We then got on to making our magazine, we had some lessons on photography and designing our front covers. For my front cover i looked at other bands for inspiration and decide to get a group of my friends together and create a pretend band name 'brella boys'. I edited the photos in photoshop, and picked the one that i thought was the best and most effective. This was my front cover for my music magazine.

After learning about these we picked our audience that we were targeting, there are many different ones such as; goths, heavy metal, pop, punk, indie, grunge, rap, mc,dance, techno, country and westen and many more.

For my magazine i picked pop/indie. We had to do a readership profile of the people that inspired us to pick the genre of our magazine, i chose to do this through photoshop;


This was my readership profile.

We then did a questionairre, the see what our audience would be.


1. What is your age?
0 - 15 16 – 25 26 – 37 38 – over

2. Male or female?

3. Which ethnic background are you from?

4. What genre of music do you listen to?

5. How would you describe your fashion sense?

6. How would you describe your personality?

7. What region do you live in?

8. What religion are you?

9. Are you in full time education?

10. Would you mind telling us your mother and fathers profession?

11. What are your interests and hobbies?

12. How would you describe your lifestyle?

13. Where do you prefer to eat around college?

14. Do you think there is enough time for socialising during college?

15. Do you have a part time job, if so where?

16. Do you have a boyfriend of girlfriend that goes to this college?

17. What do you aspire to be?

18. Who would you say your role model is?

19. If you could be anyone for one day who would it be?

20. If you could change anything to make the world a better place what would it be?

21. What made you choose prior college?

22. Do you enjoy college, if you do, what do you enjoy?

23. If you could change anything in college what would it be?

24. Do you take part in after college activities?

25. What type of music do you listen to?

After creating our college magazine we then went on to make a music magazine. We looked at NME and other music magazines for inspiration. We looked at what makes different mediation, such as selection, organisation and focusing.
We also looked at media concepts such as the popularity of media and how it can influence the way we behave. We looked at different audiences we aimed to explore how audiences are defined , how to go about defining them and how you may conduct research on finding a specific audience.

We finally got on to making and desinging out front covers for our college magazine. From the photos we took a few lessons back we used them for either our front cover or contents page. I designed mine around colours and light and dark.

I used photoshop to help me create the front cover contents page.

This was my front cover, picture taken outside the priory.

After making our front cover we then went on to make a content page for the college magazine, it had to include pictures of the college and thing that would make it sell like good articles that people would find interseting.
This was my content page;

Constructing my magazine

After looking on tips and ideas on how to construct a magazine we started using cameras and taking photos for our front covers for our college magazine. We were only to use our own material and not to use any pictures from the internet or that other people had taken. We learnt about the: frames, shutter speed, balance and juxtapostion, rules of thirdsand angles.

We learnt about different photographers such as Helmut newton and David Bailey as this showed us how they postioned their models and how this helped to distinguis there shots. It showed us how it influences compemenpary fashion. It also helped us to decide what front cover we could do and gave us some inspiration.

We then did a magazine analysis of the prompts: technical, how it is presented on the page, Symbolic, do the colours represent anything and do the signify anything ? Written, does the writing have an ambigious meaning or does the master head signify anything? And does the overall layout and stlye aim to attrackt he reader.

Ideology and house styles

After looking at ideology we then looked at house styles we had to develop ideas on creating house style and possible 'angle' using differnt audeinces and features. We then had to define and analyse conventional features of a music front cover. We also had to design and pratice our own house style. When doing this we had to look at the different audiences that we would aim our magazines at when we were desiging them.

To help us design our front covers we looked at what all magazine have in common such as the banner, masthead, cover line and menu strip. We also learnt that most magazines still to a simple 3 colour scheme whislt adding virbrant patterns and designs to catch the readers eye. Also we looked at the picture on the front cover suggesting to the audience the mood and type of magazine, there can be super smiley, chocolate box, romantic or sexual and invitational.

We looked at what the avreage age we would aim our magazine at and how the front cover reflect the target audience.

After we had looked at house style we moved back on to our questionnaires, we looked through them and created an analysis showing a consclusion of our results. Using our results we put together a series of ways in that we could use them for our college and music magazine.
When then identifed the main selling points of our magazines, we explored ways to read and contruct different types of text.

Key concepts

We than carried on with our work in Key Concepts. We looked at ideology and identity, we explored the meaning of ideology and how it is used within everyday. We looked at the political meaning of ideology and how to apply this to media. We experimented with ideas on forming idenity and we looked at how ideology forms a vital part in our daily lives.