My logo/ Pink Publishings

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I have named my company name ‘pink publishing’s’.  I have done this because I think it relates to my target audience.  My target audience is teen girls, and everyone knows that pink is a girly colour.  I have also created a logo for my company which is this picture of a heart with ‘pp’ in the middle. This obviously means ‘Pink Publishing’s’ . I wanted my logo to be simple so that it is easily recognisable, like some big company logos like ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twtitter’.

 

Future PLC Media Research:

Future plc is an international media group, which publish magazines, websites and events. Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today they have operations in the UK, US and Australia which create over 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events. They hold market-leading positions in our core sectors which are entertainment & video Games, technology Sport & Auto, music and creative. The UK’s number one consumer technology website is there most successful products include Teach radar, T3, Total Film, Bike Radar, Mollie Makes and Official Xbox Magazine.

They attract more than 38 million monthly and they deliver over 100 digital editions and bespoke apps on tablet devices. They are the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of magazine content because they sell 2.2 million magazines every month, and export or syndicate to 89 countries.

IPC Media Research:

As the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher, IPC Media engage with 26m UK adults and almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men. IPC Media have more than 60 iconic media brands; they create content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and events. They have a award winning portfolio of websites, which reaches over 25 million users globally every month. IPC Media focus on working in partnership with its consumers, advertisers, business partners and employees to deliver exceptional value, service, innovation and creativity.

They have three publishing divisions; IPC Connect, IPC Inspire and IPC Southbank. IPC Connect, their mass market women's division comprises famous women's weeklies including Now Chat and Women. IPC Connect, also publish TV entertainment brands including what’s on ‘TV Times’ and T’V & Satellite Week’ and the ‘goodtoknow’ network.

Bauer Media Research:

Bauer Media is Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. It works with a selection of magazines, TV programs and radio stations. The Group is a worldwide media empire, which offers over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations. Altogether, the Group employs around 6,400 people.

The business is built on influential media brands with millions of personal relationships with engaged readers and listeners. In 1994, the company bought a small magazine called For Him Magazine which is now the core of the best-selling international multi-platform brand 'FHM'. This has set them on the road to sucess and since them they have invested in the digital music TV channel 'the box' and have launch magazines like 'Closer' and Britain’s first weekly glossy, Grazia. Bauer Media is a sister company of the UK's biggest TV listings, Take a Break and Bella of H Bauer Publishing, publisher.

 

 

 

My Ideas For my Contents Page!

My ideas for my front cover

My second written analysis on a pop magazine's double page spread!

For my second written analysis on a pop magazine’s double page spread, I have chosen this story about famous pop singer and actor ‘Selena Gomez’. This double page spread was written by the well-known pop magazine ‘Top of The Pops’ which target audience is for teen girls.

The first thing that catches my eyes when looking at the pages was the large picture of her which is printed over both pages. The use of camera angle and positioning of image has been well thought of and really makes the page more interesting! Then the uses of text boxes which have been scattered around the picture also add flavour to the page and make it unique. This page layout really stands out and is different than the usual ‘one picture on one page’ layout.

Another element of this page which catches my eye is the bold text. It has been printed in large black font on top of a white background so that it stands out more to the reader.  Each text box has been split into subjects and they have their own information in each separate box. Compared to the other magazine this one really uses the picture well to create layout, for example her body is at the bottom right corner and one of her left is at the top left of the page

I think the magazine uses good colours to show its target audience and really sticks to their genre ‘pop’. It also sticks by the target audience a genre by having the article about this particular celebrity because she is a pop singer and a girl, so the page can be full of girly information about her.

 Just like any other double page spread, this one has images and good use of layout which makes it good to look at. It also has the usual convention which is, having a page number at the bottom of each page.

Pop questionnaire results

Pop music questionnaire results, in excel

My first analysis of a pop magazine's double page spread!

My first analysis of a pop magazine’s double page spread

Before creating my music magazine I need to make sure that when I create mine I know and include every code and convention in so that mine looks like it’s a real and professional. I need to do a analysis on a double page spread and i have picked this one which is out of  a pop magazine.

