Kerrang

Kerrang

Kerrang is a rock magazine published by Bauer Consumer Media in the UK. The name refers to the sound of a guitar that is playing a power chord. Kerrang also has a radio station and TV channel. AC/DC were the first band to appear on thier front cover.

NME stands for New Music Express. It is from the Uk and is printed weekly. It features punk rock. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were frequently featurd on the front cover in the 1960's.

The genre of my magazine will be rock music. There are lots of different rock band genres within the main genre such as Indie, heavy metal ect. so I think it would be interesting to work with .

Why I 've chosen Magazine

Media Final Piece

In my final piece I think I am going to do a Music Magazine Cover. I have decided to do this because I enjoyed making a magazine more, I read lots of magazines;particularly music and I have good knowledge of the software that needs to be used for the task. I originally wanted to do magazine so when I did the movie priliminary I knew that I definately wanted to stick with Magazine.

Evaluation

I used puffs and a big masthead on my magazine to draw attention to the name and certain places of the magazine. I also used some secondary pictures. My main image is of some year 11s in a pyramid which i think promotes the school as creative fun and team building. This magazine is aimed at the younger years of the school but I used the left hand bottom corner to put people in older years, such as this years sixth form, who can read about thier prom ect. The price is also really lowe becasue a school magazine being expensive wouldnt make sense, a younger teenager wouldn't pay 2.99 for a magazine.
My magazine is aimed at most groups but there is a lot on it about the school sports, Rugby, Cheerleading ect. about thier victories. There is also some academemic parts for people who need help with recent or upcoming events like the mock exams.
My audience is the children of the school, probably the younger years because the colours are bright and lively. Older years like sixth formers may find it appealing but it is aimed at younger years such as year 8-9. It is also aimed for children out of the school who might be interesting in coming or know people from the school.
To attract my audience I used bright colours and short sentences. To much to read for teenagers is boring and they l;ose interest. The fonts are big and bold. Also all the pictures are mainly of people about my target audiences age and they all look happy, not miserable about being in school. Also nearly all the people in the photos are using a direct mode of address which makes the magazine welcoming and happy.
Using publisher is pretty useless if you want to go into datail aobut things. I prefer using paint.net out of everything else. I tried using Photoshop which is just as good but didnt like it as much.
I think in my final product I wouldnt use so many colours and less pictures so the magazine cover wouldn't look so cluttered, but I liked the flatplan for my contents page and think the final product of it would be very appealing.

Prilimary task

For my prilimary task we had to make a front cover for a school magazine and contents page. I made my magazine flatplan in Publisher but the skills on it were too basic so I used Paint.net for my fianl piece. I don't like working with Publisher so used Microsoft Word to do my flatplan for my contents flatplan which was actually quite easy to used but still wasn't creative enough so I wouldn't do my final contents page on it.

The contents page has the same colours as the front cover so it would have a continuous theme.

Contents page flat plan

My magazine is aimed at most years of the school but mainly the younger section to know what is going on around the school.

My final Cover

My school magazine

MASTHEAD/TITLE- Chew on That!
SLOGAN_ Don’t get ‘CHEWS BLUES’

The central image would be of the new sixth form block because that’s the newest thing going on at the moment. My secondary images would be of things going on in the school and sports activities or awards. So place like the gym or in art classes ect.
My audience is the students. All ages but mainly people who want to get involved in activities. Male or female.
I will use big artistic fonts such as >>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>>>>

My colour scheme would be the colour of the school badge. So red, green and white. The school website also uses these colours so it would link in and have a continuous theme.

School Magazines

King Edward VI High School for Girls
This school is a private school. It seems very formal but doesn't look to strict. The woman on the cover is smiling making the magazine welcoming.

The title is big and bold, writen at the top of the page but it is in white so your eyeds are drwn mainly to the picture which is of either the head mistress or house mother.

I think the magazine would be aimed at the childs parents.

SCHOOL MAGAZINES

Fearnes Community Sports College.

it's represented as very friendly and team building because all of the people are stood together. it also shows it a sports college because they are all holding sports equipment and they are in a gym.

It is a busy picture with lots of people, big writing and bright colours. It makes the school seem cheerful, laid back and active.

