Questionnaire Results

Questionnaire Results




How much money would you spend on a music magazine?

Conclusion: Usually people say that music magazines are very over priced however they still pay whatever the price is. By asking this question I was able to evaluate a suitable price which can be the cost of my magazine. Therefore it will not be to overpriced but it will still be at a reasonable price.
How often do you buy music magazines?

Conclusion: because most people buy music magazines monthly therefore I will know not to make the frequency of my publication monthly as i initially would have went with

What is your least favourite thing about music magazines?

Conclusion: In this question I found the main things that people dislike about music magazines which would help me to think carefully about what I should not be including a lot of in my music magazine. What is your favourite thing about music magazines?

Conclusion: By asking this question it would give me an idea of what type of article I should produce and also gave me a clue as to what article titles I could include on the contents page and for articles on the front cover.

What is your favourite colour?

Conclusion: I asked this question as it would help me make my decision of what colours I should use as a theme for my magazine Who is your favourite band or singer?

Conclusion: This question was to give me some ideas as to what feature articles I could use on my front cover and contents page Are You male or female ?

Conclusion: I asked this question because if there were not an equal amount of male and female answers and the majority were males by having done this it could make my results biased to females as the male decision is overruling the female decision.

AUDIO RECORDING OF SOME QUESTIONS

Codes and conventions of a music magazine

There are many codes and conventions to a music magazine. Codes and conventions are the unwritten rules that should apply to different magazines in a different genre. These are the most typical for a music magazine:

- Title in the left hand corner
- barcode in the bottom right hand corner
- image of a band or singer onthe front
- bold fonts
- minimum colour scheme containing around three
- short sub-headings
- release date
- strap line across top or bottom
- lots of puff for example: free posters
- usually dark colours such as black and red
- usually a sloganunderneath magazine title
- large magazine title
- magazine title is usually one word only

Magazine cover and contents

Evaluation of school magazine and contents page

I was asked to create a school magazine cover and contents page. In this task I was to take my own photographs on location of the school, and then to produce them into a magazine cover and contents page using Adobe photoshop and QuarkXPress. I found these programmes very useful and easy to use given the task that I had been set.


The usual codes and conventions of a school magazine are that; they usually contain a picture of a pupil on the front or a sports team, they are very easy to read as they are targeted at age groups from year 7 to year 13, they are also very colourful to attract the reader, the contents page contains many different pictures so that this will also attract the reader. In my magazine product I followed closely all of these codes and conventions so that my school magazine would look proffesional and realistic.


To make my front cover image of the school magazines a used a new media software Adobe Photoshop CS3. This software allows you to edit your image , crop it , edit texts, change image details and add many effects to different images. Photoshop was useful in making my magazine cover as I was able to use all of these tools to make my magazine cover look more professional and like a real school magazine. It also allowed my magazine to look more intersting for the effects that i could add onto my fonts and images.A weekness with Adobe Photoshop was that you cannot create columns which would mean that to make a contents page would be very difficult. However, it was very useful for my front cover because of how easy the software is to use and all the available tools which made it more interesting.


Another new media software that i used was QuarkXPress. I found this software more difficult as I had not previously used it. However, this programme was easy to learn and was much easier than photoshop for creating a contents page as it had built in columns which photoshop did not. A disadvantage with this software was because of the images that I had taken. QuarkXPress does not allow you to resize images properly without changing the image dimensions. I overcame this problem by adjusting my images so that they could still fit in the given area and look similar to how they did in the first place.


To conclude, in making this school magazine i have developed my skills and knowledge of using both of these new media software. I have also learnt more about the codes and conventions of a school magazine and can see how different they are to the likes of a music magazine. If i was to do this again, I would like to further develop my skills and knowledge on both of the software's to make my magazine look more advanced.

Preliminary Excercise

Preliminary Excercise

Front cover image

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Contents page sketch

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Front cover sketch

Preliminary Excercise Task Three

Feature Articles:

- School success: GCSE and A Level results in
- Teacher's Talent: Teacher's complete fundraising run
- Winner: School pupil takes her talent to the championships
- Big Money: Form event for Kenya charity project
- Outing: 6th form take it to London culture trip
- Congratulations: Attendance 100% in the whole school
- Score: P.E Department makes it to the final
- Published: Year 9 english student gets her story published
- Heads Up: Year 7 are welcomed to their new school

Regular Content:

- School Wordsearch of the month
- Teachers interview of the month
- Charity page news

Images used on contents page:

- Teacher shaking pupils hand
- P.E team (football)
- Teachers
- Pupils
- Group of pupils

Preliminary Excercise Task One

Ideas For Title ...

Learn Lesson Achieve Central Pupil Review Imagination Inspired Weatherlearn Success School Story Education Improvement

Chosen magazine title: Achieve

Mis-en-scene;
- Girl holding a book
- Someone playing the piano
- Someone standing by a locker
- A girl holding up a trophy
- Someone with sports equiptment
- Someone carrying a folder

Coverlines
- Student Success - Student wins poet laurette 2009!
- Tumble - The school winner of the gymnastics competition
- Score - School football team makes youth championships
- High Flyer - Top exam grades in the school
- Welcome - school welcomes its new year 7's

Research: Codes and conventions

Codes and conventions of a magazine front cover

There are a small selection of the codes and conventions that are consistantly used on the front cover of a music magazine.


- Most music magazines will feature a band or singer as the main image

- The title of the magazine is always in the left hand corner

- The bar code is always in the bottom right hand corner

- There are usually aroung 3 feature articles on the front cover with one being the largest as it matches with the picture

- They stick to a basic amount of around three colours

- The font is usually sans serif to make it easier to understand

- Usually has a "puff" to attract the reader's attention

- Contains a free item connoting that the magazine is worth its value for money

- The age range always varies depending on the genre

- They are usually priced more expensive than other magazine genre's such as a gossip magazine.