MUSIC MAGAZINE - prezi

MUSIC MAGAZINE - analysis

This is a cover of vibe magazine. It shows off Nicki Minaj’s personality within the cover by the bright colours and animated images.  It is aimed for females ages 14-20. This cover includes all convections of music magazines like the large masthead. Many cover lines and large front image.  The Title of the magazine portrays the genre of music, in this case VIBE gives a real R&B feel to the magazine straight away, and immediately tells you what artists will be featured. The large front image exposes who the magazine will feature this time and revel secrets and exclusive information inside. 

MUSIC MAGAZINE - research

vibe magazine is a R&B and Hip Hop music and entertainment magazine. Producer Quincy Jones launched vibe in 1993. however On June 30, 2009, it was announced that Vibe was shutting its doors and ceasing publication immediately,although according to Essence, Quincy Jones has stated he would like to keep it alive online.After shutting down, private equity investment fund InterMedia Partners, LP bought Vibe Magazine. They have said they "feel privileged to purchase and resurrect such a storied brand." They added Uptown magazine to Vibe's parent company. since then vibe has featured many famous artists such as Brandy, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Amerie, Jennifer Lopez, Keyshia Cole, Janet Jackson, Lil Wayne, The Fugees, Eminem, T.I., R. Kelly and Michael Jackson. as well as devoting its pages to these artists vibe also used pages to photo spreads displaying high-end designer clothing as well as sportswear by urban labels such as Rocawear and Fubu, within these pages vibe consistently made an effort to feature models of all eternities in these pages. 

in 2004 there was a new edition called VIBE vixen, specifically designed for females,  and includes fashion, beauty, dating, entertainment and societal issues. by creating this new magazine is portrays how well the magazine is going, it must be producing a fair, constant amount of money with a large audience that subscribe to the magazine monthly. 

http://www.vibevixen.com/

Student Magazine - Contents Page

This is my completed contents page for my student magazine.

Student Magazine - Flat Plan

This is the flat plan of my contents page. it shows where the masthead, cover lines and images are going to be. it also shows the type of colour i will use.

preliminary task

this is a practice cover of my student magazine. i learned how in insert images and texts. i have also learned how to change colours, add effects and change angles. I've included a small voucher on the bottom left which i now want to use in my final design. for my final cover i will use the same template but perhaps add another image and use a better main image.

Preliminary task - Brief

The target audience for my magazine is the new students of Southdowns college, and will include all sorts of information that they may not know about the college, and perhaps useful things like a map, bus times and a guide to moodle. i have had a few ideas for the cover lines such as: moodle madness, delicious cafe snacks and Free handy map!

i also had ideas about the masthead saying SDC and you, your college, or Your SDC. i was also thinking of using a blue type colour, where the target  audience is aimed at neither boy or girl but in fact both, so the main colour cant be too feminine or too manly. I then came up with this to create a final idea of the fonts and colours i would like to use, i didn't want anything too confusing and extravagant as it would only portray that its the same inside.

This specific new students magazine will be published at the very beginning of every September being available from course conformation. however different versions will be available throughout the year like a Christmas, Easter and an exam results special. 

i will be using a medium close up on my cover of a young happy student willing to pose. i will bring my own camera and use in different areas of the college like the LRC and the Fitness centre.i will also use this time to take a few images for my contents page, possibly of the college itself and its fantastic facilities. the colour scheme will be blue white and black.

This magazine will be made in an A4 format with a small cut out handy map for the new students to take out and carry around with them. 

