evaluation

here some photos i took but did not use.

practice contents page

this is my contents page.

here i have created my contents page for my practice magazine using in design i have used the same colours as my front cover as in greens and blues but i could of made it more interesting by adding some puffs and plugs and some other colours i would choose white if so. i also used the same text fonts as i did on the cover page.

practice magazine cover page.

here is my practice magazine cover i have created using in design.

for this cover page of a college magazine i went out around the college and took pictures of my two friends in different places to try and get the idea across that the collage is a happy place to be in for learning and that they are happy to study here as well. on my cover page i wanted to show that this was associated with southdown's college so i used the southdown's colours of blue, greens and white. And also as you can see i used puffs and plugs to try and draw the target audience in with give aways of what current students may want or need. To improve my cover i could use less of the colours or have some more draw your eyes into the magazine colours such as reds. apart from this i believe my cover page is good.

here is my flat plan for my contents page.

here are my photos i took to use as my front cover photo for my collage magazine.

flat design for magazine

here is my template design for my magazine.

here i have had a go at using indesign and this is my practise magazine cover. 

IPC case study

what types of magazine and target audiences has IPC been associated with over the years?

the IPC has been associated over the years with many different magazines from the 1800 it has been associated with-

-horse and hound

-shooting times

-yachting world

-amateur gardening

-cycling weekly

-amateur photographer

-the railway magazine

the target audience for these magazines in the 1800's would have been widely read by middle age men with the interest in sports, cultural interest and photography. from this it shows us that the IPC targeted middle classed men the reason being is because these magazines are all associated around men and middle class because sports and the other things these magazines are listed above are meant to be viewed by wealthier men then others.

in the new century there were some different titles that then became associated with IPC in the 1900's to the 1960's such as-

-yachting monthly

-motor boat

-woman's weekly

-golf monthly

-woman & home

-woman's own

-woman

-Angler's mail

the IPC has continued to target people with the intrest with in sport as you can see with the magazines yachting monthly, motor boat, Angler's and golf monthly. but as you can also see the IPC has chosen to target woman aswell with there magazines such as woman's weekly, woman &home, woman's own and woman.

from the 1970's to the 2000 IPC associated with more magazines such as-

-sporting gun

-motor caravan

-wedding homes

-country homes & interiors

-classic boats

-motor boats monthly

-practical painting 

-bird keeper

from these new magazines you can see that IPC has continued there target audience around middle aged men and woman but have increased the amount of magazine titles.

why might IPC be an appropriate publisher for a new music magazine?

the IPC would be an appropriate publisher because over the years as you can see it has targeted many different types of magazines for example you can see that they have targeted man and woman in there magazines such as 'woman's own' and m'motor caravan' so from this the IPC shows they can target different types of audience easily and will be able to make a new music magazine and have success from it.

what sorts of genres of music/types of magazines might they be likely to publish?

if the IPC were to publish a music magazine it would most likely be an old style music magazine with all the old rock songs party songs and possibly classical but i think it will have artists like 'queen' and 'ABBA' published inside as the IPC haven't had a high persentge of magazine sails and this genre of music will be easily published to the age range they usually publish to.

why might other publishers like Bauer be appropriate?

Bauer would also be an appropriate publisher as this also shows that it has a history in selling magazines back dating into the 1875's selling over 38 million magazines weekly showing that they have experience in selling there magazines and know how to attract to there target audience. Bauer publishes different types of magazines such as 'FHM, heat and grazia'. the magazine heat target audience is working class woman with an interest in gossip celebrity gossip and how to look good were as FHM is targeted at middle aged men and young men Grazia on the other hand is an Italian magazine and has a slimier target audience to heat. now these magazine are all on high demand and this shows that Bauer is an appropriate publisher because it shows us that they know how to lead there target audience in and buy the magazine.

How do magazines appeal to there target audience?

how do magazine's appeal to there target audience?

for this i will be talking about the target audience for the magazine kerrang and how they appeal this. 

this magazine is directed at a particular type of target audience that have a certain interest in old metal new metal and rock music. this magazine age rage's between 14-25 year old and sometimes older. the magazine attempts to appeal to this particular group by using features on there front cover to draw them in. such as they use puffs and plugs to advertise things with in the article for example on the magazine above it uses a puff and plug with a black circle witch represents the theme of the magazine and in bold capital letter writing says, THE UK'S BIGGEST... and so on.The name placing on the magazine is half clear so they all know what it is. a famous celebrate that relates to the type of music on the front with bold sans serif writing in front introducing the artist and giving you a glimpse of what is inside the article. 

the colours of the blacks and the red can help appeal to the kind of music type. The layout is also used to help attract the audience. It uses photos to help draw in the audience as they are going to be used in the articles making people want to read them. This magazine is relatively cheap so people can afford it helping to make this magazine be attractive to the target audience as young age teenagers will not have a lot of money to go spending lots on to a magazine.
(talk about coulture of goths and how magazign advertises to them)

to what extent should magazines be held responsible for social ramifications of the representations they offer?

To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations they offer?

there are carton magazines specifically aimed at teenage girl and appeal to them in carton ways. such as magazines like, Cosmo girl, bliss, shout, sugar and teen vogue. here are what there covers look like. these magazines all take a huge effect on teenage girls. all the covers have a celebrity on front that could be an idle to one of the readers, and also they extent of fashion sexual looks and free give aways that can make you feel insecure.

these magaiznes influence teenage girls in a bad way. making them grow up to quick wearing to much makeup going out drinking and being to sexualised. but is it completely the magazines and media's fault. in teen magazine such as the once above they are partly to blame for the way teen age girls are represented for example on the covers of teenage magazine they show very famous celebrity maybe the idol of teenage girls or a teen age celebrity crush on the cover but are placed in either a sexualised pose or in shouts case on the one above not very much clothing. and girls would want to be like there idle or act in a way they believe someone like "Justin Beiber" will like. magazines that are produced in aim at young teenagers fail to uphold there guidelines they are meant to follow in effect creates sexualisation within young teenagers. for though there are other forms of media that effect this magazines can be one of the worst as they don't have an age range of how old you have to buy them and they are not checked to see if they are right to be sold to these young children. the magazines add advertisement on make  up giving away "free" makeup having a harmful influence on teenage girls, making them feel insecure about themselves.

I started to look into other examples of ways that teen magazines are responsible for the social ramification of the representations they offer and came across the article

"Teen magazines are sexualising readers, says watchdog"

in this article it explains how there are girls as young as eleven years of age and they are reading this magazine. with sexual content inside and others such as pictures of naked mean question ares to see if you are gay and so on. these magazines have no age limit and parents can look at the cover and see that its a teen magazine thinking it will do no harm without actually looking at the content within the magazine. for although these magazines show this content they are also useful and are good for girls because if there is something they are worried about they can email in anomalously to get help from it.

there has been other articles that agree with this one and the sexualising of young girls like this one i found doing my own research.

"How do magazines affect body image"

this article shows the statistics in which 70% of teenage girls that magazines influence in an ideal body image, lowering there self a stem. and it also that teenage boys are affected by this as well as girls. from reading this article i linked it to the last article as the way a celebrity or someone in these magazines look and how "sexy" they are and girls wanting to look like them but becoming depressed and anxious when they don't. 

in conclusion i believe that magazines hold a huge responsibility to the representations they offer to teenage girls and i think that the huge amount of sexual facts and images should be taken out from these magazines and more things that you would imagine a teenage girl should be like not wanting to be sexy.

http://www.education.com/reference/article/how-magazines-affect-body-image/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4990907/Teen-magazines-are-sexualising-readers-says-watchdog.html