Main Task Task 12

For this task I need to conduct research which I am going to put into my article for my double page spread. I am going to do my article on Taylor Swift the pop/country singer.I am going to be speaking about the singer in general and also I am going to write about her 'Fearless' tour when she came to Manchester.
Some Facts about Taylor Swift are :

• She was born on December 13, 1989.
• She wrote or co-wrote all of her songs
• She grew up on a Wyomissing, PA on a Christmas tree farm.
• She has a younger brother named Austin who is 2 years younger than her and he is a goalkeeper in a lacrosse team.
• She was nominated in the Best New Artist category at the 50th Grammy Awards.
• She was the first celebrity to appear on the cover of Justine magazine
• She is 5' 11"
• She has played a 12-string guitar since she was 12.
• When she was 9 she performed the national anthem at a Philadelphia 76ers game.
• Her grandmother was a professional opera singer.
• She loved the CSI and crime shows so much, that she even wanted to appear on one, which she did on March 5th 2009 and was watched by 20.8 million viewers.
• Her best friend's name is Abigail Lauren Anderson.
• Taylor's middle name is Alison--after her aunt
• Her favourite ice cream flavour is chocolate caramel.
• Her Twitter name is taylorswift13
• 13 is her lucky number.
• She has her own bathroom and a Britney Spears poster from 6th grade
• She has released 2 albums: Taylor Swift (2006), and Fearless (2008)
• She used to keep practicing her guitar until her fingers bled.

Favourites

Colour: White. I know, boring (but, now, think a flowing white cotton skirt blowing in the wind)
Food: Cheesecake - yum.
Holiday: Christmas
Hobby: Driving FAST.
Place: Anyplace around a creek.
Season: Summer
Thing to do: Write songs
Thing to write about: LOVE of course!
Guitar: Taylor Guitars
Artists: Miranda Lambert and Tim McGraw
Song: "Can't Tell Me Nothin'" by Tim McGraw
Quality in other people : Honesty and sarcasm
Movie: "Love Actually"
Memory: Living on a farm.
Number: 13


Quotes From Taylor Swift!

Taylor Swift: I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, "If you want to sell
500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people."

Taylor Swift: (on the song 'Picture to Burn'): Before I sing this song, I always try to tell the audience that I really do try to be a nice person... but if you break my heart, hurt my feelings, or are really mean to me, I'm going to write a song about you. Haha. This song is the perfect example.

Taylor Swift: What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become.

Taylor Swift: I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Taylor Swift : When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening

Taylor Swift : "In fairy tales, the bad guy is always very easy to spot, the bad guy, is always wearing a black cape, but when you grow up, you realize that prince charming isn’t as easy to find as you thought And the bad guy, is not wearing a black cape, he’s funny and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair!"

I am also going to use what I seen on Tuesday the 24th November 2009, for the rest of my article.

Main Task Task 11

Now i am going to make more detailed notes on the rest of my magazine.

My front cover images are going to include:
- A teenager acting as a new pop star
- A picture of Taylor Swift performing live!
- Pictures of CD's for the reviews
- picture of something that you can win
- picture of a free gift that you get with the magazine

The cover line's that I am going to have on my front cover are going to include:
- Latest concert reviews- Taylor Swift
- Cheryl cole's new album - great or slate?
- Win two tickets to see beyonce
- (New singer) will she top the charts?
- Free gift!
- Interview with X Factors heartthrob Lloyd Daniels


The text for my contents page is going to include:
- All of my feature articles
- All of my regular content
- Editors letter

The images that I am going to need for my contents page are going to include:
- Picture of Taylor Swift performing
- Picture of the editor
- CD
- Beyonce Tickets

The article that I am going to write for my double page spread is a interview.

Here are some sketches of my front cover and contents page. As you can see i have not wrote all of the content out as i have wrote it all out on this post to make it easier.

Main task Task 10

Publication plan

Title of my magazine: PINK!

Positioning statement: razzel and dazzle

Price: £3.50

Frequency of publication: monthly

Rationale:
This magazine is set out to provide the monthly gossip about the music world and the industry of pop music. It is going to be more fact than opinion so we will get to know the truth about celebrities and what they may do on a day to day basis.

