Front Cover Drawn Drafts

1) This was my first attempt at drawing my magazine. I have used the colours red mainly with blue which will be the same shade as the colour of the artists jacket.
The masthead is in the top left hand corner so it will be viewed first due to the visual syntax.
There is a pug in the top right hand corner which will attract the audience as it states the magazine includes a free manual. This is also in a good position as it fills in a space that is free due to the size of the masthead.
Under the masthead is the slogan, 'The Music You Need". This is branding of the magazine so it being near the masthead is good.
The cover lines are going down along the left hand side of the magazine. They are in a bold red colour which will stand out. There is thick blue lines in between each cover line to show the separation between them
The main image is a long shot and he is looking into the camera (even though the drawing poorly illustrates this) from a sideways stance. He is also carrying a guitar in a case to show the musical side of the photograph.
The anchorage text is also in red and is on the right hand side of the magazine, going around the outline of Conor.
There is a bar code as a magazine needs one as it will be purchased.
Also on my magazine is a twitter symbol with the magazines twitter account. This allows the magazine to be involved with the latest trends.

This is the second drawing. This uses the similar colour scheme, with red and blue. These are common colours I see through out music magazines of the indie rock genre.
I have included a pug, which is in a similar shape to a vinyl. This is a idea which allows my magazine to relate to its genre and its target audience. People who have an interest in indie rock music also commonly have an interest in vintage products, one of those being vinyls, which is also linked to music. In this pug it states the will receive a free poster inside, which is more of an incentive to buy the magazine.
All of the coverlines are on the left handside of the magazine. This gives a neat and minimal look to the magazine which I like. It makes it seem like an established magazine, which is a look I would like my magazine to have. However, it does make the right side appear to be boring, which is definitely not a look I would want.
The anchorage text is big and bold and catches the readers eyes. It uses two different colours to give a colourful, interesting look and uses different font sizes which makes it look more fun, which will appear to my youthful target audience.
The main image is a long shot, which is common within magazines. You can see his whole outfit and a prop of a guitar. This relates well to my genre and will attract my audience well.

This is my third drawing.

My masthead here is different to the two others as I wanted to see a variety, rather than using the same. It is bold stretched across the whole page which is a good look as it stands out more. The letters are big and read easily.

The bar code is places in a different place to normal, as it is usually on the top or bottom of the magazine, although, this positioning I found looks well and fits nicely, explaining the price and issue to the top and right of it.

The colours used are of a similar shade being blues and greens. This fits well to my audience as there is a slightly higher amount of males in my target audience than girls, but girls will still pick up the magazine if they're in the target audience as the colours are bright and attractive.

The pug uses the colour scheme used on the front cover. It states that their is a free gig guide inside, which will make my target audience want to get it as they are of the age range 15-24, and these could be either new comers to gigs or regular gig goers who want to know best places. 

The anchorage text is in between to lines, which makes it stand alone from the rest of the text. This is a good thing to do as it allows this to be the main text of the magazine. 

There is a banner at the bottom of the page which looks great, and is appropriate to the magazine and fits the colour scheme well. 

Blog Feedback - Research and Planning

Here is the document which my teacher has put together showing my current progress through my media coursework. It shows the different tasks in the research and planning section and clearly highlights the category of marks I received for each individual task. Overall on this section I am at an A with 17/20. This exceeds my target of a B so it shows I have done more than expected and very well in my coursework.
The document also included comments from mrs mitchell, my media teacher of what went well in my coursework and what would make my coursework even better. These comments are good as it lets me  know what my teacher thinks and I can use these points to keep my work at its high standard and allows me to know how to make my work even better.
Finally, the document has a paragraph written by me explaining how I felt personally about my work up to now in media. This is good as it allowed me to think about how I feel and what I think I am doing well and what areas I need to improve my work.

Survey Monkey Responses Analysis

These are the responses for the survey monkey questionnaire I posted previously. I posted the link for my survey on my twitter and Facebook as I know they will be viewed by target audience. I also emailed this survey link to my friends and students in my media class. This allows me to receive 33 responses and gave me clear results to help me to decided features and information needed to make my magazine to a higher standard. It also lets me to have a much more clearer understanding of my music magazines target audience such as the activities they enjoy such as watching TV/movies and listening to music. It has helped me decided a magazine price of £1.99 to ensure I receive enough sales. Survey Monkey was very helpful as research into my target audience as the analyze section allows me to view clearly as shown in the presentation I have produced with clear bar chats and tally's with both amounts and percentages. I will most likely use this technology again as I have found survey monkey to be very helpful and a great website.

Front Cover Moodboard

Magazine Layouts

These are my potential magazine layouts.
Throughout all of my layouts created, I have put the masthead in the top left hand corner. I think this is the best place for a masthead to go due to the visual syntax, it will be the first bit of text seen. It is also reinforcing the features of an indie-rock magazine as all the others also have their masthead in this corner such as NME and Q.
The shape for my pug/puff is going to be a circle. That way, I can design it to look like a vinyl. This will be a good feature to my magazine as even though a record player is an old fashioned device, many of my target audience have these products as they are interested in 'vintage' products. As well as it being vintage style, it is music related, so that is further adding to the characteristics of my music magazine.
I want the font of my anchorage text to be larger that the font of my cover lines. This is because the anchorage text is related to the main image so it is more important and it is also the main headline of the magazine. Because of that, it has to be easily seen as it will be the story which will attract the audience the most.
I like the look of cover lines being on the sides of the magazine. I think this looks very professional and allows it to be easily read. In one of my designs, I have put cover lines going across the bottom, this could look good but depending on the type of photo I use this may hide important features of the photo. I would also prefer my anchorage text to be placed here.
I also have featured a slogan. These are usually linked to the masthead, so I have mainly placed it above or below the masthead. In one case it is placed at the bottom of the magazine. I think this would be better if my slogan was a longer phrase.

Survey Monkey

I have made another survey using the website SurveyMonkey. This survey is to ask questions to my target audience such as their age, hobbies and what designs they like best. I have used survey monkey as my way of making this survey as it is quick, easy to use and easy to share to as many people as I like. However, surveymonkey limits me to 10 questions per survey which I view as a negative as it dosen't allow me to ask as many question as I may find necessary, Although, this can be easily over come by making several surveys.

Here is the link for my survey:

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I have tweeted this link on my twitter page and posted it onto my Facebook page. Here, my target audience will be able to find the link and answer the questions allow to have a further understanding on my target audeince such as their hobbies and the price range. I will also be able to identify which styles of front cover page, contents page and double page spread they like the most. When I receive a reasonable amount of responses, I will analyse the results to help me go on to design my own indie- rock magazine