Do Now

• Look at the music magazines in groups and make notes on what makes the front cover effective.

Foundation Portfolio – Magazine Production

• 2 tasks – Preliminary and Main Task

• Coursework worth 50% of your AS mark• Preliminary Task – School Magazine, worth 10% of the

overall marks for this module.

• Main Task – Music Magazine: the front page, contents page and double page spread of a new music magazine.

• Due in just after Easter.20 marks – Research and planning60 marks – construction20 marks - evaluation

Purpose of Magazines

• The purpose of magazines is two fold:

• To Entertain• To Inform

• Magazines continue to appear on the market and sell in huge numbers. Why?

• The tactile and visual nature of the medium differs from every other medium.

• They are portable and easy to access.

• Although the internet has had an impact on the mag market, much of what features in magazines is exclusive to the issue.

The industry

• Magazines exist to make money. An average magazine consists of 45% advertising with some fashion magazines exceeding 70%.

• Money is generated from the cover price of course but the primary revenue is generated by advertising. This is called ‘dual revenue stream’.

Music magazines• Starter Task : Brainstorm titles of music magazines.

Genre of Magazines

• Magazines can be classified according to their content, their target audience and their frequency of publication (monthly, weekly).

• What genres of magazines can you name?

Music mags- genre conventions

• Task: What are the generic conventions of music magazines? What are they likely to contain?

• Front cover with featured artist• Tend to be genre specific• Interviews• Latest news• Reviews of albums, singles and live concerts• Contents page• Advertising specific to the genre

The Magazine Form

• Whatever the genre and target audience most magazines conform to a set of formal conventions.

• Have a discernible front cover with main image and masthead etc.

• Have a contents page.• Include adverts.• Feature articles.

Denotations?Connotations?

Target Audience?

The main image, shot type, angle, pose.

The layout and colour scheme

The headline

The lighting

The masthead

The sell lines

The genre?

Ways to analyse a front cover.

The mag slogan

Music Magazines and genre

• Music magazines can be sub-divided in accordance with musical genres.

• The music industry has always been keen to categorise music. Why?

• Because genres help them specifically target a market.

Music genres and markets• A music genre has to be marketed to its target

demographic. What media does the music industry use to do this?

• Example: Jazz

Denotations?Connotations?

Target Audience?

The main image, shot type, angle, pose.

The layout and colour scheme

The headline

The lighting

The masthead

The sell lines

The genre?

Lets look again at the front cover.

The mag slogan

Magazine analysis

• Find a magazine front cover and with your partner make notes on the notetaking sheet.

• Present your notes on a PowerPoint to class.

• How does the magazine front cover use the formalistic conventions of magazine production?

• Peer assess?

H/W

• 1 Go on your wikipage and create uniformed headings for your production work beginning with: ‘AS Foundation Portfolio- Music Magazine’.

• 2 Buy, borrow or acquire a music magazine of your own to use as a case study.

• 3 Analyse the front cover and upload the analysis onto your wikipage.

Exemplar front cover analysis.