Style:
informal language, the target audience is quite young so there will be simple vocabulary used, there will be paragraphs, but still set out attractive and not boring,

Regular content:
- Quizzes
- Reviews
- tips (etc.. make-up, hair styles)
– posters
– competitions
– this month must haves
– the latest month in pictures!
- Toppin' the charts
- Gotcha!
- Song words
- Exposed
- Real Life Stories
-

Feature articles:
- interview With X Factor’s heartthrob Lloyd Daniels
- Get Lady Gaga’s hairstyles
– the latest looks (shoulder pads etc.)
- Has dannii Monogue gone thinner..... revealed!
- Miley Cyrus's new love interest?...find out here
- MTV Award Styles
- Behind the Scenes of Miley Cyrus's New video "Party In The USA"
- Steal Cheryl Cole's Look.
- High School Musical 4?
- Spice Girls Reuniting for another World Tour!
- Best Christmas Bargins here
- Strictly A Secret! (Alesha Dixon On How She Loves Being a Judge Better Than Dancing On The Show!)

Target audience: 10 – 16

Distribution: – bus stops, internet, shops, other magazines

Main Task - Task seven eight and nine!

1. How old are you?


2. what is your gender?


3. do you but music magazines?


4. if yes how often do you buy them?


5. what genre of magazine do you buy the most?


6. what words do you think of when I say the word pop (top five)?


7. who is your singer or band (top 2)


8. what is your favourite colour?


9. do you prefer bands or solo artists?


10. do you like receiving a free gift with your magazine?


11. how much are you willing to pay for a magazine?


12. do you visit magazine websites?


13. would you subscribe to a magazine?


14. would you buy a new magazine if it was put onto the market?

Main task - Task seven and results (task 8)

QUESTIONNAIRE

1. how old are you?
- 10-15 = 0 people
- 16-21 = 16 people
- 22-27 = 3 people
- other = 1 person
- prefer not to say = 0 people

conclusion: most people that I had given the questionnaire where aged between 16 and 21. this tells me that my target audience should be a little bit lower as it is a pop magazine.

2. What is your gender?
- male = 2 people
- female = 17 people

conclusion: gathering my results up I have discovered that most of my gender are females as my magazine is going to be a pop magazine and the male gender don't really read pop magazines.

3. do you buy music magazines?
- yes = 12 people
- no = 0 people
- sometimes = 7 people

conclusion: out of everything that I have gathered know one that I had given the questionnaire to had answered that they don't buy a music magazine, although seven people sometimes bought magazines, twelve people has answered that they buy music magazines regularly.

4. how often do you buy music magazines?
- monthly = 15 people
- seasonally = 1 person
- weekly = 0 people
- fortnightly = 3 people

conclusion: by my results I have discovered to do my frequency of publication as monthly as that is when most people buy there magazines.There was fifteen people that buys that monthly and 1 person that buys them seasonally and three people that buys them fortnightly.

5. what genre of magazine do you buy the most?
- indie = 6 people
- pop = 8 people
- rock = 1 person
- country = 1 person
- other = 1 person

conclusion: by looking at my research I have found out that I am going to sick with the genre of 'pop' as that is what I got the most votes for. The genre that come in second was the genre 'indie'. pop got eight votes and 'indie' got 6 votes.

6. what 3 words do you think of when i say the words pop?
- girls = 5 people
- pink = 5 people
-- gossip = 1 person
- pretty = 1 person
- fun = 1 person
- candy = 1 person
- lip sync = 1 person
- adidas = 1 person
- young = 1 person
- happy = 3 people
- boys = 4 people
- make up = 3 people
- bubble gum = 1 person
- boy bands = 1 person
- charts = 1 person
- colourful = 1 person
- bright = 1 person
- friends = 1 person
- music = 4 people
- sing = 2 people
- along = 1 person
- coco pops = 2 people
- drink = 3 people
- miley cyrus = 1 person
- smile = 1 person
- words = 1 person
- bubbles = 1 person
- friends = 2 people
- fashion = 1 person
- teenagers = 1 person
- artists = 1 person
- cheesy = 1 person

conclusion: gathering my results I have found that girls and pink have come in the top words with 5 votes each. the next most popular word is boys. this had a total of four votes. by doing this question I had discovered what words my title could include. And what what words to leave out of the title.

7. who is your favourite pop singer or pop band?
- chipmunk = 1 person
- N Dubz = 2 people
- Taylor swift = 3 people
- pussycat dolls = 1 person
- miley cyrus = 1 person
- usher = 1 person
- alexandra burke = 1 person
- jonas brothers = 1 person
- JLS = 1 person
- samantha mumba = 1 person
- basshinter = 1 person
- cheryl cole = 1 person
- beyonce = 1 person
- mcfly = 1 person
- avril lavigne = 1 person
- none acceptable = 1 person

conclusion: By gathering the information on the pop artists that my audience likes Taylor Swift the most, although as I only done 19 people I hadn't had many artists to choose from. from doing this question I had discovered who I could have interviewed or do my double page spread, on.