Task 5 - Skill Audit

AS Media Coursework: Skills Audit

Using a computer

	YES	NO
Are you confident on a PC?	*
Can you insert text and image into a Word document?	*
Can you find relevant documents and articles on the internet?	*
Can you find images of different sizes on the internet?	*
Have you ever used a Mac?	*
On a Mac, do you know how to open an application?	*
On a Mac, do you know how to cut & paste text?	*
On a Mac, do you know how to copy images from the internet?	*
Do you know how to scan images into a Mac?		*
Do you know how to upload photographs to a Mac?	*
Do you know how to Bluetooth files?		*
Are you confident using Powerpoint?	*
Do you currently have a Blog?	*
Do you know how to burn data to a disc?	*
Do you know how to upload files to email or a Blog?	*

Taking Photographs

	YES	NO
Do you have your own digital camera?	*
Does your mobile phone have a camera?	*
Do you know how to take photographs in B&W?	*

Using Applications

	YES	NO
Have you ever used Photoshop?	*
Have you ever used InDesign?		*
Are you able to crop an image?	*
Are you able to apply any special effects to an image?	*

Do you know how to scan images into a Mac?

If you have a document-feeding scanner, you can scan several pages at once. If you have a flatbed scanner, you can scan many images at once, store each image in its own file, and straighten any images that were crooked on the bed during scanning.

To scan an image:

1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Print & Fax.
2. Double-click your scanner in the list at the left.
3. Click Scanner.
4. Choose how to scan your images

Do you know how to Bluetooth files?

To turn on Bluetooth:

1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Bluetooth.
2. Select the On checkbox. To allow other Bluetooth enabled devices to “discover” your computer and send files, also select the Discoverable checkbox.
3. Select “Show Bluetooth status in the menu bar” so you can quickly send files and perform other actions using the Bluetooth status menu in the menu bar.

To send files using Bluetooth:

1. Choose Send File from the Bluetooth status menu in the menu bar.
   If the Bluetooth menu isn’t visible, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Bluetooth, and select “Show Bluetooth status in the menu bar.”
2. In the window that appears, select the file you want to send, and then click Send.
3. Select the device you want to send the file to, and then click Send.
   If you don’t see the device you want to send the file to, make sure the device has Bluetooth turned on and is discoverable.

http://www.apple.com/support/

Task 4 - IPC case study

it is hard to tell exactly how far IPC's roots stretch back into the midst of publishing history is a complicated business. The International Publishing Corporation Ltd was formed in 1963 following the merger of the UK's three leading magazine publishers – George Newnes, Odhams Press and Fleetway Publications – who came together with the Mirror Group to form the International Publishing Corporation (IPC) and IPC Magazines was created  in 1968.  The IPC story has taken many fascinating twists and turns in that 150-year period.

this is a story board i took from the ipc website and picked out all the key points in their history.

http://www.ipcmedia.com/about/companyhistory/

The 1800s

• The Field launched in 1853 and within a year became the largest newspaper in Europe, with 24 pages. It had its own correspondent throughout the Crimean War and its November 18, 1854 issue ran a series of personal narratives of those who took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade.

• Eight further IPC titles that are still thriving today were launched in the late 1800s: Country Life, Horse & Hound, Shooting Times, Yachting World, Amateur Gardening, Cycling Weekly, Amateur Photographer and The Railway Magazine.

• Competitions played a key role in sales promotions for all early IPC titles, and none more so than the sensational prize offered by the fledgling magazine, Answers, in 1889 – the then unheard of fortune of £1 a week for life to any reader who could guess the amount of gold and silver in the Bank of England on a given date.

The early 1900s

• The opening of the new century saw the arrival of three titles set to become part of IPC Media many years later – Yachting Monthly, Cage Birds and Motor Boat.

• The first of IPC's four traditional women's weeklies, Woman's Weekly, launched in November 1911 under the editorial banner "our motto – practical and useful". The same year, golfers north of the border got the first copies of their own new title, Golf Monthly.

• Homes & Gardens became one of the first magazines to be published after the First World War. Its early issues were distinctly down to earth, with features ranging from how to 'Wash at home with a machine', to the shrewd idea of 'combining the kitchen with the scullery'.

The 1920s

• Odhams launched the new monthly Ideal Home in opposition to Newnes' Homes & Gardens. Its first editor, Captain GC Clarke, wanted it to strive against "the erection of hideous houses which go to mar the beauty of what would under any other circumstances be the most ideal and beautiful environment," referring to the government's promise in 1921 to build 100,000 houses as part of its post-war planning.

