Monday, 21 November 2016
Preliminary Evidence of Planning
This is the initial image of what I used on the Preliminary front cover before it was edited. The other images below show my progression to find the right picture I thought was best to use.
I also tampered with a few filters to see which seemed more matching to the look I wanted to go for in the preliminary.
Monday, 14 November 2016
Final Pitch
From the large volume of research we gathered involving
music magazines, we found there was many useful factors that would be important
to make ours a success. Firstly, as a group we considered what editions we
would make for our magazine to give the audience a variety of topics, however we haven't yet made a final decision on three topics we have chosen.
The things we would like to take forward include:
Typography:
The things we would like to take forward include:
Typography:
- Sans Serif Font (no flicks).
- Text and image spaced wisely.
- Black, white, grey and red are the main colours that our research found to be the most associated with R&B.
- A simple and unique house style throughout the 3 editions we create will show how our magazines all link to the same.
- We all decided that a revealing and provocative image would attract buyers more, and that it is the most important aspect on a magazine, that needs to be thought about in the most detail.
- Colloquial language appears to be the language best suited to the R&B genre audiences as shown by the research we gathered.
Analysing Focus Group
In this task we set out to get more open responses to that of what we got in the questionnaire. Kyra, Oliver and I worked together to come up with a list of questions that we could ask our focus group, where we also came up with others that we thought of at the time. Overall, it was very successful because the students we asked were within our target audience, with the students being able to speak their mind, giving us unscripted, open responses they thought of on the spot.
The first question we asked was "What type of music magazine would you most likely buy?" interestingly, we didn't get any responses that were for R&B, however we did receive two responses that were of pop music because of the colours you could experiment with and the fact it is mainstream, with the other response for this question being an independent music magazine. His reason for this choice was because they're interested in new and upcoming artists, which is backed up by our questionnaire responses as we had a large proportion say they'd like to see new and upcoming artists on the front cover of a magazine.
We then asked "what price would you consider reasonable for the magazine?" and we got responses ranging from £1.50-£3.99, with reasons being because the price shouldn't be a put off for the audience, because the magazine wants to sell to all ages and needs to use a reasonable price so that all can afford it.
Following this question, we asked the interviewees "Baring that price in mind what would you expect to gain or receive from the magazine?", with responses being simply that there should be a lot of content within the magazine for it to be worth the money. The other responses were stories on new and upcoming artists that would benefit the audience.
The next question asks the students whether a male or female should be on the front cover and the female student thought that a male should be on the cover for the "eye candy" whilst the two males thought that it should be a female because it is unconventional and something different to seeing famous male artists on the front.
The next question, relating to the previous question, we asked "should they be attractive?" the responses were generally very similar, being that they should be attractive, however, not too attractive because it could pressurise younger audiences to try to look like them, leading to younger generations being less positive about their looks and be less motivated.
After this, we asked "what stories are you interested in and what would you expect to see in the magazine?" with the feedback we received on this question, it revealed that our target audience aren't too interested in gossip, but are interested on new and upcoming artists, music stories and upcoming events, assisting us in how we can produce our magazine.
Lastly, we asked "Which features would you consider most important?" This question was a very important one as we received some very helpful feedback. The first response was how the main image should be eye catching and colourful otherwise she would not likely buy it, the next response was that the contents page should be well structured and clear to follow, in order for the consumer of the magazine to not waste their time flicking through trying to find the relevant page. Finally, the last response was the structure of the front cover because a well structured front cover is very successful compared to a front cover with small letters in the corner of the page.
The first question we asked was "What type of music magazine would you most likely buy?" interestingly, we didn't get any responses that were for R&B, however we did receive two responses that were of pop music because of the colours you could experiment with and the fact it is mainstream, with the other response for this question being an independent music magazine. His reason for this choice was because they're interested in new and upcoming artists, which is backed up by our questionnaire responses as we had a large proportion say they'd like to see new and upcoming artists on the front cover of a magazine.
We then asked "what price would you consider reasonable for the magazine?" and we got responses ranging from £1.50-£3.99, with reasons being because the price shouldn't be a put off for the audience, because the magazine wants to sell to all ages and needs to use a reasonable price so that all can afford it.
Following this question, we asked the interviewees "Baring that price in mind what would you expect to gain or receive from the magazine?", with responses being simply that there should be a lot of content within the magazine for it to be worth the money. The other responses were stories on new and upcoming artists that would benefit the audience.
The next question asks the students whether a male or female should be on the front cover and the female student thought that a male should be on the cover for the "eye candy" whilst the two males thought that it should be a female because it is unconventional and something different to seeing famous male artists on the front.
The next question, relating to the previous question, we asked "should they be attractive?" the responses were generally very similar, being that they should be attractive, however, not too attractive because it could pressurise younger audiences to try to look like them, leading to younger generations being less positive about their looks and be less motivated.
After this, we asked "what stories are you interested in and what would you expect to see in the magazine?" with the feedback we received on this question, it revealed that our target audience aren't too interested in gossip, but are interested on new and upcoming artists, music stories and upcoming events, assisting us in how we can produce our magazine.
Lastly, we asked "Which features would you consider most important?" This question was a very important one as we received some very helpful feedback. The first response was how the main image should be eye catching and colourful otherwise she would not likely buy it, the next response was that the contents page should be well structured and clear to follow, in order for the consumer of the magazine to not waste their time flicking through trying to find the relevant page. Finally, the last response was the structure of the front cover because a well structured front cover is very successful compared to a front cover with small letters in the corner of the page.
Sunday, 6 November 2016
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