AS Media : 2014

Friday, 12 December 2014

After finishing my front cover I decided there a lot of changes I need to make to improve it. First of all I am unhappy with my main image, I need someone who if more fitting to the R&B genre as well as getting them to pose better than in this picture. I don't know if I like the black and white picture. I like the font being black and red but depending on what main image I use I'm not sure if I will keep it black and white or not. I am also not sure whether I like my masthead font or not, again depending on what main image I use will depend on whether I will change my font to suit the image. I don't think my magazine really fits to the RnB genre, to improve this I think the best idea will be to follow an existing RnB magazine front cover closely, changing colors and features to suit my magazine.

Front Cover

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Pictures taken for front cover

Friday, 28 November 2014

Female and male costume moodboards

Female costume ideas
For my costume ideas for my front image model I have chosen colours that represent RnB music, by looking at RnB artists and music videos I found costumes and make-up that I would want model to wear for my front cover image. I used colours such as red, black and gold to keep in the theme of RnB along with leather, studs, zips ec.

Male costume ideas
If I chose a male model I would want them to wear mainly black and gold since thats what most male RnB artists wear, with chains and tatoos.

Thursday, 27 November 2014

Front cover image inspriations

Friday, 21 November 2014

Font ideas

Google mock ups

My google mock up with a male artist

Google mock up with a female artist

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Pictures for google mock ups

Audience Survey results

I sent my survey to just over 10 people but only got 5 responses back, I sent my survey out to get a better idea on my audience, who I need to target my magazine to and how I can do that

I got responses off 2 males and 3 females

All of them were aged 16-18

4 are students and 1 is unemployed

They all an annual income of 0-10k a year

3 of them said Beyonce is their favourite arist and 2 said Chris Brown is their favourite

1 person consumes music though CD's, 1 person through illegally downloading, 1 person through Itunes and 2 people through spotify

2 people go watch live music never, 1 person goes once a year, 1 person goes twice a year and 1 person goes once a week

3 people said they would pay under £3.00 for a magazine and 1 person said they would pay between £3.00-3.50 and 1 person between £3.70-£4.00

2 people never read about music on the internet and 3 people read about music every month

1: Urban
1: Blue rhythm
2: Xclusive
1: R&B vibe

I have concluded from my survey that because all my responses were aged between 16-18 I am going to base my target audience around that and make it 15-19 so I will have a slightly older audience. I also think its the best age range for R&B magazines as I think more people between those ages will read them as opposed to a younger audience such as 11-14.
From my price questions, question 3 and question 8 I have decided to give my magazine a relatively low price because my age range will all have an annual income of £0-10k meaning they don't have as much disposable income to spend on magazines etc, Also from my survey results most people would prefer to pay no more than £4 for a magazine so even though the magazine will be monthly and have quite a lot of content I intend to set a reasonable price to overcome competitors.
I believe that most 15-19 year olds will be on some kind of social networking site, meaning they can access information on music, artists, bands and concerts so although most of my survey respondents don't necessarily read about music on the internet it is very easy to access and even just following an artist on a social networking site gives them some access to that artist and their music.
Even though most of my respondents said they don't often see live music I still think that advertising concerts, gigs and offer for tickets etc would be a good idea to draw the audience in and persuade them to buy my magazine over other similar magazines.

Friday, 7 November 2014

Plan for front cover

Plan to produce my front cover

1. Google mock up x3
Start taking your images

2. Continue taking photographs
At least 4 original images

3. 20 different approaches

4. Constructing front cover
Recording progress

5. deadline 19th dec

6. Mock week

Thursday, 6 November 2014

The name of my magazine

I have chosen to do an RnB magazine that appeals to 15-19/20 year olds

The names I have come up with are:

Urban
Blue Rhythm
Soul
Xclusive
Tune in
RnB mix
Rhythm and blues
Chainz
R&B vibe
Vibez

In my survey I sent out all the respondents were aged between 16-18 so they are close to my target age range. I asked them which of the magazine names they prefered.

1 person chose Urban
1 person chose Blue Rhythm
2 people chose Xclusive
1 peroson chose R&B Vibe

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Colour scheme

I have chosen black,greys and reds for my magazine colour scheme because I think they're the colours that best represent RnB and other RnB magazines use these colours.