Publishers

Bauer Media Group
This is the largest privately owned publishing company within Europe. It produces many different medias including magazines, radio and TV. The top magazines include Closer, Heat, Empire, kerrang and Q. Q is the closest competion to my magazine as it includes that more generalised genres or music like Q includes. All of Bauer Media Groups magazines are all aimed at the same age range which allows them to keep a theme running throughout all of the magazines. My magazine is very similar to Q, although it would only be the only serious competition as not many other magazines cover the range that both Pause and Q do. Although i feel as if mine is unique in the way that it focuses its main attention on undiscovered and up and coming artists rather than the already famous singers.
Bauer Media group is responsible for editing the magazine, making sure it is shop worthy and then advertising ang and marketing it and putting it out to the media. this publishing group must be very experienced and very good at creating magazines as it has successfully published many magazines across many different interests and genres.

Magazine Analysis

Moodboard

This picture is my moodboard. I have used different magazine covers and also album covers as well as artists to create the moodboard. The front covers I have used show both my love for rock music with Muse and also the amazing editing that I would hope to include in my magazine. I reallly like the way that the Q on Q magazine is smashed and the way the Matt bellamy is in mid swing showing the old ways of rock. I also like the red hot chilli peppers editing as it shows him as a part robot, part man which emphasises the caption of 'RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS WON'T BE KILLED!'. The background art is urban styled and features on Coldplays latest album Mylo Xyloto. I like graffiti element to the page and the way that many different things have been sprayed onto the wall and it makes Coldplays album appear more interesting. Coldplay is also one of my favourite bands along with Muse, Olly Murs, The Script, Kelly Clarkson and Christina Perri. I also like the idea of Olly Murs album art with the many different versions of him,m taking the inspiration from the three elvis's picture created by Andy Warhol.The hands on The Script's most recent album,Science and faith. The interlocking hands are the main image and that makes it a better album art as it is simple and shows of the title easily.    

Creating the magazine

I used the font Cabaret Voltaire from the website Da Font. This was an ideal font for my magazine as it showed off the title well and made it unique to the magazine and gave it a style.

The pictures which i have used comes from my own camera and i have edited them so they are black and white. i have then edited them to make the shadows and highlights contrast more to give a unusual effect.

These pictures have been edited from the originals and used on the contents page of the magazine. I used the photoshop settings to create a black border around them and then fill the background so it was red to keep in theme of my magazine.

Evaluation

Magazine cover:
My magazine is bold and stands out which is what I wanted but I also think that it is too bright and may deter people from looking at it and reading it. For my music magazine I will need to tone the colours down and make the main image in colour instead of black and white. I will also take more opictures to choose from so I am not restricted to what I can use and edit with. I will also change the style of my writing as it will need to go with the genre of the magazine as I have made the font specific to this magazine.

Magazine Contents Page:
I really like the contents page as it is simple and is bold. It also tells you topics that are in the magazine, however I think that I should include more topics compared to what I have. I also like the idea of having the pictures in a box and a number next the picture of them. As with the magazine cover I am going to make the pictures in colour as well as tone down the red or maybe even change it completely.

Overall:
As a whole it works well the theme of black, white and red was effective as it gave it a theme throughout the pages and that I liked. The style of the font and the colours I used for the font was effective as it linked well with the genre of the magazine and made it more appealing to the audience. I also liked the layout of the pages and the styling of the magazine generally. I will use a similar type of design for my music magazine but will change some key features to improve it and make it better.

Finished Cover and Contents

Magazine Cover

Magazine Contents Page

Inspiration

Colour scheme:
I have picked three colours as this is what the most popular magazines use. I have decided to use black and white as well as red is to be shown as a popular colours on any type of magazine. By only having three colours it also keeps the page simple and eye catching. 

Pictures:
All of my pictures are of my friends and they show different types of emotions that will link to the topics that I am covering in my preliminary music magazine. I wil also make the pictures black and white with a red background as this allows the colours of the magazine to stand out on the page. I have also used the idea of books and folders to link it back to the school theme. 

Layouts:
I have gathered ideas for layouts from Q and NME- music magazines- and linked them together and also changed them around so they would appear to be totally different to the magazines which I gained my ideas from.

The NME magazine cover was full of words and pictures to show what was in that issue, but i found that although it was packed with news about different artists the front of the magazine was too busy so I knew that my magazine cover would have to be less busy and more simple.

The front of Q magazine is more how I would expect a magazine to appear, busy but not overly busy. It would mean that more people are likely to look at this editipon and it is also more asthetically pleasing. The three colour scheme also works on this cover but not on NMe as that includes too much colour. The picture in the middle of the page is simple yet effective it shows of the simplicity of the photo but the editing ont the picture adds a level of finesse to the picture and the magazine cover as whole.  

The contents page is simple and easy to understand. I really like the idea of the boxes and the numbers inside the boxes and the simple headings to show a new topic to the reader. The idea as a whole is something that I would like to use on my magazine contents.