Unused Photographs

There where a couple of photographs that were not used for my magazine for various reasons these are two examples of unused photos and reasons why they were not used.

The First image I did not use because it was to casual to fit in my piece it seemed to generic compared to what I actually wanted for my piece although it was a good photograph I just did not think that it would fit.

The second Image just seemed extreamly disorganized I did not like this image at all as the the television was in shot and my sisters face was not in frame at all  within the piece just her hair which again wouldn't have fit my final piece.

The Audience profile for Big noise Magazine

I have Intended that for Big noise magazine the intended audience should be for anyone of any age range who enjoys Big band/jazz but the main demographic is for muscians at any age or status in terms of music.

The magazine can be aimed at a younger generations who listen to recent Jazz artists such as Jamie cullen or michael buble who want to discover more about the genre.

There is a focus on famous jazz muscians such as Louie armsrong and up and coming muscians
who have caught the audiences eye with there music.

The layout of the magazine is also clear and simple to understand which is focused on all age demographics being able to understand what is going on with the magazine.

Double Page Spread analysis

• The First Page is a large A4 image of Lady Gaga which I would assume would imstantly catch a readers attention when reading this page. The image in the picture is shown in black and white which gives the Image quite an interesting look in artistic terms.
• The Second Page is the start of what I assume is an interview with her, There is quite alot of text written on the page but it look poorley done due to there being a massive red 'L' taking up most of the page which is eye catching but distracting and poorley placed directly in the middle of the text.
• This double page spread seems to be poorley layed out having an image placed directly over the text for example.

Contents page Analysis

• The contents title looks to be quite formal in terms of font it also has quite a formal smart theme to the entire page.
• There is quite alot of text for this Contents page in quite a small font. it also looks and seems quite organized in terms of the order that everything is placed in.
•  The colours of this pieces text seem to be Orange and black which keeps the piece down to the minimum which I think works for the piece. They also related the Orange text colour to the image on the piece.
• The image of the yoyo again is very simplistic and bland yet it still fits in, it makes the contents page look quite interesting.

Jazz magazine Analysis: Front page

•  The Magazines Title Jazz-Uk is eyecatching but the colour sceme looks extremly bland but in turn it gives the piece some piece some class due to the way that the colours are swapped around it gives the magazine a unique look
• The Background colour of Bronze/Brown looks quite Murky and uninteresting this is one of the bad points of this front cover due to the fact that there is nothing appealing or different about the colour its just boring and uninteresting.
• The musician on the front Shows that he is the main focus of the magazine he looks like he is in direct eye contact with the potential customer of the magazine.
• Below the Magazine title there is brief showing of what readers can see in the magazine for example it states NEWS,GAGS and REVIEWS.
• There are little advertisements asking the reader of the magazine to subscibe to future issues which is good for marketing.

Photograph Model and clothing choices

For my photographs I felt that given my magazine was a Jazz/Big band styled magazine I felt that the singer should have a vintage look but they should still remain in true to the more modern style of clothing which is why my sister had modeled for my magazine, to give the magazine the look that I had wanted from her.

Once the pictures were taken, I had edited them to make them fit in with the atmosphere of my magazine.

The clothing I had used for my piece, Was a Mix, for the front page and one of the double page spread photos we used quite a long vintage dress to give the classic feel the other pictures we dressed
my sister in casual clothing to give of the look that the cclothing wasn't completley bias towards the modern generation.

Barcode used for magazine

I feel using a barcode on my magazine will give it a sense of realisim
in terms of that it shows that it is a product which can be sold in newsagents
and supermarkets.

I feel though something needs to be removed from the front cover of my piece to
fit in the barcode, due to fact there seems to be to much unesscary text on the front
page for example the advertisement on a trip to Las vegas, this space could be used  for the barcode
on the front cover of my magazine.

Progress on piece

In the final parts of my piece I feel that my music magazine needs
to be greatly improved upon in terms of look because the piece does
not look anything like a magazine, me and my teacher Mrs Howlett look at what could
be improved upon in terms of changing the fonts on my piece and also adding more text
to the piece.

On the otherhand I feel that my piece has got the overall tone that I wanted to set for the
piece in terms of using a dark red,blacks and whites giving the magazine quite a smooth and
classy look to it. The piece will be improved upon this week to try to make it look asteticly
pleasing for my target audience.

Editing

The editing of big noise magazine will take place in the coming week
there is alot of changes to make for my magazine to look well done
in terms tone and font I also feel that there needs to be more on the contents page
other than just text.

I will begin editing in terms of how the magazine layout is organised and then
i'm going look at what needs to be improved on the other pages of my final
piece work.

Advantanges and disadvantages of my draft copy

Advantages:
- I have layout for my final piece
-Tone, colour and font match the feel of my magazine
- it closley resembles what I originally had in mind for my magazine

Disadvantages:
- To much text
-  The whole piece at the moment looks extreamly dull and uninteresting
- More detail needs to be added to the overall piece in terms of backround
and photograths

Overall I think there are still some flaws that could be improved upon with my
piece the make it more exciting.

Audience profile

The age range i'm targeting is late twenties onwards but the content of the magazine can
apply to a anyone who likes jazz/big-band music. The gender my magazine is aimed at is
both male and female audiences who are fand of jazz music.The musicial tastes of this
magazine range mostly around Jazz/Swing but it can sometimes apply to genres of music
such as rock and roll.In terms of other interests, they can variey from, music/videogames/dvds
/books, there will be adverts relating to these interests but music adverts will be shown most
of the time.Looking at disposable income they could have a cd with a track of an artist on which
in turn could make the potential reader more likely to buy the magazine.In terms of education the
magazine talks about the history of famous jazz muscians and venues.

Big noise magazine draft

Bauer publishers for my magazine

If I was to go to a publisher, I would go to Bauer publishing because they own quite
a large range of small un-well known brands and quite well known brands, the other reason
I would Bauer is because they quite a large fous on music magazines they also have some focus
on radio which is good reason to join because it would allow oppitunities for Big- noise magazine
to expand in the future.

Double page spread analysis

Todays lesson we analysised a double page spread of a music magazine these photographs are of the double page spead and my analysis.

Information on the photographs I put up/why they have been put up.

I put these photos up because these are the one which I will more than likley use for my piece, these photographs have been edited to give them a better look in terms of there quality for example brighter lighting was used to make some parts stand out.

I tried to make them look as vintage as possible but it still needed to retain that modern look so it could appeal to the wider audience who are interested the magazine in paticular

Final piece photographs

 These photos where taken 2/2/13 these where mostly taken in my house in Epping and on a day out to London.  Photos are of Holly Whitbread, posing as a Jazz singer for my magazine.

Photographs plan and draft music magazine

I have composed a draft of my music magazine and a plan of my photographs as shown in these photographs.

These were drawn on white paper although my overall work will be done in colour