I think the magazine is aimed at younger teenagers because the colours a re bright and all the people are the cover are in their teens or younger.

Initial Ideas

My initial ideas would be to do a magazine because I did a comic last year in GCSE and got a really good grade for it. I also read a lot of magazine and the topic is music which I've mentioned before is one of my favourite parts of media.
I don't really know about doing a music video but I havn't ever tried so it might be interesting to have a go... hmmmm?

Roland Barthes was born in Normandy in 1915. He studied semiotics and studying signs which he found very useful. He explained that cultural myths were second- order signs or connotations. A dark bottle of wine is merely a fermented, alcoholic beverage but is portayed as 'healthy' and 'relaxing' without anyone saying. This brought him to a similar thoery, the Marxist Theory.

Learning about Semiotics

Ferdinand D Saussure was born in Geneva in 1857. He started teaching course of general Linguistics in 1906. He came up with the Laryngeal Theory, trying to explain how he was able to make systematic and predictive hypotheses from known linguistic data to unknown.The success of tthis was discovered some 50 years later.

Quote - "In language there are only differences, and no positive terms."

Failed project (Kind of)

In media we tried to make a video to show other school how our councxil teams are doing but that didnt happen in the end.

Recently I have done a non assessed assignment in my A level media class.We had to work in small teams of 3/4 people. My team included me, Beth and Charlie. We had to advertise our anual literature festival, from Monday 28th September to Friday the 2nd October, at Chew Valley School. We had to create a logo and a slogan. Banners and posters promoting the envent and we also had to make literature creative, fun and lively for all age groups and try to involve everybody, staff and students. If we did the task well enough, we would have to produce the publicity for the week itself.
In my group we decided that we would take pictures of different people around the school such as students, teachers and even dinner ladies to show everyone is involved. We then made a poster with the theme of a pin board to express that literature can be your own creation and you can add all your own ideas to it. Our logo is of two people reading a book. they are animated but the book isn't and as they get closer to the book the look more realistic which then promotes the 'Bring Literature to Life' which we have chosen for our slogan.

Speed Meeting

To me media is everywhere.
I have chosen to study media because I would like to be either a graphic designer or go to drama uni. I also really enjoy media studies.
The last film I watched was Adventureland.
My favourite film is Smokin' Aces.
The last track I downloaded was What a feeling by the Black Eyed Peas
My favourite band doesnt exsisit yet. And neither does my favourite artist. Heres hoping but I really like Blue October.
If I could be in a TV show it would be Scrubs or Friends.
My radio is usually turned to Heart because my mum said so.
The last magazine I read was More.
I use the internet for practically everything.
The newspaper that I'd be mostly to read is the one that is lying around my house when I'm bored.
If I was to buy a magazine it would be More.
If I had to choose I would be a film director.
The song I was I'd written is Leona Lewis Bleeding Love because the amount of times they played that she must be a bloody millionaire.
The advert that has caught my eye recently has to be the dell advert with the men who sing Lollypop.
If I could interview any celebrity or famous person it would be Ryan Renolds.
If I was a brand I'd be River Island because I can't make up my mind on what my style is going to be and sometimes it's really annoying.

A film I have watched latley was 'The Perfect Getaway'. The film was amazing. I loved it!
At first it's really confusing but after a while it seems to drag on but as the characters unfold. The ending is the best, the twist is incredible and I really wasn't expecting it.
I buy 'more' magazine every week. It comes out every Tuesday and I'm obsessed with it. If you like fashion and just random silly things I recommend it. ^_^
i don't know what to say about music. I've had Sexy Bitch in my head for about two weeks now and I'm still not bored of it but recently I heard a song called Gypsy woman which was surprisingly really good!

My name is Isabelle a short, brunette, sixteen year old student. I've always been interested in media such as films and books ect. and I'm also very interested in Drama. I've chosen to take media for A level becasue it's a subject that i really enjoy and i would like to go to a performing arts university and an A level in media is very important.

I love watching films but my main interest is music. I like many genres of music and I listen to music everyday. I go nowhere without my ipod. I am constantly adding to my playlist. I like to read too but not regularly, i'd read a really good horror book but to be honest iId rather read a 'more' magazine.