8. what is your favourite colour?
- pink = 4 people
- blue = 5 people
- orange = 2 people
- yellow = 3 people
- purple = 5 people
- black = 1 person
- white = 0 people

conclusion: by this question I have gathered that the favourite colour out of pink, blue, orange, yellow, purple, black, white was the colour blue and purple. The colour blue got five votes and the colour purple also got five votes. The second favourite was the colour pink. By doing this questionnaire I have worked out that more people would buy my magazine if the main colours where either blue or purple or even a mixture of the two.

9. do you prefer bands or solo artists?
- bands = 9 people
- solo artists = 10 people

conclusion: The most popular between solo artists and bands are the solo artists. This has given me more of am idea as to what the main image could be. As it has come up with the fact that solo artists are more popular it is more of an option to use a solo artist as my main images on my front cover.

10. do you like receiving a free gift with your magazine?
- yes = 19 people
- no = 0 people

conclusion: every person that I had given my questionnaire to had said that they would like to receive a free gift with there magazine, this told me that I should try and include a free gift with my magazine.

11. how much are you willing to pay for a magazine?
- £1.50 = 0 people
- £2.00 = 1 person
- £2.50 = 3 people
- £3.00 = 6 people
- £3.50 = 6 people
- other = 3 people

conclusion: Judging from the results that I have gathered I have found out that the average price that someone will pay for a magazine is £ 3.00 or £3.50, this is telling me that I can use one of these prices as my price for my pop magazine.

12. do you visit the magazine website?
- yes = 12 people
- no = 7 people

conclusion: This question shows that over half of the people who I gave my questionnaire in to, do visit the websites of the magazine. this tells me that I can put a website onto my front cover and contents page and maybe on my double page spread.

13. would you subscribe to the magazine?
- yes = 11 people
- no = 8 people

conclusion: this question has told me and let me know that I would be able to put subscription details onto the front cover of my magazine and my contents page. I can do this as more people told me that they would subscribe to to the magazine with eleven votes to yes. Only eight people said that they would not subscribe to the magazine.

14. would you buy a new magazine that was new to the market?
- yes = 14 people
- no = 4 people
- maybe = 1 person

conclusion: I will feel more confident if my magazine went on the market as fourteen out of nineteen people said that they would have bought a new magazine if it went on the market. There was only four people who said that they wouldn't buy a new magazine if it was put onto the market.

Main Task - Task 7

Questionnaire

1. . How old are you? {please circle}

10-15 16-21 21-27 other_________ prefer not to say -

2. What gender are you? {please circle}

Male female

3. Do you buy music magazines? {please circle}

Yes No sometimes

4. If yes how often do you buy them {please circle}

Monthly seasonally weekly fortnightly

5. What genre of magazine do you buy the most? {please circle}

Indie pop rock country other ________________

6. What words do you think of when I say the word pop?

_______________, _______________, ________________

7. Who is you favourite pop singer or band?

_______________ _______________

8. What is your favourite colour {please circle}

Pink blue orange yellow purple black white

9. Do you prefer bands or solo artists {please circle}

Bands solo artists

10. Do you like receiving a free gift with a magazine {please circle}

Yes No

11. How much are you willing to pay for a music magazine {please circle}

£1.50 £2.00 £2.50 £3.00 £3.50 other_______________

12. Do you visit the magazine websites {please circle}

Yes No

13. Would you subscribe to a magazine {please circle}

Yes No

14. Would you buy a new magazine that was new to the market {please circle}

Yes No

here is video's of Nikki McCrory and Valerie Rivett answering my questionaire

Main Task - Task Six

Codes and conventions of a double page spread:
-drop quotes (attention)
-begining is short like a little summeray - standfirst
-First letter us usually larger than the rest of the other text
-Large image
-strapline
-limited use of colour
-headline - eyecatching
-names are artists highlighted
-generally there is a picture of the editor
-skyline
-text in columns
-page numbers
-title of article and magazine

Main Task - Task Five

Codes and conventions of my genre of magazine pop is
-bright colours
-original writing
-images supporting the writing
-details about the free gift you may receive
-edtitors letter
-picture of the editor

