Magazine plans

I decided to do 2 plans for each page. This meant that i could later chose which one i actually want to use. This has given me more freedom.

Evaluation

Jake Herga Music Magazine Evaluation

Final Products

Quick brainstorm to get started

This was just a quick brainstorm i did at the start of my project in order to find out a little about music magazines. This was just meant to be back ground knowledge and it allowed me to focus more on NME and Kerrang rather than XXL and Top of the pops.

Eraser.

Without the magic eraser told and me having to manually erase on the macs out background that was not needed in the photo.

This was the photo I used for my front cover. Although the photo is on a white wall we can still see it is not fully white because it was dark and possibly reflections. Also the design of the wall means that there is a white line half the way through therefore if his was use in my final product would make it look very unprofessional. 

I therefore used the magic eraser to get rid of big chunks and when it was left to the fine details I used a small rubber and got as close as possible to the body. If you do erase the body you have to either "step backward" or if done only slightly you can take a tiny bit of the rest of there body.

The same thing was done with the magic eraser with his photo used in my contents. However using the magic eraser and manual eraser has completely changed the way the photo looks as in the original he is just sitting on a chair. However with the adding of a border and the eraser already talked about it looks like the model is sitting in an empty box leaning against a wall. 

Media institutions

If I want my magazine to become well known and have a chance of making it into the big market then I must find someone who will publish my magazine for me well and exclusively. These need to not only be successful in the magazine industry but also in the genre I am looking at. However I would not want the publishes of NME doing my magazine as NME are my main rivals and the publishes may try and make are magazines different so we are not competitors. However I have a clear plan where my magazine will go, and this is similar but not the same as NME.

I have decided on a few magazines which are succesful and who have a similar style of music to me however are not really competitors. I looked at Bauer Consumer Media who publish Kerrang and Q, Jann Wenner who publishes Rolling stones and BBC Magazines who publish Top of the Pops magazine, however top of the pops is quite dissimilar to my magazine as it focuses on a different age group and different types of music also the BBC will only have magazines that are related to there shows and my magazine isn't this therefore rules my magazine out. Conde Nast Publications are the institute behind GQ and i did seriously think about contacting them therefore my music magazine could start off being sold alongside GQ in order to make it well known quicker. However after looking at Conde Nast Publications i found out that although they do look after many massive magazines such as Vogue and GQ they have never owned a music magazine therefore making it a bigger risk going with them as my producers as they have no past experience of working in the music magazine industry.

I have decided that I would like to be part of theBauer Consumer Media as I believe that if it had 3 music magazines all similar yet appealing to different social groups it would really take away the competition from NME and leave them out to dry so that I could become the biggest Indie music magazine. I also believe that Rolling Stones is similar to where i went to put my magazine an Kerrang and Q although being similar there is a clear difference in them. 

Indie Magazine photshoots

This is was from a photoshoot from NME off a band i believe to be called Little Joy. Although the band is not known to me I very much thought I could use this style of background of grass and bushes. I thought I could possible take pictures in a woodland area whether I use this for my contents picture of double page spread. However i will only have one model compared to 4 like in this photo.



Rolling stones is another indie magazine and although in this particular image they are trying to appeal to a larger target audience by using a rapper therefore going against the usual conventions. However i like the length of the shot with the image finishing around Jay Z's waste. This is something that I may well use in my front cover.



Q is another big Indie magazine. I like the use of the guitar in this music magazine and i have already discussed the possibility of using a guitar although mine will probably be an acoustic one as acoustic guitars i believe are used more in the Indie scene. I very much doubt that I will be able to make it look like my mast head is crashing. My other problem with this picture is that it may be going against the look i am trying to give of my music magazine and the people who are on it with things such as responsibility and maturity being a keen factor in my magazine and this magazine photo is clearly trying to appeal to the demographic of "anti authority rebel".