Remember, you should be keeping a close eye on the production schedule for your magazine, which can be found here.
Many of you are falling behind and you are not making use of the resources on this blog. In order to move forward with the planning phase you should have done the following and posted your findings on your blog:
- Researched the music magazine industry
- Researched examples of music magazines - their brand identities, audiences and content analysis
- Identified the genre for your own magazine - explaining how you have reached your decisions (not just because you like it!)
- Researched the conventions of this genre and the personae of typical artists from this genre (mood boards would be useful for this - check out the examples on the blog)
- Researched the conventions of magazine design for your chosen genre - including detailed textual analyses of front covers, contents pages and double page spreads, which you link back to the magazines' respective brands and target audiences.
- Taken this research to your audience and get their feedback on what they want from a music magazine
As we stressed when you produced your school magazine, it's essential that you reflect on your findings and identify how they will influence your decisions about your own magazine.
Then, you are ready to start planning the following and explaining reasons for your decisions, based on your research findings.
The magazine in general:
- Your magazine's 'brand identity' and mode of address - You should explain how you will lay out your magazine in a way that reflects the brand identity. Use the example we did together, analysing Q magazine to help you.
- A flat plan for your magazine showing the contents
- Your magazine's title and masthead
- Your choice of register, colours, fonts etc. to form a style guide for your magazine
The artists you will photograph for your magazine:
- Your choices of models
- The 'star images' or 'personae' you are going to construct
- Costume, hair and make-up
- Gesture codes and modes of address
- Camera shots and angles and lighting you will use
- Locations, props, colours you will associate with these artists
Your front cover, DPS and contents page:
- What you will include and how they will be laid out (hand-drawn drafts are fine for this at first - you can scan these in and upload them on to your blog, accompanied by either a written or audio commentary)
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