Music Magazine proposal video / audience feedback

In this video I got some constructive criticisms about the content of my magazine, Someone said it would be repetitive to have the same things in every issue and I took that on board and now I am going to change it to a specific issue which will include the already established artists giving the up and coming artists advice. I will also not limit my audience and make sure that the magazine appeals to everyone and anyone.

Studio

Photography Induction

• White backdrop
• Don't stand right at the back of the backdrop - Stand 5/6 feet away from background or the model will bleach in.
• Lights off when shooting - use headlights 
• On/off  Button at back of headlights 
• Test button = to check if it works
• 6= highest flash 

• Godox - Remote control/ Transmitter
• Flash on, Turn off when finished 
• Same with receiver 
• key light - Main light 
• 3 point lighting 
• Fill light - Knocks out shaddow
• Hair light - Separates model from backdrop
• 3 to 1 Lighting ratio - 4, 3, 1.5
• Soft Box - Diffuses light

Camera 

• DSLR 
• 2 Card memory slot
• A- Aperture - Determines how much is on focus 
• S- Shutter - capturing movement e.g  Blowing hair
• Lens - 18-105

 Reflectors

• Gold reflector - Gives warm tone
• White - Knock light back - Takeaway shadow 
• Silver - Stronger than white one.

Magazine proposal

Distribution of magazines

For this task i went to a newsagent where they have many magazines of all types placed on the shelves.The Music magazines like XXL are on the top shelf and all of the magazines are placed on top of one another. This news agent uses 'Merchandising Best sellers' which means that they put the best selling magazines in front of the others. In this photograph i have noticed that all the best features are places in the bottom left third of the magazine. This is because thats the part that the customers would see. For example. On the XXL magazine, theres 'Lil Wayne' the rapper being advertised there to draw the audience in.

On the top row where the music magazines are, The two that stood out to me is MOJO and XXL. so this could be because that is what sells the best in the shop. I have also noticed that they've been placed at the centre of the shelf, This could be because of the amount of competition that goes on between the institutions to keep their place on the shelves so that they are within first eye contact with the customers as people tend to look in the middle. What I have also noticed is that the MOJO magazine came with a free CD which would make people that are into their music want to buy the magazine. On Both the magazines, you can see their mastheads and branding clearly and they both have interesting cover pictures of people that would be interested in that genre of music.

Some other music magazines use various types of distribution methods. They have apps, Online magazines, various social network sites to read about things on etc.

 NME methods

http://www.nme.com/magazine

https://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine

https://twitter.com/NME
http://www.pinterest.com/nmemagazine/

XXL methods

http://www.xxlmag.com/

https://twitter.com/xxl

https://www.youtube.com/user/XXLMagazine

http://xxlmag.tumblr.com/

Evaluation

Evaluation

In my college magazine, I believe that the photography went well. However the camera quality I was using was bad, resulting in me having to change the main front cover into a black and white image. I used the photoshop tools to make the image more clear with the blemish tool. I kept the branding the same by keeping the main text the same font on both the front cover and contents page. I have made the cover line as the biggest text so that it is very apparent.

From the feedback I have received, I think I would improve the colours and make it more appealing to the younger audience. I would also add more content to my contents page as it is quite bare.

When producing my main magazine, I will improve by:

•  Sticking to a house theme
•   Improving my indesign skills by using the tools like the opacity. 
•   Use a better layout and add more information to both of the pages.

Contents page

This is the contents page for the college magazine.

Front cover