POSSIBLE COLOUR THEMES

POSSIBLE COLOUR THEMES

I've taken a liking to the colour theme of my blog, turqoise and orange. So i have notated this down and saved my chosen colours in photoshop. I'm just curious to wether they would work as a magazine cover and appeal to my target audience. I also like marrons and purples i think these could work well on my magazine cover.

MAGAZINE IDEAS

MAGAZINE IDEAS

I've come up with a few possible names for my magazine, DECAY and OOMPH. I've found some possible fonts i would like to use, I need to be very careful with the font in order to appeal to my target audience. I will have my title in a rough, edgey font and my sub titles in soft hand writing style font. This will even out my magazine making it eausthetically pleasing product.

Here are a few ideas for my title font if my magazine were to be called DECAY:

FULL MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

FULL MAGAZINE ANALYSIS

The NME is the longest published and most respected music weekly in the world. Every week it gives its readers the most exciting, most authoritative coverage of the very best in contemporary music  launched in 1996, has grown to be the biggest commercial music news site in Europe.

Key facts

• 80% of NME readers feel that music is an important

part of their lives

• 79% of NME readers like to listen to new bands

• 63% specially choose to listen to indie/guitar bands

• 49% specially choose to listen to live bands in studio

• 52% are interested in taking a musical

course/qualification

• 36% are thinking of buying a musical instrument in the

next year
NME readers are techno savvy

• 72% have a broadband Internet connection at home

• 67% have bought something online in the last 12

months

• 59% agree they like to keep up with the latest

technologies
More about the reader

• 34% are working full time, 18% are working part time

and 26% are full time students

• 62% read at least 3 out of 4 issues

• Almost half (49%) have been reading NME for at least

3 years

• 84% think the magazine gives them what they want

spending an average of 46 minutes reading each

issue

TECHNOLOGIES

TECHNOLOGIES

I will use a number of different programs to design and create my Music magazine and blog, These including Photoshop CS5, Flickr and Blogger. Photoshop allows me to perfect the colours, exsposure and lighting in my photographs, Flickr is a quick and easy way to analyse magzine articles by tagging the photograph and posting a direct link to your blog and lastly Blogger, ables me to create a professtional blog where my work will be stored and can be viewed by people i invite, which can also be customised to my liking. Spreading my work between these three programs/websites i will be able to produce a high quality Music magazine and Blog.

TARGET AUDIENCE MOOD BOARD

PSYCHOGRAPHICS

The target audience for my magazine will be male dominated, approximatly 20 years old into indie music with a strong sense of fashion. Modern Brands such as Ralph Lauren, Lyle and Scott and Fred Perry are all designers that my target audience will be wearing. Brands such as Hunter, Vivenne Westwood and Harris Tweed are all slightly upper class brands which some of my target audience will wear aswell. Possibly as handowns and 'vintage' style outfits. Although my audience is young, they will spend most of their weekend down the pub, clubs or gigs. During the week the majority will be studying, either college or uni. The rest part time or full time employment possibly in rural surroundings built up city areas. Most will have an up to date phone and intouch with the latest technology, ipods, laptops and computing.

Lattitude, V-fest, Glasto and wireless are all music festivals i exspect my audience to attend, those that live in the city will drive a vespa, old mini or fiat 500.

DEMOGRAPHICS

male 70%
female 30%

average age 20

still studying 65%
full time work 10%
part time work 25%

class ABC1 70%
class C2D 30%

FEATURE ARTICLES

To see my first feature article analysis click here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54751106@N06/5220575670/
Article from: www.thekillersfansite.com/cgi-bin/pgallery/album.pl?photo=Brandon%20Flowers/2010/Magazine-Scans/Q%20Magazine/q2010.jpg

To see my second feature article analysis click here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54751106@N06/5223070877/
Article found on: www.google.com

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Warner Bros have released the first part of ‘Harry Potter and the deathly hallows’ which hit the cinemas 19^th November 2010.

Harry and best pals Hermione and Ron carry the on-going run from evil dark lord, Voldemort who having Hogwarts head master, Dumbledore assassinated in the prior half-blood prince now seeks global domination through the death of the boy wizard. As Harry races against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, he uncovers the existence of three most powerful objects in the wizard world: the Deathly Hallows. 

 This magical sorcerer's saga was rated a well-deserved êêêê. This particular harry potter film is a lot darker than any of the others, I think J.K Rowling has taken into account that her audience has grown up along with the characters throughout this film and many ways matured. ‘Although this is one but last of the Harry Potter saga, I feel it was just a build up to the sequel.  Well perfected special effects and animation was included throughout the film and mind washed the audience into believing they were in the film!’ –Natcha, London.

The film has been a great success, so hit the cinemas as soon as you can for a mind washing experience of wizardry at its finest. Harry Potter and the crew will be releasing the second part summer 2011. So make sure you don’t miss out! Tickets can be purchased online from £3.95 at www.odeoncinema.com.