Double page article flat plans

Contents page flat plan

Front cover flat plan

Flat-Plans

I have now designed my flatplans. I looked at other examples from the internet and used these to help me when creating my own. I used basic magazine features such as a masthead, images, bold text and on the contents page I used an A-Z index in order to make the navigation around the magazine easier. I will scan these into my computer and later load them onto the blog. My next task is to start creating my article, front cover and contents page along with taking my photographs that fit in with the theme of my magazine.

Uses and Gratifications

One of my tasks was to write a blog post on the uses and gratifications in media in society. I had to look at how this applied to a number of magazines I had recently looked at and how I would be able to include all of them into my own once it was created. To help me with this I used the website http://heworthmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/uses-and-gratifications-and.html . It included alot of helpful information that I could use in order to complete the last bit of the music magazine task successfully.

One of the objectives in this task was to create an appropriate reader profile. I had to look at the results I had receieved from my survey and base the profile around this. I inlcuded the colour pink which is related to girls in general society and included images that I would associate with teenage girls who are interested in music and social life. the images will draw in a reader as they might think they apply to them as they are both interested in the same things as what are included on the reader profile.