The first thing that I notice about this double page spread is the title at the top of the page. This is always written in bold text in any magazine so that the reader knows they have found the page they were looking for or that there interested in. They have also added another detail into the title, which is that the second word is in a different style of font. This has been done so that that particular word stands out to the reader. Also notice how it is located at the top left hand side of the first page, just like a mast head on a front cover, the title needs to be visible to the reader so they know what that page is all about.

What is important to think about is the layout. For example this page doesn’t have writing all over both pages. The main image of ‘The wanted’ takes up a lot of space, this is because teen girls wouldn’t want to read too much they just want to know all the juicy interesting stuff about them without having to read too much. They also will have “crushes” on the boy band so a large picture will interest them. It is also about 'The Wanted' because it needs to keep with the genre 'pop' and they are a pop band.

There are many different ways that a double page spread can be laid out. In this magazine there are two columns of writing on the left hand side and another one on the right hand side. Then little text boxes are scattered around the image to give the page layout and make it more interesting. Colours is also important on a double page spread because you don’t want dark boring colours on it, if the reader will be reading and looking at it for a long time. The page needs to stand out, like on this page the background colour sticks to the target audience (teen girls) and it stands out. Because of the light purple colour as a background, they have printed the text in a black font so that it is easy to read.

It may be a small detail, but at the bottom of each page is another convention… the page number. This is important because if I want mine too look as realistic as possible I need to add every single detail into my work. I also need to make sure that my photography for my main image is good by trying different camera angles so that the picture really stands out.

My second analysis for a pop magazine contents page!

 

For my second analysis of a pop magazine, I have decided to look at the contents page of a ‘W love pop’ magazine. This will help me understand the codes and conventions of a contents page and will help me get some different ideas for my own.
Because the first thing I notice about a contents page is that they always have some text at the top of the page, I know I need to make sure that’s what mine has. Another example would be on this magazine which says ‘we love this…’ and then below would be a list of everything which is featured inside.           

Notice how this contents page has a different layout to the first one I looked at. See how down the right hand side of the page there are pictures of the topic, numbers below and a little bit of description below them. This gives the page layout and makes the page look more interesting. 
 Another difference in this layout is that there is a main image to go with the main cover line in the middle of the page. This attracts the reader to read about their main story which they will most likely have paid a lot to get. For example they might have paid for an interview or for a photo shoot so they need as many people to buy the magazine so they can make the money back.

On this page the house style is the colours blue white and orange these are bright colours which will make the page look presentable. The font is printed in the colours of the house style so that they blend in with the theme and stand out on a white back ground. Each picture on the page relates to the genre and the story topic.

On some contents pages they even include ‘puffs’ which helps persuade the reader to turn to that page. For example on this page there is one at the bottom left of the page which says ‘Hot posters’ this will attract the reader.

My Analysis For A Pop Magazine Contents page

 

For my analysis, I have decided to look at the contents page of a ‘Top of the pops’ magazine. This will help me understand the codes and conventions of a contents page which will help me, when I start to create my own.
The first thing I notice about a contents page is that they always have some text at the top of the page, giving the page a heading. In this magazine it says ‘inside the mag…’ this just gives the page a subject telling the reader what’s on that page.  

If we didn’t have a contents page in our magazines, we would have to flick through every page before we find what we was looking for. That’s why one of the main conventions of a contents page is the page topics and numbers. These are both very important because they help the reader find what they want to read about without looking through the whole magazine.

What’s different about this contents page is that instead of listing all the page topics it has got an image of the front cover on. This has arrows pointing to each topic on the cover with page numbers at the end so that they can see what page numbers the main stories are. Notice how the page topics are all in different categories, this helps split up the stories so that the readers can search for what they want to read about, without having to read each topic.  

Just like any page in the magazine this contents page keeps to the target audience with its house colours. Because the target audience is teen girls the colours pink and white really work together, they also help the colour of the text (black) easy to read and stand out.  

