My Questionnaire.

Research to help me with my own magazine.

Intial plans for my magazine.

The genre for my magazine is going to be mainstream indie and i am going to follow the layout of Q magazine. Although that is my genre my feature articles will include interviews with a wide range of artists and different styles of music. My price for my magzine will be £3.50 as the Q magazine is sold for £4 but i am trying to compete with it so therefore i will go 50p lower. I am going to make my issue size about 120-130 pages this is less than Q but once again your paying less. The regular content will include best songs of the month, whats new, question que, review and so on. The feature articles will be interviews on exclusive A list celebrity in the music industry, an article on some new music gagdgets etc.

Researching the market place.

The prices of these music magazines are usually between £3-5. They usually come out every month as the music industry changes as often as that. The magazines tend to be quite a lot of pages compared to your normal mag as you get what you pay for. Regular content is usually along the lines of a new celeb each month and the top hit of the month and the feature articles could include exclusive interviews with top celebs in the music buisness or for example, 100 most shocking moments in music. These are all things i will focus on for the production of my own magazine. 

http://www.upscaleswagger.com/tag/vibe-magazine/

http://www.rocknycliveandrecorded.com/

Production of school magazine and contents page and Evaluation.

This is my finished product.

This is my finished product.

My preliminary magazine front cover and contents page follow the conventions of a real media product by me using the correct conventions such as, a title and a main image, images to attatch to the cover lines, regular and exclusive titles for different cover lines in my magazine. I also makesure that my magazine follows the right codes and conventions for my target audience and genre of  a school magazine. The technologies i used to construct my magazine front cover was photoshop. This is a good programme for things like magazines as it has alot of variety of tools too make your magazine look good. For the conentnts page i used a programme called Quarkxpress which isnt as good as photoshop as it limits the tools you can use on your product. The reason we used this programme was because it was industry standard and was a taster for our main product. In photoshop my strengths were exsperience as i remembered alot from previous use of it and understood it. My weaknesses is that sometimes it can get very complicated and can jumble up my texts and images. Quarkxpress was alright, my strengths were that i am good with programmes like these but however this programme was limited and got complicated when trying to import from other programmes to make my magazine better. My front cover strengths again are that i am experienced in Magazine product as i acheived an A from previous work. My weaknesses was that my colour i chose wasnt really thought about and i should of tried to connect the colours to the Magazine genre. My contents isnt as good as i could do as it is quite plain and boring, it could be made better with more pictures and more colour.

Photographs for my magazine front cover and contents page.

Main image

Contents page photographs
to go with Subheadings/Cover lines