Music Magazine Construction- Collage Comparasion

Music Magazine Construction- Contents Page Final Draft

This is my final contents page for my music magazine. I am very happy with the overall outcome as I feel it is very professional looking. Compared to the last draft, there has not been many changes due to the fact that I was very happy with the overall outcome of the last draft. A few remarks from my peers helped me complete this to the best of my ability and I think this cover page fits in with the typical house style.

Music Magazine Construction- Front Cover, Contents, DPS Cover and DPS Feedback

In class, I recieved feedback of my front cover, contents page, double page spread cover and double page spread. I printed them and laid them out and then recieved feedback from my peers.

Love the cover of the dps! Also the dps is great only change I would make is the first page being white and perhaps it fading into grey instead of the black. Good house style throughout and all match. Make text on cover larger.

Would change the red and white writing under the image on your last page and the images to the right of your last page are blurred. Would make the puff better other than that its really good! I like the first two pages of the dps, really nice and different.

More cover lines on cover page, the contents page is really good. The image on the first page of your dps is a bit blurry and make the puff stand out more.

House style isn’t very clear and images are all slightly blurry.

Font is too plain for the genre selection.

Use better fonts.

Good colour scheme used throughout , lots of pictures with captions to clearly show what is going on, the masthead is unique and good for  a music magazine, the dps is very realistic and would get a mark band 4, the large L behind the text gives a realistic look.

Good use of colour scheme throughout – clear house style, love the pictures used throughout.

Front cover is a little empty.

Contents is very easy to navigate around but contains perhaps a little too much information.

Double page spread is very good, good house style .

Overall very good magazine first draft.

Music Magazine Construction- Comparing Contents

I compared my contents page to two different types of magazine's contents pages. I did this so I could see what mine looked like compared to a real life one from a professional world wide magazine. in my opinion I think that my contetns page looks very professional and fits in very well. 

Music Magazine Construction- Contents Page Feedback (First Draft)

In class, our teacher set out the task where we had to go to each others computers and give feedback on the first drafts of our contents page. I was very happy with the overall feedback and adjusted my contents page for the second draft to fix what my peers said needed fixing.

Music Magazine Construction-Contents Page Construction

Music Magazine Construction- Contents Page Second Draft

This is my second draft from my contents page. After receiving feedback from the class I took it on board and made a few changes. The biggest change /i made was removing the red box around the features and placing in two red lines. With the red box i think ti made the contents page look to full and cramped and it also made it look quite childish. I changed the colour of the Dyson image to black and white due to some people saying that there was too much colour. I changed it to black and white because they are neutral colour's which are two out of the three dominant colours in my magazine. The old image had too much colour in it like pink, yellow, green and blue which made it not fit in. When I received feedback from my teacher I added in some extra things like the lines under the regular/every month section to make it fit in and I find that this makes the contents page more accessible. I am very happy with this draft, and I am going to attempt to receive more feedback in case there is anything thing else to change that I have left out.

Music Magazine Construction- Contents First Draft

This is my first draft of my contents page. I am very happy with the overall outcome. For my next draft I am going to try get some feedback so I can try make it as professional as I can. Again, I created this using Photoshop. I used this software as it is very straightforward and easy to use. For my double page spread I am going to use Photoshop along with Adobe InDesign, so I have a variety of softwares durng the construction in my media music magazine.

Music Magazine Research-Kerrang Contents Page Analysis

This issue of Kerrang magazine is a different one to the previous one I analysed for my front cover analysis. The reason for this is due to copyright issues within the publishing world, the issue did not have a contents page that was visible on the internet. This issue above is from the 20^th of November 2010.  When researching different images of Kerrang’s contents page I can evidently see that for their content page they use a particular house style.

Throughout we can see various images. The first image that catches our eyes is the large image of the band Alter Bridge. The image is in black and white suggesting to us that black and white may be the bands signature colour, or the images further into the magazine about this band may be black and white. This image is very large and takes up around 45% of the contents page which suggests to us that this magazine may contain a large feature on the band. To the left of this image we see two images of the band 30 Seconds to Mars and I preview of what the article looks like about the artist Craig Owens. Using a preview is very useful for the reader as they do not have to just look for the page number but it entices them to flick through the magazine and read through other articles until they meet the feature on Craig Owens which they have mainly been looking for.  At the bottom half of the page we can clearly see various images of what is featured inside, like posters and artists that are featured in it. At the left hand side we can see a short blurb from the editor Nicola, and a thumbnail picture of her at the top of it. This is usually situated within a contents page of a magazine. Because we cannot see the small text clearly we can’t see if this is an editorial or an advertorial.

