Flat Plans

Here are some rough sketches of what I would like for my front cover, contents page and my double page spread. The sketches show Where the text will go, and where the images will go, layout etc.

Front Cover:

Contents Page:

Double Page Spread:

Shots I might use...

I have drawn some shots of what I might use for my front cover, contents page and dps.
There are two images for each section...

Editorial Profile

This is my editorial profile, explaining the purpose of the magazine, and the benefits to the people who buy the magazine.

This is a questionnaire I designed, that I sent out to my target audience, the results of this, will help me to plan what will be best for my music magazine  Questionnaire

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Risk Assesment

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This is my risk assessment for my photoshoot, I will be taking the photos in a room, most probably a classroom, so I have listed all the possible risks, and their solutions.

Magazine Deconstructions

Magazine Deconstructions

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Advantages and Disadvantages of a questionnaire

A questionnaire can be a very helpful way of getting real peoples opinions on your ideas.
However one of the disadvantages is that although you are putting in options you have chosen, you could have a particular vision for your magazine which might not be voted the favourite option, therefore meaning you would have to compromise to go with the most popular vote.
Also, another disadvantage with a questionnaire is that the people who fill it in, may not be filling it in with valid information, for example, they could fill in an answer for a joke, which would mess up the final result of the questionnaire.
With all these disadvantages, it is still a very good way of researching peoples opinions, without you having to guess what they might like. Most of the time, it is accurate, and reliable information that you can use to adapt and use to make your magazine interesting for the target audience.

Research

Montage

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This is a montage I did, showing my favourite parts of different music magazines that are around at the moment, gathering a collection of these examples will help a lot to decide what to do with my magazine.

These are the results of the most important questions on my questionnaire that I did. The results show the favourite name for the magazine, the artists and colours as well. This information will help a lot when it comes to deciding certain parts of my magazine. 

Results Of Questionnaire

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Customer Profile

This is Louise Wilson, she is a 18 year old student from the UK and enjoys listening to Dance and Electropop music. In her spare time, Louise enjoys visiting friends, and going shopping, she also likes going to gigs, and regularly follows her favourite artists which range from Basement Jaxx to Lady Gaga. She also downloads a lot of music from Itunes.
Louise also regularly buys music magazines, however she feels there aren't enough magazines representing the genre she likes best.
She says she likes to be given a free gift with the magazine, like a free download or poster, as it makes it worth the price.

Audience Theory

Hypodermic Needle Theory - The belief that people receive information directly without any intervening variable, as in a vacuum

Two Step Flow Theory - Marketing strategy based on the theory that non-personalmarketing messages are first passed to an opinion leaderbefore being passed to the individual consumer.Organizations who believe this theory base their marketing strategy on reaching the opinion leaders instead of the individual consumer.

Uses & Gratification Theory - An active audience theory that focuses on ‘what people do with the media’ rather than what the media does to people, arguing that audiences are free to pick and choose from a wide range of media products to satisfy their own needs.

Audience Reception Theory - Reception theory is a version of reader response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text. It is more generally called audience receptionin the analysis of communications models. In literary studies, reception theory originated from the work of Hans-Robert Jauss in the late 1960s. It was most influential during the 1970s and early 1980s in Germany and USA (Fortier 132), amongst some notable work in Western Europe. A form of reception theory has also been applied to the study of historiography; see Reception history (below).

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall is one of the main proponents of reception theory, having developed it for media and communication studies from the literary- and history-oriented approaches mentioned above. This approach to textual analysis focuses on the scope for "negotiation" and "opposition" on the part of the audience. This means that a "text"—be it a book, movie, or other creative work—is not simply passively accepted by the audience, but that the reader / viewer interprets the meanings of the text based on their individual cultural background and life experiences. In essence, the meaning of a text is not inherent within the text itself, but is created within the relationship between the text and the reader.

Stuart Hall also developed Hall's Theory of encoding and decoding, focusing on the communication processes at play in the televisual form.

Reception theory has since been extended to the spectators of performative events, predominantly theatre. Susan Bennett is often credited with beginning this discourse within theatre. Reception theory has also been applied to the history and analysis of landscapes, through the work of landscape historian John Dixon Hunt, motivated by recognition that the survival of gardens and landscapes is due to their public reception.