Nme magazine front cover deconstruction

This is a front cover of the market leaders, nme magazine's, front cover which i have deconstructed.

Symbolic features

• The title of the band on front cover is the largest peice of writing on the cover, the colour stands out from the dark background and it attracts alot of attention.
• The plug which is underneath the writing is there to attract the reader and make them want to buy the magazine becauswe of the interview and it also gives the reader an incite into the interview.
• The body language of the cover band is very uniterested to the camera although it aknowledges it is there, this is a generic pose from an indie music group so it falls into the codes and conventions of the music genre.
• The background is very black and the only light is from the band which makes them appear god like or angelic with the light beaming down upon them.
• The band take up the very centre of the front cover and most of the page which shows that they are very important to the magazine.

Written features

• The logo of the magazine "NME" is very powerful because it is red and it stands for new musical enterprise which conveys a knowledge and wisedom of music and indie music.
• A qoute form the band is very simple but shows some rebellion or single mindedness as they dont care what other people think about them.

Overall features

• The image of the band takes up all of the centre of the page and is what attracts your attention , the dark background and stron light from the band is very interesting and attractive.
• Arctic monkeys is the largest peice of text on the front cover so it is one of the first things you see which with a band like them with a large fanbase may attract new readers because of the bands interview.
• The plug of each peice of writing attracts readers so it needs to be flashy and interesting.
• Overall the cover has in my opinion got an angelic theme to make the band appear God like coming from a very dark background.

Tunk

Theme- dark but bight in centre

Unique selling point- Life after humbug

Narritve- what the band will do next after their new album

Keywords- life after, we cant worry, other people

music questionnaire

This is a questionnaire i created whilst survaying whati thought were a wide range of music magazines general reading demographic. From these answers i will gain information and knowledge as well as make a decision on what articles and people to include in my magazine.




Media Amplifier questionnaire
1. What gender are you?
2. How old are you?
3. Who is your favourite band at the moment?
4. What do your parents do?
5. How much do you spend a month on clothes?
6. What do you do?
7. Is your glass half empty or half full?
8. What is your favourite type of television programme?
9. Do you own a car?
10. Who do you prefer, Oasis, Beyonce or 2 Pac?
11. What newspaper do you read?
12. What is your favourite band ever?
13. What is your favourite film?
14. What is your favourite television programme?
15. Who would you want to be your dad?
16. What is your favourite colour?
17. What instrument would you want to learn to play?
18. How often do you buy music magazines?
19. What about them interests you?
20. Do you try new sweets in shops or stick to what you know?
21. Are you interested in fashion?
22. If you had to define your music taste what would you say?

1. Male,Female,male,male,male
2. 16,24,19,22,20
3. Arctic Monkeys, Florence, Kasabian, Vampire weekend, Daft punk
4. Nurse & plumber, Secretary, Fitter & shop worker, Shop owners, Unemployed
5. £50, £150,£90,£180,£100
6. At college, Journalist, University ,Electrician, University
7. Full, empty, empty, empty, full
8. Sport, Music, Music, Sport, Movies
9. No, Yes, no, yes, yes
10. Oasis, Oasis, Oasis,oasis,oasis
11. Sun, Sun, Mail, Guardian, Sun
12. Oasis, Blur, Beatles, Oasis, Kings of Leon
13. Anchorman, fight club, Team America, Titanic, Scarface
14. Heroes, south park, family guy, inbetweeners, inbetweeners
15. Will Ferrel, Axel Rose, Mick Jagger, Noel Gallagher, Roger Moore
16. Orange, blue, red, black, blue
17. Guitar, Drums,Drums,Guitar,Guitar
18. Once a month, every week, Once a fortnight, Once a month, Every week
19. The band reviews, there interesting, The cover band, The cover band, They're a good read
20. Stick, try new, stick, try new, try new
21. Yes, yes, yes,yes,yes
22. Indie, Indie, Rock, Indie, Indie house

Readership profile

This is my readership profile, I created this to represent my readership and also my sponsors. I have gathered my information from verious magazine websites which supply in formation for readership profile's which company's use to decide who they should be advertising to. I have researched diffrent publishing companys to gather my information such as; Ipc, Emap, National magazines and Haymarket. I have found these websites useful in finding my target audiance for my magazine.

example readership profile

this is an example of a readership profile of a magazine which is similar to my magazine so it is a good example of the brands that sponsor and the figures a bout the readership .

