Steps To Making My Edited Images

At the bottom there will be a list of simple, basic steps to how I completed one of my edited images, from start to finish. (To be honest, all my edited images had a themed style but there added effects were all made up straight from my head, on to the image.)

Music Magazine Feedback Analysis

Music Magazine- Mixxrave feedback

To collect feedback for my magazine evaluation, I used a website called surveymonkey.com to generate a questionnaire for people to answer so I can gain positive or negative feedback.

For the feedback that I gained, I found out that not nobody would buy my music magazine as they are not amused by the selected genres I based the magazine around, which were dubstep and electronic, however 34% thought that the genre suited my magazine will 66% said no. They would rate the magazine out of ten, either 4-6. Several improvements people thought could be added to my magazine were to make the masthead of the magazine clearer so it’s easy to read, make the text readable, make it obvious what kind of music genre the magazine represents, there isn’t many page numbers on the contents page and, for certain images, make them clear to see. However, some positives about the magazine were about how creative and imaginative the images were and how good they were edited, the use of advertisements and colour scheme through out the magazine fits perfectly and links well to the genre and the use of pull quotes is very effective in the interview on the double page spread.

Media Magazine Evalulation

For my evaluation, I have decided to use a set of questions from the mark scheme to state what I did, thought and the feedback for my magazine.

▪ In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I tried to design an artist master piece out of my magazine. By listening to my target audience, I was able to make my magazine look very creative and original, as if the genre had exploded and was smeared across the magazine. I tried to give my magazine some emotions, especially in my double page spread, such as mystery, grief, amazement, optimism and surprise, something for the reader to engage. The decision of colours I used also shows this.

With creating catchy slogans, unimaginable headlines and cover lines for the featured content. I was able to take my music magazine a step forward by trying to make the readers think outside the box, so only the words and phrases would allow them to imagine what they would hope the magazine to behold.

  

▪ Who would be the audience for your media product?

The magazine’s audience is be aimed at teenagers and young adults. Even though the stereo typical audience are similar to heavy metal artists, it is all just a gimmick. From research and from several images, I have found out the niche market for electronic and dubstep fans are mostly just your average teenagers and young adults. This is probably due to dubstep's free will style of music, as it is a rebellious genre like rock, which young adults and teens can enjoy at parties and raves.

▪ How did you attract/address your audience?

All of the information presented, in the headings and the cover story, was used to broaden the imagination of the readers, by using creative text and vocabulary. I also tried to be formal when addressing the readers whenever I referred to them even when I didn’t use the correct style of font to show its formality. However, this was no concern as the type of font I would use would reflect on the magazines theme and genre and how it would appeal towards the readers.

▪ What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

There are many types of software to design a source of media, especially for magazines. Adobe Indesign has been successful software for me to plan and create my magazine’s three main pages. However, It did limit me to the amount of detail I could added to the pages as once a page become full with texts, images and shapes. It become quite hard to select what I wanted to move or change and I thought that the software wasn’t very professional. On the other hand, I used Adobe Photoshop to edit and create my graphical images and headings. I am use to using Photoshop so it I found it even easier to create my magazine pages on Photoshop instead of Indesign. In the end, I found out that Adobe Photoshop was the best software to create my final magazine, but didn’t real matter to me whether I used either programmes as long as the outcome of the media was a good quality.

Feedback Survey

To make the feedback easy for you to do and for me to understand and evaluate, could you please follow this link to my survey site: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/37MZBMP or https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YFLGHCF which ever works. Thank you!

Music Magazine (finished)

Music Magazine

-MixxRave Magazine

Please do leave feedback about what you thought about my music magazine. The only key information you need to know about this magazine is that it's genre is Dubstep and Electronic and obviously most of the information is made up. (At the far bottom are the original designs). However, please do enjoy.



Front Cover

Contents Page



Doublepage spread

Article: BREAKING IN

Broken by soul, blasting it on the turntables, his emotions for music has no bounds.

Since the start, when he dropped his first bass with his first single magnitude. Ben Wooding (as Broken Beast) has taken a giant leap into the music industry with his genres of Dubstep and Electronic and has grabbed the attention of the newly adored fans.

The young DJ started back in early June 2012, after spending several days of his free time mixing around with his favourite tunes within his bedroom. He then uploaded most of his own original mixes on to the internet, via YouTube, Juke box alive and Facebook. In the first four months after uploading his tracks, swarms of listeners began to take a serious interest into his music, gaining the Beast a place in the charts.

