My Mission Statement

My new project, will target teenage males and females. I am going to specifically target those of the rock/ metal music genre, as this is the main focus of my magazine. I will combine stylish, visually appealing imagery with interesting, witty, hopefully humorous but also serious takes on the music industry.

Although the magazine is about the metal/rock genre, I am hoping to include other aspects of media, such as television and radio, as well as beauty and fashion. By doing this, I will look at the representation of the music genre, and how it's portrayed in other aspects of the media.

My magazine's role on readers' lives is to inspire, excite, provoke and entertain.

The Mission Statement

• Explain what kind of music magazine you hope to create by focusing on genre and style.
• Explain the audience that you are trying to target.
• Give a brief overview of the content of your magazine.
• Descrive the tone and attitude of your magazine.
• Explain the role that you think your magazine will play in the lives of its readers.

Music Magazine Covers

The Image

• If there is a person/group on the cover, what do they represent?
• Are they a stereotype?
• How has this stereotype been constructed?

The Gaze

• The gaze refers to the direction in which the person on the cover is looking.
• Are they looking straight at the audience?
• Are they smiling - enticing the reader in?
• Do they look friendly or cool?
• Do they look seductive?

Representation is KEY.
Going to include one or more people, no image is to contain no more than five models.

School Magazine: Analysis and Evaluation

School Magazine: Analysis and Evaluation from harrevs

School Magazine Contents Page - Final

This is my latest and final attempt at my school magazine contents page. I haven't changed much since my previous page, however, I decided to rearrange some of the layout. This included slightly moving the bottom picture to the right, and adding the page number of the feature, as well as extending the box of text under the coverline, "Hometime!." This makes better use of the space, but still keeps to my ideal layout and structure for the contents page. I am happy with the overall result, however, if I were to attempt this task again, I would edit the background image, so that the text would match with the lines on the paper, as I think it would have had an ever more interesting, and better looking effect.

School Magazine Contents Page - Third Attempt

My latest attempt at my contents page, and also my third, I think that my school magazine contents page is near completion. I edited some of the text, making the coverlines bold, making them more eye catching. I also made sure all the sub text under the coverlines were a similar size. This was going to be my final contents page, however, the empty space next to the bottom image, in my opinion, either needs to be filled, or the structure needs to be slightly rearranged to use all the space provided.

School Magazine Contents Page - Second Attempt

This is my second attempt at my school magazine contents page. It has a lot more features than my previous, as adding text was not as time consuming. I deciding to head the contents page, "Timetable," to correspond with the school theme, and I thought it would be more interesting and unique if I used language common around schools. Therefore, I found, "Timetable," to be appropriate, as the contents page displays everything included, in an ordered fashion. I also decided to use side headings for my coverlines, because therefore I could set out the column as a timetable, using specific language, such as, "Break," and, "Hometime." Like many contents pages I found when doing research, I decided to put the month of the issue at the top of the page, with the page number at the bottom left, with the school magazine name to the right, promoting the magazine itself. This is still unfinished, as I have to tweek certain parts, changing sizing, fonts and picture layout.