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Introduction

I am A-level student that is studying media studies in a sixth from college called Christ Of King. I have previously finished a stage of my project and I did college magazine of front cover and content page. Doing this, I have decided to expand my latest skill and knowledge at my final stage of creating a music magazine. Throughout my progress of the college magazine, I have learnt how research  is important because it would help you break out the ideas easily by knowing the positive and negative and also it can help by collecting their views then transform it through your final piece. So I would use the social network collect information from primary research and this mainly by giving question to people at Facebook (   ). Also through the questionnaire, I would be able to do survey presentation of my target audience views on music and magazine. It is useful web because it is non private site that anyone can use to transport information to any issues and also it is the latest research in modern society.....

 In the music magazine, I would have to feature a front cover, content page and double spread.  It requires key information to produce a music magazine. So I decided to analyse existing magazine that has a similar idea and audience to my own magazine. Also it would allow me have detail information on the front cover and double page spread of music magazine.  ....... Although I am working on a new project, I will develop new experience to achieve a double spread of my music magazine. For the moment, I don’t have any kind of knowledge of creating this certain aspect for magazine, but I would do extra recourses to gain me through my progress of final stage. In spite of this, I may use original magazine pages to help me know how certain feature can give the possibility of creating attraction. Also I would be taken would be in much detail so I would using a case studying of a Publishing Housing.

 Alternatively, I will move unto the development stage of taking non-manipulated photos for the three feature of my music photo (front cover, content page and double spread). At that point, I would ready though of a particular location/event and main theme of the photo that would translate a story through the various photographs. But at this cirsturms, I would unable to feature a celebrity due to the lack of funding.  After choosing the images, I would plan out a prototype of my music magazine and this is by drafting a minimum of five examples that would show the page layouts of the front cover, content and double spread pages. This would help me create my own final design on Photoshop and be an opportunity to take down my previous experience and put it to action. To finally complete the stages, I would to do final evaluation to express and describe the overall presentation of my music magazine. 

As I am making my own music magazine, the music genre would be R& B, hip hop and the appropriate audience for this particular genre is 19 to 25 years old that is based on both gender. I would have to make sure that these key things would come across on my magazine and this is by choosing the right music artist to represent the main audience, using type of design feature to show the age group and include cover lines to be suitable for both genders. At this particular music genre that I have chosen, it is normally shown that an existing music artist should be featured or shown on a front cover of music magazine. But as I don’t have the requirement of having celebrity model, I may create my own existing signer or go to music events and takes several of photo images for my primary research......

 I wanted to aim my music magazine to young people because they are the generation of creating new music that is inspiring to the public eye. Example, ‘N-Burz’ is three young members that are aged between same as my target audience. They have created street rap music that involves R&B, Rock and other genre to be appeal to any age, nationality, ethics and gender. Also most music magazine is normally based for male adult as the uses of customs on female artist are attractive and kind of sex appealing to men. Example: Rolling stone feature Christian Angelina wore a sailor custom which gives a fantasy feeling on men minds.  

Hopefully, I would complete the development of creating my own magazine and learn and gain experiences that my help me on the next project at media studies. Also the final stage of finish the magazine project would help me see how certain features are appropriate for campaign of promotion and the key stages of production. 

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music textual analysis

music textual analysis

Textual Analysis of Music Magazine of Rolling stone- 800 words

Masthead

The Masthead is mostly covered by the size of the photography which empowers Amy Warehouse’s status and the denotation to the body language connotes the unimportance of the main title, ‘Rolling Stone’. Also this unusual change was purposefully done to create a statement to the audience and continues a trend that they use to empower the celebrity status. In addition, ‘Rolling stone’ is universal title which is well known to public eye so main image can cover most of the masthead.   The master head uses a Serif front, the first letter of each word is not joined but the rest of lower case letter are joined together, and this connotes old fashion tradition. The Rolling stone Masthead has a distractive look: blue with white lining and a black backdrop. The magazine cover has masculine colours (black, red and light blue) to portray their target audience and these are British men, aged between 25 and 40. Also the masthead has rock n roll theme that is historically dominated by a male audience. Although featuring a female celebrity can change the perspective to a female position, the magazine still appeal to mostly male audience. 

Main image 

The magazine cover features a colour photograph of a female music celebrity, ‘Amy Winehouse’ directly looking upwards to face the audience eye to eye. Also it is a medium close up shot with a steady camera angle. As the magazine is music based, her tattoo represent the independence of her music career and also the image of females on her arms shows she find them inspirational because there are independent and provocative women who made big choices to be their own individual.

Costume:

The model, Amy Wine house wears a low-cut black vest as the main costume; her blue bra strap is also visible. Her pose imitates the tattoo image being suggestive and alluring. Even though the costume wasn’t carefully picked her cleavage is clearly shown and its look sexually appealing to the male target audience. Amy’s costume shows how the magazine, ‘Rolling Stone’ kept their tradition of using female celebrities to be their attraction for the male audience. Amy has a 60’s beehive hairstyle which full up most of the front cover and her simple make up is shows her usual characteristic style, example, the black eye liner flicks backwards from her eye lid.

Lighting:

On Amy’s face, the high key lighting complements the air brush effects by creating a smooth and healthy skin tone on her face making it look believable but can be contradicted with paparazzi shots of her without make up.  Also the glowing skin tone may be designed to introduce Amy as a new person that is ready to reveal her secret past.

NVC:

The camera angle directly focus on the male traits (tattoo) to convie..... However her facial expression define the demure gaze that can mislead the audience by  head position . Also the tattoo sigifnal her interest of the 1960’s tattoo style and that shows her independane and also her feminine side though the non verbal communication.  Also the chosen the model relates to the title because.... body pouser shows lanziness. Also the model represents the target audience because...... The pose …..

Setting:

Main Coverlines                                  

The magazine cover has three separate cover line that has completely different propose. The main cover line, ‘The diva and her demons’ gives an summary towards Amy Winehouse life. Also the main cover line refers to her successful career as ‘The diva’ but she is mostly known by her history of drug alcohol and bad relationship and this is known as ‘her demons’. The main image making statememnt by revealing her hiddern sercect to the plubic also adverting  herself by showing new person.......... All of the cover line use a serif front, connoting tradition also the short quotation is coloured in red which connote danger, evil and blood. This have relate to Amy Warehouse’s history has several records of asscult.......

The magazine features Amy Warehouse to be their front cover, she is know by her famous music, ‘rehad’ but she is mostly attracted by her past of drug addiction and court cases. The cover line, ‘’the diva and her demons’ summarys her life as it shows and secret revaletion towards the audience.  Also the cover line is

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. ‘’Summer tours’ has link to the adult life of the target audience. .........

Target Audience:

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