My idea for a music magazine is to have the genre an obscure topic. Lots of people listen to soundtracks whilst playing their games, but there has been no dedicated magazine for gaming soundtracks, so I am aiming to tackle obscurity and make music soundtracks a bit more recognized.
I plan to make the art style an 8 bit style, to appeal to the gaming industry. Generally, some of the best gaming music came from the era of 8-bit games, as the soundtracks were 8-bit too. The soundtrack is memorable to most long term gamers.
Monday, 24 February 2014
Saturday, 22 February 2014
Construction Schedule
The last two weeks of December, we started to construct our music magazines cover page. We started to decide on layout, fonts, colours etc until the Christmas holidays. On the first two weeks of January, we began to design and construct the contents page, deciding on fonts, images, colours etc. The last two weeks of January, we started to type up our feature articles. Placing images and writing articles, planning the layout. The first week or two of February, we went back over the magazine to see if anything needed changing/updating. After finishing, we started our evaluation and finishing all our coursework up to this point.
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Overview of Magazine Industry
There are more than 8000 magazine titles published in the UK, which have been split into 7 different categories, these include consumer, which was sold in newsagents for the general public. Another category is business (Trading, professional or B2B) for people at work, and another includes academic journals, for university-level discussion, aimed at the students in the universities. Others in the category include:
-Customer magazines
-Newspaper supplements
-Staff magazines
-and part works.
Some of these magazines are used for entertainment or to inform people of news/stories. Typically the gossip magazines, like OK! or Heat. Also in the Radio Times. Some of these magazines sometimes aims at consumer specialist titles aimed at hobbies or interests.
Statistically, the biggest consumer is Bauer Publishing with a 25% sale revenue, and IPC Media with 20%. The BBC and National Magazine Company had just under 8% sale revenue. (Statistics from 2008)
In 1980, there were around 1400 titles, but today that has more than doubled, now with 3200 titles in the UK today, and 1.4 billion magazines are sold in a year, but not coming close to the 2.1 billion magazines sold in 1970. Advertisers spent £745 million in magazines in 2008 and consumers spent £2 billion on magazines annually. Statistics show that only 30% of the titles are popular for more than 4 years.
The most favored Women's magazines are:
-Glamour
-Cosmopolitan
-Yours
-Woman and Home
-Good Housekeeping
The more popular under 18s catagorys are:
-Moshi Monsters Magazine
-Fun to Learn (Friends edition)
-Fun to Learn (Peppa Pig edition)
-Cbeebies Art
-Top of the Pops
Top 4 Men's lifestyle magazines are:
-Men's Health
-Nuts
-FHM
-GQ
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