Main Task: Double Page Spread FINAL

Main Task: Front Cover FINAL

Main Task: Unmanipulated Photos

I chose this image for the front cover of my magazine. Even there is a glare in the sunglasses the image fits in the genre of R&B/Hip Hop and this image is strong and will stand out even if there is cover lines around it.

















I picked this image for my double page spread. The reason I picked it because the eye contact and lighting is strong and the lighting blends well with the image.











I chose this image for my contents because this image is believable that a music artist is in work and fits in the genre of R&B/ Hip Hop as he is holding the mike in a particular way.











This will be another image for my contents page as it is featuring the main artist on the magazine. Also it is a in focus image and is different from both the front cover and double page spread images.

















I chose this image for my contents page because the lighting is good and brings out the subjects even though there is no editing it looks an edited image making it strong.











I will not be using this image because there is a shadow on the background of the image, the background is also folded in the left of the image and pose is not strong.











I will not be using this image, even though the pose and the lighting are okay part of the background is a window and it makes the editing harder.

Main Task: FC, CP, DPS Mock Ups

Main Task: Mood Board

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After

I redesigned my mood board because my original mood board didn't look together and the images was too rigid. Also I felt that there wasn't enough images and there was more to represent Hip Hop/R&B.

Main Task: Case Study of a Publishing House

IPC Media publishes over 60 different titles and reach two thirds of UK women and 42% UK men almost reaching to 26 million UK adults. They have an array of different styles and genres of magazine varying from TV Easy to Amateur Gardening. Also they publish all genres magazines for example Television, “Soap Life”, Sport, “World Soccer” and Women Clothing, “In Style” and many more but they miss out the genre of music which is a very huge genre in the UK. They include magazines for upper class, lower class people youth, adult, men and women.

IPC Media have separated there audiences into two different sections which are men and women. The Women audience is there mass market as they have the famous titles “Marie Claire” and “Look”. The audience is for the UK and generally between the ages of 20 to 40. But there is the up market section for UK women which would stereotypically be for the posh or elder women and then there is Gossip/TV and fashion magazines which are stereotypically read by a younger audience.

On the other side we have the men audience. Again they target the men from the UK. The target audience age would be from the ages 30 to 55. They also separate the audiences in the men’s section which involves the genre sports including magazines like “World Soccer” and “Golf”. The audience for sport would be all men as stereotypically men are into sport. However there are men lifestyle magazines like “Nuts” and “NME”, the audience for the younger men for example a man that is 33 years old.

As IPC media prints many titles they target different audience with each magazine. This is so they can get as much readers as possible, which makes IPC Media more popular and showing that they don’t specialise in one genre, and the end result is that their financial market will increase. Each magazine has its own audience. For example music magazines would have an audience of people who like music and a magazine of the genre sport would have an audience of mainly men. In IPC Media’s case they have audiences of men and woman from about the ages 30 to 60. So they have a wide span of people but miss out on the younger audiences.

IPC Media is separated into five divisions which are IPC Advertising; they advertise their range of prints and online brands to 27 million UK adults and 20 million users every month. The second division is IPC Connect, this division deals with the eight million mass market women which is 49% of the market. IPC Inspire is the third division which is the men’s division with a portfolio of 38 brands for example "Country Life" and "The Field". Fourth is Marketforce which is the division's UK’s leading news trade sales and Distribution Company, successfully marketing 23% of the total magazine category. Finally there is IPC Southbank which is the upmarket women’s division and mainly focuses in two key markets which are Fashion/Women's Lifestyle and Home Interests.

Main Task: Profiling Your Audience

The Fame Reader: John is 19, a Passionate music fan it is entwined in every day of his life. He is inspired by modern hip hop and he is up to date with all of the charts. This influences his fashion trend and his peer group. He has played the keyboard since primary school and is inspired to carry on because of the world of music. He is in full time education in university studying music technology and hoping to go on and become a music designer for hip hop and R&B. John is a very sociable character and communicates very well but he enjoys his individuality creating music with no distractions. He is knowledgeable about the media of music as he listens, reads and watches all sources of music he can get his hands on.