and took a while to get used to. However the comparison of how fast I can use Photoshop therefore aloud more time on my contents page making it easier to find my way around the new software.
I am happy with my school magazine and i feel more confident about using new software.

Planning

Task one

Title - Reviser
Mise-en-scene - Outside the headmasters office
Coverlines for the front - New student raisers the need for more trips, Get your lessons now, Do you know your grades?, Win! Free lunch pass!, 20 limited edition iris gifts.

Task two

Task three

Regular content - Crossword, News of the week, Problem page, Horoscopes, Recipe of the week, Dates for you diary, Lunch menu, Book of the week, Competition, Price guidelines on stationary and uniform.

Feature articles - New student raisers the need for more trips, Get you lessons now, Limited edition iris gifts, Do you know you grades?, Weatherhead goes live on air, New school dinners, Big screen for film club, Chance to improve and represent the school, Battle of the bands, Gym team goes for gold.

Images for contents - Front cover, girl playing guitar, Trophy, Results happiness, ice radio sign.

Task Five

Task seven

Task Eight

Codes and Conventions of a content page

• Editors letter
• Columns
• Use headings to divide up contents
• One large image
• Smaller images
• Consistent colour scheme
• Page numbers on pictures anchor image to written contents
• Subscription details
• White background
• Title of magazine
• Issue date
• Word contents
• Page number/gap/text
• Regular content/every issue
• Features/one off
• Page number, title, issue date, website.

codes and conventions of a magazine front cover

Common Features

• Puff-something for nothing
• Bar code-right hand corner because of advert on the back
• Issue number
• Top banner-names or topics
• Original
• More than one picture
• Title-usually one word-positioned top left of the cover and full page width-unique font-largest text on the cover
• Consistent colour scheme
• One main image -band or singer-medium close up-conveys an attitude-direct address
• Main coverline anchors the meaning of the main image it is the largest on the page

Coverlines

• Main coverline two lines-few words as possible
• Information about contents
• intrigue audience
• typography-consistent, only a few fonts are used
• fonts- serif and sans serif
• Connotation of the font reflect the target audience and subject
• Frame main image
• Left

positioning statement-by the title

Issue date-price

Title, pos st, date and price-masthead