Questionnaire Results

In todays lesson, we counted up our results from our hand out questionnaire and grouped them. After i tallied them up, i then use the software Microsoft excel to create graphs with my data, here are some of  my data graphs...


What gender are you?

I used this question in my questionnaire hand out because it would give me a brief outline of who to aim my magazine at as it tells me which gender prefer to read my genre magazine, and i would take this into consideration as it would determine my target audience.

How often do you buy music magazines?

I have included this question so i can get a rough estimate on how frequently people buy music magazines, in order for me to base my release of my magazine.

What genre magazine do you prefer to read?

I chose this question for my survey as it gives my a rough idea on what genre the population prefer to read, so this means i would have a wider target audience.



Questionnaire

Codes and conventions of a double page spread

In today's lesson we were told to bring in a music magazine in which we were to analysise the codes and conventions of a double page spread. We got into groups were we then compared some double page spreads from different magazines to come up with what they had in common. These are some of the points we came up with: 

- there is normally an image on the left hand side of the double page spread covering the intire page, however sometimes they can bleed from one section to another.

- Consistant colours are used throughout the double page spread.

- The credits; also known as by line are placed at the bottom to credit the photographer and writer.

- Drop quotes are used on the page, the text is from the article.

- The stand first is above the article but below the masthead.

- Generally, on a double page spread there are roughly 3-4 columns.

- A large masthead is used at the top of the article, the masthead stands out from the rest of the article.

- The images used have captions.

- The double page spread has a page number either side to tell the reader what page they are on.

- The font used for the article is size 11 and normally Ariel or Times New Roman.

- The artist name is higlighted.

- The tone of the article is formal, which connents to the audience to allow them to relax.

Analysising contents pages

In today's lesson we used a new media software on the internet, called Prezi. This software was new for all of us, this anables me to upload my annotated contents page to a blank canvas were i then could play around with text and images to make it look more interesting instead of uploading it to my blog. I found the new software easy and straight forward to use, from using this new software i now have gained more skills on different types of media softwares.The link below will take you to my Prezi presentation where you can view my annotations of a contents page of my chosen Indie genre.

(Please click to view my Prezi)
http://prezi.com/vvrl6vlj6uwd/contents-analysis/

Analysing front covers

In todays lesson we analyised front covers of different well known music magazines such as: NME, Kerrang and Mojo and compared them against the codes and conventions of front covers and heres what i found...

Inital plans for my music magazine

I am roughly going to price my magazine at £2.00 -£3.00. Most magazines have roughly 70-120 pages so my magazine will consist of roughly 90 pages. My magazine will be released weekly. The featured articles will be an interview with the band. And the regular content will be of upcoming gigs and album release dates etc... 

Main Task: Intial plans for my magazine

In todays lesson we were set the task to research well known music magazines and to find out information about them. We used the internet to find the different websites to the magazines, from there we then found out the following information....

Kerrang:

• Weekly
• Roughly £1.99 - £2.10
• Size: unknown
• Regular content: News, Liver review, Album release.
• Featured articles: Band of the week
• Website: http://www.kerrang.com
• Producer website:  www.bauermedia.co.uk

NME:     

•  Weekly
• Price - £2.30
• Size - roughly 70- 82 pages
• Regular content - Band index
• Featuring Articles - Live, Album, News
• Manager: Paul Mcguinness 
• Website: www.nme.com/magazine
• Producer website: http://www.ipcmedia.com/  

MOJO:

• Monthly
• Between £1.90 - £2.40
• Size: unknown
• Regular content: Live, News on upcoming events, Album releases
• Featured articles: Band of the week, new artists and soloist.
• Website: http://www.mojo4music.com/
• Producer website: http://www.bauermedia.com/