We can evidently see that the magazine uses a particular house style when we are researching different types of contents pages within Kerrang magazine. The colours mainly used are black and white, along with yellow highlight behind the subheadings showing us where the articles are in the information box. The colour yellow stands out very well as it is also joined by a bold font which is in capital letters, directing us into different sections which makes the contents very accessible for the reader. The use of red is also very significant as it stands out against the white background. The red font shows us the page numbers for each of the articles which makes it very easy to access because it is in a different colour. In various places we can see a wide range of capital letters used which emphasises to the reader that these are large features or important articles.

There are a total of five different sections which are separated by lines and text and it is extremely accessible for the reader. The section called Kerrang contains information, articles and features that are within the magazine weekly and what the reader expects to see. The section titled “This Week” shows the reader that the articles, information and features have never been in the magazine before and are only in it this once. This entitles the reader in as it may be very exciting news within the rock music industry.

At the bottom right hand corner of the page we can see the promotional feature where the magazine is asking people to subscribe to them, so they will deliver it to their door for just £6 a month, which is very good value for money. Other than that there are no other promotional features on the contents page. On the front cover of this issue there may have been a few to draw the reader in, but from the lack of promotional features this shows us that this magazine is not just about selling products and advertising but they are all about the music and information about artists, bands, festivals and concerts within the rock genre of the music industry.

The magazine logo is placed on the middle of the mage titling a section with the features that are situated in the magazine every week and what the reader expects to see. The logo is not very dominant here, if it was in a larger font with more colour and at the skyline it would be more dominant making it stand out to the reader even more.

Kerrang not only publishes a music magazine, but they have other franchises such as Kerrang! Radio, The K! Awards and The Kerrang! Tour which is a rock concert festival and is held throughout January and February every year. Theses franchises are not promoted on the contents page but they may be promoted within this issue of the magazine.

Music Magazine Research- Q Magazine Contents Page Collage

Below, I have created a contents page collage. I found it difficult to create this collage, as there is not a lot of contents pages posted on the internet due to copyright purposes, so that is why there is a limited amount compared to my front cover page collage.

Music Magazine Research- Contents Page Analysis Q Magazine

Contents Page Analysis

Below I have analysed the corresponding contents page to my front cover page as they are both from the same issue.

Throughout the contents page we can clearly see that there is a variety of different images throughout the page. When we start off at the top right we clearly see a large image of Noel Gallagher. The large image is fitted with very neutral colours like blue and white. Noel has no particular facial expression, but we can tell from the image that he is a serious man because of the straight face he is holding.  With the image being quite large, we can see that this is another feature within the magazine, as it is also featured on the front cover as a large cover line.  Further on down the contents page, we directly look at the left hand side of the page, as the images go in height and page order. The second image is a picture of Dave Grohl singing during one of his performances. the image stretches out of the border as we see his hand moving up into the box above. From the front cover we can clearly see that the magazine is going to have a large feature about the Foo Fighters, and this next image directs us to where we will next go to read about the band. To the right of the Foo Fighters image, there is another picture of a female singer names Kate Tempest. Below is Jack White, followed by Lucinda Williams on the left and Prince in a cut out form to her right. At the right side of the page we see an image of FKA Twigs in a separate section called “The Q Review”. There are plenty of images on the page leaving it very accessible. In my opinion if there was any more the contents page it would look very cluttered and the reader would find it harder to access information as there would be a reduced amount of words in the blurb, pulling the reader into certain articles.

The typical house style is carried throughout where we can visibly see that the colours of red, black and white are applied very well on both the front cover and the content page. The contents page also features a range of different colours such as blue, orange, pink, yellow, green and turquoise to fill in the speech bubbles where the page numbers are placed. These colours are eye catching, but not as eye catching compared to the colours of red, white and black as they stand out more to the reader.

The information is extremely accessible in this issue. You clearly see the direction that they want you to read, starting from the top of the page, to the left hand side down and then to the right hand side down which is the typical way that you read anything in a newspaper, text book, or magazine. The different sections are sectioned off by lines or text boxes. The main thing that we can see that is sectioned off is the Q Review, as it has a very thick bold black line surrounding it. The format of the contents page tells me that this is a very formal magazine.
Within the contents page there are no promotional features, but when reading the front cover page and opening the magazine you open up to a large double page advertisement of males Chanel aftershave “Bleu de Chanel”. We then move to another double page advertisement of Hugo Boss aftershave which shows us that this is quite a male dominated magazine as both advertisements are for men. After the two advertisements we move to information about the enticement which was attached to the front cover. The next page is a single page of a new film set to be released in 2015 called “Black Sea”. Then we have the contents page. This is usually not expected in a magazine as you would usually turn the front cover and see that there is an advertisement and the contents page.

The Logo is placed in the skyline of the contents page along with the issue date and beside it saying contents. This is usual for Q Magazine. The other brands that Q has are not promoted on the contents page which is usually not expected. This shows that the magazine does not promote anything on their contents page and sticks to what the readers really want to see, which is information about music and artists.