Cover Artists Profile

Name of Artist is 'Kids On The Run' because this is the models bands name. The name could also represent anarchy and rebellion also which goes in with the rock and roll genre of the magazine. A song that represents the band is Breed by Nirvana, it is fast, sloppy, punky and simple. The model will be Brogan Finnigan, who will be wearing a red green and yellow saggy beanie hat to show the colourfulness and strangeness the magazine is trying to show off. He will also be wearing a vest to add to the rock n' roll look as well as red skinny jeans to top the look off. The record label they will be signed to is Hassle Records as it is a fairly small labels for strange rock bands such as Turbowolf, The James Cleaver Quintet, and Rolo Tomassi.

Institution Publishing My Magazine

Bauer Media Group published Q magazine, but more ideally, Kerrang! magazine, and therefore this is the ideal choice of publisher for my magazine, as I know that they are experienced with the genre of rock music, and are successful at publishing this magazine, and therefore my magazine idea would not be far out of there comfort zone and they would be willing to do it.

My Pitch.

Audience Profile

Reynold, aged 18, lives at home with his mum, and has a part time time job. The walls on his room are plastered with posters of his favourite bands and tickets from the various gigs that he has attended. Although the majority of music he listens to is heavy and fast, he has no problem with pop music or slow soul music, and is open minded towards anybody as long as he thinks they have genuine talent.

Magazine Audience

My magazine will mainly be aimed towards males but this doesn't mean it is not open for females.
It will be aimed mainly towards 15-30 year olds as for magazines such as Kerrang! which will have a similar audience to me, the mean age is 22 and has a very young audience. The target audience goes up to 30 as my magazine focuses on a more strange genre of music and therefore the audience may have to be more experienced music listeners, and the minimum target age is about 15 as music magazines popularly have a young audience and often you grow out of loving music and buying magazines after you have grown up.

Magazine Analysis Double Page spread

Name Of Magazine

My magazine will be called TURBOROCK, this was influenced by the psychadellic rock band Turbowolf.

Style Of Magazine

My magazine will be a rock magazine intended on covering more psychadellic and strange bands, therefore there will be a different approach artisticly and a potential attempt at humour. It is aimed to try and make small bands who are different to your average band recognised as well as covering news on a few bigger bands.

Magazine Contents page analysis

Magazine Cover Analysis

Mood Board of magazine inspirations

G321: AS Foundation Portfolio

9^th January – 8^th April 2012

It is vital that blogs are kept up to date and that progress is posted regularly. Screen grabs of the creative process or other updates (evidence of students ‘creating the work’) must be included as work is being completed.

Monday 9th Jan-Friday 20th Jan

Carrying out research and planning.

To include:

·         Examples of other texts

·         Analysis of magazine covers, contents pages and double page spreads

·         Analysis of colour palettes, fonts, language register

·         Decide on style of music magazine based on research carried out

·         Audience research (e.g. questionnaire)

·         Decide on title of magazine

·         Mood boards

·         Audience profile

·         Analysis of institution that would publish your magazine

·         Preparation of a 25 word pitch

Teachers to regularly check and leave comments on blogs as part of rough draft marking of R&P.

Teachers to introduce evaluation questions 2, 3, 4

Monday 23rd Jan-Fri 3rd Feb

·         Lessons to pitch idea to class and receive feedback

·         Evaluate class feedback

·         Test shots of work on magazine elements

·         Complete mock version of cover/ contents page/ double page spread (1 lesson)

·         Write draft article

·         Begin composing cover/contents page/ double page spread (draft version)

       

Friday 3^rd February = Research and Planning FINAL DEADLINE

Marks deducted for late submission

Students to be placed on intervention list if work not completed.

Teachers to introduce evaluation questions 1, 5

Mon 6th Feb-Fri 10th Feb

·         Finish composing cover/contents page/ double page spread (draft version)

Friday 10th Feb DRAFT DEADLINE - 3:10PM ENGLISH OFFICE

Work to be printed out and submitted to the English office. Names and Candidate number must be clearly indicated on submission.

Marks deducted for late submission

1^st draft marks and feedback to be returned to students w/b Monday 20^th February.

Half term homework Mon 13^th – Fri 17^th Feb - Begin drafting evaluation responses

·         Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

·         Q2. How does your media product represent different social groups and why?

·         Q3. What type of media institution might publish my media product and why?

·         Q4. Who would be the target audience for my media product

·         Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Monday 20th Feb-Fri 24th Feb

·         Conduct audience feedback for magazine

·         Peer assessment and evaluate feedback. Update blog with feedback.

