Finally sorted out my band. Got some photos from their gig last night and am going to get the last of my photos today and do my interview.

Update!

A problem has accoured as the band I was going to us to photograph and interview have now become unavaliable and I am now in the process of talking to another band that I know and am waiting for some feedback on it all and hopefully get some picture of them playing live this Friday (25th Febuary) and then take ever more photos of them and interview them on Sunday (27th Febuary).

Masthead Research - Evaluation.

I have spent today researching into the font for my Masthead. After searching through loads of different fonts I finally narrowed it down to the 4 I thought would go best with the kind of magazine I am aiming to create. After realizing there was no way I was going to be able to decide myself and my friend and teacher debating about which they thought was the best, I decided I would make it into a question to which I asked people to pick which they thought would be the best font. I asked my media class (which consisted of 16 people including the teacher), I decided asking them would be a good idea seeing as they are all doing a music magazine the same as me and they have the same knowledge I do on Mastheads and what works well, so from a "professional" point of views I decided asking them would be a good idea.I then decided that I would ask all the people who did my questionnaire to choose so that I could get it from a target audience point of view. 

These were the ending results:

Font 1 - 4/28

Font 2 - 2/28

Font 3 - 5/28

Font 4 - 17/28

Font 4 is by no doubt the most popular font of the four.

Even though font 4 is the most popular I still really like Font 3, so when it comes to putting them against my front cover I may use both and see which one looks better there and then and from there decide and carry on with the development like colour scheme. 

Links to previous posts:

Original "Masthead Research" post - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research.html

Masthead Research - Media Class - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research-my-media-class.html

Masthead Research - People from Questionnaire - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research-people-from-my.html

Masthead Research - Final Results - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research-final-results.html

Masthead Research - Final Results.

Original "Masthead Research" post - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research.html
Masthead Research - Media Class - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research-my-media-class.html
Masthead Research - People from Questionnaire - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research-people-from-my.html

So, I have done quite a bit of research now into my masthead, I have asked 2 different sets of people with 2 different views towards my task, these can be seen in the links above. I have now put these results together to get a final set of results.

As you can see the results are as following:
Font 1 - 4/28
Font 2 - 2/28
Font 3 - 5/28
Font 4 - 17/28

Masthead Research - People from my questionnaire.

Original "Masthead Research" post - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research.html
Masthead Research - Media class - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research-my-media-class.html

Here is the next part to my Masthead research, I have now asked my media class and the people who did my questionnaire for me, which font they prefer the best, there are links above to the original post and to the results of the Media class post, here is the results from the people in my questionnaire.

Again, as following:
Font 1 - 2/12
Font 2 - 1/12
Font 3 - 4/12
Font 4 - 5/12

Masthead Research - My Media Class.

Original "Masthead Research" post - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/masthead-research.html

This is part 2 of my Masthead research, I took my 4 fonts that I couldn't decide between and decided I was ask some people about it, first of I ask my media class which consisted of 15 students (not including myself) and Ms Burne (So, that is 16 altogether). I then added this onto my font research and came up with this.

 

The results of this are as followed:
Font 1 - 2/16
Font 2 - 1/16
Font 3 - 1/16
Font 4 - 12/16

Obviously Font 4 is the most popular font.

This is just the opinion of my media class, I though I would ask them as they are all doing the same task as me just different genres and some similar. My next step is too ask the 12 people who I got to do my questionnaire to see which they prefer and then add the details together in to one file and see from there which is the most popular one.

I hope to upload my questionnaire one within the next few days.

Analysis of Contents Pages

Just like for the front covers I have done an indepth analysis of the Contents pages. I have once again looked at the 4 magazines. Terrorizer and Metalhammer, my magazines of choice and then Kerrang and NME due to the results of my questionnaire.

Analysis of Contents Pages

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Link to Front Cover Analysis - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/magazine-front-cover-analysis.html

Masthead Research

I decided on the name of my magazine to be "BREAKDOWN" as I am creating a metal magazine. (Breakdown  relates to metal as in most metal songs there are parts where the music suddenly gets a lot heavrier, faster and has a deeper sound, this is called a breakdown.)
I decided to look at some fonts on the internet for ideas on what I could use for my masthead font and these are the 4 I have narrowed it down too.

Magazine front cover analysis

This presentation is an indepth analysis of the 4 front covers of the magazines I have been looking at. Metalhammer and Terrorizer being the mains one and Kerrang and NME as extra ones due to the results of my questionnaire.

Magazine front cover analysis

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Link to Contents Page Analysis - http://joannenmbec08.blogspot.com/2011/02/analysis-of-contents-pages.html

Reader Profile

Thanks to my questionnaire I can not create a readers profile for the perfect person that my magazine will be aimed at.

William is an 18 years old. He lives at home with his mum, dad, brother Josh and 3 cats. William has always been a  bright student and a massive metal fan. He likes bands such as Municiple Waste, Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Motorhead, Machine head, Slipknot and Oh! Sleeper, seeing he listens to these bands he spend a lot of time reading Metalhammer and Terrorizer and maybe on occasion depending what the issue is about he will read Kerrang, but that is very rare.  He often gets shouted at by him mum and dad for having his music to loud or for the kind of language they can hear coming out of his speakers.His room is covered in clothes, food packets and magazines, his walls are covered top to bottom of posters of metal bands and the occasional guilty pleasure band that he wouldn't really tell people he likes. His CD collection is endless along with his collection of horror movies and comedies. His mum is always having a go at him to tidy up but his idea of tidy up is to push as much as he can under his bed then end up pulling it all out again to find something.William has just finished college and has got himself a part time job in a music shop. As he studied Music in college along with Media, English Language and English Literature, a music shop was his perfect environment. He got this job because he was saving up to go to a music festival called Wacken, that is held in Germany every year. Even though he has always been to Download and Reading, they weren't completely his scene and Wacken is a festival based all around heavy metal so him and his friends were planning on going. William will soon be starting University in Canterbury in Kent where he will study Music and English language as he would like to go into music journalism when he is older.His hobbies are going out with his friends to the pub, staying in and getting some friends over or practising with his band in which he plays the bass (along with guitar and piano). Him and his band play a lot of local gigs in metal clubs and pubs where they normally end up drinking quite a bit.  Going to gigs and festivals is part of Williams life, he would probably have nothing to do if he didn't and seeing his fiends are just as in to it as he is (as you can tell from the photo) a lot of money must be spent between them. Fashion to William isn't very important, he has hair down to the middle of his back that is probably impossible to get a brush through and when it comes to getting dressed in the morning a band t-shirt and some baggy jeans is all that is needed for him.

Magazine research with photos

This presentation is a quick brief summary of the magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads. It has some very simple annotation which will be described in more detail in some of my next posts which will be even more in-depth in to the front cover, contents page and double page spreads individually and will explain more about the magazines I am using and will also start to explain how my magazine will look.

Magazine research with photos

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