Monday, 18 November 2013
Colour Mood Board
These will be the main colours I will use in my magazine. All of them have black and white, but mostly blue will be used if possible.
Text and font Mood Board
I used these fonts because these fit my main purpose of Gaming and the soundtracks to go along with it. I am more than likely to use the first 4 but I will experiment and see which works the best.
Friday, 15 November 2013
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Magazine Publishers
Future PLC
'PLC' is a magazine publisher that primarily aims their audience at gaming guru's and teenagers getting into gaming. Many of their titles have the same or slight differences when it comes to the age group and gender they aim for, which is about 13+ because of some of the games that are advertised. Usually when people say 'gaming', members of the public would straightaway assume it was a masculine activity. 'PLC' follows this 'stereotype' so they can sell more of their products. All to most of their products are technology based, so the large amount of demographic, but 'PLC' also publishes women's magazines but by looking at the category it comes under, their magazines for women are more creative than they are models etc. This can imply that the magazine is aimed at older women with more time on their hands, and even housewives.
Bauer
'Bauer' is the most popular UK music magazine/media publishers. 'Bauer' owns about all of the music magazines, covering a wide range of audience, since all their products age vary from young (15) to old (70) with stuff like 'Kerrang!' and 'BBC Music'. 'Bauer' even owns some of the most popular Radio Stations, 'Q Radio' being one of them. Bauer is good for publishing music magazines but it'd be hard to be a part of 'Bauer' as one of their magazines because there are so many magazines that cover a large amount of audience, but if you were to get 'Bauer' as a publisher then sales can be quite high quickly because other 'Bauer' products can advertise yours.
IPC Media
'IPC' are primarily aimed at women as most of their products are about TV shows for women, reality stories for women about women and gossip about the celebrity world. The age group for their magazines is around 25-35. Usually at this time women are in a relationship or married, and usually want to make an impression on their husband. There are some magazines aimed at older and higher class men doing high class activities/sports like shooting.
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Magazine Publishers analysis- FuturePLC
For my magazine, I have chosen 'Future PLC'. Future PLC has released many top selling products including The 'Official Nintendo Magazine', 'Official PlayStation Magazine' and more. This suggests that 'PLC' is primarily aimed at one target audience, children to young adults (8-18), and technology like gaming and PCs have been in their lives their entire lives, new generation children are familiar with tech so this is a good audience for them to aim their products at.
I have decided to choose 'PLC' because my magazine is aimed at teenagers that are in highschool and further education (14-18). 'PLC' is perfect for my 'genre' of music, because my magazine is all about soundtracks in games which slips in nicely with the other magazines.
Future PLC is known primarily for gaming magazines, and the list is quite large:
Magazines/Digital Editions:
I did not choose 'Bauer' because their mostly known for a lot of music style magazines but usually their magazines are aimed at an older audience, taking 'Q' as an example. I thought 'PLC' because of the style of music I am aiming it at a slightly obscure type of music.
Why I chose to do Music Soundtracks was because when people buy games they tend to rate them on a graphical and story level, but never really to target the music, so the aim of the magazine is to open the eyes of a regular teenage critique and help them to realise to stop and listen to music.
I have decided to choose 'PLC' because my magazine is aimed at teenagers that are in highschool and further education (14-18). 'PLC' is perfect for my 'genre' of music, because my magazine is all about soundtracks in games which slips in nicely with the other magazines.
Future PLC is known primarily for gaming magazines, and the list is quite large:
Magazines/Digital Editions:
- Official Xbox Magazine (US)
- Xbox 360: The Official Magazine (UK)
- PlayStation: The Official Magazine
- Nintendo: The Official Magazine
- PC Gamer
- Edge
- GamesMaster
- Official Pokemon Magazine
- GamesRadar.com
- Computerandvideogames.com
- Officialnintendomagazine.co.uk
- Officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk
- Oxm.co.uk
- Oxmonline.com
- Pcgamer.com
- Edge-online.com
- Golden Joystick Awards
I did not choose 'Bauer' because their mostly known for a lot of music style magazines but usually their magazines are aimed at an older audience, taking 'Q' as an example. I thought 'PLC' because of the style of music I am aiming it at a slightly obscure type of music.
Why I chose to do Music Soundtracks was because when people buy games they tend to rate them on a graphical and story level, but never really to target the music, so the aim of the magazine is to open the eyes of a regular teenage critique and help them to realise to stop and listen to music.
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Q Full Magazine Analysis
Source of information: http://beharallpoppy000022405.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/q-media-pack.pdf
Q is the biggest UK music magazine with over 470,000 readers. About three quarters of the Q audience is male, which suggests that Q is aimed more for men than women. 97% of the magazine's audience rated the magazine as a 'Quality' magazine and has award winning photography and has the best articles. Most of Q readers are around middle class, this makes up about 70% of the entirety of the audience. The median age for the Q magazine is 29 which suggests that Q aims their magazine around late 20s early 30s.
The typical fan that Q has come up with is someone who thouroughly enjoys music and tends to buy a lot of it every month, and that the person reads Q magazine to help him find more music to listen to. The typical fan also has a lot of technology that can play music or stream music videos.
Q magazine doesn't have a primary genre of music, as the media pack says, the Q magazine is aimed at trying different genre's of music so the audience can expand more widely and the profits will increase because of it.
Q has been published for over 25 years, which makes the magazine and all it's peers trusted. Q even has exclusive advertising access to the biggest festival in the UK, which is Glastonbury.
Q has had awards for the covers of their magazine, which included Lily Allen. Also Q managed to convince the aritist of the Gorrilaz illustrations to design a front cover for that issue to advertise their new album. This was the first non photographic image to be on the front cover as a main image.
Brands advertised in Q have risen in sales since they have been advertising in them. The adverts are also primarily aimed at late 20s - early 30s men which fits because mainly men read this magazine.
Q TV has almost 300,000 people watching the TV show every week. The website has just over 650,000 unique visitors and 1.8 million page impressions. Q website also has around 18,000 email subsribers and almost 20,000 Twitter followers. (November 2010)
Q is the biggest UK music magazine with over 470,000 readers. About three quarters of the Q audience is male, which suggests that Q is aimed more for men than women. 97% of the magazine's audience rated the magazine as a 'Quality' magazine and has award winning photography and has the best articles. Most of Q readers are around middle class, this makes up about 70% of the entirety of the audience. The median age for the Q magazine is 29 which suggests that Q aims their magazine around late 20s early 30s.
The typical fan that Q has come up with is someone who thouroughly enjoys music and tends to buy a lot of it every month, and that the person reads Q magazine to help him find more music to listen to. The typical fan also has a lot of technology that can play music or stream music videos.
Q magazine doesn't have a primary genre of music, as the media pack says, the Q magazine is aimed at trying different genre's of music so the audience can expand more widely and the profits will increase because of it.
Q has been published for over 25 years, which makes the magazine and all it's peers trusted. Q even has exclusive advertising access to the biggest festival in the UK, which is Glastonbury.
Q has had awards for the covers of their magazine, which included Lily Allen. Also Q managed to convince the aritist of the Gorrilaz illustrations to design a front cover for that issue to advertise their new album. This was the first non photographic image to be on the front cover as a main image.
Brands advertised in Q have risen in sales since they have been advertising in them. The adverts are also primarily aimed at late 20s - early 30s men which fits because mainly men read this magazine.
Q TV has almost 300,000 people watching the TV show every week. The website has just over 650,000 unique visitors and 1.8 million page impressions. Q website also has around 18,000 email subsribers and almost 20,000 Twitter followers. (November 2010)
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