Name: Accolade
Price: £3.00
Genre: Alternative Rock Magazine
Target Audience: Alternative band fanatics, Teenagers, Band promoters & Adults aged 16-24
How often will it come out?: I will publish my magazine weekly for the first 6 months to try and gain a solid fan base, then if profits grow I will move it to a larger Monthly edition.
How big will the issue be?: 60 - 70 pages
Weekly Regulars: Vans Warped Tour updates during the entire tour, including bands of the week and any side stories that may occur
Main Feature: Interview with the worlds biggest up and coming band/ gig reviews/ Warped tour update+band of the week/ Photos of bands out partying & small interviews/ up and coming gigs and festival
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Music Magazine Plans
Firstly I have decided to call my magazine Accolade. After researching a wide range of magazines in the genre that I have chosen (rock/alternative) I was firstly looking for inspiration on a good catchy name that isn't to long, like "Kerrang". Accolade has a musical definition of "a brace joining several stave's" which so it works being a Music Magazine title, and also its most popular meaning of conquer and honour fits in with the genre of magazine I have chosen. In buying this magazine of a alternative genre I want it to come across as you are conquering others by expressing yourself so this name fits perfectly and I am going to try and put this across also in the Font of the front cover.
Secondly, I did a photo shoot of the band that will be covering the magazine. I took various amounts of photos, unfortunately I have lost my computer connecting cable so will have to wait till the weekend to upload them! In the mean time I will use my other camera to take more shots till then and post them up as and when I take them.
Secondly, I did a photo shoot of the band that will be covering the magazine. I took various amounts of photos, unfortunately I have lost my computer connecting cable so will have to wait till the weekend to upload them! In the mean time I will use my other camera to take more shots till then and post them up as and when I take them.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Preliminary Task
To begin my work I looked on the internet via google search to find British College booklets or handbooks to try and find a professional piece that I could base my work on. This however became difficult as I could only find American University Magazines so, as a way of finding out how to go about creating the handbook, I found an existing Isle Of Man College handbook and implemented the same style into my final piece. I also looked over past students work to gain further knowledge into making my piece.
I decided to go with a winter theme from the start of this project mostly because the time of year we are currently is winter. I figured I would not only be able to find a model who would be wearing specific clothing that identifies that it is winter, but also because I found it easier to represent winter in a subtle way whilst integrating it in with the standard things you would see on a school/college magazine.
I decided to keep the colour scheme relatively simple, but had the main colour of pale baby blue run throughout the entire piece to correlate with the winter theme. I added little circles across the blue background to further represent the theme whilst also creating something that looks good on the eye.
The title "St Manxie College" is wrote in white over the blue background and all the fonts were done in a chalkboard style which gave the impression it was drawn out of snow, whilst also having something eye catching for students to actually pick up and read! (which is the main goal)
I used generic titles at the bottom of the piece of " free competition" and "new canteen menu" so it is obvious to students picking this magazine up that it IS in fact a magazine, not something to just be thrown away. Also in my research I found that on all pieces there we're titles on the bottom of the page rather than covering the model.
The model was chosen due to his clothing. I wanted to go with the winter style of wearing warm clothing, though being really happy to be at this college. The background I chose was similar to the colour I used and this works really well in the final piece. I took a lots of medium close up shots of this model and picked this picture due to his actions of having his "thumbs up"
The contents is relatively standard, using the same colour scheme as the front cover and keeping the same font. I have space for relative images and descriptions of whats is going to be on each page.
I decided to go with a winter theme from the start of this project mostly because the time of year we are currently is winter. I figured I would not only be able to find a model who would be wearing specific clothing that identifies that it is winter, but also because I found it easier to represent winter in a subtle way whilst integrating it in with the standard things you would see on a school/college magazine.
I decided to keep the colour scheme relatively simple, but had the main colour of pale baby blue run throughout the entire piece to correlate with the winter theme. I added little circles across the blue background to further represent the theme whilst also creating something that looks good on the eye.
The title "St Manxie College" is wrote in white over the blue background and all the fonts were done in a chalkboard style which gave the impression it was drawn out of snow, whilst also having something eye catching for students to actually pick up and read! (which is the main goal)
I used generic titles at the bottom of the piece of " free competition" and "new canteen menu" so it is obvious to students picking this magazine up that it IS in fact a magazine, not something to just be thrown away. Also in my research I found that on all pieces there we're titles on the bottom of the page rather than covering the model.
The model was chosen due to his clothing. I wanted to go with the winter style of wearing warm clothing, though being really happy to be at this college. The background I chose was similar to the colour I used and this works really well in the final piece. I took a lots of medium close up shots of this model and picked this picture due to his actions of having his "thumbs up"
The contents is relatively standard, using the same colour scheme as the front cover and keeping the same font. I have space for relative images and descriptions of whats is going to be on each page.
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