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House style

I wish to have the main colours of the magazine as black, white and grey. The background of the magazine will be black, the writing white and any main headings or subheadings as grey.
I would like the font of the magazine to be something quite rock like and a bit edgy and obviously something that would go with the masthead.

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Reader Profile

In this photo I have used photos as a mood board to show my reader profile. I have included things I believe people that would read magazines such as Kerrang! And NME.
I have used a few bands as examples in the photo, there is a reason as to why I  have chosen each band.
I have put a photo of The  King  Blues in there because as well as being a famous and widely liked band with a rock based fan group, they are also a very political and outspoken band. To me this relates to the readers of the magazine I am intending on making. The target audience of my magazine are teenagers and younger adults; being a teenager I feel that my generation is very outspoken and political and the King  Blues are too, making them a good band to have for my Reader profile.
I have also put in some fashion and well known rock brands,  such as Abercrombie  and Fitch and Famous Stars and Straps. These are the sort of clothes that my intended and ideal reader would wear.
I have also included some modern items and sites, like a Blackberry phone and the website Tumblr. Blackberry’s have recently been taken over by the teenage generation as one of the must have phones, and Tumblr is an internet blogging site that many teenagers and young adults have signed on to, on Tumblr photos of people at gigs, people with tattoo’s and bands are posted.
For obvious reasons I have put a photo of Reading festival and a band playing, as people interested in all sorts of music, but mainly the rock genre often go to festivals and gigs.

This techinique is called the Gaussian Blur. Once you have blurred the whole photograph you have too erase the top layer of the area you would like to be in focus.

Today in media we were practicing different photoshop technique's. Here i have uploaded an image, made it black and white, and then made the skirt that the girl is wearing its original colour; this was done using the history brush.

The cover of September 2009’s NME shows that this magazine is an alternative music magazine. The front cover is very busy and this shows that there is a lot going on in the magazine, unlike that of a fashion magazine which in most cases has a very simplistic front cover. The aim of this front cover is to tell the reader about what is inside this month’s issue, the editors and cover designers have picked out what they believe to be the best and most interesting articles in the magazine and have used them as references on the cover to entice the audience.  On the left third there is the magazine’s logo, this in most magazines is put on the left third as when magazines are stacked on shelves’, it is the left third that is visible. This is also why on the bottom of the left third there is a brief list of the main bands featured in the magazine. However, the magazines main article is about “Muse”, on the cover the members of the band are featured as though they are leaning in to look at you through the magazine, again enticing the readers more; they also have their instruments behind them, as the article is about their new album, so the cover and article are more relevant to each other. The colours of the cover are black, white and red, the red creates a dangerous, rebelling and defying feel, this tie’s in with the magazines featured artists. Finally, another one of the magazines main article ‘s is about the summers festivals, any readers that are interested in or attended one of the summers festivals are automatically drawn in by the word “festival” in bold white writing just above the logo. However, for the amount of information provided on the front cover, there is not a lot of writing. It is mainly listed bands, and the main headings of the featured articles.

The contents page of the September issue uses the same colour scheme as the front cover, and also includes the NME logo. Similarly to the cover it also lists the bands mentioned in the magazine, however unlike the front cover, they are listed in alphabetical order and going down the page where the left third would be on the cover; where as the cover has 4 bands listed and they are also split into two different colours. The font style is also the same as in the front cover, the headings and sections of the magazine are typed out in white capitals inside black blocks.

Analysis of a front cover

Kerrang! Magazine.

Genre
The genre of this magazine is rock music, and therefore uses the main feature as a band who is percieved to be involved with the rock genre.

Audience
The audience for this magazine are people who are interested in rock bands. You can prove this by looking at the bands featured in this magazine as they are all involved with the rock genre.

Colours
The 3 main colours for this magazine are red, black and white. This is to attract attention of the intended audience, and gives the magazine a "rock" look; this is done by a smashing of glass effect showing the "naughtiness" of this mgazine.

Text
The text in this magazine is given a "rough" look, and is in black white or gold, this is again, to attract the audience. The text is bold and stands out in the magazine. Also, the magazine name is the same in every issue, and uses a "just been smashed" look to send out the feeling of defiance.