Planning production

My front cover image will be a medium shot in a studio of a girl with the 'rock' stereotype look about her. 


My Coverlines will be:

• New hot rock bands
• Essential band merchandise
• Avril Lavigne- Black star tour!
• Mollie new music sensation
• Red Hot Chili Peppers Tribute
• Free posters banner
• Linkin park are back!

Text for my contents page: 


Featured

• • New hot bands
  • Mollie- New Talent
  • Festivals- Download
  • Old bands 
  • Up and coming gigs- prices, bands.
  • Health and safety at festivals and gigs
  • Background story on wakestock
  • vip @ leeds
  • Information how concerts started (history)
  • Nirvana Tribute
  • Unsigned bands 
  • Facebook band pages
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute
  • Real life rockers 
  • A rockers most essential must haves
  • 30 seconds to mars quickfire questions
  • vip tickets to leeds
  • foo fighters exclusive talk
  • offsprings top  40 tunes
  • paramore unseen photos
  • win tickets to see blink 182
  • high flying birds cd review
  • a7x talk about zacky V

Regular

• • Editor's Letter
  • Fan letters 
  • rock collaborations
  • Gig/Cd reviews
  • Transfer List - to buy instruments
  • Puzzles and Word Searches
  • Tips on best shops to buy music from
  • Competitions 
  • Places to buy clothes 
  • Fans reports on cds/gigs
  • Confessions page
  • what do YOU want?
  • music chart top 40
  • Start your own band
  • be in our next issue

My double page spread is going to be about Avril Lavigne's Gig, a review of it including picures. I will also have a small interview of someone who attended the gig and what they thought of it. The photo's i will need will be of Avril Lavigne, long shots of her on stage. I will also need a small image of the interviewee this will be a close up.

Images for front cover:


Because my magazine is Rock and the title means to be angry or troublesome, the picture was too soft of an expression to be the front cover image.



The reason for not using this photo is that her body language isn't appealing enough and it doesn't draw attention to the readers. She has quite a bored expression.



This picture was not suitable because her expression is not angry enough .



This photo could be potential if it was zoomed in  however the only bad thing is that there is no direct address with the readers.



This was the final chosen image for the front cover. Her face is very questioning and connotes attitude and so does her lifting her rim of her top up as it has another solo artist on the t-shirt. There is also very strong direct address.

The images I will need for my contents page:

• unsigned bands
• Mollie new solo artist
• Avril Lavigne
• Paramore unseen photos

Images needed for doublepage spread:

Rough sketch of front cover

Rough sketch of contents page

Publication Plan

Title: Vex
Positioning statement: Go crazy with rock


Frequency of publication: Monthly
Price: £2.70


Distribution: Newsagents and supermarkets, Music shops (e.g. HMV), Instrument shops.


Rationale: The approach of the magazine is very much to please the fans and give them information on what they want to hear about. We will give opinions and reviews and the articles will focus very much on the information that the readers want to know.


Style: Informal using humour. The magazine is generally for teens-young adults so the language will not be too advanced but easy to read and relevant to the magazine genre. It will follow Red top tabloid style of presentation; short paragraphs and slang.


Images will be dominant features of all layouts.


Regular Content

• Fan letters 
• Gig/Cd reviews
• Transfer List - to buy instruments
• Tips on best shops to buy music from
• Places to buy clothes 
• Fans reports on cds/gigs
• Confessions page
• music chart top 40
• what do YOU want?
• Start your own band
• quick fire questions

Feature Content

• New hot bands
• offspring top 40 tunes
• foo fighters exclusive talk
• a7x talk about zacky V
• Mollie- New Talent
• Festivals- Download
• Old bands 
• Up and coming solo gigs- prices, bands.
• Health and safety at festivals and gigs
• Background story on wakestock
• history of v festival
• vip @ leeds
• win tickets to see blink 182
• Nirvana Tribute
• Unsigned bands 
• Facebook band pages
• high flying birds cd review
• Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute
• Real life lovers of rock
• A rockers essential items
• paramore unseen photos

House Style

• Coverlines: Copperplate Gothic Bold and Arial
• Headlines: Copperplate Gothic Bold
• Standfirst: Century 14pt 
• Captions: Century Gothic 8pt 
• Features first paragraph: Drop capital, Lucida handwriting, first word in capital.
• News first paragraph: first letter in bold capital
• Body text:  Century Gothic/Perpetua titling mt
• Colour scheme: Black, Grey and Red.