• Woman & Home entered the market in 1926, and by its third birthday in 1929 had grown to a steady 144 pages, majoring on fiction.

The 1930s

• The 1932 launch of Woman's Own heralded the arrival of one of IPC's traditional 'Big Two', with the appearance of Woman following just five years later. Newnes promoted its first issue of Woman's Own with a free cover-mounted gift – three skeins of wool with every copy! The first issue of Woman in 1937 cost 2d and was the first full-colour magazine at that price.

• Other titles launched in this decade included Caravan, Stamp Magazine and Prediction.

The 1940s

• A key wartime role was played by IPC's women's weeklies, keeping up the morale of Britain's women and supplying an essential information service on behalf of the Government. Many of the Woman covers from the wartime years are regarded as classic works of art in their own right, while wartime Woman's Own covers played their own part in rallying women to the wartime cause.

The 1950s

• The upsurge in the music scene heralded the arrival of New Musical Express in 1952. Launched amidst the heady days of Radio Luxembourg, NME set the ball rolling with its compilation of the first official UK record chart – topping that bill as Britain's very first number one was Al Martino's Here In My Heart.

• Following the arrival of ITV in 1955, TVTimes, operating out of a tiny office in High Holborn, published its first issue – in black & white – covering the new commercial stations. The cover stars were Lucille Ball and Patricia Dainton, star of the 15-minute daily soap opera, Sixpenny Corner. Originally published by the ITV companies, TVTimes was acquired by IPC in 1989 in the run-up to the deregulation of the TV listings market.

The 1960s

• Life for magazine staff would never be the same again following the 1963 formation of the International Publishing Corporation, bringing together the three rival magazine companies, Newnes, Fleetway and Odhams Press. Traditional competitors found themselves all working for the same parent company – Ideal Home and Homes & Gardens, Woman and Woman's Own, to name but a few.

• 1969 saw the birth of a new football weekly – Shoot! – launched to capitalise on the upsurge of interest in the game generated by England's World Cup victory three years earlier.

• Other IPC titles making their debut in the Swinging Sixties included Rugby World, World Soccer, Angler's Mail and Family Circle.

The 1970s

• The Reed Group acquires IPC in 1970 to form the giant global corporation, Reed International.

• IPC welcomed the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to its King's Reach Tower HQ. HRH drops in on Horse & Hound, Country Life, Woman and Woman's Own, while Prince Philip makes a solo visit to Angler's Mail and Yachting Monthly.

• Not a lot of people know it, but IPC was at the forefront of the pre-recorded video market with the formation of the IPC video division in 1976. One notable early launch was the home video of Joan Collins' The Stud.

• Succesful launches included Aeroplane Monthly, Sporting Gun and SuperBike.

The 1980s

• IPC announces the formation of European Magazines Ltd., a joint venture company with Groupe Marie Claire to launch the UK edition of the international title in 1988.

• In a scheme to encourage and honour editorial excellence within the company, the IPC Editorial Awards are introduced, now a key event in the company calendar.

• IPC embarks upon the biggest sales campaign in its history, spearheaded by 21 of its top editors – the first ad features 'Four of Britain's Most Influential People' – the editors of its women's weeklies.

• The launch issue of Essential is a sell-out, and after just six issues launches in France as Avantages, in conjunction with Groupe Marie Claire. Other new IPC titles on the newstand include 4x4, Eventing, Chat, Mizz, Motor Caravan Magazine, Wedding & Home, Country Homes & Interiors, Classic Boat, Model Collector, Motor Boats Monthly, Practical Parenting, VolksWorld and Bird Keeper.

