College magazine flat plan

Preliminary task: College magazine (planning)

On this task we have to produce pages from a college magazine. We need to create a front cover and a contents page. Today we are looking at examples of college magazines.
The magazine has a 3 colour scheme (blue, yellow and black).
The masthead of this magazine is 'COLLEGE' and it has an image of a student. The boy is smiling and he looks happy. The picture is a mid-long shot.
The anchorage is 'Mike Posner is cooler than you' because it tell us the name of the cover star. The cover lines are on both sides of the image and they give information about the magazine and its content.
There is a barcode and it says that the magazine is 100% free.
The date and the issue are below the masthead.

Analysing VIBE magazine: Usher

Image:
- 3 colour scheme (black, yellow and blue)
- Low angle shot connotes dominance.
- Medium long shot: mise en scene: styled as a pilot, aeroplane in the background, pilot costume, aviators shades link to the pilot and the star status. White t-shirt reinforces star status. High key lighting connotes his star quality. 'USA' on the plane, patriotism (usher is an american icon)
Page layout: masthead is behind the cover star, the artist is more important than the magazine name.
'Usher' is the anchorage, is the biggest text.
On the skyline there are other stars, key selling point.
The front cover has a QR code and a barcode. Also the web URL.
Coverlines are aligned left. The font is simple and clean.
 '+' is the puff.




Image:
- Medium long shot, body language, mise en scene: clothing.
- Page layout: one column, ''features'' is the subheading, Features:
 in depth longer articles. Page numbers in chronological order.

Mid shot
cigar: old school glamour. Expensive.

Analysis:

Q magazine.

1. Image:

• 3 colour scheme (red, white and black)
• Medium close up
• mise en scene: the image is in black and white

Contents Page Spread Analysis:
- 2 pages are used for the contents.
- All editorial items are listed.
- There are 12 sections, they are bands and artists. For each page there are two columns, aligned some on the left and some on the right. There is one textbox in one of the pages.
- The images used are pictures of the artists, some of the pictures are long shot and others mid shot and they are high key lighting. The connotation is that they are well known artists. The images link to the listings in the contents page because the image sare of the artists.
- The cover star is on the contents page as well, that's how it reflects the front cover.


Double Spread Analysis:

- The article is about George Ezra, first it talks about his
background in the introduction the end it has a conclusion.
- He is holding a guitar which give us information about the genre of the magazine. The image is a long shot and it has high key lighting.
- 3 colour scheme (white, black and red), the same colour scheme that the front cover has.

Magazines

I had to choose two magazines within the RnB genre. I found some american magazines that looked interesting. I liked the pictures and the aesthetics of the cover pages, also the news are about artists I am interested in. The magazines I liked the mos were XXL, Billboard and Vibe.
I chose XXL and Vibe magazine to research about them.

 

Music genre

The next task is to choose a music genre and research magazines of that genre. I chose R&B music, I enjoy this genre because I like artists such as Rihanna, Drake, Chris Brown, etc.

Also, I have been watching the tv show 'Empire' and it contains a lot of R&B music.

I grew up listening to R&B because my cousins liked to sing and they were always talking about the music industry, therefore I kind of got dragged into it. Although I like many music genres I think the one I enjoy listening to is R&B.

R&B is a genre of popular African-American music. However, nowadays its popularity has increased. There are many new artists that are not African-American yet they become famous within this industry. 

R&B is a genre listened by Black-American people mostly. Moreover, the artists of this genre tend to be black and American.

Evaluation of drafting/researching journalism

For my induction task, I had to create a double page spread for a music magazine. It was my first time using InDesign and as it is an easy program to use I got familiarized with it really quickly. I got the pictures from the internet, however the article is all written by me.
First, I wrote the article on a word document and then I copied and pasted it into the software. I did some research about the trending electronic dance music tracks at the moment and I added comments to the top 5 songs. Then, I choose the pictures I wanted to include in the article and started putting it all together.
My target for improvement is to discover how to use the software in more depth, also I would like to include more features to my next task.

Production schedule

Introduction

Hello, my name is Katherine and this is my AS Media blog. I will be posting updates of my progress in this course. This is my first experience studying media, I choose this subject because I like music and photography. I think the part of the course I will enjoy the most is taking pictures of models.

Hope you enjoy!

(Finished) Induction article