Another important convention of a contents page is pictures. Most of the time the contents page will have a selection of images which relate to some of the stories, this makes the page topic more recognisable to the reader. For example if one page topic says free poster of ‘One Direction’ then there might be a small image of that poster on the page which draws the reader in. An example on this magazine would be the small pictures of ‘one direction’ and some ‘accessories’ so that the reader has more knowledge about what’s on that page.

My Analysis For A Fornt Cover Of A Pop Magazine

 

My analysis for a front cover of a pop magazine

For my analysis I have decided to evaluate the front cover of this pop magazine. This magazine ‘Top of the pops’ is possibly the most famous pop magazines in the music industry and has been around for many years! I know that the target audience for this magazine is for teen girls because…

The first thing that draws my eye on this magazine is the ‘Mast Head’ this is written in large bold text at the top left of the page. This is because when the magazine is on the shelves only the top of the magazine can be seen; this is why the mast head is placed there. They have also put the font in a pink glittery serif font which shows me that the target audience is for young girls.

Most magazines use pictures of top celebrity’s on the front cover so that attract the reader to buy them. The main image of this magazine is a large image of a famous UK pop singer ‘Jessie J’.  The image of her has been taken at a Medium close up which helps focus on her face. This is so that she stands out more, so her fans see the image and buy the magazine to read about her. The image has been used as the full background of this magazine and everything else has been placed on top of the image making sure it doesn’t block the face though. Notice how the background of this picture is white; this makes her and the text stand out more. And also because she is dressed in black this makes the pink girly colours seen and stand out on top.

The main cover line on a magazine is the main story in the magazine and is always related to the main image.  It is always somewhere near the main image and is always put in a large font so that it is easy to see. For example in this magazine the main image is Jessie J and the main cover line is ‘Jessie J tells her own incredible story “I’ve beaten my heaters!”’ This main cover line relates to the main image which is Jessie J.

Another way I know that the target audience for this magazine is teen girls is because of the house style. House style is used for any type of magazine, it is the theme and colours used which is repeated throughout the magazine. For this magazine the house style is pink, red, purple and white. This is used effectively because they all stand out on top of Jessie J’s black clothes and the text which has been placed on top of the white back ground like pink, red and purple stands out as well.

Also on the front cover has plugs on, plugs are more information about what’s inside the magazine. But there will only be about four or five plugs on the front cover because the contents page is for listing about what’s inside not the front cover. Only the top stories will published on the front cover so that they attract the customer to buy the magazine to read more! For example on this magazine the plugs which have been used are ‘who is the fittest? Justin & Harry battle out’ this is on the front cover because the writers know that the majority of teen girls will want to read about Justin and Harry because they are both very famous pop singers! Notice how they have also written a rhetorical question in the plug ‘who is the fittest?’ they don’t actually want you to give them an answer they want you to think about your answer in your head and want to read more about the article. Everything on the cover is written for a reason, to persuade the customer to buy the magazine to read more.  They make sure they use the correct words to draw the reader in, for example another plug is ‘GaGa at school, her secret past uncovered’ the word ‘secret’ and ‘uncovered’ have been used so that  the readers think they are going to read something new about her, something no one else knows.

Puffs are also used on the cover of magazines to persuade the customer to buy the magazine. For example the puffs used on this front cover are:

·         Incredible

·         Fittest

·         Hottest

·         Secret

·         Uncovered

·         Embarrassing

·         Spooky 

These are used so that they persuade the customer to buy the magazine to read more. The words sound exciting and catch your eye. Normally they will but in large font so that the word stands out.

 

My School Magazine 'Contents page' Evaluation

My Contents Page Evaluation

In this task I had to create a contents page for a school magazine which will go together with my front cover which I made. So just before creating my page I had to make sure I researched conventions of a contents page for and school magazine. This is very similar any other magazine, it needs the lists of page topics so that the reader can find a topic then want to read and also it needs page numbers next to the topics so they can go to the page in which they are interested in reading about.  Also on this page I needed to make sure the page kept with the house style which I had done on my front cover. This consists of the colours blue and black.

