Photo Shoot Plan

Photo Shoot Plan

Concept Brainstorm

Similar Texts

Page Sketch

Page Sketch

Survey

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Equipment

Equipment

I have to have the right equipment to have a successful music magazine and I will also need the right software to help with all of my work. Some equipment I need just to do the easy things such as: the Pages software for Apple Macs. This will be the program that I will create and edit my magazine on. On the list below is the equipment i am looking to use to create the music magazine to the best of my ability.

Apple Macs & iWorks Pages 

The Apple Mac computer is a very important part of my project as it is what i will do all of my work on and has very good programs on which I can use to help me and make my magazine brilliant. The Macs have specialist software, where if I upload a picture I can develop it to make it look very professional and also edit it. 

Memory Stick

I will need a memory stick to save my work so that it can be done at home. If my music magazine is going to be good then I will have to work at home to enhance the quality of my work. Having a memory stick to transport my work from the Apple Macs to my laptop at home gives me the option to do my work and improve it to the best of my ability.

Camera 

I will have to do a lot of photo shoots. To do photo shoots I will need a good camera, which i will borrow off a friend. The photos that go on my magazine are the main piece of the main heading. You need a decent picture on the front cover to be behind the text so the front cover doesn't look dull and boring. This will persuade customers to buy my magazine. Therefore having a good camera that can take clear and precise shots is important and the better the camera is the more professional the pictures look. The lighting 

gels help me to take clear and focused shots and changes the color of the music, which helps changing the mood of the picture.

A guide to help me through the project.

I have received a guide to help me through this project. The guide helps me a lot and gives me examples, which i can look at and try to put it my magazine; it also guides me through the project, helping me understand what to write in the different sections.

The Internet.

The Internet is vital to my success during this project. The internet can help and benefit me in many ways such as doing research, downloading images, view other music magazines, upload my work to a blog, This all helps improve my work, so that it is to the best of my ability. 

Music magazines.

Professional music magazines that have been published weekly or monthly, it will give me an insight on what my music magazine should look like and contain and how it should be laid out. I do not have to produce a whole magazine, but I do have to produce a front cover, contents page and a double page spread but looking at professional magazines will help me to do this to the best of my ability.

The Final Idea

After Looking At My Research I Realised The Public Listen To A Lot Of pop Music. I Decided To Do A pop Magazine, I Wanted To Find Out Whether People Listened To pop  Music In My School, I Done This By Creating A Survey On Surveymonkey.com And Sent It Out On A Social Network Site (Facebook). I Asked 'Do You Listen To pop Music?' 80% Of People Said Yes To That Question; They Listen To Some Form Of pop Music, From One Song To A Whole Album.

Contents Analysis

NME Magazine
From Analysing NME I Found Out That It Focuses Its Front Cover On Its Feature Story. The Use Of Only Having One Picture Makes It Easy To Understand What The Main Story Is About And The Writing Is Behind The Picture Almost As It Is Saying That The Picture Is More Important Than The Magazine. This Is A Feature That I Will Use In My Magazine.

NME Also Uses The Same Colour, Font And Position For Its Mast Head. This Is Important Because It Makes The Magazine Easily Recognisable And Makes It Appear More Professional, It Is Also Very Colour Coordinated Which Makes It Look Very Good
For My Contents Analysis I Analysed Two Magazines.For The First Magazine I Analysed A Top Of The Pops Magazine. The Reason I Decided To Analyse This Magazine Is Because I Did Not Know What Genre Of Music I Wanted My Magazine To Be Aimed At, At This Point So I Wanted To Keep My Options Open. The Second Magazine I Analysed Was NME. I Chose This Magazine Because If Features Rock Artists Such As Kings Of Leon Which Is The Genre Of Music I Would Like My Magazine To Be About.


Inside The NME Magazine The Color Scheme Was Very Similar To The Front Page Which Makes It Look More Professional And Makes It Look Better As A Magazine As Everything Goes. There Is A Large Picture Of A Band Which Gets The Eye Of People, And Has There Up Coming Events Below The Image, So They Catch The Eye Of People With The Picture So They Would Take A Closer Look And Then They See The Up Coming Events Which Hopefully Boost Sales Of Tickets.

Top Of The Pops

From Analysing Top Of The Pop's Magazine I Found Out That It Try's Very Strongly To Attract Its Target Audience Which Is Young Girls. It Dose This By Using Girls Colors Such As Pink And Light Blue. It Also Has Only Male's On The Cover For The Gils To See Which Will Persuade Them To Buy The Magazine. This Is To Make The Magazine Look More Grown Up And Important, Whilst At The Same Time Raises Questions About What Is Going Into Our Children's Magazines? Is It Right To Be Submitting Our Kids To Such Grown Up Themes? Some Adults Will Definitely Disagree In My Opinion The Fact That It Is Produced By Such A High Powered And Trustworthy Company Which Is The BBC We Feel It Is Safe For Our Children To Read It, But How Sure Can We Be?

