Front page quickes 1

This magazine is one I want to replicate profusely.

First off the colour scheme is magnificent. NME use only primary colours and black and white. Primary colours have a natural bond in the eye making them more appealing towards people. This ideal for marketing companies as appealing to the audience is of upmost importance. Companies like Google and Burger king use this because it works. Primary colours are more families thus less aggressive appealing to everyone. Also the addition of black and white add a neutral element which in the case of a variety magazine is ideal. Black and white are the most common colours seen and can create pleasant themes like retro.

Through further research I managed to discover on a colour chart that links human emotion with colours.

The chart shows great coronation between brands and colour. DELL who manufacture PCs use blue as they want you to trust in the product as PCs are expensive and a reliable TRUSTWORTHY PC is ideal. Nickelodeon use Orange as that exerts excitement, as a children TV channel that is great! A child wants to be exited when it comes to entertainment. Overall I concluded that colours are put there to show emotion and that is why I want to replicate NME's approach. 

Red: Red is youthful and bold. As my target audience is the young student 16 - 24 red is ideal for exclaiming and presenting. Red means to stand out so using it as a header or mainly in the logo has become a necessity.

Yellow: Yellow means clarity and warmth. The best use of this will be sub heading as that's what subheadings do, the clarify. The use of yellow will result in a positive and clear message.

Blue: Blue means trust. Magazines are often sold in subsection. Having trust in a magazine is needed as the user doesn't know what they have paid for until they have opened the magazine. All they have to go one is an image and a few headings. I will use blue for larger sections of block colour if needs be.

Black and white: Black and white are the most common colours and I will use them for numerous important jobs. Black I will use to emphasis and bolden creating a highlight effect. I will be using it close with white as the contrast is heavy creating a wonderous merging synegy. White i will mostly use for text as tha is a convention of magazines. I will avoid the use of white is large spaces and use it near darkned colours.

Name that Mag (feat Strawpoll and Facebook)

Day 1:
I am going to create a survey to find out what my magazine will be called! Using the website straw poll I managed to create a quick survey for the naming of my magazine. Straw poll allows users to create a survey in minutes. The top picture was me after I had filled out each section. I entered all of my ideas into the straw poll and I made a title to. before publishing however I made multiple poll choices on so users could select multiple ideas if they are indecisive.

Strawpoll is unique in the world of online surveys, unlike survey monkey, only one question can be asked. This is ideal for me as i only have one. I posted the surveys URL onto my facebook Newsfeed. This allows all my friends and acquaintances to vote.

After 10 minutes I had received 13 votes

So far In-D is winning by 3 votes. Strawpoll shows data in two forms. Pie chart (percentage) and horizontal bar (direct digits). I am going to leave my poll up for 1 hour and come back to it. I will close blogger and edit this post in due time.

Hello again. I have checked my poll and I am now up to 22 votes!

In-D still seems to be the most popular. Musiczine is now tied with National tunes for second however and the other two are in a rut. I plan to leave the poll up over night and see if i can get a clear winner.

Day 2:

A massive 41 votes over night left me chuffed and a clear winner beating number 2 (independent music) by 100%! I will be selecting this for my magazine name!

Indie impressions (feat: Wordle)

Hi readers,Today I did a few rounds of my classroom and I gathered words related to indie music based. I asked my class mates what words they would use to describe an indie band, indie music and name a few bands. I then imputed all of my data into a website Wordle.

http://www.wordle.net/

Wordle is a website which allows users to create a netting of words and displays them is a fun and creative way. I used Wordle to represent my data because is it fun and reliable. Wordle offers numerous ways to display data, colour layout and font are the factors users can change o make their project their own.I created my own Autumn theme because I thought it looked good. I used a playful font as well to go with it. To find a suitable font I used the sites randomize feature which allowed me to search through a variety of fonts. This was useful as I was unsure about which font to use. I chose a mix of horizontal and vertical text as I wanted the information to have a random element making it more enthralling. 

Data I received was mixed I did not have much overlapping data. This is something I can benefit from for my magazine, a coloration of uncertainty and randomness is something I implement in my final piece. A lot of the words mentioned were similar however, edgy, quirky and original are all very samey as they mean roughly the same thing. I think I will play with the idea of an original concept into my piece, most likely in terms of the band as i still want a magazine which follows codes and conventions of other magazines. Two words, Quirky and alternative were mentioned more than once. Wordle highlights this data by increasing its size.

    

Wordle has really helped me present my data and i will see you guys tomorrow. 

Beginnings

Hi, my name is Adam Shorthouse as this is going to be the blog I use to represent and display the on goings of the designing and manufacturing of my magazine. I will be creating a front page, contents page and a double page spread in the genre of music focused magazine. My Blog (http://adamsmusicmag.blogspot.co.uk/) will be the hub of all things relating to building up my magazine from nothing. I will be using programmes like Photoshop and InDesign to create this piece.

I will have to design my magazine from scratch, I will have to make a brand, take professional photos and write up the content within the magazine. I will also need to look at the corporate side of things, like targeting a specific audience and building the magazine around them.

I will also be planning my entire piece. I will be using a number of techniques to display content in the likes of slideshows, videos and artistic methods will mean i can display information and content in a variety of fun and creative ways.

By the end of the project I will be left with a final draft, a rough draft and a blog which will be documenting the entire project. I am hoping that the final product will live up to other magazines standards by having the same codes and conventions.