Main Task - Task Four

By gathering information from my research with analysing front cover and content pages of a contents page i have come to the conclusions
Front cover :-
-original masthead
-main picture
-anchoring images
-barcode
-price
-frequancy oof publication
-issue number
-bold writing
-picture is always having eye contact
-website
-subscription details
-tagline
contents page:-
-Picture dominates it.
-Set out in columns.
-Split into three columns.
-Normally an editor’s letter.
-Have little images to display what they are showing.
-There is a page number before the story.
-Have a website.
-Titles are normally in bold.
-Page numbers are a different colour to the stories.
-Have contact details and address.
-Always have an ‘every week’ column.
-List of people involved.
-Usually two pages.
-Line gap between each section.
-Subscription details.
-Type size 11pt.
-Credits for front picture.
-Pictures are different sizes and have numbers on them which anchor them to be written in contents.
-Regular contents have a page number.
-Issue number.
-Sections for example fashion.
-One main picture in some magazines.
-Always have bright colours.

Main Task- Task Three

Using the results of my research i have come to the conclusions that my magazine:-
*Price:
-£2.50
*Frequancy of publication:
-Monthly
*adverage issue size:
-150-200 pages
*Regular Content:
- Tips
- Gotcha'
- Exposed
- Reviews
- Quizzes
- This months must haves
- Toppin' the charts
- Real Life stories
- Top 10 concerts
- That did not just happen
- Popstars speak
- Readers reviews
*Feature articles-
- Interview with X-Factors heart-throb Lloyd Daniels
- MTV award styles
- Behind the scenes of Miley Cyrus's new pop video 'Party in the USA'
- Taylor Swift is truly fearless
- Backstage with Beyonce
- Pop around the clock
- Watts going on
- Cheryl Cole
- Lady Sov
- WIN!
- Girls aloud?
- Are Busted really busted?
- Who will win the battle of the rock chicks?
- Mariah Carey
- Kylie Monogue
- Paris Hilton

Main Task - Task Two

Q Magazine
-Price - £3.90
-Frequancy of publication - Monthly
-Issue size - 150/200 pages
-Regualar content - access all areas, soap box, new to Q, Q hero, my record collection, cash for questions, around with..., Q50, Q quiz, last request.
-Feature articles - sting, green day, pop babylon, the 50 gigs you must see.
Kerrang
-Price - £2.30
-Frequancy of publication- monthly
-Issue size - 150/200 pages
-Regular content - feedback, news, live reveiws, K!icons, album reveiws, gigs, famous last words.
-Feature articles - Billy Clyro, cradle of filth, The bronx, fall out boy, civet, against me!, taste of chaos, kill hannah, hinder, lordi, bullet for the valentine.
Rock Sound
-Price - £3.80
-Frequancy of publication - monthly
-Issue size- 180-250 pages
-Regualar content - round up, Cory Taylor (8's) column, music with attitude CD, the agnoy scene, midasuno, smash and grab, bleeding through, rsvp.
-Feature articles - towers of london, 65daysofstatic, Judas preist, Mix master mike, jesu, cursed, open hand, the explosion, the AKAs, reflux, agent blue, mastodon, the feature, hot water music, failure, tokio dragons, eggsy (goldie lookin chain)
Top of the tops
-Price - £1.80
-frequancy of publication - monthly
-issue size - 100-150 pages
-regular content - posters, sing it with songwords, ringtones, singles, letters 'Ave Em', popstars, oops!, backchat, charts, albums have you heard, backstage, gossip.
-feature articles - your mutha wouldn't like it, david sneddon has an eyeful, pop therapy- James Busted, La vid shoot shenanigans with abs, kelly rowland splits the good from the bad, movers and shakers.

Main Task- Task One

The genre of muy magazine is going to be pop. The genre of the people that are going to be buying the magazine are going to be girls. This is becuase boys are not very likely to be buying pop magazines. The age that my target audience is going to be is ages 8-16. I have chosen this age as it is the age where most girls buy magazines.

Evaluation

In this evaluation i am going to talk about the problems that i encountered when coming to do my front cover and contents page of my school magazine. I am also going to be explaining how my magazine challenges and develops forms of real magazines and media products accoring to the codes and conventions.
There where many problems that i encounted from when i had to take my pictures until i was uploading my blog. The problems that i had to overcome when i was taking my pictures where that i hadnt planned all of my mise-en-scene out right. And also that because i wanted a 'New teacher' on the front cover of my magazine, but there wasnt many teachers that was willing to pose to be a new teacher on the front of my magazine. In the end i got a mathematics teacher to do it for me. Also when i came to uploadf pictures onto the blog neither the workplaces at home or at school would let me upload pictures. I could not overcome this as i had tried many times and each time would not let me.
My front cover had folowed the codes and contentions exept it didnt have a tag line. This was as i hadnt have time to think of one. As far as the contents page goes i have followed all of there codes and conventions besides the fact that the titles are in bold and i dint do that as i didnt remember to.
The media technology that i used where Quark express and Adobe Photoshop. Quark express was a brand new software for me to use, so it took me alot longer to get used to it. It took me longer to use Quark express than Adobe Photoshop.
The strengths of my media product are;
-The contents page doesnt have many images on so therefore there is more writing on it so it is more full and i have more content.
-The colour scheme was ironic as i chose blue and the name of the magazine is 'Cool Classrooms' and the connotations of Cool is blue.
The weaknesses of my media product are;
-The colour of the background as it is purple and it was just a colour chosen at random because it contasted with the light colour for my anchoring text.