Initial Idea

I Wanted To Create A Pop Magazine. I Wanted To Do This As I Have An Interest In Pop Music So I Thought It Would Be A Good Idea. The Genre Of Music A Good Choice Because A Lot Of Teenagers Listen To Pop And My Target Audience Is Teenagers So My Opinion Is That It Was The Right Choice.

After Doing Some Research Into It, I Realised This Would Work Well Because Of The Amount Of Teenagers Listening To Pop Music. Maybe This Is The Reason Why There Are A Lot Of Pop Magazines. So I Think My Opinion Of Genre Was A Good Choice, By Looking At My Research It Was Clear That This Genre Of Music Was What The Public Want More Of.

Rate Card

NME Have Carefully Created A Rate Card To Appeal To Advertising Companies. They Pictures And Logos Of Top Brands That Have Used And Are Currently Using This Magazine For Advertising.

A Rate Card Is A Poster Like Of Information And Statistics That Will Appeal To Advertising Companies. The Aim Of A Rate Card Is To Make Advertising Companies Want To Pay To Put There Adverts In The Magazine.There are many websites and companies out there who sell rate cards or advertise them. This is because they have already done the research to see which rate works the best in the media and on television.

In A Rate Card They Usually Show The Percentages Of Ages, Genders And Social Group Who Read The Magazine, It Shows What What Music They Like And If They Have Mobile Phones. All This Information Is Crucial To Advertisers As It Gives Them An Idea Of Whether Or Not It They Will Benefit From Placeing Adverts In This Magazine.

Photo Shoot

For My Photo Shoot, I Wanted A Male Model To Be Used As Most Males Are Into Rock Magazines. I Needed A Picture For My Front Cover, A Picture For My Contents Page And About Five To Ten Pictures For My Double Page Spread. 

From My Research I Realised I Was Going To Have To Have A Picture On My Cover That Showed An Instrument. To Take These Pictures I Used A Friend From School As My Model And I Gave Him A Guitar To Show An Instrument On The Front Page. 

The Photo Shoot Took Place At A Friends House, Because He Has A Good Camera To Use For The Shoot So It Would Look Professional,  I Took Photos In Different Angles Of His House And At Different Times Of Day. I Also Made Him Change Change What He Was Wearing In Most Of The Photos.

To Make My Photo's Seem More Professional I Edited Them On The Mac Software Called 'iPhoto'. I Feel This Works Well As I Have A Variety Of Different Effects That I Have Used.

I Took The Photos Using My Friends SLR Camera As It Has A High Number Of Meag-pixels (14.2), This Means The Quality Of The Pictures Will Be Very Clear And Look Very Professional Even When The Picture Is Enlarged.

Audit

This Audit will show you what pages are in the magazine...

Page One- Cover
Page Two - Inside Cover (Advert)
Page Three- Contents
Page Four & Five- Main Story
Page Six- On Repeat
Page Seven- Advert
Page Eight, Nine & Ten- Upfront 
Page Eleven- Advert
Page Twelve- Upfront
Page Thirteen- Advert
Page Fourteen- Upfront
Page Fifteen- Advert
Page Sixteen To Eighteen - Radar 
Page Nineteen- Advert
Page Twenty & Twenty One- Double Page Advert
Page Twenty Two- Main Story Continued
Page Twenty Three- Advert
Page Twenty Four & Five- Main Story Continued
Page Twenty Six- Advert
Page Twenty Seven To Thirty One- Profile Of Band
Page Thirty Two- & Three - Music News
Page Thirty Four- Advert
Page Thirty Five- Music News
Page Thirty Six To Nine- Reviews
Page Forty- Advert
Page Forty One To Thre- LIVE 
Page Forty Four- Advert
Page Forty Five To Seven- LIVE
Page Fifty-ToFifty Nine- Adverts
Page Sixty To Sixty Four- Gig Guide
Sixty Five To Sixty Nine- Aftershow 

 

In This Magazine There Are Twenty Two Adverts.

Audiance Research

order to start planning the creation of my music magazine, i had to decide what genre i was going to use; to decide this I decided to do some quantitive research and stand outside HMV and approach passing customers. I asked 60 people which age category they fitted into and which music genre would they most likely purchase when exampled in a music magazine.
Here is my table of results

Age groups		Music Magazine Genres
	Pop	Rock	RnB	Classical	Other
13-16	0	10	0	0	3
17-21	12	0	2	0	2
22-30	3	3	6	0	0
31-41	0	2	0	3	1
42-	1	3	0	3	6











From this research task I found out that the age group I wanted to aim my magazine at (17-21) preferred a Genre of pop for a music magazine and so pop is the genre Im going to stick to.

After my research it was easy to see what my magazine should be about and the age group it should be aimed at as the more people who voted for it in my table the chances are there’s more people that are likely to buy it, I will make it fun to read so it is readable for teenagers and not just they can attend to have a listen to the pop music upcoming events like concerts for them to go to and listen to the music.

