Producing my first music magazine cover with existing artists here is what the general feel of my magzine will look like.

From the fonts of "28 Days Later" for my masthead and "Impact Bold" i reely like the look of this magazine and will base mine in the same ways only with my own material.

The colours i have used are great for conoting the genre of electro dance/rave as they are vibrant and compliment the clothing of the actual music artists on page. To the bottom i have used achorage from the text to the imagary i like technique as its simple to use but also makes the target audience know who will be in the issue. With the fonts i played around with them untill i was happy in this case with the outline and drop shadow this making them stand out onto the foreground.

The language i used reflects on the genre of music as it is energetic for example snatch, crush, heroes are all words we asocciate with action and movement. As it will be a first issue aswell it was vital to excite and tempt the target audience with prizes and chances to win goods all positive reasons to buy the music magazine. Above the masthead is an important sell line to interact with the audience "THE FUTURE OF MODERN MUSIC AND RAVE" gives the sense that people should go out and get this magazine if they wish to keep up to date with the ever changing music industry.

Appendix 8 Treatment And Production


To summarise my work i am going to construct a front cover, contents and double page spread of a music magazine using stereotypical conventions from existing versions.

The audience profile of my magazine is aimed at young adults and for both genders of male and female. The genre of my magazine falls into several categories this being electro dance and rave therefore being a niche product and have a smaller fan base.

Mise-en-scene will play a vital part when coming to the photography. The clothing will be extremely specific helping the fan base find the magazine on the shelf and for it to stand out. To help this the characters and actors will be dressed in stereotypical florencant colourful clothes, looking slightly over the top. The props they will have will consist of objects found most likely at house parties for example bottles of alcohol, cigarettes and the most common being the instruments in this case a coloured duck taped microphones shaped usually as a carrot, synthesizers which produce computerised electronic sounds and finally a keyboard. The facial expressions present will be slightly chaotic and should denote serious amounts of energy, these aspects all adding to the verisimilitude of the magazine. The locations of many of my shots will be centred in rooms with contrasting light and give connotations of a house party. Common objects to be in the background will consist of sofas, chairs, and tables nothing too dramatic as it will take the atension of the artists in shot. Computer games and consoles also will be present

The layout of my magazine will have all the common elements of a music magazine, this will consist of having the masthead at the top, picture centre page and all the text aligned left for easier understanding (preferred reading). Similar to this i will have my contents stereotypically presented in columns and have page references to each image juxtaposing the two. The larger pictures will be their to sell the magazine, the smaller ones not as important however appropriate to state what my magazine has to offer. The double page spread will have the theme of having all the text lower page with this an image covering the 2 pages will be essiential. One font style which will be repeated throughout the pages i am making is "28 days later" this suits the genre of magazine and looks good with bright rave colours. contrasting to this the background will be black, this will help attract target audiences.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The music magazine I am constructing is an hybrid genre in this case alternative,electro dance, Therfore my magazine will be niche and have a smaller fan base than products such as Kerrang! or Q.

THE CONVENTIONS OF MY MAGAZINE

The misenscene present through my magazine will involve bright colours and and a stereotypical 80s fashion, iconic to the genre of my magazine the use of florencant glow sticks and neon lights will help the versimilitude.

THE NAMES

Future shock, neon, strobe beam

later on having feedback from other class members deciding on FUTURE SHOCK

having this as my masthead i feel it compliments my genre as the music i am promoting is in many ways alternative and stands on its own as a specific style. I also feel "FUTURE" dennotes my magazine is fresh this helps as the music itself of alternative, electro dance is failry new to the industry.

AGE RANGE

The people likely to read me magazine would be young adults possibly ranging from around 16 to in their mid twenties these should be people who are aware of the distinctive fashion of flurocent contrasting colours and enjoy hard partying. When constructing my magazine these will be factors I keep in mind having my house theme relating back to these aspects.

Their are two different catogories inwhich music magazines fall into, these consist of Niche or Mainstream.

A Niche product is a more of a specific genre of music and its audience is narrowed down to just one fan base this meaning having a limited target audiene and people who would read the magazine.
for example Terroizer and fRoots inwhich has only 40'0000 reader ships


On the other hand mainstream is designed to target a collosal number of fans and dosent pin down one specific genre there fore the audience is exreamly widespreasd. Examples of this catagory are Kerrang, NME,

Here is a potential starting point for my music magazine drawn in rough to practise different layouts and how the mise-en-scene will effect the genre of my music magazine. To start with the clothes they are wearing have strong connotations of rave and dance type of music and overall different from typical genres of indie and heavy metal mags.

The mast head of my magazine dosent reely do anything for the magazine, however i was experimenting with the comic book style font created by myself to try and enhance an 80's type of theme. This is an aspect i may consider when producing my own.

At the top right of the front cover shows a smaller picture box of 4 more music artists, this is a good stratergy in making my magazine more appealing to the target audience as it shows it has alot to offer other than just the 3 main characters centre page.

Similar to the front cover of my TRC mock up magazine the same house styles are put to practice to set the theme through onto the contents page.

For the audience to have an easier understanding and where abouts collums have been used for better organisation and to set the order of importance. With this sub headings, underlining, bold lettering enable an simple discourse for the audience to follow, imagary of this type is also revelant as it helps back up the semantic field of education. One type of shot i used was a low angle shot this was on the college itself readressing the fact the college is the main issue therefore needing to look important and significantto the readers. Nothing too over the top is needed with this genre of magazine as its purpose is more important than the visuals to show this suttle plain colours are used to present the information.

The other pictures on page are a representation of a mixture of friends looking happy and at ease with their enviroment this is good for those people to first pick up the magzine wanting to know more about the college and the types of social groups their.

Here is my mock up front cover magazine for TRC.

Following typical conventions from other magazines i created a strong representation good enough to be used as it stands. To add verisilimilitude to my work main key aspects such as mise-en-scene, font styles, sell lines, mode of adress e.t.c needed to be present.

Constructing my masthead i used the serif font Times New Roman this giving the magazine an edge of importance and power which is nesercery as TRC stands as a name. The colours of the masthead i also use throughout the page this sets a simple theme going on and compliments the overall feel to the magazine letting the audience know its about a college magazine talking about college issues. The rest of the sell lines on page are Sans serif fonts this sets a less formal register and interacts with the audience on a peer-to-peer level. With this the magazine has a very friendly tenor to it with postive connotations, the lines " highest grades as of yet "and " B-ball team in great win streek" give confidence to the students urging them to continue impressing the college. I also used rhetoical questions as this drags the target audience in to read on.

The image i used was a representation of a sucessful student attending TRC. Having a mediam close up alowed me to capture the facial expression and body movement showing the student over looking a situation and having a minute to him self. The fact he is smiling also helps sell the magazine and has anchorage to the text on the right hand of the page.