Introduction to media

September 15th stereotyping lesson

In this lesson we learned about stereotyping, we leaned that everyone consciously or subconsciously. The four bases in which the media make a stereotype are;

Attitudes and behaviour

Appearance

Dialogue

Mise en scene

The way we make instant stereotypes is made by;

Appearance

Behaviour

The way the are portrayed by society and the media

Real facts we know about the stereotype and imaginary things we think we know

We were set homework to collect images interviews and other ways in which a genre icon can be portrayed in the media.

I collected these

September 22nd Representation and mediation

Mediation is what the media does to us the audiance and to the subject being represented.

Mediation is shown through 3 diffrent ways

Selection

orginisation
Focusing

The media mediates selection because it chooses what to use and what not to use, this is usually done with the interests of the audiance in mind.

It also mediates orginisation by using layers and selecting things in front of others which are not true to real life.

It mediates focus by making us the audiance focus on one thing and not the other which is chosen by them.

September 29th audiance

The media has defined audiances for itself and every media piece has its own media demographic based on job occupation

A Higher managerial, professional, surgeon, lawyer

B Intermediate managerial, doctor, barrister

C1 Stock broker, Buisness owner, Teacher

C2 Plumber, electrition, nurse

D Trainee nurse teacher, shop worker

E Unemployed, Casualy employed, Pensioners

October 6th Ideology

Values and ideology are part of the music and groups we belong to so which one we conform to is important

October 13th House style

Music magazine proposal

I will be creating a magazine which is in the music genre. I did some prelimanary research and questionnares to try and find an audiance with in my target audiance of 15-30 year olds. In my questionarres the large majority of people i survayed preferred indie music magazines and felt other than NME, which dominates the market, there is very little else for indie readers so i feel my magazine could fill that large gap. I will conduct interviews and collate images with indie bands and performers to produce a high qaulity music magazine.

my prelimanary task front cover and contents

This is the front cover of my college magazine, i have on my cover a picture i took myself. The original picture taken in black and white below is on the right. I edited the image with photoshop and added different colours and contrasts to get the image i now have. I have made this a graphic special edition so i can use lots of colour and fonts. I have used a lot of colour and diffrent fonts to make the piece as interresting as possible and will hopefully attract the target market. I most like the title font and its very possible i use this for my real magazine cover in the future. I think these fonts will appeal to the target audiance as it is young and thus fits the audience stereotype.

This is my contents page, i have used an image i took myself of a snail and have subsequently edited to fit in with the colour scheme of my work. I again have used a variety of different fonts on the contents page which i feel are interesting and stand out. For my magazine content page i would like to have a similar style of fonts but with some more images on the contents page. I think the colours of vibrant pinks and yellows which connote youth and happiness, it also makes the page stand out.

college mag flat plans

These are the flat plans for my contents page and front cover of my college magazine. I will use this flat plan as a basic layout design to begin creating my college magazine work.

college magazine audiance

My college magazine audiance is obviously college students and some teachers. The audiance is usually aged between 16 to 20 witht the small majority of the market female. I used my questionnare to find my audiance.
The audiance is young and interested in fashion and spending their money as well as using modern technology to communicate so the magazine must show those features.

college mag questionnare

I have used this questionare to find out what the contents for my college magazine should be. The questions are varied so i can find out information without actually asking , i asked about brand loyalty by refering to chocolate in shops and things like that mean that they dont feel i am prying and will give an honest answer.

picture7

This is a mid shot of a snail form very close up, it is macro’d and looks very good.

picture6

This photo is an upward angle in to a juxtaposed background; I like this photo because of the light.

picture5

This is mid shot form a high angle of some flowers this photo is probably to high an angle so I might not take this photo again

picture4

This is a low angled mid shot of a rusty bin, this effect makes the bin look much larger than it is, next time maybe a more colourful object would be better.

picture 3

This photo was taking a centimetre away using macro, of a snakes back close up, the photo uses macro so its very high quality but next time I would take picture of a still object to avoid any blurring

picture 2

This again is another photo following the rule of thirds; this time the central image is on the far right, again I think the central image is to boring and I will change that.

media blog first picture

This is a photograph using the rule of three; I put the focus of the photograph to the far left. I think this photo needs a more interesting central image when I take this type of photo again.

Introduction to my project

In this blog i am creating my media course work. I will create a preliminary magazine and then a music magazine. I will analyse and de construct some off the work i have created.