Survey results

All of my survey informers read magazines which is good as it means that the magazine industry still has a good amount of influence. 70% of these informants read music magazines and 50% of them buy magazines once a month, which means that music still matters to teenagers. They would also spend £2-£5 on a magazine. The two major genres of music suggested are rock and indie. This is good as it means that I can tap into a, so called “Hipster” market. These people go to about one live staged music event a year so it would be important to stress that fact and exploit it. The main social websites that they use are the normal Facebook and Twitter however we are interested in Flickr and Tumblr as they are the least known. Their values and aspirations are to be arty and party hard! These results mean that my magazine reaches a unique target market.

Flat Plans and My Magazine

My magazine reader profile

Main Feature Analysis

Survey

Feast your eyes on my survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PP965XQ

Flashback's article on Morrissey

In the article on Morrissey the writer Kevin Cummins talks about his journey to a concert and then the people he met when he was there. He does this in no particular style other than as if he was writing into his diary. There are no long or difficult words to understand, it is just like he is writing to a dear friend. It is easy to register that he has had a nice time whilst he was there. He even includes analogies by saying that it was like “the Pope had come to town.”

He does all of this but yet includes only one quote from Andy Rourke about a bass guitar. However this one quote does show a small sense of friendship with another. Mr Rourke calls Mr Cummins by his first name; Kevin. This shows that he must have had a lot of interaction with the band and Mr Rourke.

The design features however wouldn’t be out of place in a Whitaker’s Almanack. All of the photos have a small caption near to them describing the photo and why it is there. Whereas the lead image is big and brash to draw the readers in.

How the women are treated in 50 Cent’s music video ‘Candy Shop’.

In 50 Cent’s video ‘Candy Shop’ women are shown as sexual and seductive to an extravagant amount. The women are shown as this to such an extent that they can be classed as things. There is one point where there is a very big stereotypical marker when one woman is dressed in a leather nurse’s uniform with very big ruby coloured lips. This stereotypes this young woman as a stereotypical man would like to see her like that.

This video has defiantly been shown for a male advantage as women are wrongly stereotyped into sexual objects. The entire way during the video women are shown in skimpy and seductive outfits and uniforms as if they are there only to please 50 Cent. The lyrics help provide evidence of this by saying things like “I’ll let you lick the lollipop” and “climb on top, ride like you in the rodeo”.

However much the amount of demoralising imagery this video combines everything that a rapper wants to be and unfortunately that spreads down to the people who listen to the music.

All of this, in my personal opinion, shows how wrong people can be on the facts of equality and also gives a reason why the birth rate is going up as men/boys are just trying to be like their wrongly placed idols.

Media needs for me

Entertainment and diversion: Youtube
I use Youtube to watch people hurt themselves to laugh.
Surveillance and information: The Daily What
To learn interesting things.
Personal relationships: Big Bang Theory
To help me understand other people views and opinions.
Personal identity: Inception
To understand more about my body.

Skills Development Journal

Medium Close Up

This is my final MCU original photo.

Masthead and Original Imagery.

The top image is my final masthead. I love the freedom it has with the multiple colours.

The other images below are my original photos. Some I chose not to use because of their general silliness.

Flatplan

Magazine research

My CD front cover design research

Cd covers

View more presentations from Roan Fryer.

Suddenly realised that the posts should be the other way around.

Pre-design CD covers

These were a few that never made it... They do not include origional imagery.

This final one does include origional imagery.

These helped me channel my ideas into the final finished piece. Each one stranger than the last...

This is my moodboard. It helped me create and construct my final piece. These are just a few of the ideas that were bouncing around my mind.

Design Brief

Design brief pp

This is my design brief. This is what I used to make and design my CD cover with. It will hopefully explain everything to make some sense.

My CD cover

This is the completed design for my CD cover. I like the fact that the LEGO man goes from surprised to angry during the photos. The white writing on the red background works well I think. Another good feature is the album name growing larger as the name progresses.