In a recent interview with the animal himself, we got to find out his thoughts behind his smashing success. “I would never image that I would get to where I am today, amongst the stars. From what I started off with in my family’s house, too now being one of this generations top artists. It’s extraordinary and unreal. A journey of a life time which has changed my whole life around and hopefully the world! I am proud to see that the genre of Dubstep and Electronics keeps on growing with every new track so I’m unbelievably happy to help inspire fans to enjoy the raves to a never dying genre of art.”

Already Ben has been teaming up with other artists and bands, such as Nero/Icon for Hire/Infected Mushroom/Breathe Carolina and Skrillex, to give a new feel to their genres and to gain inspiration for his later tracks. Something for fans should stay tuned in for.

Originals

Front Cover

Contents Page

Doublepage Spread

Edited Images

The following link is about how I selected the images for my music magazine: 
http://prezi.com/bfte0dvvbrqn/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
These images are from my list of pictures that I have taken from my photo shoot. I may use these in my final music magazine.

Magazine Images

Music Magazine Images

The following images your are about to see are several examples that I may or may not be using in my upcoming music magazine. These involve several images of; technology that may relate to my genre, images of me wearing similar cloths to what some of the niche market may wear and poses and action shots you would see the genres niche do. However,the images that have been selected as "NOT USING" are the images that I will not be using for my magazine. Enjoy!

NOT USING

NOT USING

NOT USING

NOT USING

NOT USING

NOT USING

With most of these images as you can already tell, there are several objects and parts in the backgrounds that I will want to remove from my final images. To make this possible, I will be using Adobe Photoshop to recreate some of the pictures and designing them so they are relevant to my music magazine's genre. In some cases, I may create some of my own draws, like the image second to bottom, and try to make them look as realistic as possible so they can also be inputted into my music magazine.

Examples of Photoshoped images:

Magazine Mock Ups

Magazine mock designs

Here are some mocks for the style and layout for my magazines front cover. I have compiled some of my results from my 'Survey Monkey' questionnaire and have used them to plan out my magazine covers. The rest of the magazine, such as the contents and double page spread will use one of these mock ups colour schemes but the layout will be entirely different. 

Mock Up No.1

Mock Up No.1 Contents Page

Mock Up No.1 Double Page Spread

Mock Up No.2

Mock Up No.2 Contents Page

Mock Up No.2 Double Page Spread



Mock Up No.3

Final Feedback

Magazine Ideas

For my final Music magazine, I have been researching into Electronic and Dubstep music and their target audience so I could get a bigger understanding on how I should go about designing my music magazine and for who it will interest. From my mood boards, I can tell that two genres are quiet similar with there type of audience, niche market, and the colour schemes and the genres artist's style of album covers.

Usually lasers and bright neon colours, such as neon GREEN, ORANGE, CYAN, and PINK, on a black, dark background or an image, can present the vibrant feel from the genre. Seeing waves of light and pulses of luminous colours makes me think of raves and gigs with a creative side to them, with the music in sync with the lights giving the audiences feel energetic and hyper. These are the kind of feeling I want my magazine to give out to the readers. By getting them into a positive emotion with the front cover, this can help keep the readers latch onto the rest of the magazine as they want to be entertained by the featured articles.

I have also discover that most electronic and dubstep music can be presented as art, like most music genres. As Dubstep is a type of Electronic dance music, it is scene as a dark and moody genre with its distinguished sparse rhythms and emphasise on bass. Some tracks frequently use a minor key and can feature dissonant harmonies. Other distinguishing features often found are the use of samples, a propulsive, and an almost omnipresent sub-bass. Some dubstep artists have also incorporated a variety of outside influences, from dub-influenced techno such as classical music or heavy metal.

"Dubstep started to spread beyond small local scenes in late 2005 and early 2006, with many websites devoted to the genre appearing on the Internet and thus aiding the growth of the scene, such as dubstepforum, the download site Barefiles and blogs such as gutterbreakz. Simultaneously, the genre was receiving extensive coverage in music magazines such as The Wire and online publications such as Pitchfork Media."(-http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Dubstep) Seeing as the genre started off on the internet and went global from there, a digital copy design of the magazine would be suitable to sell the my magazine as well as a hard copy for those who can't buy it electronically.

Even though the stereo typical audience are similar to heavy metal artists, it is all just a gimmick. From research and from several images, I have found out the niche market for electronic and dubstep fans are mostly just your average teenagers and young adults. This is probably due to dubstep's free will style of music, as it is a rebellious genre like rock, that young adults and teens can enjoy at parties and raves.