Audiance Research

To find out what our target audience for a school magazine want for a successful magazine, I interviewed some people who had different opinions and views about there school magzine and what they want. The audience that I interviewed were, students from years 7 to 11, Serior leadership team, School staff, headteacher, community and various teaching staff. the information that I recieve will be very useful in creating my school magazine and hopefully will have a successful outcome for my audience to have an exciting read. 

Firstly I interviewed the serior leadership team, I asked them some questions relvent to the topic. They agreed that the school will benefit with a school magazine only with it being informal, brain active at the same time; And they feel that it will promote our school to have a good image. They said it should include success all the way through the magazine, upcoming events that are happening inside and outside school, puzzles, jokes, gossip, interviews with teachers and also news about the school and the schools and students success. I asked them how often they would like to revice a school magazine and they repiled that they would want it every term. They also said they would like to see a magazine that looks proffesional and that its something that students and others that are receiving it look forward into the getting every half term.

Secondly I moved on to interviewing the students, where I started with the year 7's. 80% of them  that I asked said that they would want a school magazine. They would want the magazine to be easily read and with more pictures than writing. They would like some news about the school but only things that they would be interested in but other than that they would want information about music and gossip and maybe even a free gift included. 

I then interviewed the year 8's about what they would want for a school magzine. they want a trustworthy magazine. they want a lot of photos and colours in it, for it to have puzzles and funny facts. Also all different competitions for students as well as teachers to compete and the prize to be good and something that is worth taking part for. 

The year 9's were next and the response I got back was very postive and helpful. They said that they would enjoy it if there was a page that had pictures of teachers outside of school having an average day, shopping for example, like what they do in real magazines take pictures of celebrities doing everyday tasks. They would perfer it if it was colourful throughout the magazine. They said they that would rather it be called a magazine not a newspaper and for it not to have many pictures. 

The year 10's would like a magazine that is funny, has comic strips, talks about sporting events and school trips that have happened and will happen and also they would prefer it if it was written by students. 

The year 11's when I interviewed them about creating a magazine for their school they thought it would be a good idea but it shouldnt be an excuse to have ago at pupils. They would like it if it was to have current issues that are happening to do with the school, puzzle games, digs at teachers and for it to be colourful and of course lots of gossip. 

Next I interviewed the Headteacher. I first questioned him about what he would like to see in a magazine and his reponse was that it has to have a catchy name, includes currents events in school, information about help groups, to be very informal and have two sections, fun and serious. I asked him why there hasnt be one in the past and he replied that there hasnt been one in the past because of time but would love to have one for the school for everyone inside and outside of school to read.

Next I interviewed the community such as parents, local shops and local residents. There views on the school having a school magazine was for it to have puzzels, games and horiscopes in there. Also current events, a problem page, competions and for it not to be too informal as it will not appeal to the target audience. 

Lastly I interviewed Ms Steward, and her reponse to having a school magazine was  should have interviews with different and interesting staff, for the magazine to be branded like professional mag's, for it be well written and for all ages to understand and lastly there to be a sport section in there.

Evaluation

Firstly I produced a school magazine as my preliminary task for A-level media studies. Then I researched other school magazines to examine the way in which they are presented, such as texts, layouts, language, pictures pages etc. in the magazine. This research helped me a great deal to produce and create my school magazine as I was able to get a many idea's in the way that a successful school magazine is developed and produced.  

The Conventions that I have observed in the terms of the design and the use of imagery is that every school magazine is designed and text language to the right target audience, which means that the font and the use of language are right for the target audience. The use of imagery that is mostly used in a school magazine is pictures of students, teachers, student’s school work and the school building itself. They have made it so the angle in the pictures is good so it makes the magazine look professional. 

I wanted to achieve all of this in my magazine, that’s why I set out to include all the research I did in my magazine to produce an outstanding piece of work to the best of my ability. My target audience for a school magazine are students and staff that attend or work at the school, parents of the students and the community of where the school is located such as local shops etc. Also the government of the borough and school will be interested as well. I have to remember who my target audience are so I put the right information in to attract them, I attracted my audience by including relevant and interesting things that will appeal to everyone;  so in the magazine there will be different parts which appeal to different types of target audience.

For example I have a page which is based on sport which will apply to most teenagers  which is most of the students,  I have also created an issue and information page which more intentionally staff and parents will be attracted to. I have also made sure that I haven’t made the layout and design of the magazine to formal and boring but yet haven’t made it too childish so everyone will be interested and be able to read it. While creating this media product, I have learnt how to use a different range of software’s to design and create my final piece. I have learnt to experiment with new tools on the computers software’s such as editing photo's, layouts and texts and adding effects aswell as pictures.

I have always been computer literal and very creative with my design work but I feel that experiencing different software’s has increased my level of knowledge about design work and technology you may use as I never used to be able to do any of this. Having created a school magazine for my preliminary task, I have learnt the basics and the knowledge of how to create a magazine using computer software, digital cameras and my own creative mind. I feel that I could manage the time and deadlines alot better in this task as I was a bit behide of some of the tasks that needed to be completed but with determination and effort I was able to complete the preliminary task and to the best of my ability