Because I already knew the cover stories what I was going to put inside, I could get straight on to taking pictures which would relate to my topics. I spent half an hour in a lesson taking my pictures, making sure I thought about camera angles so that they looked professional on my contents page. Then I moved on to starting to put my page together on photo shop. Because I had experience using the tools to create my front cover, this task wasn’t as hard because I already knew what I was doing. First I made sure my house style was the same so I added a blue background to my page, and made sure this layer was at the bottom of the list so every other layer showed up on top. I also added some text onto my page by using the ‘text tool’ which allows you to add text anywhere on the page. The text which I added to my page was my page topics and numbers so that it looked like it was a real magazine. After adding my page listings I added pictures which relate to the page topics next to each page number so that it is more eye catching and interesting for the reader.

In this task I have learnt how to use the program ‘Photo Shop’ and have also learnt about the conventions of any magazine and for a school magazine. Altogether, I am happy with the results and think I met my own target which was to make this look as professional as I could.

My school Magazine Front Cover Evaulation!

In this task, I had to create a front cover for a school magazine. To start off I did some research looking at examples of some school magazines to get some ideas of what conventions were on a school magazine for my work. I noticed that all the topics on the front cover were linked to that school, which meant that the target audience for the magazine is for the school children and their parents. I also notice that the magazine had a house style which means that the magazine has groups of colours which create the theme and are the same on every page. Also the main image was linked to the main cover story. Then we went on to drawing free different designs for a front cover and three for a contents page using graphic design symbols which represent the conventions of them. This helped me understand that some elements are the same on each page (front cover and contents page) for example on front covers ‘Master heads’ are always on top left of a page so that when the magazine is on the shop shelves each magazine title can be seen for the public to see. But some things are laid out differently on different magazines. This research helped me have ideas for my design; I just needed to pick what stories I was going to put on the front cover.

 
When I was ready to start, I went and off and took some pictures to go on my front cover which would link to the target audience 'children who go to my school and there parents'.  Because I knew I wanted to put a picture of me and my two friends on top of another picture I needed to think about shots and camera angles when taking the picture. For my image I took a medium shot so that you could see us from the waist up. When I had a good picture, I then moved on to finding a good background picture in which I could edit us on. I decided on a picture of the ‘Disney Land’ castle to use as my background, so I went on Google pictures and got a nice suitable picture in which I could edit us on.  

 
Then I started my work on the program 'Photo shop', at first it was hard because of all the tools and options on the program but after some practice I got the hand of it. I started by adding a master head which I called 'school life' this was the name of my school magazine. I did this by using the 'text' option, which when selected lets you add text anywhere on the page. Then I knew I wanted a big main image which would be the background of the entire page. So I had to add an image which was related to the main cover story, which was 'Armthorpe students win a trip to Disneyland'. Because we actually couldn’t get a picture of me and my friends at Disneyland I had to edit us in a picture. So I went on Google images and got a picture of the Disney Castle, which I would use to edit us into the picture so it will look like we were there, standing in front of the castle. So to do this I uploaded a picture of me and two of my friends and used a tool called 'the magic wand' to cut around us and delete the background so I could upload it in front of my Disney background. When uploaded, I made sure each 'layer' was in place so the background layer was at the bottom of the list so every other layer are placed and show up on top of the image. Then I worked on adding plugs onto the page to make my magazine to make it look more professional. After adding my main conventions (Master head, Main image and cover stories) I then made sure I had a house style which would be the same on my contents page as well. And because on my main image there are a lot of blue shades, I decided to make my house style the colour blue and black for the text so it would be bold and stand out.

 

In this task I have learnt how to use the program ‘Photo Shop’ and have also learnt about the conventions of any magazine and for a school magazine. Altogether, I am happy with the results and think I met my own target which was to make this look as professional as I could.