Institution Research

This was some of my research into Magazine Institutions. It has helped me choose which magazine i would like to publish my magazine. The publisher I want to produce my magazine will be PPA as they have a gap in their own market for and indie rock music band. And as a huge prestigous magazine it would help gain most buyers



Institution	Details	Publications
Future PLC	More than 51 million consumers a month, magazine genres are: Technology, Games, Film, Music, Women’s Creative, Photography, Creative & Design, Sport and Auto	Some publications are: Xbox magazine, Nintendo magazine, total guitar, guitarist, Papercraft, digital camera, mbuk magazine, fast car and mini magazine.
Hearst Magazine	Hearst Magazines UK is the largest digital publisher in the UK. Our reach extends to 1 in 3 UK women and 1 in 4 UK adults. The portfolio comprises 20 magazines and 20 digital properties. Our world class brands are available on multiple platforms.	o    all about soap, Best, Company, Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Digital Spy, Elle, Esquire, Fetch, Everyone, Good, Housekeeping, House Beautiful, Inside Soap, Men's Health, Real People, Red, Runner's World, Triathlete's World. o
PPA	The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) represents around 220 companies, ranging from consumer magazine publishers to business-to-business data and information providers, customer magazine publishers and smaller independent companies.	Beano, newscientist, Radio Times, Cosmopolitan, womans weekly, empire, harpers, time out, Vogue, Mac user.
Imagine Publishing	Imagine is a worldwide multimedia content producer specialising in four key markets – technology, photography, knowledge/Science and videogames	Total 911, Retro gamer, play, how it works, brain dump, advanced photoshop.

Photoshop skills development

To begin with I edited my photo to change the colour scheme to black and white. I then put a black surround around the picture. I then created a duplicate layer. and tried to use the magic wand tool to cut out jarvis cocker. but as the colours are black and white, I had to zoom in and rub out the surround for him so that I could put in my text, and have his figure over the top of the text.

I also did the same thing with this article I created, but with an extra image on the right:


Analysing Previous Student Work

Analysing Previous Student Work

Name of Magazine	Strengths	Weaknesses	Grade I awarded and reason
Oscillate	Colour scheme Pictures Layout Good knowledge Good language All the conventions	Article Too dark- depressing Too compact text	Low C To dark and depressing, does not attract the reader, needs rethinking.
Rockhound	Colour scheme suits music genre Good layout Good original images Good language All the conventions	Fonts Font too small in article Weird yellow colours on front cover	Low B Really good besides the fonts and strange

What have I learned from looking

at last year’s student work?

That I need the picture to look professional, in the photos, the fonts, the layout and design to give me top marks in this assignment. I know after looking at other students work that having a good colour scheme and using all the conventions are essential

How will I apply this to my own work?

I will make the pictures to look professional, in the photos, the fonts, the layout and design to give me top marks in this assignment. I will use a good fitting colour scheme to the genre, and make sure I use all the essentials my magazine needs.

 

Contents page deconstructions

Contents page deconstructions from LawrenceNorman

Coursework Stage 1 Proposal

 

 

Magazine Planning

 

 

The type of magazine i am going to make is an indie/rock magazine

It is going to be called: Indie-Pendant

The target audience of my magazine will be both males and females from ages 16-30

The target audience attitudes and interests will be obviously people of the indie/rock scene, so currently at the moment it is the mod's and rocker style coming back around.

My magazine will be for sale in supermarkets, corner shops, newsagents and music shops.

On the cover I will have to include; a barcode, the price, the issue number, the date in which it released.

The selling point of my magazine will be the status of the magazine, the quality of the articles, due to who they are about (massively famous persons) and the humour within the articles.

The theme of my article will be of the band "Black Lines"

The image on my front cover will of the lead singer of the band.

The Image inside will be a large picture of the full band.