Analysis of Music press Images

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How does your Images reprsent particular social groups?

While taking these images I needed to remember who these images where aimed at therefore I felt that I needed to ensure that my Target audience felt included in these image's. In these images I had to represent the older generation of teenage girls and women who are in there mid 20'S. Girls and women at this age are very much into fashion, beauty, family and friends, therefore I felt that is was necessary to ensure that these images caught the interest that the targeted audience can relate to. In Many pictures I wanted to portray  women having fun therefore in most images the artist is smiling and I believe this portrays all women in a positive light. As a social group I believe my images are more for the women social group and this is because my images symbolise the interest and representation of women in all photos.

 As well as portraying women in the images, teenage girls are seen in the "youth social group". With youth having a bad stereotype that is mostly portrayed by the media and the older generation I wanted to ensure that none of the images portrayed youth in a negative way therefore I wanted all my images  to break stereotypes of the youth. I think I portrayed this in many ways. Firstly all my images are of an artist having fun and just being happy with her-self. My photos also break stereotypes because is some images the artist is looking away or closing her eyes. Most of the older generation view the younger generation of being over confident and displaying there views and opinion in a wrong manner, however these images break stereotypes because these images view a young girl who is looking away which portrays her as shy and this shows her innocence. This breaks stereotypes because it shows that not all young teens are over confident because some are shy to display who they really are. Therefore I feel that my images do portray women in a positive light while breaking the stereotypes of the young youth of today's society.


I think it is important to break stereotypes as it is unfair to judge every different social group in the same image. By fitting the younger and older generation into each different social group gives away everyone's individuality as every generation is seen as the "same" type of person. By the media oftenly referring to the younger generation as "a joke to society" I think they forgot that there the generation that raised this generation.  I do believe that my images break stereotypes and allows individuals to be who they really are and I believe that this creates a new positive light which represents the younger generation of today's society.  

Images For My Music Press magazine

For my music press Magazine, I had to take different photos that I would use in my magazine. I took a range of different shot angle and changed the effects on most photos to add a different feel and appeal to each photo to make each photo stand out individually and make its own statement. Here where the images I took:

Organisational of Photoshoot: 

I took my images of a Friend, therefore we had to organise many things about the photoshoot:

Time

Place

What they would wear

Make up that would be used

Therefore to ensure that the photoshoot went to plan we had to organise it well to ensure that we get as many shots as possible that would be used in my magazine.  I told my Friend to come to my house at 12.00 on a Saturday, as we were taking the photos in different locations in my house. The locations which were being used in my house were against different walls as I liked the colour of the wall therefore it could be used a background.  To make the photo shoot run more smoothly, before my Friend came, I organised the cloths which I wanted her to wear, I had also set up the make-up I would be using. When my Friend came, she was late as she arrived at my house at 2.00pm. This made us lose time as I wanted to be finished by 4.00pm. But when she came she went straight into hair and make-up and then she got changed. We then took many images against different coloured walls in my house. When I took about 2o images I then loaded them onto my computer, were we looked at them and decided which ones I wanted to use. When we choose the ones I wanted to use, I then went on to edit them. I liked the photo's I chose as they represent the artist and my magazine clearly.

Flat Plan of Front cover and Contents Page

To create am over-view of what I want my magazine to look like, I have designed 2 different flat plans for both the front cover and Contents page. I create both flat plans on white paper, then scanned them though to the computer to uploaded the flat plans onto my blog.


My front cover flat plan has a variety of different design techniques that I used. I firstly designed a masthead which is suited at the top of my magazine. This font is bold and attracts the audience to the magazine. The bold font makes the magazine stand out more from other music magazines as the font is very individual.  The font also had a slight pink colouring so that it attracts the target audience as most women like PINK as it is their favourite colour. The additional features around the main image make the magazine look interesting because alot of gossip is inside the magazine.


flat plan:

Ideas For masthead of Music Press Magazine

Creating a masthead for my magazine was difficult, as I wanted to ensure that I had the correct font for my magazine. I wanted a unique font that had a different appeal to it so that my magazine was not like other existing music magazines. Therefore I font 3 amazing fonts That I could use for my magazine. However, to ensure that I made the correct decision I analyze each font on how would it appeal to my Target audience. Once I analysed all 3 fonts, I came to my final decision on font number 3. I liked font number 3 for a variety of different reasons as It is very bold with the use of 2 different fonts, and I liked the fact that both fonts and kept in boxes and I found that this type of designed really worked. I feel that I picked the best font for the magazine, and attracts my target audience of teens and young women and this has lead me to believe that I have chosen a successful font.  

Mood Board for My Target Audience

As my Target Audience for my magazine is Older teens and young adults from the age of 17-23, I research what kind of things that age group would like and what would appeal to them. From researching different things I created a Mood board to show what their interests, hobbies and activities are. I carried this out based on my own knowledge and of those close to me with opinions. Ages do vary to make it a fair result. Here is my mood board:

After creating my mood board, I gathered a better understanding on what my target audience likes and whats their interest's are. From my research, I can see that my target audience are into gadgets and new technologies.I know this because a lot of older teens and young adults use there phones and computers to regularly keep in contact. A increase in social network websites such as facebook and twitter are growing in demand. This is because it is an easy and a free way to communicate with people all over the world. I can also see that my target audience are very keen in fashion and make-up as they regularly going shopping to see what the latest fashion trends are. My Target audience are also influence by different kinds of music culture such as Pop and rock as music plays a role in the target audience life and relates to their life styles.  

Over-all this mood board sums up the interests and hobbies of a teenager and young adults, as these are the gadgets and hobbies they love, therefore what type of music they listen to, and what is displayed on social network sites does influence them as they take notice of what there interest and hobbies are advertising. 

Planning for Publication

This is a brief Planning for publication on who my magazine is targeted at, and what fonts and colours that can be used in my magazine.

Front Cover Analysis Slide

My school mag power point.

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After creating my pre-lin task of creating a school magazine front cover and contents,  I had to analyze why I created my magazine to look like the final outcome and why did I use the fonts therefore I made this slide.