Contents Page & Front Cover!

My Front Cover- finishing touches

Today i made the finishing touches to my front cover. During my time doing that i had to change the colour of my background to a more purified blue. I also had to change the colour of my shadow behind my writing saying Cool Classrooms.
This made a major improvement to what it was when i began doing the production.
I changed these things as i wanted to make it look more apealing towards my target audience.

front cover

To do our front cover we had to use the software Adobe Photoshop. This required skills that we had been taught from year ten and year eleven. To complete our front cover it took me around about one week. After we had completed our front cover we needed to complete a contents page. The contents page will be produced in Quark express.

Pliminary Sketches

Front cover and contents Page sketches!

Taking Photos

After we had done all of our theory work, we had to start taking photographs.
we had done a draft of our front cover and of our contents page. Then we made a list of all of the images that we needed to take.
Then the next lesson after the teachers had checked oour front cover and contents page we went and booked a camera out and took our pictures.
It took me two lessons to take my pictures as i had to get some teachers in my pictures so i have some pictures more difficult to take.
After i had taken the pictures i needed to upload them onto the computer, and give them names.

camera angle practise shots

During doing our theory we had a experiment and took some canera angle shots and, put caption with in on Microsoft word. Doing this enabled us to understand the differant shots and use them throughout our work. During doing our practise shots neither the work stations at home or at school would not let me upload the pictures to blogger.com.

Codes and Conventions.

Before we started to design our magazine for our school magazine we looked at the codes and conventions of a typical magazine. We worked in groups, we had examples of Contents page and we analysed them.The codes and conventions we came up with where:
contents page:
-Picture dominates it
-Set out in columns
-Editors letter
-Have little images
-Page number before story
-Website
-Titles in bold
-Contact number and address
-Regular content column
-Usually double page spread
-Line gap between each section
-Subcription details
-In type 11
-Issue number
-Sections
-Colour sceme
-Bright colours
Front Cover:
-Central image
-Puff
-Slogan
-Barcode
-Anchoring image
-Price
-Buzz
-Coverlines
-Title or logo
-Date
-Issue number
-Colour scheme
-Website
-Headline
-Supporting images
-Positioning statment

Task three- content

In this task i had to come up with a list of regular content that will appear in my new school magazine. I also had to come up with a list of 10 feature articles which will appear in my magazine. And finally i had to list the images iwth i would use on my contents page.
The regualr content that i had come up with are:
Dates for your diary,
Letter to Mr. Dyment,
Charity news,
Letter from the editor,
Hororscopes,
Reveiws-D.V.D,
Puzzles and
Fashion.
The 10 feature articles that i had come uo with are:
Weatherhead wins,
Student sucess,
Bright lights,Big Cities,
ice radio goes live,
Reach for the stars,
New on the block,
weatherhead goes green,
One to One interveiws,
Lets get physical,
Cooking up a treat.
The images that i have used on my contents page are:
Mr Dyment,
Food for cooking up a treat,
Teacher and a student,
A person with results,
a person with a trophy jumping and
A student in the ice radio room broadcasting,

Title name, and details

For this task i needed to create a title, where i am going to have all of my mise-en-scene for the front cover of my magazine and the coverlines for my magazine.
The name that i chose to use for my magazine is 'Cool Classrooms'. I had chose this by thinking of all of the words that would assosiate to school and then i made the name up.
The mise-en-scene i have chosen to use for my front cover of my magazine is just a normal working office with the 'new' teacher smiling and looking into the camera. I have stuck with the breif and have done a medium close up of my centeral image.
The coverlines that i chose to go onto my front cover are:
Ice radio goes live,
Bright lights big cities,
student sucess,
weatherhead wins and
reach for the stars.
i have chosen to use them for my coverlines because the are short snappy and catchy.