Title ideas

GENRE

This title was chosen because the magazine will focus on a range of genres of music and not just one. This initially would attract more people to the magazine as it opens to a wider range of people with different tastes in music.

font    vogue font downloaded from defont

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Date

Front cover ideas for magazine 1 ( first edition )

state that it is first edition

·      mid shot

·      Celebrity who is in mid performance - blurry lights in the back to depict an audience and on stage lighting

·      Bright lighting

·      Background fairly plain, so it is not taking the attention away from the model to give the look of a stage

Front cover ideas for magazine 2

·        2 musicians standing together representing two genres

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•           rap - wearing jewellery and stereotypical rap clouthing 
•           classical - wearing a black suit

v             simple environment background e.g open field, coloured sky

    Both models back to back, looking down at camera 

   Idea 2 for magazine 2

   musicians in woodland area

   holding instrument

   or close up shot  

Ideas of contents pages

Full image of model over shoulder shot.

Model pointing at contents

 Model wearing black and edited in to grey and black to blend with background

Close up shot

Contents will include a variety of promotions and story titles that relate to musical events and trends.

Holiday suggestions- places with theme parks, nightclubs (for 18 and above age groups), beaches, concerts, festivals. musical equiptment sale

Models will be promoting what they are wearing with small brief description to identify the brand

Social media icons and names in bottom corner 

Camera 
     Nikon camera
     The photo for the first magazine cover will be shot outside in portrait mode with the focus on the person and the background blurred.


photoshop experiments

Summary of Magazine

My magazine will be aimed towards the music demographic aged between 16 – 24. To address my target audience, I will include models represented to be well known musicians. I want my magazine to not just focus on one specific genre of music, but to include musicians from a variety of different backgrounds to draw in a wider range of people with different interests. I will select different outfits that resemble these people and the genre of music they represent, and the photographs will be taken in a casual and stable location with not much happening in the background, for example, outside too look like they are on stage in mid performance. I will edit my photographs using Adobe Photoshop to enhance the image and make the models the main focus by possibly blurring the backgrounds slightly. 

The front pages will be following a similar layout to “Q magazine” with titles of the content inside the magazine down the side of the pages. The contents will reflect the interests of the music demographic with news on famous musicians, recommendations to festivals and music events, music related products, and the latest releases of new music. The language used in the contents will be mostly formal to suit all categories of people as my target audience will be aimed at those who have a passion for music. My magazine will be called “GENRE” as this magazine doesn’t specify just one genre, it covers multiple. I think this is suitable as a title as it represents the magazine in one word, and it is simple, and relevant.

website 

   

     For my website i will be using 'WIX' and the overall theme is music so it will include information on artists, musical products for sale e.g. HEADPHONES, sound sound systems.  A dominant colour for the music industry is red for example, the Q magazine website, and the NME magazine website, so my website will follow this and buttons and underlinings will be red. 

Ideas

GENRE recommender (suggest readers what to listen too this week)
add video of festival from wireless, lewis Capaldi 
"About Wireless" with video next to it
link an Instagram with photos

    Website experiment

Roland Barthes semiotics theory

Roland Barthes was born in Cherbourg, France on November 12 1915, and he died on March 25 1980 in Paris and he was known as a French essayist and social and literacy critic on semiotics. Roland Barthes studied at the university of Paris which is where he took a degree in classical letters in 1939 and in. grammar and philology in 1943. In 1976 he became the first person to hold the chair of literacy semiology at the Collage of France. Roland Barthes believed in the five codes that semiotics used, The Hermeneutic/Enigma code, The Proairetic code, The Semantic code, The Symbolic code, and The Referential code. He believed that every narrative lies into several of the codes, and that there will be more than one of five codes that describe the meaning of text. For example, a sign. When we look at a drawing, a photo, or a word, it is known as a signifier as it is the thing/item, or the code that we ‘read’, then we see the idea or meaning being expressed by that signifier and we know that as being the signified. 

The five codes were used to narrow down the action of the text, The Hermeneutic/Enigma code is the way the story avoids telling the audience the truth or avoids revealing facts which creates mystery.  The Proairetic code is the way the tension is built up and the audience is left guessing what happens next. The Semantic code refers to any element in a text that suggest a particular or additional meaning by way of connotation (cultural/underlining meaning, what it symbolises) which the story suggests. The Symbolic code is a wider level of the semantic code as it organizes semantic meanings in to broader and deeper sets of meaning. For example, it is usually done with the use of antithesis which is where the new meaning arises out of the opposing and conflict ideas. The Referential code looks at the audience's cultural aspect as it indicates anything in the text which refers to an external body of knowledge which can be historical events, scientific discovery’s, and the cultural knowledge. 

Roland Barthes theory effects everyone but we are unconscious of it as we have all grown up adapting to and influenced to what different signs mean, for example, when driving along in a car and you come across a red light at the traffic lights we stop the car. This is because we automatically relate the colour red to stop, and this is the same with road signs as many have a red boarder that we automatically assume means danger.