Mrs Doggart!

I don't have any way of contacting you, so I had to make a post, please can I have your college email so I can send you one because I have been ill. Thanks.

Feedback

This is beginning to look Better, Jess. You need to keep chipping away at this research in your own time but you also need to get cracking with the planning and get on to the taking of your photos and your journalism.

Try to use the label box at the end of each post and remember to present your work in a  variety of ways - think about making your posts more visual!

Content pages for music magazines normally have the main artist featured on the front of the magazine as one of the main pictures for the contents page, it also includes the page number next to people so the reader can quickly turn to the page they would like to see. There may be more than one main story so if the main story on the front page doesn't interest them they can turn to another article. Also on the contents page there should be more than one photo and something that appears every week.

The front cover of a magazine normally has the picture of somebody who has recently been in the limelight or has done something which will make them more famous e.g releasing a new album. Sometimes their head will go in front of the title of the magazine to show they are more important than the magazine name because of who they are. The main person on the front of the magazine will most likely be the main story for the magazine, although this magazine doesn't show this, a lot of magazines that use women on the front cover usually have the women portrayed for sex appeal. Because my magazine is for girls, I would like my boy-band to look good looking so girls would be more interested in buying the magazine. The main image normally always has a caption nearby referring to them. 

A logo for a magazine is normally something that will stand out to people when they look at the magazine, just glancing. i would like my name to be the logo and I will set it out a bit so then they look at it and easily recognise which magazine mine is. 

The masthead is normally the title of the magazine and this never changes. The only things that ever change are the stories and the background. It is important to keep changing the background and the stories to keep readers interested although there has to be something in the magazine that people see every week, e.g puzzles. 

The barcode and price is normally situated in the bottom corner of the magazine, it is smaller so it doesn't obstruct the main photo. The price is normally smaller because if it was big people would see it straight away and maybe decide not to buy it because it is too expensive. The price has to be somewhere on the front cover but by making it smaller so people can't see it as much will make it more likely people just pick the magazine up without considering what the price may be.

The issue number of the magazine is important because people will then be able to know which issue they are currently on if they collect it and also if there is a lot of issues the magazine has sold it is sort of boasting to other magazines that they are a good magazine because of how many copies they have produced.

USP

The music magazines that are currently available are;
NME
Kerrang!
Q
BBC Music Magazine
Top Of The Pops

Most of the above are indie and rock magazines. obviously 'Top Of The Pops' is for people who like pop but mainly young children. I want a pop magazine for an older audience because I have noticed that there isn't a lot for an older audience. I think this is a good idea because if there is so little of pop magazines for an older audience and then people see that a new pop music magazine is selling, they will want to buy it because it interests them.Publish Post

Music Magazine Publishing

NME is produced my IPC MEDIA, a large publisher in the UK.
Because this is a large name it would be a good idea to use them for my magazine to show that a successful magazine is produced by the same publisher as my magazine.
This will make people more interested in my magazine because of the publisher, it has to be a good magazine otherwise they wouldn't produce it.

Idea's For Name Of Music Magazines

After researching into the different kind of music magazines. I have noticed that the names are short and catchy. Therefore I need a name that will stand out to the audience and is something they will easily remember and isn't a mouthful to say.

Already existing magazine names;

- Kerrang!

-NME

-Rolling Stone

-Spin

This is why I have chosen 'Pop 'n' Mix' as my magazine name.

I conducted a survey to see which names, fonts and colours appealed most to be people. Here is what people liked most. This is what I will use for my magazine front cover, contents page and double page.

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The most popularly voted are the ones I am going to use as my fonts although I have seen a font on www. dafonts.com that appeal more to me, therefore I will use that instead for my main title instead of the one that was chosen. Although I will still use one of the fonts for my main text on the front cover of my magazine. The name of my magazine 'Pop 'n' Mix' will stand out I think because it is short and 'catchy' and easy to remember.

Research Feedback

Jess - there is some basic research here but you need to achieve more focus in each post - they tend to jump from one thing to another and leave the reader a bit muddled. Have a clear idea what you are investigating in each post and stick to that topic only please.You still have some gaps in your research and would do well to use my comments on each post to improve what you have already done. Well done on completing and uploading your prelim task.