My First Wordle
    Today in my media lesson, I looked through a number of pop blogs as this is the genre I intend to aim my magazine at. I noticed that the majority of the blogs mentioned the same artists continuously, such as Justin Bieber, One Direction, Cher Lloyd. I also looked at pop magazine websites and noticed that in comparison magazines aimed at other genres such as Hip-Hop or R&B, the covers and blogs were much more lively, energetic and frisky.

Whilst looking through the website for the ‘we love pop’ magazine, I saw that the same things were being talked about in different ways. I copied a paragraph from their website and then created a ‘Wordle’ using the website ‘ http://www.wordle.net/’ ’

     

5 different Magazine Titles and their Names Signal and Connote
                           Vibe Magazine

·         Vibe magazine focuses mostly on R&B and hip-hop music.

·         'Vibe' definition: A person's emotional state or the atmosphere of a place as communicated to and felt by others: "a lot of moody people giving off bad vibes".

·         Although this is a word difficult to explain, the words meaning is basically how people feel. A vibe, in a club for example has an effect and influences peoples moods.

·         On the cover with Eminem, the title ‘Vibe’ has used a different number of colours, and it is almost like the colour is spreading, just like the vibe spreads.

·         I realised that on most ‘Vibe’ magazines covers, they have a mid-shot of an artist.

We Love Pop Magazine

The title ‘We Love Pop’ clearly tell the audience what genre the magazine is aimed at.

In comparison to other magazines such as Vibe, the cover is much more playful.

The ‘We love pop’ seems to be aimed at younger adults/teenagers and so the bright eye catching colours works well. 

The ‘We’ and ‘Pop’ is bold and black and the heart in the middle makes it more playful.

XXL Magazine

‘XXL’ generally stands for extra extra large and this could mean that the artists featured in these magazines are very dominant and imortent in the music industry.

XXL Magazine is focuses in Hip-Hop music

The title is very bold and stands out
The red background makes the white title stand out even more

The bold writing and the aggressive close-up shot could suggest that the genre is important, dominant and deserves to be noticed

Blender Magazine

I have been looking at a few of the covers and I have noticed that various different artsts have been used on the covers.  For example, Jay-z is a rapper and fergie supports pop music.

Therefore the title could hint that the magazine is aimed at all types of audiances.

In most of the covers we can see a mid-shot of the artist.

Blender generally means ‘Mix’

 

MOJO Magazine

The word originally means a charm or a spell. But now it’s more commonly said meaning sex appeal or talent.

The title could suggest that the artists featured on the cover somehow have a ‘spell’ on its audience.

Many of the covers have major artists such as Michael Jackson, Elvis…

The ‘MOJO’ title is bold and really stands out, and this could suggest that the artists featured on it are popular.
 

Types Of Research

Qualitative

1.    Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity: "a qualitative change in the curriculum". 2.    (of an adjective) Describing the quality of something in size, appearance, value, etc. Such adjectives can be submodified by words such... Normally consists of close ended question and could have multiple choice questions. E.g. How many magazines do you roughly buy a week?

Quantitative

1.    Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something. 2.    Denoting or relating to verse whose meter is based on the length of syllables as opposed to the stress... Generally consists of open-ended questions. E.g. What interests you in a magazine? OR What do you look for in a magazine?

De-constructing Magazines

As we were set a task to do-construct 2 magazines, I chose a ‘We Love Pop’ magazine and a ‘Mojo’ magazine. This is because I am still uncertain on what genre of my magazine will be based on and therefore I wanted to explore different types of magazines and gather ideas.

'We Love Pop.'

 

·         Bright Title-attracts more customers

·         Use of stereotypically feminine colours such as pink could suggest that the target audience for this magazine and girls.

·         Consistency of colours- a limited number of colours have been used throughout instead of having random colours, and this makes it look more organised and neat. In fact colours such as pink and white have been used throughout, even on the articles.

·         The title is in black, standing out from the white background and personally this caught my attention straight. 

·         The main image is of ‘One Direction’ and their fan base is mainly young teenage girls and therefore this means that the magazine is most likely aimed at young teenage girls. Other images of artists such as ‘Cher Lloyd’ and the main fan base for Cher is also mainly young teenagers. Also, the clothes worn by the artists are also the colour of some text; again showing continuity and allowing the magazine cover to flow.

·         The main image is very clear, stands out and eve catching. 

·         Different font sizes and colours have been used but in a controllable way( there are a limited number of font types and colours used on text-not completely random)

·         Possibly the brighter and bolder writing could be more important and therefore these colours could have been used to catch the attention of the audiences straight away.

·         All of the information has been laid out in the neatest was possible in different sections to avoid the scruffy look. 

·         They have tried to make their magazine more noticeable by adding extra information such as ‘Winter Hot List-Style Steals’ talking about fashion... making the audience feel like they are getting more then then expect

·         The cost of the magazine is acceptable (£2.99) however bearing in mind that the target audience is teenagers, if it was for example £2 then more customers are likely to purchase it, as they’re normally using money from their parents and therefore it likely that they don’t have large amounts of money. 

·         The information that this magazine consists of is generally the most popular artists in the contemporary UK and therefore their magazines are generally sold in stores such as Tesco or corner shops, where many people would notice it. 

·         http://www.welovepopmag.co.uk/magazine is the official website for the magazine online. The theme has been continued on the website too...showing that there is a constant theme that the magazine sticks to. They have lots of information about the magazine online.

'MOJO'

·         In comparison to ‘We Love Pop’ Magazine, ‘Mojo’ is completely different and as I am not yet sure about what my magazine genre is going to be based on, I decided to look at different magazine types.

·         It is much duller and doesn’t use many colours. This could be seen as ‘boring’ but could also be seen as ‘mature’  and therefore its target audience could be adults.

·         There are 2 images on the cover. The main image is of a man holding a guitar, and he could be reflecting the target audience the magazine is for (middle-aged adults).

·         The Orange coloured writing is likely to be more important than the rest and the colour can be used to make that specific information stand out more.

·         The other image is of two men, and they’re also older men, supporting my idea of the target audience being older then the audience for the ‘We Love Pop’ magazine.

·         ‘SUP POP’ is written in orange and this could mean that there is a small group within society that listen and believe in a different type of pop, also possibly being their target audience.

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