My first question was 'What type of name do you think would be good for a country genre music magazine'. For this question i didn't give any options i asked the public to write down their own thoughts on what type of name i could have. everyone whom answered gave an answer for this question but took the longest as they had to really think about a name for the magazine and not just easily tick a box and move on.
The last time I did a questionnaire i placed a lot of open questions, this resulted in some of the public skipping questions as they didn't know what answers to put and also said that it was time consuming. this was the main reason that i only chose to put one open question in the whole of my questionnaire.
As i had many different answers for my question one i have chosen three that i like the best and I am going to choose between them.
1- Songs of the Country
This was one of the first name suggestions that I got from my questionnaires and I have to say that I do like this name very much. By using the play on words of 'songs from the country' by using the words 'of' instead it shows a difference in the two of them. My having the words 'songs' and 'country' it immediately shows off that the magazine is about music and is aiming all of its content on the genre of country music. While it is the longest name I had out of all the names i got back from the questionnaires it would stand well on top of the magazine because of the fact that the last two words are long however the two located in the middle meaning that it will give a good amount of room for the master header.
2-Hayday Magazine
This was the second example of a magazine name which was put forward on my questionnaire when asked. It shows off the traditional type of country theme by having the word 'hayday' in it, as hayday is normally associated with old time country music and country people. It also bring forward the image of old type of music and is there is mix the traditional theme of country music with hayday, which means the old times, and the new modern time by having the word 'magazine' in the title. However by having the word magazine it means that while it is showing that I couldn't think of another word in the magazine or just wanted to end the title of the magazine quickly.
3-Guitar Weekly
This magazine name was one of the last names that I got from my questionnaires, there are many points to why I should and shouldn't have this name. For example by having the word 'weekly' it tells the audience how many times a month it comes out so that the audience don't have to either look around the magazine to find out when the next one if coming out or having to ask staff if they know because the answer is in the title. Another reason I like this title is because of the fact that it is only two words and they are both short making it easy for me to give it a correct amount of space on the master head rather than it not having enough room at all. While I say all of this there is one thing about this magazine title that I would think as being a negative. This is the word 'guitar', as it is the first word it is what people will think is in the magazine, for example they could think that the magazine is not about country music at all but about guitars and only shows guitars rather than the genre country music.
After much thought i have chosen to call my magazine 'Songs of the Country'. The reason for this is because it has a slight twist in the name as i have mentioned before and I think that it will be the best name to connect to my audience and the type of music that i plan to show in my magazine.
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Annotations for 2 page spread
I have chosen to annotate two 2 page spreads to give some exmaples of what type of images, text and captions I could include on my 2 page spread.
Contents page annotations
As I am going to be creating a contents page for my music magazine I have chosen to annotate a few examples so that i know what type of structuer to go by and also I could take a few examples from the other examples.
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
My Questionaire for my Music Magazine!
The reason for why I have chosen to do a
questionnaire for my music magazine research is because of the fact that I find
it a good way to get the certain type of data that I need and want. For example
by asking the public what they would like in the magazine itself they can see
that I am trying to aim my magazine at what the public want in the magazine and
what they would expect in the magazine as well. As some of the people whom took
the questionnaire do read country genre magazines it gave me some idea of what
they really think about country music. However as some of the people who took
it gave me a chance to see what people expect from country music magazines and
what they would like to see.
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Why American Media Inc???
The main publisher for country magazines is American Media Inc. This is one of the most popular American magazine publishers and publishes many other types of magazines next to Country Weekly. Some examples of the other magazines that they publish are; ‘Playboy’, ‘Fit Pregnancy’ and ‘Soap Digest’.
The reason I have chosen to have this publisher as the publisher for my magazine is because of the fact that it is a very popular publisher company. It is the publisher for all well-known American magazines and as country music is very big in America I thought it would be a good to link those two together.
Friday, 16 November 2012
My genera magazine covers
As you can see I have chosen two
different magazines from my music genre of country music. Both magazines are
USA based and mainly sold in the USA with the exception of a few, these
magazines have both been running for a very long time and have given me some
ideas for what type of articles I should display on my own magazine and how I
could set out my own magazine cover. For example I have seen that I could
either display my image as a whole background image or just off to the side
with the text on the other side of the cover. Both magazines have good and bad
points and I know that I have to take all of these points on board when
creating my own magazine.
Mood Board
This is my mood board which I have created for my Country genre. All of these images which I have placed on my board are images which I associate with the them of country and country music. I have placed a mix of artists, magazine covers, backgrounds, and just items that I think of when I hear country music.
The reason that I chose these in particular pictures was because of the fact that they show off the traditional and contemporary side of country music.
For example I have chosen to place the images of Luke Bryan and Brad Paisley near each other for the reason that they show off the traditional country man singer theme with the modern younger male country singer as well. The image of Brad shows the traditional image of a country singer through mise en scene by displaying him wearing a cowboy hat all the time, however he is taking on the modern side of country music by swapping the traditional acoustic guitar for the electric guitar. His clothes are also very natural and show that he doesn't want to wear anything big with bling on by goes for the more natural side.
Meanwhile Luke is younger than Brad and shows by going for the more contemporary side of country music through mise en scene. He wears a base ball hat to represent his laid back side and supports a blue country denim shirt to show off the more farmer country feel to the music rather than the bar type country man music. The two images represent two different types of country music and how different artists can be shown. The reason for me showing these two different types of images so close to each other was because of the fact that I want to aim my magazine at the country music genre located in the middle. For example I do like the idea of the guitar but without the cowboy hat, then the idea of having a young female artist shooting a music video instead of an older man performing on a stag in front of a large audience.
On the mood board as well I have placed the large American flag, this shows off the patriotic side f country music as it started in the USA. While it isn't as popular in the UK as it is in the USA because that is where this type of music genre originated from in the first place.
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Reading articles about focus Groups.
To understand the concept of a ‘focus
group’ and how to form and keep one I read the following articles on this post
from my school’s AS Media blog, Rethinking Research.
From these 5 additional websites
and blog I have realised that I had the totally wrong concept of what a focus
group is and how to keep on. Before I through that you had to have the meeting
at least once a week every week and I had to have around 10-15 people in the
group. However this is not the case.
From reading all of this
information I have learnt I now know what I have to do.
For example I’m have chosen to now
not have my focus group meeting every week but however maybe a couple of meetings
with them at the begging of the course and a few after I have created my
finished magazine. The first meeting which I will have with the group I would
like to fill in my questionnaire as well so that I get a true feel on what type
of music they like and how they think of the music magazine industry at the
moment. I would like to discuss with them about the type of questions I have
asked and for why they have put certain answers as well as talking about some
of the other answers I have got from others whom have answered the questions. I
would also like to discuss with them about the images of my model, I will then
ask the group which images they like and don’t like and then get them to say
why they don’t like certain images and as a group to pick some images for my
final photos to place on and in my magazine.
I now also know what location I should
have for when we are having out group meeting. This room will have a computer
with an interactive screen in front of the room so that I have easy access to
showing the group members some examples of images that I want them to discuss
along with any other information I want them to look at and discuss. I will
also have to make sure that the room I pick is free for the time slot that I want
along with it having a good seating layout so that I can arrange the seats into
a U- shape so that all group members can see the screen at the front of the
room along with all seeing each other so everyone can talk to each other easily.
Monday, 12 November 2012
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
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