·         Update blogs with 1st draft teacher feedback.

·         Make plan of action for necessary improvements

DEADLINE FOR DRAFT EVALUATION ANSWERS =Friday 24^th February – 3:10pm .  Work to be printed out and submitted to the English office. Names and Candidate number must be clearly indicated on submission.

Marks deducted for late submission

Monday 27^th Feb-Fri 9th Mar

·         Complete cover/contents page/ double page spread

·         Print out as professionally as possible (photographic paper)

·         Cut to size carefully and submit in plastic wallet with name clearly labelled

·         Post onto blog

       FINAL DEADLINE FOR COURSEWORK = Friday 9^th March – 3.10pm English Office

All work to be printed out submitted to the English office.

Marks deducted for late submission

Pieces to be marked and marks submitted to NEF Friday 27^th April.

Monday 12th Mar-Friday 30th Mar

Teachers to introduce evaluation questions 6, 7.

       Draft answers to Q6 and Q7 and submit to teachers in final lesson w/e Friday 16^th Mar

       Feedback returned first lesson w/b Monday 26^th Mar.

      

·         Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

·         Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the                  progression from it to the full product?

Deadline for ALL Evaluation questions - Friday 30^th Mar 3:10pm.  Work to be printed out and submitted to the English office. Names and Candidate number must be clearly indicated on submission.

              Marks deducted for late submission

Evaluation to be marked and marks submitted to NEF by Friday 27^th April for moderation W/B Monday 30th April.

Inspiration from other magazine covers.

I think that this cover for mad magazine is good because it uses a play on the iconic album cover for Nirvana's album Nevermind, this adds humerous effect to the image, as people will recognise the photo, usually associating the naked person as a baby, but in this photo they have been represented as a cartoonised Barrack Obama. I also like the simpleness of the magazine, and how there has not been to much crammed onto the front page. 'The 20 dumbest things people and events of 2011' title gives me an idea of what the magazine has to offer, without giving away too much information to make buying the magazine unneccasery, this makes me want to read the magazine as it seems funny and entertaining.

I like this magazine cover because it is very simple but effective. The face of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner is placed right in the middle of the page, and 'Arctic Monkeys' is displayed. This already attracts to Arctic Monkeys huge fan base. Also if you take the time to actually read the writing placed all around his head, it is lyrics for the songs from the recent album they released. 'Suck It And See.' This plays on the tagline of the issue, 'Inside Alex Turners head' as it is showing all of the things that he has wrote, and the things he thinks about, as his lyrics are known to be odd. All this is done without losing the fact that it is still 'Q' magazine and not just a magazine with Arctic Monkeys, and therefore people who go out and occasionaly buy Q are still likely to see the issue and buy it, as well as Arctic Monkeys fans who would possibly not originally buy the issue.

I like this magazine cover because the colours that have been used are very clever. The magazine is all about Punk Rock, and the colour scheme is the same as the iconic, birth of punk album by The Sex Pistols. As well as this, I like how the magazine title does not have to been fully shown, showing that the title is iconic and well known enough to the level where you don't have to read the whole of it to know that it is kerrang magazine.

Glossary

Masthead – The name and logo of the magazine.
The Lead – the introductory paragraph of an article. Usually written in bold or capitals.
Body copy - refers to the text of your written articles, which should be produced as a printed presentation to accepted industry standards, e.g. correct use of language, font size, word limits etc. Usually written in columns.
Serif font – fonts like Times New Roman, or Baskerville Old Face, which have little bars (serifs) on the end of the letters.
Sans serif font – fonts like Impact, or Agency FB, which do not have little bars (serifs) on the end of the letters.
Drop Capitals – Really big letter, which start off an article.
Cross Head – Small sub-heading used to split up a large block of text.
White Space – white parts of a page other than text or pictures.
Mode Of Address – How the magazine talks to the audience.
Sell Lines – Text on the cover that helps to sell the magazine to the audience. Kerrang!’s sell line is “life is loud”.
Banners – text, which stands out because its on a coloured background.
House Style – a magazines distinctive design that distinguishes it from its competitors.
Borders – the gaps at the edges of the page.
Gutters – the gaps between the columns of text.
Leading - the space between lines of text.
Kerning - the space between letters.
Strap Lines – a smaller headline, printed above the main headline.
By-lines - name of the person who wrote the article. Picture Credits - where did the photos come from, or who took them.
Anchorage – The way in which text helps to pin down the meaning of a picture and visa versa.