My Questionnaire

Questionaire

1.       Have you ever attended a gig were ‘Hodgeson and the Plant where performing?

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2.       What is your favourite colour when comparing magazine covers?

Red                   Blue                 Grey                 Black             Orange            Yellow            Green

3.       How often do you purchase a music a magazine?

Weekly                    Monthly                   Once every fort-night 

4.       When you purchase music magazines,  what is your favourite genre? (e.g  NME, Q, Rolling Stones)

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5.       Who is your favourite rock/indie band?

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6.       What would you respectfully pay for a music magazine, already considering music magazine prices?

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7.       What do you like/dislike about music magazines?

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8.       If you were making a music magazine who would you use as your main cover image?

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9.       What three words do you associate with Rock & Indie bands/music?

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10.   Have you ever been to any local gigs, if yes, please name the bands you have seen and their genre?

Yes                No

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Questionnaire Analysis

Questionnaire Results and Analysis on Prezi



Analysis of Professional Magazine Covers...

Today, I reseachered more on my competeing music magazines and began to plan my initial ideas for my music magazine. Here is the work...

Initial Plans for my Magazine

From the research I gathered about the competing magazines which are already publishing on the market, these gave me my initial ideas for publishing my own music magazine. Here are some of the decisions I have began to make...


Price: £3.50

Fequency of Publication: 12 per year/1 issue released every month

Average issue size: 112-150 pages per magazine

Regular Content: Free gift, New song releases on itunes, Top 50 tracks now etc...

Feature Articles: All my cover stories e.g who I have interviewed this month, Recent gossip on music festivals/awards etc...

Researching at the Market Place

Today, I researched the market place of Indie/Rock music magazines for the genre of my own music magazine. I researched price range, frequency of publication, issue size, regular content & feature articles of 4 different indie/rock music magazines and this is what I got...

Evaluation for School Magazine Front Cover & Contents Page

Throughout making this media product based on a school magazine I think that my product uses the typical codes and conventions of a real media product such as; Masthead, main medium shot image, bar code, date and issue number and most importantly cover lines.   The the new programmes I used to create my products, 'Adobe Photoshop' I used to create my front cover and 'Quark Xpress' to create my contents page. I'm quite used to using Photoshop as I use it on a daily basis in my lifestyle so i found using this media technology quite simple. Whereas, I have never used Quark Xpress before and so experienced small difficulties throughout using the programme but soon adjusted to it. Also, the cameras we used were very new media and where a little confusing to get the focus right on models and objects sometimes, but I still came out with some great pictures for the finished product for my magazine.   To finish, I think that most weaknesses came up with using Quark Xpress while trying to make my contents page and because i wasnt an expert with the tools at first I did not really know how to do the attention to detail on my magazine, but from making this magazine I have had practice with the programme and so I hope to make a fantastic contents with my music magazine.

Final Products for my School Magazine Cover & Contents page

Final product of my school magazine cover.

Final product of my school magazine contents page.

Final Images for School Magazine

These are the finial images I have used for my school magazine cover & contents page...

One of the images I have used in my contents page, of a school girl in uniform, smiling/showing happiness.

Another image i contained in my contents page, of the lower 6th form common room, which is the images that represents my coverline '6th form life'.

 Another image in contents page which represents another cover line 'Bauty & the Beast - the school musical'.

Another contents image for 'Best Results Ever' coverline.

This is my main image for my front cover.

Finally, this image represents my cover line for the excitment from students for prom 2011.

School Magazine Cover in the Making...

I took screen shots of my product while I was in the process of making it, here are some of the basic shots I took...

This is my 1st screen shot of the opened picture file that I am using for my main image, I did not crop the image or use any effects just the mid-shot on its own.

Next, I added a picture box and used the fill tool to colour it white. I then used the text box tool to create my masthead, 'Schoolorama'.

The next thing I did was to add my main feature line and cover lines to my front cover by using the text box tool and experimenting with the font type, size & colour to contrast with my magazine cover.

Fourthly, I inserted a picture of a barcode which I made myself, along with main features magazines include in their conventions such as; website name, date, issue number, price & barcode. This was to give my magazine the realistic look to it.

Finally , I added more cover lines and 'exclusives', along with my tagline for my magazine; 'Smart by nature' .