Mood Boards

Electronic- Mood Board

Dubstep- Mood Board

Niche Market- Mood Board

Online Questionnaire

Online Music Target Audience Questionnaire

The link to the following questionnaire is a list of 10 questions, so I can gain information about the target audience for music magazines.
It would help me out so much if you could follow the link to the questionnaire and fill it out. Thank you.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/988Z5WZ

Second Focus Group

(Video may not work on the school systems)



The following video is of a focus group. Where we asked a class of year 13 students several questions about the different features we could use in our own music magazines. These involved asking them about the layouts and styles of a magazine and if  free enticements would be a good idea to add to draw in our target audiences.

The questions which I asked, involved how free enticements can appeal to the magazines buyers. For instance i asked them, Would you buy a magazine just for the free enticement? The responses I got from the group was. "yes, however it would depend on the free enticement is." What types of free enticements would you put on a music magazine? The responses were," small types of freebies such as stickers, posters, samples of music and cheap gadgets". Do you think free enticements are a get selling point for magazines? The final response for this question was yes as it would make the magazine more enticing and may attract the readers. 

Audience Research Planning

Audiences Research

This is a list of the many ways I would plan out my research to investigate about magazine audiences.

Who?

An individual or collective group of people who read or consume any media text

Why?

Without them there is no media.

Most media organisations produce media to make a profit.

The mass media is becoming more competitive then ever to attract more and more audiences in different ways and stay profitable.

Impact on new technology on audiences

Old Medias: print, TV and radio

They use to have high audience numbers causing them to now work harder to maintain the audience

New Media:

Digital technology has lead to uncertainty over how we define an audience, with the general agreement that a large group of people reading the same thing at the same time is outdated and the audience is ‘fragmented’.

Fragmented audience

The division of audiences in smaller groups due to the variety of media

Newspapers and magazines are hard copies.

The aim is to hit as many people and generate a large audience. However some people only look online. Some only read the hard copy.

Types of audiences

Mass audience- those who consume mainstream or popular texts such as soaps and sitcoms

Media that targets a very large group E.g.: Top Gear and Friends

Niche audience- much smaller but very influential

Interests small groups of people with unique interests E.g. Anglers mail

Categories

Psychographics:

Particular type of audience

Commercial media- general advertisement and promotion

Typical audience members, often with a psychographic profile

Group A

• Lawyers
• Doctors
• Scientists
• Well paid professionals

Group B

• Teachers
• Middle management
• Fairly well paid professionals

Group C1

• Junior management
• Bank clerks
• Nurses
• White collar professions

Group C2

• Electricians
• Plumbers
• Carpenters
• Blue collar professions

Group D

• Manual workers
• Drivers
• Post sorter

Group E

• Students
• Unemployed
• Pensioners

Research-media audiences:

• Sales, subscriptions, ratings, figures.

Who measures?

• NRS
• ABC
• BARB
• Bookseller

New ways

• Facebook and other network sites
• Online forms
• Views on YouTube and Google +
• Twitter trends

Types of research

Quantitative research –questioners

Number base, closed questions, very factual

Qualitative research- Interviews, focus groups

Analysis of existing products, open questions, individual preferences

Mood boards of target audiences:

Age, gender, education, relevant, jobs, hobbies, clothes, where they shop, what music they like, hair styles, what products they buy, types of social media

The Music Indusrty

The Music Industry

Today's music industry or music business consists of the companies, groups and individuals that make money by creating and selling music. Among the many individuals and organisations that operate within the industry are: 

• The musicians who compose and perform the music, 
• The companies and professionals who create and sell recorded music,  
• Live music performers, 
• Professionals who assist musicians with their music careers, 
• People who broadcast music via radio or the internet, 
• Journalists educators, 
• Musical instruments manufacturers and much more.

The distribution of music created can be sold in albums or singles which get sent to the shops. Distribution companies sign deals with record labels that gives them the right to sell that label's products to record stores, such as HMV and over supermarkets, that have an account with that distributor. iTunes and Amazon have a good reputation for delivering there label's music to their customers.  The distributor takes a cut of income from each album sold and then pays the label the remaining balance.

Some distributors expect a record label to provide them with finished product, but sometimes a distributor will do an "M&D" deal with a label. M&D stands for manufacturing and distribution. With this set up, the distributor will pay for all of the manufacturing costs of an album up front, and then keep all of the income from the album until that initial investment is paid off.