Information on Magazine Publishers

Preliminary Tasks: Finished Products

Evalutation: Skills Development

Evaluation: Technology

Evalutation: Adressing my audience

Evaluation: Target Audience

Evalutatuon: Institutions

Evalutation: Representation

Evaluation: Forms and Conventions

Templates

These are the templates that i have made for my magazine cover, feature article and contents page. I have made these to act as a plan to map out what each page will look like. These were made using Photoshop, and i gained inspiration from real media products from the internet.

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Drafts

Location, Props and Costume Report.

Location, Props and Costume report. I will be taking my images in the space of my own home and in my village. The image that I have used for my front cover was taken in my house as I felt that the area of lighting was natural, not too bright and made my image the best it could be. The most dominating colour in this image is red, which links to the colours that I have chosen to use for my magazine. The images that I used for my contents page are from different locations, the image in the bottom right hand corner underneath the ‘Wu Tang’ sign was taken in a village near to my home, I got some of my friends to stand in an intimidating pose under some streetlights so the image was dark, which is what I was wanting. The two images above that were taken at my house, they were staged so that they would catch male attention in my magazine, and are the only feminine part, designed to attract men to want to read the magazine. The two images on the left hand side also were taken at my house, the image of the two rappers in pink and purple was taken off a T shirt that I bought, which was fan merchandise, and the image of the girl next to it was taken in my room, to be staged as Dreezy, the rapper that is the main feature article in my magazine. The costumes that I have used in my images are mainly of the brands; adidas, fan merchandise from Flatbush zombies, thrasher and nike which are in the image on the ‘wu tang’ cover.

Original Ideas Statement

Original Ideas Statement. In my magazine, the genre is Hip Hop. I will include mostly music content but also some fashion, technology and events. I think this magazine will be very unique as there is not currently a UK magazine of this type and I feel that it will sell well. I will include lots of music artists such as Dreezy, Wu Tang, T.I and many new artists such as Zay Bella and Flatbush Zombies. The audience that my magazine will be aimed at is a male audience, from ages 16-21, mainly students, as they seem the most influenced by Hip Hop music. I will reach this target audience by including brands that the target audience consume, festivals that they would go to, new music that they will be interested in and money-off offers as most of them will be spending money from their student loan and wont want to spend lots of it. The brands I will include will be Adidas, I will include festivals such as Coachella, I will include technology by having a regular article dedicated to Instagram on my contents page, and have a mention of a feature article based on the best technology on my contents page.

Magazine Overview

Company Magazine. Company Magazine is owned by Baeur Publishing. It is 36 years old this year, and was founded in 1978. It is a fashion and celebrity magazine that is published monthly. Company link themselves to the TV show Americas Next Top Model. They do this by having the winner as the cover of the magazine as well as a six-page editorial with Company. They include lots of different content in their magazines, from health tips; including diets, exercise, gym tips ect. Also including beauty tips, with many beauty products advertised, the best clothing trends, from designer to high street which means that the magazine caters for all social classes. There are also spreads about DIY accessories to wear, furniture for your home, and how to save money. The magazine has now become an online magazine, they are not printing anymore magazines to be sold in stores as an online magazine seems more effective and digitally connected to the world. This has also made it an international magazine as anyone can view it. Billboard Magazine Overview. Billboard magazine is an American brand. It covers lots of genres of music. Mainly chart music is featured, but lots of artists that make different types of music are often featured in articles, interviews and chart reports. It is published weekly and is available all around the world. It’s headquarters are in New York City. It’s publishers are Prometheus Global Media which is a very popular publishing brand. It was first published on November 1, 1894, and is distinguished as being among the oldest trade magazines in the world. The magazine originally focused on bill posting and outdoor amusements before specializing in the music industry in the 1960s. Billboards charts are based on Song rankings are based on digital download sales, radio airplay, and internet streaming, while albums are based solely on sales. Billboard was founded in Cincinnati on November 1, 1894, by William H. Donaldson and James Hennegan. Billboard also hosts award ceremonies annually to award music artists with prizes if they have topped the charts etc. Billboard, then titled The Billboard, published its first music hit parade on January 4, 1936; its first record chart was calculated on July 20, 1940. The Billboard Hot 100, which documents individual singles, was introduced on August 4, 1958; the Billboard 200, which ranks full music albums, was premiered on August 17, 1963. Today, the service provides over 100 charts, which are updated on a weekly basis. It‘s target audience is of a very wide range as it does not just target males, or females but both as its content is mixed gender. The colours of this magazine are mainly red, yellow, blue, green, black and white, the colours that make an appearance on every Billboard cover page are red, yellow, blue green and white which make up the title.

Magazine Industry Overview

Magazine Industry Overview. There are over 8000 magazine titles published in the UK, there are many different categories which are consumer (general and specialist) sold in newsagents and available online; the most popular media texts sold in newsagents. The aim of this type of magazine is to entertain and inform the reader, business / trade / professional - for people at work, customer magazines that organisations to give to their customers as a form of marketing, staff magazines to inform staff about their company, newspaper supplements - come free as part of daily or Sunday paper, part works - a set number of issues builds up into an 'encyclopaedia' on a specific topic and finally academic journals - for university-level discussion of all sorts of topics. The UK’s largest magazine publisher by circulation is Baeur Media; it publishes 25% of the UK’s magazines. Next is Time Warner which publishes 20%, third is BBC which takes up 7.8%, and fourth is Hearst which is 7.3% of the publishing industry. Today in the UK there are over 3,200 different consumer titles, 1.5 billion titles are sold every year, from online subscriptions to over-the-counter buys. In 2008 advertisers spent £745M to get their titles seen. Consumers spent £2B on magazines, which is a very large number. In the last decade, it is said that over 500 different magazines are launched every year so these numbers rise more every year, although only 3 in 4 magazines survive in the industry for more than 4 years. History Of Magazines: 1950s: Launched in 1953, Playboy mixed high commerce, sex and glamour explosively for the first time. 1960s: First published in 1967, Rolling Stone was an emblem of the spirit of dissent and lack of deference that marked the 1970s. 1970s: The 1972 UK launch of Cosmopolitan offered women entry to a previously male world of power-play and sexual freedom. 1990s: In 1994 Loaded ushered in the era of neo-traditional lads who drank, laughed and shagged. (related cultural products: Men Behaving Badly, Liam Gallagher, Gazza, Chris Evans) 2000s: Today Heat, Hello, OK, Grazia etc. offer an 'in-depth' look at the shallow celebrity culture of the new century. 2001: Glamour (2001) is way out in front as the leading women’s monthly glossy. (Related cultural product: Sex and the City.) “We launched at a time when it was OK to be glamorous again.” Elvin, Editor 2004: Zoo (motto ‘Beer, breasts and Footy) (EMAP) and Nuts (supposed to be more up-market) (IPC) The world’s first ever Men’s Weekly Magazines 2005: Psychologies (launched 2005) “What we’re like, not just what we look like” for women 30 – 55, glossy but not fashion-led. 2009: Eat In Recession bites? Comfort food to make yourself.