Shot List

 Shot List

Here is the shotlist including a list of shots that may be used in my magazine. The shotlist incluses images I may use on my front cover, contents page and my double page spread. I have also added the 'action', typeof shot' and 'FX' of each shot on the shot list.

Typical Reader Profile

    My name is Kim and I’m 16 years old. My best friend’s name is Rihanna and we both love music. I have two younger sisters and we live with our parents. In my spare time, I watch TV and enjoy watching programs about my favourite artists. My room in full of posters, t-shirts with my favourite artists pictures, books about them etc. I love Justin Bieber, Rihanna, One Direction, Jessie J. I also have many CD's in my room. I love reading magazines such as ‘We love Pop’. I have many posters of pop artists in my room. My favourite subjects are Music, Art and Media studies. In my free time, I watch TV or sit in my room, draw my favourite celebrities and play loud music. I also enjoy going out with my friends, mainly because we are so similar and they also like the same things I like. For example they listen to the same type of music I listen to.

My Questionnaire

As I decided I would aim my magazine at individuals around my age, I wanted to know more about them. The questionnaire I created allowed me to gather more information about my target audience’s interests and what they generally look for in a magazine. The questions I included in my questionnaire were;

1) How old are you?
2) Who are your top 5 artists?
3) What 2 colours do you generally like most? If these colours were used on a magazine, would this attract you?
4) What genre of music interests you most?
5) What do you like to read about most in a magazine; celebrity gossip, music industry news, latest fashion tips, upcoming artists, gigs, tours, posters etc.
6) Who is your favourite celebrity?
7) What magazines do you normally buy?
8) Would you buy a magazine because it contains a poster you want?
9) What interests you most in a magazine?
I chose these questions because I wanted to gather a wide range of information that could help me construct my magazine. As I had decided my target audience would be young people (not exactly sure buy most probably girls), I decided that it would be best if I handed out the questionnaire to individuals with in Norbury Manor. This meant that the questionnaire was being answered by individuals from the age of 12-18, because year 7’s to 13 answered the question.
•The results helped me gain a wider understanding of what individuals within this age range look for and expect from a magazine. I focused more on the females that took these questionnaires. I found a range of results but a lot of what I found was what I expected. Individuals from the younger years more commonly wrote down answers such as ‘Cher Lloyd, Justin Bieber, One Direction’ and most of the younger aged individuals chose Pop as the genre of music they’re most interested in. They also chose more stereotypically girly colours such as ‘pink, purple, red, orange, baby blue’. Many said that the gossip about their favourite celebrities and interviews interested them the most. Older aged individuals generally bought magazines.
The answers of older individuals were a lot more different. Not as many were interested in pop magazines and instead some were also interested in genres such as rock, hip hop, RnB etc. They were a lot more dissimilar. This made me think about whether my idea would really work well or not. Instead, I could make my pop magazine different to other pop magazines. I could keep the normal theme in pop magazines but with an edge. I am still not exactly sure how I would do this but it could for example be the type of artist I write about.

Planning
From the very beginning, I thought felt pop would be a good genre for my magazine. I thought of some ideas that my magazine will consist of. The reason I felt pop would be the best genre for my magazine is because I wanted to aim the magazine at individuals around my age. The main reason for this was that most probably I would have similar interests to individuals of my age. This would help me design a better magazine as i am more likely to know the basic themes for example, that are normally used on pop magazines.

Deconstructing a Magazine- We Love Pop

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.