Further Research

Today I researched further into institutions and looked at the online magazine monkey in more detail to make sure I had enough information for my assessment next month. I found that monkey was only distributed online. This magazine is also available via mobile phone online also so it can reach their audience wherever they are. Monkey is aimed at 16 to 30-year-old males. Monkey is published weekly and is free and earns its money through advertising. 

I also researched publishing magazines online and found I company that I believe to be free,

Here are the features that the company provide:

Finalising my Style Model

Finalising my Style Model

The style model that i finalised was Q it is a great magazine that reaches out to a good audience so it uses everything well. I will be trying to keep up to Q's standards to try to make my magazine professional. I have been looking at some issues published by Q to notice what type of magazine i need to be making. Here are some of the issues that i looked at:

Q thought that the older generation were being ignored in the music industry so they decided that there target audience was both genders over the age of 25. My target audience may be different and targeted to younger people but its still a good style model.

Researching Style Models

Researching Style Models

I have been researching different styles to decide which one is best suitable, here are the four style models i researched:

• Kerrang
• Mojo
• NME
• Q

Here are some examples of the magazines:

Q in my opinion creates better quality magazines and reaches out to my type of audience so this is most likely to be my style model.

Image for my Pre-Liminary front cover

Deciding which Image to use for my Pre-Liminary front cover

I took my Pre-Liminary images this week and I have been deciding which one is going to be my official image for my front cover.

Here are some of the Images that i composed:

I chose the bottom image because I thought that the pose of the student was well positioned, the reflection of building did give this image a dis-advantage but i have decided to remove the background and just have the student. The two other images may come in handy later on (contents page etc.).

Looking at Style Models (Pre-Liminary)

Today I looked at style models to pick up on some of the conventions included in a school magazine.
I have seen some conventions I would like to implement into my magazine to make my magazine more suitable for my audience.

Here are some of the Style models that I looked at:

I have taken onboard some of the conventions included in these style models I will be focusing on one student on the front cover of my magazine and hopefully be using the test effectively.

Finding a Suitable Location (Pre-Liminary)

Finding/Making a suitable location

I have been looking for a suitable location for my Pre-Liminary task, The task is for a school magazine so i decided to look around my school to consider any locations. I did use my school for the location but I may be using a Photo Editing Software to remove the background and use a gradient; the reason i have decided this is because the locations i got weren't what i wanted them to be and I wanted to focus on the student mainly and if the audience are struggling to recognise the role then the body text would help.

Here are some of the locations that have discarded:

The first location did say school but there was a lot of reflection so i decided to not use this.







The school library doesn't say that its a school it could just be a library.







I do believe that a gradient background is the best way to go for a school magazine anyway because i

could use a colour that may attract students to focus on that magazine.

Researching Institutions

Researching Institutions

I have been researching institutions to find a suitable institution to publish my magazine. I have been looking at IPC Media and Bauer Media, I chose IPC Media because they only have one music magazine so they do reach out to a wide audience when it comes to music but they still have experience with Publishing music magazines. IPC Media is the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher which engages with 26 million UK adults - almost two two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK Men. This is great information because this shows that the institution i am going with arent fixed to one gender. The institution also receives 25 million users globally online so if I wanted to take my magazine online I would have a strong institution by my side.The publishing division in my institution will be IPC inspire.

The Style Model I have chose is in the institution Bauer Media and is called Q so I am going to be looking at what I can do to make my magazine better and different (unique).