Pictures for magazine contents page

Pictures for Magazine front page

Music Magazine Questionnaire results

These results show me that from the people who took the questionnaire, the majority were male as 60% of who answered said they were male. Most people fit into the age category of 16-20 as a total of 40% said they were this age. One interesting result from this questionnaire was that 60% of people prefer to read magazines in physical form rather than on-line via computer or on their mobile phone, this result was not what I was expecting but close behind the physical form was tablets (such as Ipads) with 40% showing that they are right being physical magazines in terms of popularity. Most people spend between £4-£6 per week on a music magazine this shows me that most people only purchase one music magazine per week as this is the average cost of a music magazine. When asked about the most important thing in a magazine, a lot of people said that the information to be true and exciting rather than boring is a major issue as well as making things different and taking chances with the magazine.
The results of the most popular music magazine were split as the same amount of people chose NME, Q and The Rolling Stone as their favourite music magazine, which is not what I was expecting as The Rolling Stone is the biggest selling music magazine in England I predicted that it would gain the most results. The majority of people's favourite genre is Indie, which is interesting as The Rolling Stone, Q and NME revolve around the genre of rock and roll and not Indie. From the results it was clear that the thing that most people look forward to in a music magazine in the interviews, this may be because they are always different and unpredictable. Most people would change the price of the magazine to lower it, this is usual as people are more likely to be happy with something they have bought if they pay a lower price for it. Also, people do not think that music magazines will become extinct soon, the majority believe they will last for a long time until it reaches a point where it cant compete with technology.
The majority of people who took this questionnaire have either been reading magazines for zero to one year or Four to Five years this shows that people have been reading music magazines for long periods of time and others have only just started which shows that more people have only just become customers meaning more profit and a larger fan base that could continue expanding.

Music Magazine Double Page Spread Layout

This is my double page spread, this will probably be the easiest to construct overall after I planned it out here, having this and the other layouts will make it much more simpler for me as I can make things certain heights knowing the will not look out of place.

Music Magazine Contents Page Layout

The importance of having a ready made music magazine contents page is equally as important as having a front page layout as having one means you know what you want to create and where to put it when you have created meaning you can spend less time putting things in place and more time constructing the actual magazine.

Double Page Spread analysis

This is a screenshot of my double page spread analysis that I have created on Microsoft word then uploaded onto my blog.

Music Magazine Analysis

This is a contents page analysis that I have screenshot on Microsoft word and then pasted onto my blog.

Artic Monkeys Interview

This is an independent blog post that I have put on as a brief show of my research into what band I am going to be basing my music video on, I am going to be creating a fake band that I will be trying to make look similar to The Arctic Monkeys.

Genre

The genre I choosing as a basis for my music magazine is rock and roll to give a very brief description of the genre I have included a Video within this blog post Entitled Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know. The Artic Monkeys are a very well known rock and roll band and have won many awards since the beginning of their career.

The most used Instruments within Rock and Roll are Drums, Guitar, Bass. Rock and roll began as a reaction to Jazz music as the earliest forms of rock and roll were similar to the Jazz genre, it wasn't until bands started changing the sound slightly after and during the second world war in the 1950's -1960's that rock and roll became its own true genre. Elvis Presley is often hailed as The King of Rock and Roll as he is seen as one of the true founders of the genre, Elvis had millions of followers around the world and would be equal to artists such as Justin Bieber of this generation. Rock and roll has always been seen and thought of as controversial especially during its first real burst onto the scene, as many people thought it was too loud and caused people to act out violently. Many other world famous rock and roll bands include, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and ACDC.

Without rock and roll its likely that many other mainstream band genres such as Hip-Hop or rap would not be as big and well known as they are today, rock and roll opened up a gateway for other artists to find their own genres at which to showcase their talents, Rock and Roll just laid out the plans.
The reason that I am choosing to base my magazine around the genre of rock and roll is because most music magazines especially the most well known ones such as Q and NME tend to focus around bands from this genre therefore its easier to form an understanding of a band that I am going to use predominantly on my front cover and double page spread if I use a band of the same genre shown by the other biggest magazines available at local newsagents

Magazine Concepts

Main differences include:-

The titles and colours used give off a whether the magazine its a friendly or serious attitude towards the content, the "HELLO!" magazine shows boxed writing to show that there's differences in the informations being written.The smiley faces and the glamorised celebrity photos show how this magazine describes the perfect world in which celebrities and stars are idolised by people and the audience. The inclusion of the other images show that they have more to offer rather than just what's shown as their main image.

Total film used more bold text with a sole main image to capture the seriousness of their own concept, they try to draw as little attention away from the centrepiece and the main feature. the bold writing of "Total FILM" links with the bold headline of "STAR TREK" to show its importance of the magazine. the black and white theme makes it easier for writing at the top to be easily readable and to stand out partly.

The typically lesser known magazine "WOOD" does have its own concept with a main image to the side and text spread around it to show its informational value and informative text, it has to give the audience more value for money due to it being a lesser known magazine compared to others. The brief bright colours with orange and yellow show how it  changes titles with text being white. The white writing at the bottom is separate to give audiences an eye catching text brief.

History of NME

The Inky Fingers, the NME story this is a summary of what its about.

NME- Which is New Musical Express. NME was created by Theodore  Lloyd- Jones, the first magazine first appeared  in march 1952 and was published on a  weekly basis. it was originally called a "Music Newspaper" but t gradually reformed to become a "Music Magazine". its current owner is IPC Media.

NME in the 1960's was essentially focused on music and getting it delivered in the typical ways such as Interviews and Reviews. This was down to the then editor Andy Gray who under his supervision gave NME its highest revenue sales. from 1952- 1972.

NME was involved in numerous rivalries between other magazines here is a video explaining some of these below -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1yGHy1-hfU

Sales were of a massive high reaching 306,881 from January to jUNE 1964. the editors had to compete with other big music magazines and had to reach further audiences in order to bring in sales. a way of doing this was by including big and well known stars in their issues such as the Rolling Stones or the Beatles (example shown above) the two bands were often used in NME as they sold well. In the late 1960's british music has changed pop was becoming a huge genre in Britain. Tense Rivalry began between other Music Magazines, such as "Melody Maker". Their rivalry did not affect sales as they reached a healthy 200,00 per week.

The 1980's was not the best decade for NME as sales began to drop, the recession was a major factor as huge industries and factories vanished  overnight creating huge job loss and zero wages to be spent on personal luxuries  such as magazines. A response to the thatcher era was by interviewing and doing pieces on bands such as "Red Wedge", NME done as issue featuring Neil Kinnock  he was the labour party leader and he featured on the front of NME for an issue, a what some might call a massive mistake as sales had dropped hugely and some companies employees even quite in disgust. New Bands such as The Stone Roses became more popular and NME relied heavily on them to produce more sales