Questionnaire Video recording Results

Questionnaire Sound Recording Results

Questionnaire Conclusion

Conclusion

• As a result of handing out a questionnaire I discovered many different results. These results will help me to decide certain things for my magazine. In question 1 i found out that 10 out of the 20 people i asked preferred rock music magazines, with Hip-Hop magazines close behind at 7 our of 20 and Classical and Folk with a small popularity of 2. This helps me to decide that my choice of Rock magazine will be very popular.

• In question 2 the words that people associated with Rock music came from a wide variety, the most popular of them being these 5; Bands, Black, Loud, Heavy and Stereotype. Out of these 5 words I will pick one that I like most and try to make a positioning statement including the word.

• In question 3 the respondents were asked to write their Favourite Rock solo artist (or band was accepted if they did not have a favourite solo artist. These answers showed that the most popular result was Avril Lavigne. This has helped me to decide that I will definitely be doing a double page spread about Avril as I know it will be very successful. 

• In question 4 I listed a few names i would like my magazine to be called in hope to find a most popular choice. As a result of this i found that 'Vex' was preferred the most with a large 9 out of 20, and the other 4 names having only 2-4 choices.

• In question 5 it was an age question were i listed 3 options, 11-15, 16-25 or 25 + above. The age of most of the people i asked were between the age of 16-25. This shows that my magazine shouldn't be really childish as it should target young adults as they are the ones who mostly care and buy magazines.

• In question 6 it was a question to help me decide what shot to take for my front cover image. There was two choices one being 'medium shot in a studio' and the other being 'Long shot in a specific destination'. The most popular choice was a Medium shot in a studio, this means that people would be more attracted to my magazine if the front cover image was a medium shot of a person in a plain straightforward background. This means that my front cover image will be just that.

• In question 7 it was to help me choose my colour scheme, the choices being; 'Red,Black&White', 'Black,Grey&Green' and 'Black,Grey&White'.  RB&W and BG&G were joint popular with 8 out of 20 on each colour scheme. so this means that I have an option of which colour scheme to choose.

• In question 8 this was a question about what font people think would look nicest and more appealing, the choices were 'Old and Classic', 'Italic and Bold' or 'Plain and Clear'. The most favoured was Italic and bold. This shows me that my font should be bold and sometimes italic so that it looks nice to the eye of my readers.

• In question 9 It was a question about price and what would be an amount they are willing to pay for a magazine. The choices were £2.00, £2.50 or £3.00. The price that most would be willing to pay was £2.50. My rough guess of a price for my magazine was around £2.50-£3.00. So this has helped me that my magazine needs to be slightly cheaper than three pound for people to still want to buy it.

• In question 10 I asked what the readers would rather read about, with an option of three possible answers from 'Gig reviews', 'Cd reviews' Or 'Random interviews' Gig reviews came out  as most wanted with 11 out of 20 wanting to read about these.

• In question 11 this is about the tone of the magazine. Research showed that people would like the magazine to be Laidback yet formal however they would also like it to be 'Gossip' therefore my magazine will try to be a mixture of the two to fulfill both wants.

• In question 12 I asked how often people would buy a magazine, the most popular answer was monthly and this means that i will publish my magazine monthly so that 3 a month would not go to waste and not get bought.

Questionnaire Results (Written)

Questionnaire results on Prezi

Questionnaire Results (graphs)

Q9. 1- £2.00, 2- £2.50, 3-£3.00