When creating my contents page I wanted to keep the conventions that music magazines I looked at had which was to group information and place it in Regulars and Features boxes which was set out for the reader to understand. I was inspired by a the style of the Kerrang magazine and Q in which they were clearly set out yet kept the house style and found this looked effective.
Whilst analysing magazines I became aware that lots of articles about gigs and upcoming acts made the majority of their contents and so I decided to keep with this idea and include these types of articles with information on similar events.
I deliberated on a few different ideas for the photography which was going to be placed on the contents and decided after trying out different styles that one single photograph, if taken correctly and then edited to look more professional, would achieve an effective outcome. I then used this photo as part of a feature and wrote about the artists contribution to the magazine which was part of the layout presentation.
I represented the month's issue positively by including bands and upcoming events that I know are popular with the target audience and would interest readers. A number of different bands are included in the features column as the bands we interview vary each month. Due to the fact the acts that are covered change every month it gives the audience the suspense of finding out who will be included in the next issue and give them something to look forward too. The acts I included in the magazine fit all different eras of our genre music so that there is a variety of old to new acts which create the music they love. Creating a radial analysis of current music magazines allowed me to identify all the different styles used to make their features stand out, so I stuck to the conventions of Kerrang and Q again by including a couple of sentences underneath each story representing them all in a informal way so that the readers feel more comfortable reading about what the magazine includes and at the same time gaining a summary of the interesting points the stories contain.
I also used the information I gained from the radial analysis to make sure that I hit the correct target audience. 'Enlist the Playlist' encapsulates the idea that we have a young audience who are familiar with technology and use mp3s like iPods which include music playlists.
'Glastonbury Festival' is a perfect example of targeting the magazines audience as it is a festival which is mainly made up of youthful people who love music, the same people who read our magazine and want to find out the latest news for Glastonbury, in which thousands will be attending in the summer months. This stories also provides an inadequacy and solution from Richard Dyer's theory of Utopian Solutions; boredom is solved by introducing excitement into the lives of the reader, which is exactly what the weekend festival would bring to someone who is bored of their ordinary day to day way of living.
'Top 20 Albums of 2010' is another form of Utopian Solutions by providing clarity to those who are confused about what music they should be listening to in order to keep up to date.
Blumier and Katz Uses and Gratifications is used in my contents page to offer escape of the audiences 'daily grind' and to instead, learn about the lives of music stars and the world they live in with their fame.
'Entity News' informs and educates the readers of Entity magazine by updating them on the latest news going on in the music world which involves gigs, artist collaborations and all other information related to act promotions and releases.
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