The 1990s

• With the deregulation of the TV listings market, What's on TV makes its triumphant entrance onto the scene in 1991. In the face of fierce competition, it goes on to become the UK's best-seling magazine, a position it still enjoys today.
• In one of the most dramatic arrivals in publishing history, revolutionary lads title Loaded hits the newsstands in 1994. Hailed as the outstanding launch of recent years, it spawns countless clones and opens up the whole young men's market.
• The women's weeklies go into overdrive, with IPC acquiring Here! from Gruner & Jahr and merging it into Now, launched in 1996.
• NME becomes the first major UK music title to get its own internet site – nme.com – destined to go on to become Europe's most popular music website.

• IPC Magazines is sold to Cinven for £860m in 1998, one of the largest management buyouts in UK history.

• IPC Magazines continues to evolve still further in 1999, with the formation of five limited companies based on the former publishing groups – IPC Connect, IPC SouthBank, IPC tx, IPC ignite! and IPC Country & Leisure Media.

The 2000s

• New millennium, new name – IPC Magazines is renamed IPC Media in 2000, a new identity to go hand-in-hand with a strategy based on being a brand-centric business.

• Time Inc. acquires IPC Media for a cool £1.15bn in October 2001 – the biggest magazine deal ever seen in the UK and the biggest transatlantic media deal of our time.

• ignite! launches Nuts, the world's first men's weekly magazine, in January 2004. Backed by an £8 million marketing investment, it's the biggest launch in IPC's history.

• After 30 years in King's Reach Tower, IPC announces in May 2004 that it is to move into brand new offices next to the Tate Modern in 2007.

• IPC Connect unveils the new generation Real Life weekly for women – Pick Me Up in January 2005. The launch is backed by a £6million marketing investment and with the largest sampling exercise in UK magazine history.

• IPC tx unveils TV easy in April 2005 - the third major launch in 16 months from IPC Media’s innovations programme, initiated by chief executive Sylvia Auton in 2003. The magazine is Britain’s very first compact paid-for TV Listings weekly and is backed by a £10million marketing investment.

• In Feb 2007 IPC Connect launches LOOK – the UK’s first glossy high street fashion and celebrity style weekly magazine. In a joint venture with Groupe Marie Claire, and backed by an £18m investment, LOOK is IPC’s biggest ever launch.

• IPC Media develops great new digital media brands such as housetohome, goodtoknow and shooting uk

• In November 2007, IPC Inspire acquires TrustedReviews.com – the website that delivers original, expert reviews about consumer electronics & IT equipment across 21 different product categories

• IPC Ignite acquires Mousebreaker in June 2008 – the essential free-to-play gaming site. Featuring over 200 online flash-based games, Mousebreaker leads the free casual games sector in the UK.

The 2010s

• In January 2010, IPC Media restructured around three key audience groups: men, mass-market women and up-market women.

some of their well known publications

TVTimes is one of the UK’s best-known magazine brands, with over fifty years of TV heritage. It enjoys an excellent reputation within the TV industry and has enviable access to Britain’s favourite stars and their programmes. After major research and development, TVT has been refreshed to reveal a modern and vibrant look, with a clear vision of what today's reader wants from their favourite television magazine. There’s even greater emphasis on big star interviews, more soap coverage than any other TV weekly title, and the most easy to use digital listings for simpler navigation. TVTimes is positioned in the premium sector as a quality TV weekly magazine, popular with all the family

Nuts is the number one selling men's lifestyle magazine in the UK, accounting for two out of every five men's lifestyle mags purchased. Launched in 2004, Nuts has established itself as the biggest brand in men's media. Nuts is PPA's Consumer Brand of the Year 2009.

NME has become a truly unique multi-platform media proposition. Across the magazine, nme.com, NMETV, NME Radio and the brand's live events and awards, NME reaches over one million music fans every week. NME is the longest published and most respected music weekly in the world. Every week it gives its readers the most exciting, most authoritative coverage of the very best in contemporary music, including award winning features, the latest releases, live reviews, the definitive guide to the best new bands in its Radar section, as well as a regular look back through the magazine's incredible 58 year heritage.